Romancing the Goddess: Three Middle English Romances about Women

Author / Editor
Osborn, Marijane.

Title
Romancing the Goddess: Three Middle English Romances about Women

Published
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998.

Physical Description
xii, 311 pp.

Description
Anthologizes three Middle English "woman-centered" romances--"EmareĢ," "Le Bone Florence of Rome" (Part 2), and MLT--in rhymed modern English, and discusses their common theme of castaway queens, their sources and analogues, and modern reflexes of the motif of the "Goddess of the Human Dawn."

Contributor
Osborn, Marijane, trans.

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations