Betraying Origins: The Many Faces of Aeneas in Medieval English Literature
- Author / Editor
- Scott, Joanna.
Betraying Origins: The Many Faces of Aeneas in Medieval English Literature
- Published
- LATCH 3 (2010): 64-84.
- Description
- In HF, Aeneas is a "possible love-traitor," while in LGW the "condemnation" is much clearer. In the "Laud Troy Book," he is a political traitor who is never presented as the founder of Rome. Such depictions of Aeneas reflect how the "threat--or promise--of treason was always lurking" in late medieval English consciousness.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women
- House of Fame
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations