Women in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia
- Author / Editor
- Wilson, Katharina M., and Nadia Margolis, eds.
Women in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia
- Published
- Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2004.
- Physical Description
- 2 vols. xxi, xviii; 997 pp.; b&w illus.
- Description
- Alphabetical listing of entries related to women in the Middle Ages, with a guide to topics and an index. Volume I (A-J) includes a biographical entry on Alice Chaucer (pp. 159-64) by Karen K. Jambeck, a descriptive entry on Women in the Work of Geoffrey Chaucer (pp. 164-68) by Priscilla Martin, and analytical entries on Criseyde (pp. 230-34, Douglas Kelly) and Dido in the Middle Ages (pp. 247-57, Mary Louise Lord). The entry on Natura (volume 2:713-21, George Economou) also discusses Chaucer at length, and the cumulative index lists other references. Primary and secondary bibliographies accompany the entries.
- Contributor
- Margolis, Nadia, ed.
- Jambeck, Karen K.
- Martin, Priscilla.
- Kelly, Douglas.
- Lord, Mary Louise.
- Economou, George.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Bibliographies, Reports, and Reference