Representations of Eve in Antiquity and the English Middle Ages
- Author / Editor
- Flood, John.
Representations of Eve in Antiquity and the English Middle Ages
- Published
- New York: Routledge, 2012.
- Physical Description
- 193 pp.
- Description
- Traces background of how Eve was understood by Christians in Antiquity and the Middle Ages in England. Explores portrayals of Eve by Augustine, Aquinas, Dante, and Chaucer, and other lesser-known authors. See Chapter 6, "Middle English Literature," for discussion of Chaucer's CT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations