Women's Power in Late Medieval Romance
- Author / Editor
- Vines, Amy N.
Women's Power in Late Medieval Romance
- Published
- Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2011.
- Physical Description
- xi, 169 pp.
- Description
- Examines what "medieval romances convey about the possibilities for female social and cultural influence" during the Middle Ages. Chapter 1 analyzes how Chaucer's depictions of Cassandra and Criseyde were influenced by "representations of women's reading and interpretation" in the Corpus Christi manuscript of TC.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies