Women's Historiography in Late Medieval European Literature: Giovanni Boccaccio, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Christine de Pizan

Author / Editor
Jones, Eva M.

Title
Women's Historiography in Late Medieval European Literature: Giovanni Boccaccio, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Christine de Pizan

Published
DAI A74.08 (2014): n.p.

Description
Compares LGW and Christine de Pizan's "Book of the City of Ladies" to Boccaccio's "Famous Women," arguing that Pizan's work is on equal footing with the other two texts.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations