Longevity and the Loathly Ladies in Three Medieval Romances.
- Author / Editor
- Feinstein, Sandy.
Longevity and the Loathly Ladies in Three Medieval Romances.
- Published
- Arthuriana 21.3 (2011): 23-48.
- Description
- Compares and contrasts attitudes toward age and aging in WBT, Gower's tale of Florent, and "The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle," considering these attitudes in light of late medieval social perspectives on age and marriage that were affected by the Black Death. Includes discussion of the concern with of age in the gentility lecture of WBT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Sources, Analogies, and Literary Relations