Tradition and Chaucer's Unfaithful Women.

Author / Editor
Ramsey, Roy Vance.

Title
Tradition and Chaucer's Unfaithful Women.

Published
Ph. D. Dissertation. University of Oklahoma, 1964. Dissertation Abstracts International 25.06 (1964): 3557A. Fully accessible via https://shareok.org/items/dd820005-e444-4489-bfc2-17219d22dffe (accessed April 21, 2026)

Physical Description
xi, 448 pp.

Description
Assesses the opposition between idealized women and overt antifeminism in Christianity, Neoplatonism, and western literary tradition, using it as background to argue that Chaucer maintained in CT a successful "tension of opposing viewpoints," even though his "unfaithful women" are more complex than his idealized ones.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General