Philomela Accuses.
- Author / Editor
- Rushton, Cory.
Philomela Accuses.
- Published
- Rushton, Cory, ed. Disability and Medieval Law: History, Literature, Society (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2013), pp. 157-73.
- Description
- Investigates several motifs in the LGW account of Philomela: victimhood, "inappropriate sovereignty," muteness, orality and legal witnessing, "tapestry-as-prosthesis," rape as a property crime, and lack of legal remedy, arguing that Chaucer's tale evinces "interest in women's control over their own bodily integrity" simultaneously acknowledging that this interest is "ultimately unproductive when . . . not matched with action." Includes comments on PrT and on Ovid's and Gower's versions of the story of Philomela.
- Contributor
- Rushton, Cory, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Disability and Medieval Law: History, Literature, Society
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Prioress and Her Tale