Imagined Romes: The Ancient City and Its Stories in Middle English Poetry.
- Author / Editor
- Benson, C. David.
Imagined Romes: The Ancient City and Its Stories in Middle English Poetry.
- Published
- University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019.
- Physical Description
- xi, 201 pp.
- Description
- Studies "ancient Rome as a major theme in the works of late medieval English poets": Chaucer, Gower, Langland, Lydgate, and the anonymous authors of "Stacions of Rome" and the interpolated "Metrical Mirabilia." Chapter 3, "Heroic (Women) in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and the Legend of Good Women,” treats MLT, PhyT, SNT, and the legend of Lucrece from LGW, discussing how Chaucer consistently “feminizes” traditional Roman heroism and--unlike Gower in particular--expresses "hostility to the ancient city" as a place where "men in power treat good women with . . . unrelenting nastiness."
- Alternative Title
- Heroic (Women) in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" and the "Legend of Good Women"
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Legend of Good Women
Man of Law and His Tale
Physician and His Tale
Second Nun and Her Tale