Too Good to Be True: Debating Constancy in Chaucer's "Legend" and Christine's "Cité."
- Author / Editor
- McCormick, Betsy.
Too Good to Be True: Debating Constancy in Chaucer's "Legend" and Christine's "Cité."
- Published
- Chaucer Review 55, no. 4 (2020): 357-78.
- Description
- Explores Chaucer's depictions of women in LGW and Christine de Pizan's illustration of women in Cité, demonstrating how "recent work in cognitive science, which studies how humans create categories," shows that "both Chaucer and Christine are thinking beyond taxonomic categories to depict their 'good women' as active participants in an ethical inquiry."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations