Chaucer’s Lucretia and What Augustine Really Said about Rape: Two Reconsiderations.
- Author / Editor
- Bugbee, John.
Chaucer’s Lucretia and What Augustine Really Said about Rape: Two Reconsiderations.
- Published
- Traditio 26 (2019): 77-89.
- Description
- Attributes Chaucer's assertion of St. Augustine's "gret compassioun" for Lucrece as a rape victim (LGW, 1691) to the poets' unmediated first-hand knowledge of Book I of the "City of God," clarifying Augustine's sympathy for rape victims, arguing that critics have misread the theologian, and exploring other evidence of Chaucer's familiarity with Book I elsewhere in the legend, especially Lucrece's swoon.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations