"Olde feble wymmen with perseuerance ouercome many longe pilgrimages": Mapping the Feminine in "Disce mori.”

Author / Editor
Renevey, Denis.

Title
"Olde feble wymmen with perseuerance ouercome many longe pilgrimages": Mapping the Feminine in "Disce mori.”

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 42 (2020): 351-64.

Description
Discloses how compilations of devotional literature such as "Disce mori" can help us to recognize a "female textual subjectivity," exploring the work's makeup as compilation, and commenting on how "references [in it] to passages and characters from secular-lovebestsellers"--including TC--"assume a familiarity" with such works andindicate a pervasive "femin ization of the self."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations