Female Friendship in Late Medieval Literature: Cultural Translation in Chaucer, Gower, and Malory.

Author / Editor
Elmes, Melissa Ridley.

Title
Female Friendship in Late Medieval Literature: Cultural Translation in Chaucer, Gower, and Malory.

Published
Karma Lochrie and Usha Vishnuvajjala, eds. Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2022), pp. 135-54.

Description
Describes depictions of affective female friendship in works by Chaucer (TC and FranT), John Gower (Albinus and Rosamund in the "Confessio Amantis"), and Thomas Malory (portions of "Le Morte Darthur"), contrasting them with source materials and attributing their relatively positive portrayals to the rise of "literate activity," including patronage, among women. Assesses the circles of friends who seek to console Criseyde and Dorigen.

Alternative Title
Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Franklin and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations