Chaucer's legendary good women /

Chaucer's Legend of Good Women is a testament to the disparate views of women prevalent in the Middle Ages. Dr Percival contends that the complex medieval notion of Woman informs the structure of the poem: in the Prologue Chaucer praises conventional ideas of female virtue, while in the Legends...

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Main Author: Percival, Florence
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Series:Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 38.
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