Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 4533
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  • Title: Literary Allusion in Chaucer's Ballade, "Hyd, Absalon, Thy Gilte Tresses Clere"
  • Source: Chaucer Review 30, 2 ( 1995): Pages 134 - 149.
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  • Article Type: Journal Article
  • Subject (See Also): Allusion Ballad, Literary Genre Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Hyd, Absalon, Thy Gilte Tresses Clere Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Legend of Good Women Literature- Verse Women in Literature
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: 14
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  • Abstract: In the prologue to the "Legend of Good Women" Chaucer borrows from Thomas Paien's ballad "Ne quier veoir la biauté d'Absalon" and Froissart's "Ne quier veoir Medee ne Jason." Like these writers, Chaucer also inserts a catalogue of classical and biblical women, each associated with different virtues. To create this list Chaucer steals from a number of different writers, including Ovid, Guido delle Colonne, Machaut, Froissart, the twelfth-century "Piramus et Thisbé," Dante, and Vincent de Beauvais. Such examination tells scholars much about Chaucer's reading habits and the care with which he designed the opening ballade [Reproduced by permission of Peter G. Beidler and Martha A Kalnin Diede, editors of "The Chaucer Review: An Indexed Bibliography."].
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  • Year of Publication: 1995.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 00092002