Product Description: This book explores the late medieval literary legacy of early Christianity’s relationship to its Judaic origins. Catherine S. Cox demonstrates how the works of three canonical 14th-century authors—Dante, the Gawain-poet, and Chaucer—express conflicting aspects of Jewish and Christian religious identity...read more

Product Description: "Builds expertly and significantly on several earlier feminist analyses of Chaucer’s works. . . . An important addition to the growing body of work devoted to Chaucer and gender. . . . One of the real strengths of this work is the way in which it ties medieval notions of gender both to ancient, Aristotelian views and to modern and postmodern feminist theories...read more