"Diverse folk diversely they seyde": A Study of the Figure of Medea in Medieval Literature.

Author/Editor
McDonald, N. F.

Title
"Diverse folk diversely they seyde": A Study of the Figure of Medea in Medieval Literature.

Published
McDonald, N. F. "'Diverse folk diversely they seyde': A Study of the Figure of Medea in Medieval Literature." Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Oxford, 1994. Index to Theses, with Abstracts: Accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland 45.5 (1996), no. 12132.

Review
Studies the tradition of Medea "as it is manifested in English and French Literatures [sic] from approximately 1160 to 1477 together with a discussion of Medea's classical background and appearance in a number of important medieval Latin and Italian texts . . . . The focus of my discussion is on the presentation of Medea in late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth century English literature where her story is represented by three histories of Troy . . . as well as Chaucer, in the 'Legend of Good Women,' and Gower, in the 'Confessio Amantis'."

Date
1994

Gower Subjects
Cionfessio Amantis
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations