Romancing the goddess
Subtitle: three Middle English romances about women
By: [translated and edited, and with critical commentary by] Marijane Osborn].
Contributors: Osborn, Marijane.; Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Modernized versions.; Women and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500.; Women -- Crimes against -- Poetry.; Romances, English.; Castaways -- Poetry.; Women -- Mythology.; Tales, Medieval.; Queens -- Poetry.; Goddesses.
Other titles: Emaré. English.; Bone Florence of Rome. English.
Description: Take three exciting medieval romances, translate them - two for the first time - into modern English verse, and you'll have only part of Marijane Osborn's Romancing the Goddess. Osborn introduces and translates the three tales, all dealing with women cast adrift upon the northern and Mediterranean seas, then shows how the stories forge a hitherto missing link with worship of a savior goddess in the distant past.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-296) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Three tales of castaway queens; title: The romances rhymed in Modern English : Emaré, Le bone Florence of Rome (Part II), Custance (Chaucer's Man of law's tale); title: Backtracking the goddess : ancient sources and analogues; title: Goddess of the human dawn : her status now.