Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Note on References
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Anti-Clerical Tradition in Estates Satire
- 3 Estates Ideals
- 4 The Omission of the Victim
- 5 Independent Traditions: Chivalry and Anti-Feminism
- 6 Descriptive Traditions: Beauty and the Beast
- 7 ‘Scientific’ Portraits
- 8 New Creations
- Excursus: The ‘General Prologue’ and the ‘Descriptio’ Tradition
- 9 Conclusions
- Appendices
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography and List of Works Cited
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Note on References
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Anti-Clerical Tradition in Estates Satire
- 3 Estates Ideals
- 4 The Omission of the Victim
- 5 Independent Traditions: Chivalry and Anti-Feminism
- 6 Descriptive Traditions: Beauty and the Beast
- 7 ‘Scientific’ Portraits
- 8 New Creations
- Excursus: The ‘General Prologue’ and the ‘Descriptio’ Tradition
- 9 Conclusions
- Appendices
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography and List of Works Cited
- Index
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- Chaucer and Medieval Estates Satire , pp. xvii - xviiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1973