Romancing the goddess : three Middle English romances about women / [translated and edited, and with critical commentary by] Marijane Osborn]. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1998. - xii, 311 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-296) and index.

Preface -- Three tales of castaway queens -- The romances rhymed in Modern English : Emar,̌ Le bone Florence of Rome (Part II), Custance (Chaucer's Man of law's tale) -- Backtracking the goddess : ancient sources and analogues -- Goddess of the human dawn : her status now.

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English literature--Modernized versions--Middle English 11001500
Women--Crimes against--Poetry
Romances English
Castaways--Poetry
Women--Mythology
Tales Medieval
Queens--Poetry
Goddesses

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