Reading Dido: Gender, Textuality, and Medieval Aeneid

Aeneas Aeneas's Ages allegory appears authority becomes Boccaccio's body Carthage Caxton century chapter character Chaucer Christine Christine's Cité des dames classical commentary construction context critical cultural Dante death depicts desire Dido's story discourse discussion Douglas Douglas's early edition emphasizes Eneados Eneas English experience female figure French gender glosses Heroides historical Dido House of Fame human identity illustrates includes interpretive Italy John language late Latin Legend literary London male manuscript marriage masculine medieval memory Middle misogyny narrative narrator nature notes Ovid Ovid's particularly passage poet poetry political position possible practices presents printed produced prologue provides reader reading refers relation represents responses rhetorical role Roman Rose scene Servius sexual social specific status structure suggests suicide textual throughout tion tradition translation vernacular Virgil's Aeneid Virgil's text Virgilian visual woman women York