Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Abandoned Women and Medieval Tradition
  • Ovid's Heroides and the Latin Middle Ages
  • Statius's Achilleid and Dante's Canto of Ulysses: fraud, rhetoric, and abandoned women
  • Boccaccio's Teseo, Chaucer's Theseus: duplicity and desire
  • Abandoned women and the dynamics of reader response: Boccaccio's Amorosa, Visione, and Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta
  • Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: re-gendering abandonment
  • Chaucer's Heroides: The legend of good women
  • Afterword: The metamorphoses of Ovid's heroines
  • Appendix: "Deidamia Achilli," ed. Stohlmann.