Women in MS Harley 2253
摘要
Displaying multifarious attitudes toward women, the contents of the early-fourteenth-century trilingual miscellany MS Harley 2253 show how thoroughly the topic of “woman’s nature” fed the popular entertainment of the period. Harley texts comprise many genres: secular and religious lyrics, didactic and satiric poems, fabliaux, and other forms of narrative. Numerous items collected by the anonymous Harley scribe preserve a range of expression on matters of male/female relations, sexuality, and gender.