University of Rhode Island DigitalCommons@URI Open Access Dissertations 2013 Women's Historiography in Late Medieval European Literature: Giovanni Boccaccio, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Christine de Pizan Eva M. Jones University of Rhode Island,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/oa_diss Recommended Citation Jones, Eva M., "Women's Historiography in Late Medieval European Literature: Giovanni Boccaccio, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Christine de Pizan" (2013). Open Access Dissertations. Paper 24. https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/oa_diss/24 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@URI. It has been accepted for inclusion in Open Access Dissertations by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@URI. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. WOMEN’S HISTORIOGRAPHY IN LATE MEDIEVAL EUROPEAN LITERATURE: GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO, GEOFFREY CHAUCER, AND CHRISTINE DE PIZAN BY EVA M. JONES A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN ENGLISH UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND 2013 DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DISSERTATION OF EVA M. JONES APPROVED: Dissertation Committee: Major Professor: KATHLEEN DAVIS CAROLYN BETENSKY JOËLLE ROLLO-KOSTER NASSER H. ZAWIA DEAN OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND 2013 ABSTRACT Women’s Historiography in Late Medieval European Literature: Giovanni Boccaccio, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Christine de Pizan considers the ways in which the textual generation of women’s historiography correlated with women’s social access in late medieval Europe, 1361-1405. I examine Boccaccio's authoritative and Latin Famous Women (1361) and its reworkings in Chaucer’s The Legend of Good Women (1386-1394) and Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies (1405).