Romancing the goddess

Description:

Take three exciting medieval romances, translate them - two for the first time - into modern English verse, and you'll have only part of Marijane Osborn's Romancing the Goddess. Osborn introduces and translates the three tales, all dealing with women cast adrift upon the northern and Mediterranean seas, then shows how the stories forge a hitherto missing link with worship of a savior goddess in the distant past.

subjects: History,  Mythology,  Goddesses,  Women and literature,  English literature,  Medieval Tales,  Modernized versions,  Crimes against,  Poetry,  Women,  English Romances,  Castaways,  Queens,  English literature (collections), middle english, 1100-1500,  Romances,  Women, mythology,  Tales, medieval,  Women in literature