Lady Godiva: A Literary History of the LegendJohn Wiley & Sons, 15.04.2008 - 172 Seiten This book investigates who Lady Godiva was, how the story of her naked horseback ride through Coventry arose, and how the whole Godiva legend has evolved from the thirteenth century through to the present day.
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Æthelflæd Æthelred Æthelred’s Albans chronicles Anglo-Saxon England appeared ballad become Burbidge ceremonial chapter citizens civic clothes Cnut Corpus Christi Coventry processions Coventry’s crowd culture death Deloney’s display Dugdale Earl Leofric earl of Mercia early Edward erotic example fabliau film Freud Godiva Chocolatier Godiva legend Godiva procession Godiva’s hair Godiva’s ride Grafton guilds guilt Harthacnut heregeld horse Hunt’s husband John of Worcester king king’s Lady Godiva Lancaster land Landseer’s later Leofric literary look Matthew Paris medieval Mercia Middle Ages mock procession monastery naked ride nakedness narrative Norman Old English painting Paris’s Peeping Peeping Tom play popular punishment Queen quoted reader religious rhetoric ride naked Roger of Wendover role Saxon seems Seuss Seven Lady Godivas sexual shame sion social stanzas statue story streets Tennyson Tennyson’s poem tion town town’s traditional Victorian voyeur voyeuristic gaze Warwickshire wife William woman woman’s body women