Reading Dido: Gender, Textuality, and the Medieval Aeneid

Gender and the politics of reading Virgil Dux femina facti - Virgil's Dido in the historical context Dido as libido - from Augustine to Dante Dido and dynastic erasure in courtly romances and the structures of history Sely Dido and the Chaucerian gaze Dido's double wound in Caxton's Eneydos and Gavin Douglas' Endeados Christine de Pizan's feminist self-fashioning and the invention of Dido.