H

Haraway, Donna, 284

Haskell, Ann, 125

Heath, Stephen, 287

Hector (in Troilus and Criseyde ), 155 , 171

Helen of Troy, 153 , 160 , 171 ;

medieval mythography of, 161 n

Heroes: feminization of, 6 -7;

in the Legend of Good Women , 5 , 6 -7

Heroides (Ovid), 88

Herophilus (anatomist), 13

Heterosexuality: in the Book of the Duchess , 72 ;

courtly models of, 125 , 148 ;

in dream visions, 116 ;

and female desire, 139 ;

in the Legend of Good Women , 3 , 4 , 7 ;

and literary conventions, 9 ;

in literary interpretation of women, 44 -45;

in the Parliament of Fowls , 124 , 127 -28, 138 ;

and problem of gender, 104

Heterosexual union: in the Book of the Duchess , 68 ;

in the House of Fame , 98 ;

in the Knight's Tale , 212 ;

in the Merchant's Tale , 257 , 262 ;

in the Parliament of Fowls , 109 , 117 -18, 133 ;

power in, 174 ;

and romances, 62 ;

in Troilus and Criseyde , 148 , 176 ;

woman's indifference to, 221

Hippolyta (in the Knight's Tale ), 217 ;

intercession for Palamon and Arcite, 220 ;

marriage to Theseus, 218 , 219

Hoccleve, Thomas, 25 , 284

Homosexuality, 62 , 154 , 229 , 231 , 232 n, 240 ;

and chivalry, 215

Homosocial relationships, 102 ;

and chivalry, 215 , in the Franklin's Tale , 278 -79, 282 ;

in medieval culture, 81 -82, 121 , 166 , 215 ;

in the Merchant's Tale , 252 ;

and war, 152 .

See also Friendship, male

Host (in the Canterbury Tales ), 196 , 203 , 204 , 205 , 230

House of Fame , 87 -107, 133 , 177 ;

authority in, 90 , 103 ;

dream-vision in, 88 ;

incompletion of, 137

Howard, Donald, 178 , 216

Humor: Chaucer's use of, 202 -3;

liberating quality of, 226

Hypermnestra, 6 , 8

Hypsipyle, 1 , 8