Table of Contents

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.