Merelaus the Emperor
Merelaus the Emperor is the name of one of the stories from the 13/14th c. collection Gesta Romanorum. It tells of the patience and virtue of the wife of Merelaus the Emperor, who is betrayed successively by her husband's brother, a steward in an earl's household, a thief she rescued, and a ship captain. The tale was retold by Christine de Pisan and by Thomas Hoccleve.[1]
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- ^ Blamires, Alcuin; Pratt, Karen; Marx, C. William (1992). Woman Defamed and Woman Defended: An Anthology of Medieval Texts. Clarendon Press. pp. 270–77. ISBN 9780198710394.