Chaucer's Wife of Bath, Hoccleve's Arguing Women, and Lydgate's Hertford Wives: Lay Interpretation and the Figure of the Spinning Woman in Late Medieval England
- Author / Editor
- Hill-Vásquez, Heather.
Chaucer's Wife of Bath, Hoccleve's Arguing Women, and Lydgate's Hertford Wives: Lay Interpretation and the Figure of the Spinning Woman in Late Medieval England
- Published
- Florilegium 23.2 (2006): 169-95.
- Description
- In later medieval thought, spinning women represent two often contradictory ideas: rebellion against hierarchical order and, paradoxically, Marian obedience. Citing scripture, Chaucer's Wife fuses both viewpoints in WBP. When Lancastrian mores prevailed, the spinning woman came to epitomize Lollard threats to the status quo. Lydgate's and Hoccleve's spinners lack Chaucer's toleration.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale