The Wife of Bath in the Saddle: A Re-reading of “Upon an amblere esily she sat” (General Prologue, I 469).
- Author / Editor
- Fletcher, Clare.
The Wife of Bath in the Saddle: A Re-reading of “Upon an amblere esily she sat” (General Prologue, I 469).
- Published
- Gregory Hulsman and Caoimhe Whelan, eds. Occupying Space in Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Ireland (New York: Lang, 2016), pp. 3-22.
- Description
- Revisits the implications of the horse-and rider imagery that underlies the description of the Wife of Bath at GP 1.469, focusing on her riding an “amblere,” exploring relations with the thirteenth-century French “Lai du Trot,” and suggesting that, through the image, Chaucer associates the Wife with “loyal and passionate lovers.”
- Contributor
- Hulsman, Gregory, ed.
Whelan, Caoimhe, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Occupying Space in Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Ireland.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations