Women and Money in The Miller's Tale and The Reeve's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Carroll, Virginia Schaefer.
Women and Money in The Miller's Tale and The Reeve's Tale
- Published
- Medieval Perspectives 3 (1988): 76-88.
- Description
- MilT and RvT raise the issue of "maistrie" in relation to the economic stability of the family. Women are defined as passive, in terms that equate sexual loyalty and commercial value. Wives "quyte" (repay) their husbands through financial loss and embarrassment.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.
- Reeve and His Tale.