Adversus Jerome: Liberation Theology in the Wife of Bath's Prologue
- Author / Editor
- Charles, Casey.
Adversus Jerome: Liberation Theology in the Wife of Bath's Prologue
- Published
- Assays 6 (1991): 55-71.
- Description
- WBP, belonging to the genre of the French sermon joyeux, "a parodic homily by a woman that uses biblical exegesis to endorse worldly pleasure," had a "topical resonance" for Lollards, who, "championing female literacy and lay biblical exegesis, considered widows like Alice to be specialists in the intricacies of marriage practice."
- WBP is not just a "bawdy send-up of exegetical method but a subversion of it," exposing Jerome's "misogynous power grab."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.