Blaunche on Top and Alisoun on Bottom

Author / Editor
Allen, Valerie.

Title
Blaunche on Top and Alisoun on Bottom

Published
Juliette Dor, ed. A Wyf Ther Was: Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck (Liege: University of Liege, 1992), pp. 23-29.

Description
Blaunche's description in BD centers on her eyes, whereas Alisoun's in MilT centers on her bottom. These descriptions show the relationship between each character's essential and physical selves, suggesting that both characters "locate their virtue and vice in the sphere of bodily autonomy."

Alternative Title
Wyf Ther Was.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.