The Vulgate Genesis and St. Jerome's Attitude to Women
- Author / Editor
- Barr, Jane.
The Vulgate Genesis and St. Jerome's Attitude to Women
- Published
- Julia Bolton Holloway, Constance S. Wright, and Joan Bechtold, eds. Equally in God's Image: Women in the Middle Ages (New York: Peter Lang, 1990), pp. 122-28.
- Description
- The Wife of Bath tells us that she acquired forbidden learning through forbidden sex with university students, breaking the barriers of both literacy and celibacy, as reflected in her challenge to Pauline epistles and Jerome's Vulgate.
- Alternative Title
- Equally in God's Image: Women in the Middle Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.