The Vulgate Genesis and St. Jerome's Attitude to Women

Author / Editor
Barr, Jane.

Title
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.