Authority, Authenticity, and the Repression of Heloise
- Author / Editor
- Newman, Barbara.
Authority, Authenticity, and the Repression of Heloise
- Published
- Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 22 (1992): 121-57.
- Description
- Because Heloise is canonized in Jankyn's "Book of Wikked Wyves" between Jerome and Ovid, her authentic voice is overwhelmed by their reinforcing discourses; the Wife of Bath is similarly contained between Chaucer and Jankyn. Chaucer and Jean de Meun point to a neglected Heloise fully immersed in learning, an "auctor" whose authority could be cited in complex and ambiguous ways."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.