Chaucer and the Legendaries: New Sources for Anti-Mendicant Satire

Author / Editor
Braswell, Laurel.

Title
Chaucer and the Legendaries: New Sources for Anti-Mendicant Satire

Published
English Studies in Canada 2 (1976): 373-80.

Description
Two narratives of the "Legenda aurea" are likely sources for the anti-mendicant satire in WBP and WBT. Imagery in the legends of Saint Michael the Archangel and Saint Francis of Assisi parallels the Wife's anti-mendicant satire, and provides a close link between her Prologue and Tale.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.