The Wife of Bath's Five
- Author / Editor
- Fleissner, R[obert] F.
The Wife of Bath's Five
- Published
- Chaucer Review 8 (1973): 128-32.
- Description
- Though the Wife of Bath states that she never heard "diffinicioun" upon "fyve," the number of her husbands, Chaucer was probably aware of this number's significance as a symbol of earthly love in the numerological tradition of Dante, Macrobius, the Pearl Poet, and medieval mystics and astrologers
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.