Chaucer's Handling of a Medieval Feminist Hierarchy
- Author / Editor
- Lee, B. S.
Chaucer's Handling of a Medieval Feminist Hierarchy
- Published
- UNISA English Studies 24:1 (1986): 1-6.
- Description
- Augustine and Jerome influenced the medieval Church's use of hierarchy to evaluate a woman's spiritual standing. Chaucer, however, refuses to be bound by the limitations of theological stereotypes. He shows that women often neither choose nor get what the stereotype predicts for them, especially with the widow Alison, Griselda, and the virgin Emelye.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.