The Wife of Bath and Lollardy

Author / Editor
Blamires, Alcuin.

Title
The Wife of Bath and Lollardy

Published
Medium Aevum 58 (1989): 224-42.

Description
Shows that key passages in the Wife's monologue can be justifiably located in the context of Lollardy, focusing on her use of the word "expres" (WBP 27, 61, 719) and her insistence on the primacy of scriptural authority.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
Language and Word Studies.