Muscipula diaboli' and Medieval English Anti-feminism

Author / Editor
Remley, Paul G.

Title
Muscipula diaboli' and Medieval English Anti-feminism

Published
English Studies 70 (1989): 1-14.

Description
A non-Augustinian, antifeminist English tradition of the devil's mousetrap interprets it as a symbol for temptation and entrapment of the soul. The Prioress's distress in GP 143-45 therefore need not signify her sinfulness, as argued by Stephen Witte (SAC 10 (1988), no. 177).

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale.