Wearing the 'Vitremyte': A Note on Chaucer and Boccaccio
- Author / Editor
- DiMarco, Vincent.
Wearing the 'Vitremyte': A Note on Chaucer and Boccaccio
- Published
- English Language Notes 25:4 (1988): 15-19.
- Description
- Behind the mysterious "vitremyte" that Zenobia is forced to adopt in MkT 2372 lies the Maeonian mitra, a cloth cap worn by Greek women. As a symbol of effeminacy, it is used in Boccaccio, for example, in the humiliation of Hercules. In Zenobia's case, the cap represents her punishment "by being reduced to the status of a mere woman."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale.