Trotula's Fourteenth-Century Reputation, Jankyn's Book, and Chaucer's Trot

Author / Editor
Baird-Lange, Lorrayne Y.

Title
Trotula's Fourteenth-Century Reputation, Jankyn's Book, and Chaucer's Trot

Published
Paul Strohm and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1, 1984 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1985), pp. 245-66.

Description
The slandered Trotula as Dame Trote, or as a "trot," serves as a "type" of the Wife of Bath, personification of medieval misogyny, both medical and clerical.

Alternative Title
Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1 (1984)

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.