Trotula's Fourteenth-Century Reputation, Jankyn's Book, and Chaucer's Trot
- Author / Editor
- Baird-Lange, Lorrayne Y.
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.