The Wife of Bath and Her Four Sisters: Reflections on a Woman's Life in the Age of Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Sheehan, Michael M.
The Wife of Bath and Her Four Sisters: Reflections on a Woman's Life in the Age of Chaucer
- Published
- Medievalia et Humanistica 13 (1985): 23-42.
- Description
- Discusses the legal status of homogenous groups of medieval women--the landed class under common law, free townswomen, peasants under manorial custom, townswomen of lowly estate, and the religious--under headings birth, childhood, girlhood, majority, marriage, widowhood, and death and burial.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.