The Predicament of Chaucer's Wife of Bath: St. Jerome on Virginity

Author / Editor
Wurtele, Douglas J.

Title
The Predicament of Chaucer's Wife of Bath: St. Jerome on Virginity

Published
Florilegium 5 (1983): 208-36.

Description
Saint Jerome's defense of the merits of virginity for the sake of Christ and the evils of remarriage threaten the Wife, who attacks his teaching.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.