The Predicament of Chaucer's Wife of Bath: St. Jerome on Virginity
- Author / Editor
- Wurtele, Douglas J.
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.