'And For My Land Thus Hastow Mordred Me?': Land Tenure, the Cloth Industry, and the Wife of Bath
- Author / Editor
- Robertson, D. W.,Jr.
'And For My Land Thus Hastow Mordred Me?': Land Tenure, the Cloth Industry, and the Wife of Bath
- Published
- Chaucer Review 14 (1980): 403-20.
- Description
- Land tenure laws and cloth industry figures suggest that the Wife was a bondswoman with holdings in the industry acquired from her first husband and used to attract four more and to finance expensive pilgrimages. A bondswoman character is also supported by the fleshly nature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.