The Meeting at the Gate: Hagiography and Symbol in the Shipman's Tale

Author / Editor
Coletti, Theresa.

Title
The Meeting at the Gate: Hagiography and Symbol in the Shipman's Tale

Published
Studies in Iconography 3 (1977): 47-56.

Description
The image of the merchant's wife waiting for him at the gate at the end of ShT (7.673-76) may be a reflection of a popular iconographic motif, the meeting of Anne and Joachim,parents of the Virgin Mary, at the Golden Gate of Jerusalem.

Chaucer Subjects
Shipman and His Tale.