The Meeting at the Gate: Hagiography and Symbol in the Shipman's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Coletti, Theresa.
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.