Chaucer's Prudence as the Ideal of the Virtuous Woman

Author / Editor
Lunz, Elisabeth.

Title
Chaucer's Prudence as the Ideal of the Virtuous Woman

Published
Essays in Literature (Macomb, Ill.) 4 (1977): 3-10.

Description
Because Dame Prudence in Mel embodies the qualities her name implies--reason, intellect, circumspection, providence, docility, and caution--she is a model of medieval female virtue.

Chaucer Subjects
Tale of Melibee.