Chaucer's Prudence as the Ideal of the Virtuous Woman
- Author / Editor
- Lunz, Elisabeth.
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.