Wife and Widow in Medieval England
- Author / Editor
- Walker, Sue Sheridan.
Wife and Widow in Medieval England
- Published
- Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993.
- Physical Description
- x, 221 pp.
- Description
- Eight historical and legal essays by various hands, including two of potential value to Chaucer studies, especially treatments of WBPT: Barbara A. Hanawalt, "Remmarriage as an Option for Rural Widows in Late Medieval England"; and Richard M. Helmholz, "Married Women's Wills in Later Medieval England."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.