'Space to Speke': The Wife of Bath and the Discourse of Confession

Author / Editor
Root, Jerry.

Title
'Space to Speke': The Wife of Bath and the Discourse of Confession

Published
Chaucer Review 28 (1994): 252-74.

Description
Root draws on selected primary and secondary sources to illustrate that WBP was influenced by the doctrine of mandatory confession decreed by the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.