From Experience to Authority: The Authentication of the Self in 'The Book of Margery Kempe' and 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue'

Author / Editor
Manzanas Calvo, Ana M.

Title
From Experience to Authority: The Authentication of the Self in 'The Book of Margery Kempe' and 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue'

Published
Purificacion Fernandez Nistal and Jose Ma Bravo Gozalo, eds. Proceedings of the VIth International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid, 1995), pp. 223-30.

Description
Margery Kempe and Alison of Bath represent a basic conflict: as representatives of the nascent bourgeoisie, they seek to inscribe themselves in a tradition that, since they are women, silences them.

Alternative Title
Proceedings of the VIth International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.