Anthropologizing Alisoun: The Case of Chaucer's Wife of Bath
- Author / Editor
- Minnis, Alastair.
Anthropologizing Alisoun: The Case of Chaucer's Wife of Bath
- Published
- REALB: The Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature (Tubingen) 12 (1996): 203-21
- Description
- Assesses differing opinions of female preaching and teaching in medieval orthodoxy and in the Lollard movement, arguing that Chaucer's depiction of the Wife of Bath and the loathly lady in WBT confronts these opinions. Just as PardT confronts whether an immoral man can tell a moral tale, WBPT explores the validity of female preaching.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Pardoner and His Tale.