'Quiting Eve': Violence Against Women in the Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Weisl, Angela Jane.
'Quiting Eve': Violence Against Women in the Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Anna Roberts, ed. Violence Against Women in Medieval Texts (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998), pp. 115-36.
- Description
- Though Chaucer grants women agency in CT, they act against a background of violence that is often ignored or mitigated. The fabliaux, the romances, and the religious narratives all present violence against women as a normal part of society. WBT comes closest to challenging such violence, and ClT is the most antipathetic to women.
- Alternative Title
- Violence Against Women in Medieval Texts.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Clerk and His Tale.