The Astronomer Ptolemy and the Morality of the Wife of Bath's Prologue
- Author / Editor
- Laird, Edgar S.
The Astronomer Ptolemy and the Morality of the Wife of Bath's Prologue
- Published
- Chaucer Review 34: 289-99, 2000.
- Description
- WBP contains two quotations from Ptolemy (3.180-81, 326-27), setting up a system for classifying knowledge according to practica (the Wife) and theorica (Ptolemy). The Wife recontextualizes and trivializes Ptolemy's efforts to achieve a vision of real excellence.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.