Women Pilgrims in Late Medieval England : Private Piety as Public Performance
- Author / Editor
- Morrison, Susan Signe.
Women Pilgrims in Late Medieval England : Private Piety as Public Performance
- Published
- London and New York : Routledge, 2000.
- Physical Description
- xii, 194 pp. : 10 b&w figs.
- Series
- Routledge Research in Medieval Studies.
- Description
- Studies "medieval perceptions of pilgrimage, gender, and space," discussing literary and historical female pilgrims, their motives, and the effects pilgrimages had on their families and social dynamics. Discusses the shrines at Walsingham and Canterbury, Margery Kempe, and Chaucer's Wife of Bath.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.