The Position of Widows in the Later Fourteenth-Century English Community and the Wife of Bath's Prologue
- Author / Editor
- McCarthy, Conor.
The Position of Widows in the Later Fourteenth-Century English Community and the Wife of Bath's Prologue
- Published
- Donald Mowbray, Rhiannon Purdie, and Ian P. Wei, eds. Authority & Community in the Middle Ages (Phoenix Mill, Gloucestershire: Sutton, 1999), pp. 101-15.
- Description
- Because they were not subject to fathers or husbands, widows posed a challenge to dominant views of women in late fourteenth-century England. Chaucer's Wife of Bath is portrayed as lecherous, yet she may also embody broader concerns about widowhood.
- Contributor
- Mowbray, Donald, ed.
- Purdie, Rhiannon, ed.
- Wei, Ian P., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Authority & Community in the Middle Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.