Freedom of Movement? Women Travellers in the Middle Ages
- Author / Editor
- Webb, Diana.
Freedom of Movement? Women Travellers in the Middle Ages
- Published
- Christine Meek and Catherine Lawless, eds. Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women: Pawns or Players? (Dublin and Portland, Ore.: Four Courts, 2003), pp. 75-89.
- Description
- Webb briefly cites two CT characters: the Prioress is an unusual, but not impossible, instance of a nun on a local (as opposed to a foreign) pilgrimage; the Wife of Bath parallels several historical women who capitalized on their peripatetic adventures.
- Contributor
- Christine Meek, ed.
- Lawless, Catherine, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women: Pawns or Players?
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Prioress and Her Tale.