Freedom of Movement? Women Travellers in the Middle Ages

Author / Editor
Webb, Diana.

Title
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.