The 'Mayde Child' in The Shipman's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Lee, Brian S.
The 'Mayde Child' in The Shipman's Tale
- Published
- South African Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 15 (2005): 55-68.
- Description
- Comments on the upbringing of young people in CT. Mentioned in only three lines, the "mayde child" in ShT exemplifies the late medieval practice of wardship. The words signify the callous immorality of the guardian who, like the governesses castigated in PhyT, fails to set a good moral example.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Shipman and His Tale.
- Physician and His Tale.