A Hymenation of Hags

Author / Editor
Carter, Susan.

Title
A Hymenation of Hags

Published
S. Elizabeth Passmore and Susan Carter, eds. The English "Loathly Lady" Tales: Boundaries, Traditions, Motifs (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007), pp. 83-99.

Description
Because the loathly lady in WBT is not enchanted but is a shape-shifter under her own power, she likely is not virginal. Carter explores the implications of this likelihood, as well as parallel concerns in WBT and several analogues.

Alternative Title
English Loathly Lady Tales: Boundaries, Traditions, Motifs.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations