Pilgrimage, Gender, and Theory: Where Are the Women Pilgrimage Poets of the Fourteenth Century?
- Author / Editor
- Morrison, Susan Signe.
Pilgrimage, Gender, and Theory: Where Are the Women Pilgrimage Poets of the Fourteenth Century?
- Published
- Juliette Dor and Marie-Élisabeth Henneau, eds. Femmes et pèlerinages / Women and Pilgrimages ([Santiago de Compostela]: Compostela Group of Universities, 2007), pp. 141-52.
- Description
- A number of the most famous fourteenth-century poets used pilgrimage as a genre to promote the use of vernacular language. Morrison's essay considers pilgrimage, gender, and use of the vernacular, raising questions about intertextual anxiety and the identities of pilgrim poets, including Chaucer.
- Alternative Title
- Femmes et pèlerinages / Women and Pilgrimages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General