'Allas, Allas! That evere love was synne!': John Bromyard v. Alice of Bath

Author / Editor
Green, Richard Firth.

Title
'Allas, Allas! That evere love was synne!': John Bromyard v. Alice of Bath

Published
ChauR 42 (2008): 298-311.

Description
Bromyard's denunciation of "popular views on sex" in the Luxuria section of his "Summa Predicantium" resonates verbally and structurally with WBP, suggesting that the Wife's performance functions in part as a counterattack to such sermonizing by Bromyard and others.

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