January's Genesis: Biblical Exegesis and Chaucer's Merchant's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Jones, Mike Rodman.
January's Genesis: Biblical Exegesis and Chaucer's Merchant's Tale
- Published
- LeedsSE 39 (2008): 53-87.
- Description
- MerT, particularly its marriage encomium, was influenced by exegetical treatments of Eve as "helper," drawn from the Augustinian tradition and from Albertanus of Brescia. Chaucer rewrites these two divergent strands, reverses their interpretations of male and female bodies, and uses their commentaries on Eve, female rationality, and feminine advice to posit a political meaning.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations