The Naples Manuscript and the Case for a Female Readership

Author / Editor
Weldon, James.

Title
The Naples Manuscript and the Case for a Female Readership

Published
Neophilologus 93 (2009): 703-25.

Description
The intended audience of the Naples manuscript was secular females, evidenced by its internal style and content of four romances and inclusion of medical recipes. The advice to wives in ClT points to the instruction of women—and thus to the intended audience.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
Clerk and His Tale.