Memory, Place, and Desire in Late Medieval British Pilgrimage Narratives

Author / Editor
McIntyre, Ruth Anne Summar.

Title
Memory, Place, and Desire in Late Medieval British Pilgrimage Narratives

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International A69.08 (2009): n.p.

Description
Examines the uses of memory and place to develop authoritative "ethos" in John Mandeville's "Travels," Margery Kempe's "Book," WBP, and WBT. The Wife relies on medieval commonplace texts and essentially turns her own experience into such a text.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale