'Femme sole' and mercantile writing in late medieval England
- Author / Editor
- Gastle, Brian W.
'Femme sole' and mercantile writing in late medieval England
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 3446A.
- Description
- Describes the social and economic status of the "femme sole" in late medieval England, and discusses the role of the figure in select Paston letters, the Book of Margery Kempe, and CT, particularly the Guildsmen, the WBPT, MerT, ShT, and the Host/Pardoner altercation at the end of PardT. Includes an appendix of texts that define the "femme sole."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- Merchant and His Tale
- Shipman and His Tale
- Pardoner and His Tale