Contested Authority: Jerome and the Wife of Bath on 1 Timothy 2
- Author / Editor
- Tinkle, Theresa.
Contested Authority: Jerome and the Wife of Bath on 1 Timothy 2
- Published
- Chaucer Review 44 (2010): 268-93.
- Description
- Both Jerome and Chaucer follow Paul in deploying "provocative women" to dramatize contemporary controversies over who may interpret scripture. The Wife of Bath performs exegesis even as she effectively likens her husbands to "exegetes whose sins discredit their sermons"; however, her comedic embodiment of the literary "unruly woman" neutralizes any threat to domestic and institutional hierarchies.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations