The Wife of Bath's Dower: A Legal Interpretation

Author / Editor
Reisner, Thomas Andrew.

Title
The Wife of Bath's Dower: A Legal Interpretation

Published
Modern Philology 71 (1974): 301-02.

Description
Clarifies that the phrase "at chirche dore," used twice of the Wife of Bath's marriages indicates that she negotiated the financial arrangements of her dower before her marriage ceremonies, indicating shrewdness.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale