The Wife of Bath's Uncharitable Offerings

Author / Editor
Hoffman, Richard L.

Title
The Wife of Bath's Uncharitable Offerings

Published
English Language Notes 11 (1974): 165-67.

Description
Suggests that a portion of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5.23-24) is a source for the Wife of Bath's comments on precedence at the offertory (GP 1.449-522).

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations