'Quoniam' and the Wife of Bath

Author / Editor
Delasanta, Rodney.

Title
'Quoniam' and the Wife of Bath

Published
Papers on Language and Literature 8 (1972): 202-06.

Description
Characterizes the Wife of Bath as "an ecclesiastical camp follower" who tellingly misuses her familiarity with Scripture and liturgy, exemplifying this tendency through her blasphemous use of the term "quoniam," which is the "opening word of the final doxology of the Gloria."

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