The Wife of Bath and Refreshment Sunday
- Author / Editor
- Higdon, David Leon.
The Wife of Bath and Refreshment Sunday
- Published
- Papers on Language and Literature 8 (1972): 199-201.
- Description
- Suggests that the liturgy for the Lenten holiday of Refreshment Sunday underlies the Wife of Bath's two references to refreshment (WBP 3.37-38 and 3.143-46) and the juxtaposition of the seconmd one with her reference to the parable of the loaves and fishes.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations