The Wife of Bath and Refreshment Sunday

Author / Editor
Higdon, David Leon.

Title
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