Alisoun Takes Exception: Medieval Legal Pleading and the Wife of Bath
- Author / Editor
- Houser, Richard McCormick.
Alisoun Takes Exception: Medieval Legal Pleading and the Wife of Bath
- Published
- Chaucer Review 48.1 (2013): 66-90.
- Description
- Argues that the Wife of Bath "employs the courtroom pleading techniques of 'excepcion' and 'confession' and 'avoidance' to challenge the misogynist teachings of clerical authority." Demonstrates how Alisoun's discourse in WBP reveals her familiarity with legal argument, and her understanding and use of "masculine language" enhances her authority within WBT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale