The Wife of Bath and the Conjugal Debt

Author / Editor
Cotter, James Finn.

Title
The Wife of Bath and the Conjugal Debt

Published
English Language Notes 6 (1969): 169-72.

Description
Contrasts the Wife of Bath's uses in WBP of the Pauline image of marital debt with commentaries found in St. Jerome and Thomas Aquinas, showing how she uses it to claim male debt only.

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