The Wyf of Bathe and the Merchant: From Sex to Secte.

Author / Editor
Hornstein, Lillian Herlands.

Title
The Wyf of Bathe and the Merchant: From Sex to Secte.

Published
Chaucer Review 3.1 (1968): 65-67.

Description
Observes legal implications in the Clerk's reference to the Wife of Bath's "secte" (oath-helpers or compurgators), and suggests that the reference "functions to interanimate" the Wife's, Clerk's, and Merchant's shared views of female mastery.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Clerk and His Tale
Merchant and His Tale
Language an Word Studies