Women's Authority, Religion, and Power in Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales."

Author / Editor
Yoo, Inchol.

Title
Women's Authority, Religion, and Power in Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales."

Published
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 24.2 (2016): 27-51.

Description
Analyzes SNT, MLT, and ClT to find forms of women's authority and determine how women's authority is constructed. Argues that women in these tales possess "charismatic, positional, and spiritual" authority as a result of their confrontations with religious and secular power structures within medieval society.

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale
Clerk and His Tale
Second Nun and Her Tale