The Marriages and Wealth of the Wife of Bath.
- Author / Editor
- Margulies, Cecile Stoller.
The Marriages and Wealth of the Wife of Bath.
- Published
- Mediaeval Studies 24 (1962): 210-16.
- Description
- Explores medieval English marital laws and practices that underlie details of the WBP and her description in GP, particularly her marriages at "chirche dore," her dowers, and the transaction that gave Jankyn control of her lands--before she took it back.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale