The Marriages and Wealth of the Wife of Bath.

Author / Editor
Margulies, Cecile Stoller.

Title
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