Managing Death: Women's Networks of Private and Civic Responsibility in Medieval England.

Author / Editor
Bohne, Amanda Marie.

Title
Managing Death: Women's Networks of Private and Civic Responsibility in Medieval England.

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International A81.05 (2019): n.p.

Description
Chapter 2 discusses the Wife of Bath's "unique approach to her fourth husband's death as she balances her postmortem responsibilities to him with her immediate remarriage,' acting with "concern" while also "tending to her own wishes."

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale