Chaucer and Isidore on Why Men Marry.

Author / Editor
Pratt, Robert A.

Title
Chaucer and Isidore on Why Men Marry.

Published
Modern Language Notes 74 (1959): 293-94.

Description
Suggests that several details of the Wife of Bath's chiding of her elder husbands (WBP 3.257-62) derive, ultimately, from Isidore of Saville's "Etymologiarum."

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations