"May medica": Divine Healing and the Garden in "The Merchant’s Tale."

Author / Editor
Zygogianni, Maria.

Title
"May medica": Divine Healing and the Garden in "The Merchant’s Tale."

Published
Medieval Feminist Forum 58 (2022): 106-27.

Description
Examines May of MerT as a version of the motif of the healing woman, familiar "across medieval literary genres from romance to hagiography." The fabliau setting of the tale, however, inverts a range of "courtly and religious hierarchies" as May performs an "anti-healing miracle" and maintains control of her husband, her lover, her body, the "spaces of the tale."

Chaucer Subjects
Merchant and His Tale