A Lady Philosophy or a Concealed Wife of Bath: Geoffrey Chaucer's Prudence in the "Tale of Melibee."

Author / Editor
Yıldız, Nazan.

Title
A Lady Philosophy or a Concealed Wife of Bath: Geoffrey Chaucer's Prudence in the "Tale of Melibee."

Published
RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi 28 (2022): 498-507.

Description
Traces "similarities between Boethius's Lady Philosophy and Chaucer''s Prudence" in Mel regarding "the authority of women over men as the source of knowledge and wisdom." Comments on female empowerment and Prudence as a "Wife of Bath in disguise." Includes an abstract in Turkish.

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