Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 3970
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Thomas , Susanne Sara.
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  • Title: What the Man of Law Can't Say: The Buried Legal Argument of the Wife of Bath's "Prologue" [argues that the poem comments on the struggle over law among king, parliament, bureaucrats, and peasants; it supports the legal authority of the oral over the written].
  • Source: Chaucer Review 31, 3 ( 1997): Pages 256 - 271.
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  • Article Type: Journal Article
  • Subject (See Also): Charters and Diplomatics in Literature Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Wife of Bath's Prologue Law in Literature Literature- Verse Peasants' Revolt in England (1381) Rhetoric
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: 14
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  • Author's Affiliation: Louisiana State University
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  • Year of Publication: 1997.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 00092002