Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 10180
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Haahr , Joan G.
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  • Title: Chaucer's "Marriage Group" Revisited: The Wife of Bath and Merchant in Debate [The author compares the attitudes of the Wife of Bath and the Merchant toward marriage. Both emphasize the carnal aspects and presume self-indulgence rather than respect as the ruling factor. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: Homo Carnalis: The Carnal Aspect of Medieval Human Life.  Edited by Helen Rodite LemayActa.  Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1990.  Pages 105 - 120. Papers presented at a conference held at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1987
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Merchant's Tale Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Wife of Bath's Prologue Literature- Verse Marriage in Literature Merchant (Literary Figure) Sexuality in Literature Wife of Bath (Literary Figure) Women
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  • Author's Affiliation: Yeshiva College
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  • Year of Publication: 1990.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: Not Available