Titlebook: Chaucer‘s Women: Nuns, Wives and Amazons; Priscilla Martin Book 1996 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1996 g

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Two Ideals: The , and the ,of John of Gaunt. She may have commissioned the former poem, as well as inspiring the latter. According to Speght’s edition, it was produced ‘a(chǎn)s some say at the request of Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster, as praier for her privat use, being a woman in her religion very devout’.. The prayer and the ele

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Two Misfits: The Nun and the Wife, Bath. All three tell a story, but in the . there are portraits only of the Prioress and the Wife. Whereas the men are defined in terms of a large number of professions — knight, innkeeper, parson, ploughman, merchant, lawyer, etc. — we see women in only two roles; the nun and the married woman. Eac

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