The Wife of Bath’s Tale is perhaps one of the most well known of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales – one of the earliest instances of literature in Middle English.
Luke and Kiara “fly duo” with The Wife of Bath’s Tale; discovering how the medievals were the opposite of prudish, how Chaucer may have satirised the philosophical view of women in his time, and why such a view was contradicted by the actual experience of women in medieval society.
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Good talk but I have to mention that the Wife of Bath is from Bath..the city in England. We don’t know her husband’s last name. As for as the priests: the only corrupt one that I know of is the friar. The parson and the nun’s priest are not corrupt.
Hi Rache, Luke here.
Thank you for the clarification – that makes much more sense! On the priests, I believe most of the religious figures are portrayed as scandalous: the Pardoner is greedy and sells fake relics, the Monk cares little for a true monastic life, the Prioress is more suited to a court than a priory, and the Summoner likes alcohol too much. I didn’t study all the tales though – and I think commentators can be quite keen to point of the flaws of the religious figures, so perhaps I had a skewed view.
Thank you very much for pointing these out though, I hope you have enjoyed listening!
Luke