... " style of riding at her own convince while traveling the road to Canterbury (Biebel 64). How she chooses to travel is a minor aspect of crossing the lines of cultural gender expectations. She is also described as an efficient business person, not afraid to verbalize her desires, and she laughs and jokes in [mixed] company (lines 445-75). Her attire seems loud ... a beautiful, faithful wife argues against the medieval anti-feminist teaching that WB argues in her Prologue, that faithful wives can only be those that are ugly. The WB tale has a great deal of symbolism in it. Beginning with ...

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