Religion - Authority, Disrespect and Written Sources

Question 0

Prologue: 113

Answer 0

“I wol bistowe the flour of al myn age
In the actes and in fruit of mariage”

Bible says procreation is the fruit lf marriage yet she is using the term to insinuate sex for pleasure. Infertile?

Question 1

Prologue: 169

Answer 1

"”Abyde” quod she, “my tale is nat bigonne””

Disrespecting pardoner

Question 2

Tale: 1168

Answer 2

“Reedeth senek and redeth eek Boece”

Loathly lady mentioning written authorities, plot hole? How would she know about them?

Question 3

Prologue: Book of wikked wyves: 693

Answer 3

“If wommen hadde writen stories / They wolde han writen of men more wikkednesse / Than al the mark of Adam may redresse”

Question 4

Prologue: Book of wikked wyves: 720

Answer 4

“Womman was the los of al mankynde”

Talking of Eve causing fall of man

Question 5

Prologue: 1

Answer 5

“Experience, though noon auctoritee”

Irony as she gives sermon and keeps referencing religious texts

Question 6

Cockburn

Answer 6

She is “adept at” making “Libertarian meaning” from the Bible

Question 7

Prologue:

Answer 7

Claims God made people to “wexe and multiply” claiming it is a text she can “well understone”. Irony in using religious texts to support sexual promiscuity.

Question 8

Prologue: 489

Answer 8

“I was his purgatorie”