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Description
Frances Beer's Pilgrims in Love involves a re-visioning of the Canterbury Tales, told from the point of view of Alison, Wife of Bath, and Eglentyne, Prioress. Both undertake the pilgrimage to Canterbury because of personal crises that they face as they approach middle age. In the course of their journey they grow out of the straight-jackets that have been imposed on them by medieval misogyny, become wiser and more compassionate. They learn to love others, and most importantly, themselves.
Contributor Notes
Frances Beer has been teaching university courses on Chaucer for the past thirty years. She is the author of Women and Mystical Experience in the Middle Ages and an edition and translation of Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love.
