Author: Katharine W. Jager, Department of English, University of Houston-Downtown - Google Scholar

Abstract: »This article examines the intersection of bodily sovereignty and reproductive justice as seen in the figure of the Clerk’s Tale’s Griselda. Griselda’s embodied, reproductive sovereignty, the very “wombe of here / That was youre wyf ” (IV 887–88), is repeatedly tested by her husband’s tyrannous cruelty. Yet Griselda’s womb is also the site where Chaucer offers a more enduring and positive vision of sovereign generosity in a married woman’s non-free capacity to suffer and to give.« (Source: The Chaucer Review)

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Wikipedia: History of Europe: History of England / England in the Late Middle Ages | Literature: English literature / Geoffrey Chaucer, The Clerk's Tale | Sex and the law: Rape / Rape in England