An exploration of the Christian background of Geoffrey Chaucer's "the Miller's Tale" and "The Legend of Lucretia." Nicholas and Alisoun, Lucresse and Tarquyn and not forgetting Absolon, John the Carpenter and Colyton are the characters at the centre of two of Geo...

IntroductionThe aim of this work is to present how men and women have been unequal in sexual freedom, unequal in sexual self-identity and unequal in moral value in the Middle Ages and the Victorian Age times in Western Europe. I will talk about how the non-sexuality of the \"good woman,\" (i.e. her ...