Wykked Wyves and the Woes of Marriage: Misogamous literature from Juvenal to Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Wilson, Katharina M., and Elizabeth M. Makowski.
Wykked Wyves and the Woes of Marriage: Misogamous literature from Juvenal to Chaucer
- Published
- Albany : State University of New York Press, 1990.
- Physical Description
- ix, 206 pp.
- Series
- SUNY Series in Medieval Studies.
- Description
- Traces the history of misogamy: (1) classical antecedents in Imperial Rome, especially misogamy and mirth in Juvenal; (2) ascetic misogamy in the patristic period, particularly in Saint Jerome;
- (3) philosophic misogamy in antimarriage literature in the twelfth century and satiric treatments in Abelard, John of Salisbury, Walter Map, Hugh of Folietto, Peter of Blois, and Andreas Fieschi; and (4) general misogamy in canon law, comedy, and clausura in the late Middle Ages. Also assesses the theme of "wykked wyves" in WBP.
- Contributor
- Makowski, Elizabeth M.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.