Wykked Wyves and the Woes of Marriage: Misogamous literature from Juvenal to Chaucer

Author / Editor
Wilson, Katharina M., and Elizabeth M. Makowski.

Title
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.