Jankyn's Book
- Author / Editor
- Hanna, Ralph,III.
Jankyn's Book
- Published
- Pacific Coast Philology 21 (1986): 30-36.
- Description
- In WBP, Alison asserts the primacy of "experience" but is challenged by Jankyn's "authority." Alison's greatest enemy is Heloise, whose arguments against marriage inspired Abelard to make the first antigamous collection, prototype of Jankyn's book (which cites Heloise as an authority). By her physical retaliation for Jankyn's browbeating with "authority," Alison returns their interaction to the world of experience, where a mutual love is better than sacrifice.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.