'Pacience in Adversitee': Chaucer's Presentation of Marriage

Description: Marriage has important positive values in medieval narrative, including Chaucer's. The "Marriage Group" constitutes not so much a debate over sexual dominance in marriage as a varied demonstration of the need for mutual consideration and forgiveness, and a condemnation of force, selfishness, and illicit sexuality: it is generally a man who has most to learn and/or to gain through forbearance or reconciliation. These views are also clear in TC, ManT, and Mel.