Chaucer's 'Wife,' the Law, and the Middle English Breton Lays
- Author / Editor
- Salisbury, Eve.
Chaucer's 'Wife,' the Law, and the Middle English Breton Lays
- Published
- Eve Salisbury, Georgiana Donavin, and Merrall Llewelyn Price, eds. Domestic Violence in Medieval Texts (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002), pp. 73-93.
- Description
- "Daungerous," the term Alisoun uses to describe Jankyn's love, reflects an ambiguous relation between courtly love and marriage; canon and civil law clarify the nature of physical and psychological violence in WBP and FranT.
- Alternative Title
- Domestic Violence in Medieval Texts .
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Franklin and His Tale.