Medieval Laws and Views on Wife-Beating
- Author / Editor
- Kelly, Henry Ansgar.
Medieval Laws and Views on Wife-Beating
- Published
- Kenneth Pennington, Stanley Chodorow, and Keith H. Kendall, eds. Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law: Syracuse, New York, 13-18 August 1996. Monumenta Iuris Canonici, Series C: Subsidia, no. 2 (Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2001), pp. 985-1001.
- Series
- Monumenta Iuris Canonici, Series C: Subsidia, no. 2.
- Description
- Documents where wife beating was both allowed and forbidden in medieval canon and civil law, often presented in analogies to bishops' treatment of clerics and lords' treatment of slaves. Kelly comments on instances in CT, particularly in WBP. Reprinted in Kelly's Law and Religion in Chaucer's England (Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2010).
- Contributor
- Pennington, Kenneth, ed.
- Chodorow, Stanley, ed.
- Kendall, Keith H., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law: Syracuse, New York, 13-18 August 1996.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.