Medieval Laws and Views on Wife-Beating

Author / Editor
Kelly, Henry Ansgar.

Title
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.