'Hali Meidenhad' and Other Virginity Treatises

Author / Editor
Unrue, John Calvin.

Title
'Hali Meidenhad' and Other Virginity Treatises

Published
DAI 31.10 (1971): 5378A.

Description
Includes discussion (pp. 206-27) of the ways in which WBPT are antithetical in tone and detail to various treatises that treat virginity as a standard of perfection: "Hali Meidenhad," Innocent III's "De Miseria Humane Conditionis," and Jerome's "Epistola adversus Jovinianum."

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations