Jankyn's Book of Wikked Wyves. Vol. 2: Seven Commentaries on Walter Map's "Dissuasio Valerii" by John Ridewell, Nicholas Trivet, Eneas of Siena, and Four Anonymous Authors.
- Author / Editor
- Hanna, Ralph III, and Traugott Lawler, eds., using materials collected by Karl Young and Robert A. Pratt.
Jankyn's Book of Wikked Wyves. Vol. 2: Seven Commentaries on Walter Map's "Dissuasio Valerii" by John Ridewell, Nicholas Trivet, Eneas of Siena, and Four Anonymous Authors.
- Published
- Athens, Ga. and London: University of Georgia Press, 2014.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 605 pp.; 1 b&w illus.
- Series
- The Chaucer Library
- Description
- Critical edition of seven commentaries (one excerpted) on Walter Map's Latin antifeminist treatise, with analyses of contents and impact, manuscript information, variants and emendations, extensive notes, and facing-page translations. The introduction (pp. 1–14) describes the volume, citing Chaucer's uses of Map and the commentaries, especially in WBP, and on the "objections to Map's satire on women" included in three of the commentaries. The notes (pp. 495-576) include recurrent comments on Chaucerian echoes in these sources, specifically WBP, PF, FranT, and MerT.
- Contributor
- Lawler, Traugott, ed.
Young, Karl, contributor
Pratt, Robert A., contributor
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Parliament of Fowls
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Merchant and His Tale
Franklin and His Tale