Conduct Becoming: Good Wives and Husbands in the Later Middle Ages.
- Author / Editor
- Burger, Glenn.
Conduct Becoming: Good Wives and Husbands in the Later Middle Ages.
- Published
- Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018.
- Physical Description
- 262 pp.; illus.
- Description
- Argues that the "invention" of the good wife in discourses of sacramental marriage, private devotion, and personal conduct "reconfigured how female embodiment was understood." Focuses on conduct texts and manuals written by men for women, including "Le livre du chevalier de la Tour Landry" and the "Menagier de Paris," and narratives such as the Griselda story in Chaucer's ClT. Links analysis of these works to a "view of sex and gender" that provides the "foundations for the modern forms of heterosexuality that begin to emerge" in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations