Jankyn's Book of Wikked Wyves: Antimatrimonial Propaganda in the Universities.
- Author / Editor
- Pratt, Robert A.
Jankyn's Book of Wikked Wyves: Antimatrimonial Propaganda in the Universities.
- Published
- Annuale Mediaevale 3 (1962): 5-27.
- Description
- Articulates the evidence for an "antifeminist, antimatrimonial" tradition in medieval Oxford and Paris that lies behind the contents of Jankyn's book in WBP, describing the backgrounds, transmission, availability, and collocations of Walter Map's "Dissuasio Valerii ad Ruffinum ne Uxorem Ducat," the "Aureolus Liber Theophrasti de Nuptiis," and St. Jerome's "Epsistola contra Iovinianum," all cited in WBP 3.671-75.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
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