"Ymaried moore for hir goodes": The Economics of Marriage in Middle English Poetry.
- Author / Editor
- Sweeten, David W.
"Ymaried moore for hir goodes": The Economics of Marriage in Middle English Poetry.
- Published
- Open access Ph.D. dissertation (Ohio State University, 2016). Available at https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_etd/send_file/send?accession=osu1468414544&disposition=inline (accessed April 4, 2020).
- Description
- Explores "economic terms and metaphor" in Middle English literature "to determine what such treatment indicates about the shifting social relations of marriage in late medieval England." Discusses how, in WBP, the Wife "appropriate[s] economic thought to dictate the parameters of [her] own exchange," widowhood in TC and its implications as an "unfixed" marital status, and related concerns elsewhere in Middle English works.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Troilus and Criseyde
Wife of Bath and Her Tale