Jankyn's Book of Wikked Wyves: The Primary Texts (The Chaucer Library Ser.)
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (742 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0820319201 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-15 |
| Language | : | Latin |
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Ralph Hanna III is a professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, and lecturer in paleography at Oxford University. He is the author of several books, including "Pursuing History: Middle English Manuscripts and Their Texts." Traugott Lawler is a professor of English at Yale University and
The contents of Jankyn's book include three texts tha. Integrated here for the first time, these texts now form a cornerstone volume of the Chaucer Library series.Near the end of her prologue, Chaucer's Wife of Bath tells how her fifth husband, Jankyn, a clerk of Oxford, taunted her by reading from a collection of antifeminist tracts. The three medieval texts that make up Jankyn's Book of Wikked Wyves have formed a vital part of Chaucerian research for more than half a century
Language Notes Text: English, Latin (translation) Original Language: Latin
Good to have If you're a Chaucer/Wife of Bath scholar, this is a nice grouping of the sources that Jankyn used in the Wife of Bath's Prologue to belittle his wife.