De nuptiis

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Ralph Hanna, Traugott Lawler
University of Georgia Press, 1997 - 282 páginas

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. 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 contents of Jankyn's book include three texts that enjoyed wide distribution in the later Middle Ages: Walter Map's "Dissuasio Valerii," Theophrastus's "De Nuptiis," and Jerome's "Adversus Jovinianum." The first two are reproduced in their entirety in this volume, with selections from the third.

The editors examine Jankyn's book from many angles, including the extensive manuscript sources from which it may be reconstructed, background information for its literary appreciation, and Chaucer's use of the materials. The publication of this volume, the fourth in the Chaucer Library, represents a major event for medievalists.

 

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Contenido

to the Dissuasio
196
to the Liber de nuptiis
226
Manuscripts of the Book of Wikked Wyves
260
Index Fontium
276
Derechos de autor

Términos y frases comunes

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Acerca del autor (1997)

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 author of One and the Many in the Canterbury Tales. ROBERT A. PRATT is professor of history at the University of Georgia. He is the author of The Color of Their Skin: Education and Race in Richmond, Virginia, 1954-1989 and Selma's Bloody Sunday: Protest, Voting Rights, and the Struggle for Racial Equality.

Información bibliográfica

TítuloDe nuptiis
Volumen1 de Jankyn's Book of Wikked Wyves
Volumen1 de The Chaucer library
EditoresRalph Hanna, Traugott Lawler
Compilado porKarl Young, Robert A. Pratt
Ediciónilustrada
EditorUniversity of Georgia Press, 1997
ISBN0820319201, 9780820319209
Largo282 páginas
  
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