Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Jankyn's Book of Wikked Wyves: The Primary Texts

Jankyn's Book of Wikked Wyves: The Primary Texts

Young, Karl
Lawler, Traugott
Hanna, Ralph, III

Hardcover

Series: Chaucer Library

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0820319201
ISBN13: 9780820319209
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: Dec 1 1997
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.52
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.43 Depth: 9.58
Language: English

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.

1 different editions

Also available

Also from

Hanna, Ralph, III

View All

Also in

Literary Criticism

View All