Jankyn's Book of Wikked Wyves: Seven Commentaries on Walter Map's "Dissuasio Valerii" (The Chaucer Library)
Traugott Lawler
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Description for Jankyn's Book of Wikked Wyves: Seven Commentaries on Walter Map's "Dissuasio Valerii" (The Chaucer Library)
Hardcover. Editor(s): Lawler, Traugott; Hanna, Ralph, III. Series: Chaucer Library. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 235 x 40. Weight in Grams: 970.
In volume 1 of Jankyn’s Book of Wikked Wyves (Georgia, 1997), Ralph Hanna and Traugott Lawler presented authoritative versions of three medieval texts invoked by Jankyn (fifth husband of the Wife of Bath) in The Canterbury Tales. In Jankyn’s Book, volume 2, Lawler and Hanna revisit one of those texts by way of presenting all the known contemporary commentaries on it.
The text is Walter Map’s “Dissuasio Valerii,” that is, “The Letter of Valerius to His Friend Ruffinus, Dissuading Him from Marrying.” Included in Jankyn’s Book, volume 2, are seven commentaries on “Dissuasio Valerii,” edited from all known manuscripts ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Series
Chaucer Library
Number of Pages
624
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820346106
SKU
V9780820346106
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Ref
99-2
About Traugott Lawler
Ralph Hanna III (Editor) 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 (Editor) TRAUGOTT LAWLER is a professor of English at Yale University and ... Read more
Reviews for Jankyn's Book of Wikked Wyves: Seven Commentaries on Walter Map's "Dissuasio Valerii" (The Chaucer Library)
These commentaries ‘extend significantly our understanding of medieval attitudes toward women and marriage’ and therefore of Chaucer’s attitudes in the Wife’s prologue and tale and elsewhere in his works. . . . An essential supplement to the primary texts in the first volume.
Chaucer Library General Editor
Chaucer Library General Editor