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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
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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About Traugott Lawler
Traugott Lawler is a professor emeritus of English at Yale University. His books include The One and the Many in the Canterbury Tales. Ralph Hanna is senior research officer on the Faculty of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. His books include Pursuing History and London Literature, 1300–1380.
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