Jankyn's book of wikked wyves
By: edited by Ralph Hanna III & Traugott Lawler ; using materials collected by Karl Young & Robert A. Pratt.
Contributors: Hanna, Ralph.; Lawler, Traugott.; Young, Karl, 1879-1943.; Pratt, Robert A.; Map, Walter, fl. 1200.; Theophrastus.; Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20.
Series: The Chaucer library
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400. -- Sources.; Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Characters -- Wife of Bath.; Satire, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Translations into English.; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern); Satire, Latin -- Translations into English.; Satire, Latin -- History and criticism.; Wife of Bath (Fictitious character); Tales, Medieval -- Sources.; Married women -- Humor.; Marriage -- Humor.; Misogyny -- Humor.
Notes: English translations and Latin texts on facing pages.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. The primary texts: Walter Map's "Dissuasio," Theophrastus' "De nuptiis," Jerome's Adversus Jovinianum