Jankyn's Book of Wikked Wyves Vol 1; The Primary Texts: Using Materials Collected by Karl Young and Robert A. Pratt: The Primary Texts Vol 1 (Chaucer Library) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820319201 ISBN 13: 9780820319209

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 1997

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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 the author of One and the Many in the Canterbury Tales.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820319201
• ISBN 13: 9780820319209
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Hanna III III Ralph