Jankyn's book of wikked wyves / Volume 2, Seven commentaries on Walter Map's "Dissuasio valerii" / John Ridewall [and others].

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, [2014] ©2014
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Chaucer library Chaucer library.
Subject:	Chaucer, Geoffrey, -- -1400. -- Wife of Bath's tale -- Sources. Chaucer, Geoffrey, -- -1400 -- Characters -- Wife of Bath. Chaucer, Geoffrey, -- -1400. Wife of Bath's tale (Chaucer, Geoffrey) 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. Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) Marriage. Married women. Misogyny. Satire, Latin. Satire, Latin (Medieval and modern) Tales, Medieval. Wife of Bath (Fictitious character) Criticism, interpretation, etc. Humor. Sources. Translations. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11219940

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Varying Form of Title:	Seven commentaries on Walter Map's "Dissuasio valerii"
Other uniform titles:	Hanna, Ralph. Contains (work) : Map, Walter, active 1200. Dissuasio. English & Latin.
ISBN:	9780820346403 0820346403 0820346101 9780820346106
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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, "" edit.
Other form:	Print version: Jankyn's book of wikked wyves 0820346101

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