Wykked Wyves and the Woes of Marriage : Misogamous Literature from Juvenal to Chaucer

Wilson, Katharina M. (EDT)/ Makowski, Elizabeth M. (EDT)

State University of New York Press（1990/09発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 206 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780791400630
• DDC分類 820.9001

Full Description

Analysis of the literature demonstrates a link between the growing secularism and careerism of the late middle ages and the reduction of women's social status and public options.

The distrust and hatred of matrimony is a recurring theme in Western literature. In this volume, Wilson and Makowski show that in their repeated imagery, continuous themes, and rhetorical devices, misogamous texts closely parallel and reflect economic and demographic shifts, and theological and legal innovation. Analysis of the literature demonstrates a link between the growing secularism and careerism of the late middle ages and the reduction of women's social status and public options.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. Classical Antecedents




Marriage law and custom in Imperial Rome
Misogyny and mirth: Juvenal's Sixth Satire as prototype

II. Ascetic Misogamy


Eschatology, dualism, and virginity in the patrisitc period
St. Jerome's Adversus Jovinianum as radical critique

III. Philosophic Misogamy


The great and lesser silence: The reemergence of anti-marriage literature in the twelfth century
Secularism and satire in the work of Abelard, John of Salisbury, Walter Map, Hugh of Folietto, Peter of Blois, and Andreas Fieschi

IV. General Misogamy


Canon Law, comedy, and clausura in the late Middle Ages
Wykked Wyves: A tradition reasserted in De conjuge non ducenda, Quinze joies de mariage, and the Wife of Bath's "Prologue"

Conclusion

Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Works


Notes


Index