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Jankyn's book of wikked wyves. Volume 2, Seven commentaries on Walter Map's "Dissuasio valerii" / edited by Traugott Lawler [and four others].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
- Chaucer library.
- Chaucer library
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Wife of Bath's tale--Sources.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Characters--Wife of Bath.
- Satire, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Translations into English.
- Satire, Latin (Medieval and modern).
- Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern).
- Satire, Latin--Translations into English.
- Satire, Latin.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (618 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Jankyn's "Book of Wikked Wyves" Commentaries; Appendix: A Note on the Later English Transmission of "Dissuasio Valerii"; Commentary One: "Grues, ut dicit Ysodorus"; Commentary Two: John Ridewall; Commentary Three: Nicholas Trivet; Commentary Four: "Valerius qui dicitur parvus"; Commentary Five: "Hoc contra malos religiosos"; Commentary Six: Lambeth 330 (selections); Commentary Seven: Eneas of Siena; Notes; Bibliography and Abbreviations; Index of Sources; A; B; C; D; E; G; H; I; J; L; M; O; P; R; S; T; V; W.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 22, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 9780820346403
- 0820346403
- OCLC:
- 870949225
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