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Item Details
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JANKYN'S BOOK OF WIKKED WYVES: THE PRIMARY TEXTS
USING MATERIALS COLLECTED BY KARL YOUNG AND ROBERT A. PRATT |
| Volume: |
Vol 1 |
| By: |
Ralph Hanna (Editor), Traugott Lawler (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£71.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0820319201 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780820319209 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 December, 1997 |
| Pages: |
296 |
| Language: |
English, Latin |
| Description: |
The three medieval texts that make up "Jankyn's Book of Wikked Wyves" have formed a vital part of Chaucerian research for more than 50 years. The editors examine Jankyn's book from many angles, including the extensive manuscript sources, background information, and Chaucer's use of the materials. |
| 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 tha |
| Illustrations: |
1 facsim. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Georgia Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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