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

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.

About the author

Katharina M. Wilson is Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia. Elizabeth M. Makowski is in the Department of History at Columbia University.

Product details

• Authors: Katharina M. Wilson
• Assisted by: Elizabeth M Makowski (Editor), Elizabeth M. Makowski (Editor), Katharina M Wilson (Editor), Katharina M. Wilson (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.09.1990
• EAN: 9780791400623
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-0062-3
• No. of pages: 206
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 231 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 440 g
• Series: Suny Medieval Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education