Woman Defamed and Woman Defended: An Anthology of Medieval Texts by Tertullian, Giovanni Boccaccio, Juvenal, Karen Pratt, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, Aristotle, Marbod of Rennes, Galen, Ambrose of Milan, St. Thomas Aquinas, Andreas Capellanus, Isidore of Seville, Alcuin Blamires, Jean de Meun, Guido delle Colonne, Gottfried von Straßburg, John Chrysostom, Jacques De Vitry, Saint Augustine, Ovid, Jerome, Walter Map, Albertano of Brescia, C.W. Marx, Jehan le Fèvre, Gautier le Leu, Christine de Pizan, Gratian

Woman Defamed and Woman Defended: An Anthology of Medieval Texts
Tertullian, Giovanni Boccaccio, Juvenal, Karen Pratt, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, Aristotle, Marbod of Rennes, Galen, Ambrose of Milan, St. Thomas Aquinas, Andreas Capellanus, Isidore of Seville, Alcuin Blamires, Jean de Meun, Guido delle Colonne, Gottfried von Straßburg, John Chrysostom, Jacques De Vitry, Saint Augustine, Ovid, Jerome, Walter Map, Albertano of Brescia, C.W. Marx, Jehan le Fèvre, Gautier le Leu, Christine de Pizan, Gratian

352 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

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"It is impossible / That any clerk wol speke good of wyves." Behind the words of Chaucer's Wife of Bath lies a vast corpus of medieval misogynistic writings. These texts, which range from those of the Church Fathers to a rich array of vernacular l...