Wykked Wyves and the Woes of Marriage: Misogamous Literature from Juvenal to Chaucer (Suny Series in Medieval Studies)

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.

Biographies & Memoirs

Wilson, Katharina M.

Makowski, Elizabeth M.

Leaders & Notable People

State Univ of New York Pr

<p>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.<br><br>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.</p>

State University of New York Press

This first English translation of Hungarian Medea, based on the Euripidean tragedy, and the black comedy, Iron Bars, reveals to the English reader the power and range, and the universality of the characters, of Arpad Goncz, one of Hungary's foremost playwrights.

Voices of Dissent: Two Plays by Arpad Goncz (English and Hungarian Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

UNKNO

Hrotsvitof Gandersheim: Para Avis in Sayonia

Humor & Entertainment

M a R C Pub

Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: The Ethics of Authorial Stance (Davis Medieval Texts and Studies, Vol 7)

History & Criticism

Brill Academic Pub

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