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The Trials and Joys of Marriage
Engelsk
Bogcover for The Trials and Joys of Marriage af , 9781580440356
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9781580440356
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1580440355
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
1 maj 2002
Størrelse i cm:
25,4 x 17,8
Oplagsdato:
1 maj 2002
Paperback 2002
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This edition collects twenty-four disparate Middle English texts, published between the late-thirteenth and early-sixteenth centuries, which all center around the theme of marriage. Eve Salisbury organizes them into three sections: satire and fabliaux, didactic prose and exempla, and secular lyrics. While a fabliau like Dame Sirith presents traditionally lusty lovers aided by trickery, others like A Talk of Ten Wives on Their Husbands’ Ware—in which a group of married women complain about their husbands’ lack of sexual skill—suggest more subversive viewpoints. Didactic texts enshrine orthodox, sometimes explicitly misogynist, attitudes about marriage; these include excerpts from the popular Gesta Romanorum, a Wycliffite sermon, and treatises on educating children. Secular lyrics move into the realm of comic and carnivalesque song, where conventional stereotypes of women and men could be overturned without threatening the status quo. Proto-feminist ideals such as consent between spouses, the value of domestic labor, and female sexuality are all explored throughout.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9781580440356
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1580440355
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
1 maj 2002
Størrelse i cm:
25,4 x 17,8
Oplagsdato:
1 maj 2002
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