Title Conduct Becoming : Good Wives and Husbands in the Later Middle Ages

Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (271 pages) Series The Middle Ages Ser Middle Ages Ser Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Loving, Reading, Acting in a Marrying Kind of Way -- Chapter 1. Laboring to Make the Good Wife Good in the Journées Chrétiennes -- Chapter 2. Remaking the Feminine -- Chapter 3. In the Merchant's Bedchamber: Le Menagier de Paris -- Chapter 4. Affecting Conduct: Feeling Steadfast with Griselda -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Index Summary Glenn D. Burger argues that, over the course of the long fourteenth century, the ""invention"" of the good wife in discourses of sacramental marriage, private devotion, and personal conduct reconfigures how female embodiment is understood Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-252) and index Notes In English Print version record Subject Conduct of life in literature -- History -- To 1500 Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism. Marriage in literature -- History -- To 1500 Sex role -- Europe -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. Conduct of life in literature Literature, Medieval Marriage in literature Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Europe Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780812294484 0812294483

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