Trials and Joys of Marriage

by Salisbury, Eve; Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages; University of Rochester

• ISBN13: 9781580440356
• ISBN10: 1580440355
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: Isd

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
General Introduction	1	(23)
Select Bibliography	24	(5)
Satire and Fabliaux in Verse and Prose
Dame Sirith	29	(24)
Select Bibliography and Notes to Dame Sirith	44	(9)
Interludium de clerico et puella	53	(8)
Select Bibliography and Notes to Interludium de clerico et puella	56	(5)
The Wright's Chaste Wife	61	(24)
Select Bibliography and Notes to The Wright's Chaste Wife	79	(6)
Ballad of a Tyrannical Husband	85	(10)
Select Bibliography and Notes to Ballad of a Tyrannical Husband	90	(5)
A Talk of Ten Wives on Their Husbands Ware	95	(8)
Select Bibliography and Notes to A Talk of Ten Wives on Their Husbands' Ware	99	(4)
Prohemy of a Mariage Betwixt an Olde Man and a Yonge Wife, and the Counsail	103	(28)
John Lydgate
Select Bibliography and Notes to Prohemy of a Mariage Betwixt an Olde Man and a Yonge Wife, and the Counsail	120	(11)
The Meaning of Marriage	131	(4)
Select Bibliography and Notes to The Meaning of Marriage	132	(3)
The Tretis of the Twa Mariit Wernen and the Wedo	135	(30)
William Dunbar
Select Bibliography and Notes to The Tretis of the Twa Mariit Wemen and the Wedo	152	(13)
Didactic Prose and Exempla
Emperator Felicianus (How a Wife Employed a Necromancer to Cause the Death of Her Husband, and How He Was Saved by a Clerk) Gesta Romanorum	165	(4)
Godfridus a Wise Emperoure (Of the Magic Ring, Brooch, and Cloth, Which an Emperor Left to His Son: How He Lost Them, and How They Were Recovered) Gesta Romanorum	169	(8)
The Punished of Adulterers or The Bawd and the Adulterers Gesta Romanorum	177	(14)
Select Bibliography and Notes to Excerpts from the Gesta Romanorum	179	(12)
Of Weddid Men and Wifis and of Here Children Also	191	(20)
John Wyclif
Select Bibliography and Notes to Of Weddid Men and Wifis and of Here Children Also	202	(9)
Payne and Sorowe of Evyll Maryage	211	(8)
John Lydgate
Select Bibliography and Notes to Payne and Sorowe of Evyll Maryage	215	(4)
How the Goode Wife Taught Hyr Doughter	219	(14)
Select Bibliography and Notes to How the Goode Wife Taught Hyr Doughter	225	(8)
How the Goode Man Taght Hys Sone	233	(14)
Select Bibliography and Notes to How the Goode Man Taght Hys Sone	239	(8)
Select Secular Lyrics of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
In Praise of Women	247	(1)
Abuse of Women	247	(2)
The Trials of Marriage	249	(1)
Against Hasty Marriage, I	249	(1)
Against Hasty Marriage, II	250	(1)
A Young and Henpecked Husband's Complaint	250	(1)
A Henpecked Husband's Complaint	251	(1)
Old Hogyn's Adventure	252	(1)
I Have a Gentle Cock	253	(20)
Select Bibliographies and Notes to Select Secular Lyrics	255	(18)
Glossary	273