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

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

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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...