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

Glenn D. Burger

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2018

Conduct Becoming

Good Wives and Husbands in the Later Middle Ages

Glenn D. Burger

In the series The Middle Ages Series

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812294484

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Glenn D. Burger is Professor of English and Medieval Studies, Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Reviews

"Feminist scholars have long used conduct books to illustrate the brutally patriarchal nature of medieval marriage. Glenn Burger's Conduct Becoming strikes a new, counterintuitive note."—London Review of Books

"Much has been published about conduct literature in the past twenty years, but I don't know of a book that covers a similar range of texts and makes such a large intellectual argument. This new model of the good wife focuses primarily on the married lay woman whose attitudes and activities as a member of a marriage and a household have significant roles to play in the wider society."—Kathleen Ashley, University of Southern Maine

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction. Loving, Reading, Acting in a Marrying Kind of Way Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Laboring to Make the Good Wife Good in the Journées Chrétiennes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Chapter 2. Remaking the Feminine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Chapter 3. In the Merchant’s Bedchamber: Le Menagier de Paris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Chapter 4. Affecting Conduct: Feeling Steadfast with Griselda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 272
Illustrations
- Other: 4 illus.
Keywords: Literature; Women's Studies; Gender Studies; Cultural Studies; Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Gender Studies

eBook

Published: September 26, 2017
ISBN: 9780812294484