Medium Aevum, September 22nd, 2007
Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage: From Plautus to Chaucer, ed. Warren S. Smith (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 2005). xiv + 295 pp. ISBN 0-472-11426-3. $70.00. This collection of twelve essays is concerned with satiric attitudes towards women and marriage in Latin writing from Roman comedy through to medieval antifeminist satire. It combines close readings of key texts with a broad scope, successfully demonstrating the continuity of literary ideas relating to women and marriage from the classical era to the Middle Ages, while drawing attention to the differing intellectua...
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