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The distrust and hatred of matrimony is a recurring theme in Western literature. In this volume, the authors show that in their repeated imagery, continuous themes, and rhetorical devices, misogamous texts closely parallel and reflect economic and demographic shifts, and theological and legal innovation. Analysis of the literature demonstrates a link between the growing secularism and careerism of the late middle ages and the reduction of women's social status and public options.

Literature, Medieval --- Satire, Medieval --- Marriage customs and rites, Medieval. --- Marriage in literature. --- Misogyny in literature. --- Wives in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Medieval marriage customs and rites --- Medieval satire --- History and criticism. --- Juvenal --- Giovenale, D. Giunio --- Juvenalis, Decimus Junius --- Juvénal --- Influence. --- Marriage customs and rites, Medieval --- Marriage in literature --- Misogyny in literature --- Wives in literature --- Women in literature --- 82.04 --- 82:396 --- 82:396 Literatuur en feminisme --- Literatuur en feminisme --- 82.04 Literaire thema's --- Literaire thema's --- History and criticism --- Iuvenalis, Decimus Iunius --- Iuvenalis, Decimus Junius --- Giovenale --- Iouvenalēs --- I︠U︡venal, D. I︠U︡nīĭ --- Yuvenalis --- Giovenale, Decimo Giunio

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Conduct Becoming examines a new genre of late medieval writing that focuses on a wife's virtuous conduct and ability of such conduct to alter marital and social relations in the world. Considering a range of texts written for women-the journees chretiennes or daily guides for Christian living, secular counsel from husbands and fathers such as Le Livre du Chevalier de La Tour Landry and Le Menagier de Paris, and literary narratives such as the Griselda story-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 reconfigured how female embodiment was understood. While the period inherits a strongly antifeminist tradition that views the female body as naturally wayward and sensual, late medieval conduct texts for women outline models of feminine virtue that show the good wife as an identity with positive influence in the world. Because these manuals imagine how to be a good wife as necessarily entangled with how to be a good husband, they also move their readers to consider such gendered and sexed identities in relational terms and to embrace a model of self-restraint significantly different from that of clerical celibacy. Conduct literature addressed to the good wife thus reshapes how late medieval audiences thought about the process of becoming a good person more generally.

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