Wayne Shumaker, “Alisoun in Wander-Land,” ELH 18 (1951): 87.

Some sources of the Wife of Bath’s Prologue

Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose (13^th c., French): La Vieille; Bel Ami

St. Jerome, Adversus Jovinianum (c. 400, Latin)

--examples of chastity

--against marriage

--contains Theophrastus, Liber aureolis de nuptiis

(Golden Book of Marriage); cf. WBProl 671

“…Chaucer’s achievement here, and throughout his poetry, derives less from the sympathetic observation of personality than from a magisterial and dispassionate deployment of inherited literary forms.”

Lee Patterson, “’For the Wyves love of Bathe’...,” Speculum 58 (1983): 658.

Walter Map, Epistola Valerii ad Rufinum de non ducenda

uxore (c. 1180, Latin)

--cf. WBProl 671

Matheolus, Lamentations (late 13^th c., Latin/French)

Eustace Deschamps, Miroir de Mariage (?)(14^th c., French)

John of Wales, Communiloquium (?) (13^th c., Latin)