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1. Record Number: 2465
Author(s): Smith, Warren S.
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Title : The Wife of Bath Debates Jerome [argues that the Wife of Bath takes a centrist position on marriage and cleverly refutes the extreme misogyny of Jerome's "Adversus Jovinianum" and the classical tradition of anti-woman diatribe upon which he draws].

Source: Chaucer Review , 32., 2 ( 1997): Pages 129 - 145.
Year of Publication: 1997.

2. Record Number: 10969
Author(s): Troncarelli, Fabio.
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Title : Immoderatus amor: Abelardo, Eloisa e Andrea Cappellano [The letters of Abelard and Heloise, in their final form, share ideas and vocabulary with the "De amore" of Andreas Capellanus. In part they draw on common sources, including Ovid, Aristotle, Augustine, and Jerome in an eclectic mix. The idea that lovers

Source: Quaderni Medievali , 34., ( 1992): Pages 6 - 58.
Year of Publication: 1992.

3. Record Number: 10886
Author(s): Charles, Casey.
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Title : Adversus Jerome: Liberation Theology in the "Wife of Bath’s Prologue" [The Wife of Bath subverts ecclesiastical (clerical) modes of Biblical exegesis in the “sermon” that begins her "Prologue." She appropriates the method of scriptural interpretation used by writers like Saint Jerome, but she uses their interpretive strategies to support her own worldly and carnal ideas on marriage and sexuality. Her sermon is more than a parody of the authorities she imitates; she exposes the misogyny of clerical writers and also sanctifies the profane through her appropriation of exegetical techniques. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Assays: Critical Approaches to Medieval and Renaissance Texts , 6., ( 1991): Pages 55 - 71.
Year of Publication: 1991.