 | Ovid''s Art and the Wife of Bath: The Ethics of Erotic Violence Subjects: Literature Medieval -- Roman influences; Literature Medieval -- History and criticism; Sadomasochism in literature; Ovid 43 B.C.–17 or 18 A.D. -- Influence; Ovid 43 B.C.–17 or 18 A.D. Ars amatoria; Chaucer Geoffrey d. 1400. Wife of Bath’s tale; Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath examines how Ovid's Ars amatoria shaped the erotic discourses of the medieval West. The Ars amatoria circulated in medieval France and England as an authoritative treatise on desire; consequently, the sexualities of the... Marilynn Desmond is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Binghamton University. She is the author of Reading Dido: Gender, Textuality, and the Medieval Aeneid ; coauthor of Myth, Montage, and Visuality in Late Medieval Manuscript Culture ; and editor of Christine de Pizan and the Categories of Difference . |
