Bonoure and Buxum: A Study of Wives in Late Medieval English Literature by Sue Niebrzydowski

Bonoure and Buxum: A Study of Wives in Late Medieval English Literature

Sue Niebrzydowski

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If married in church, medieval women vowed before God and their husbands to be 'bonoure and buxum', that is, meek and obedient in bed and at table. This book is a study of wives in a variety of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century romance, fabliaux, ...

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