After this character falls in love with a man’s “clean and fair” “pair of legs and feet” and marries him, she is rewarded with lectures on the treachery of women like Pasiphaë and Clytemnestra. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this character, who tears a page out of a collection of misogynistic texts read incessantly by her fifth husband Jankin. This character tells of a knight who is commanded to discover what “women desire most.”
ANSWER: Wife of Bath [or Alisoun or Alyson]
[10h] Jankin’s reading list includes such antifeminist screeds as this author's “Dissuasion of Valerius.” The first “Distinction” of a book by this author opens by comparing a royal court to the “infernal regions.”
ANSWER: Walter Map (The unnamed book is De nugis curialium.)
[10m] Map begins the “Dissuasion of Valerius” by declaring his hatred for the dismal shrieks of these animals. In a Middle English poem, one of these animals trades insults with a “charming and dainty” opponent.
ANSWER: owl [accept screech-owl; prompt on “The Owl and the Nightingale”]
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