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One aspect of medieval chivalry, a code of rules knights were required to follow, was the moral of courtly love. Courtly love was the love of a knight for a woman of noble heritage, usually above the knight's own social class. It was a ritualistic admiration of a lady of high birth, usually unrelated to marriage or sex.
The Wife of Bath and the ''Wife of Bath's Tale'' provide another view of romance and marriage in the Middle Ages: that of a woman. In the prologue to her tale, the Wife of Bath deems herself an ''expert'' in marriage and discusses her five marriages, emphasizing the roles men and women play in marriage. She tells the pilgrims that three of her husbands were good, and two were bad. The three good husbands were rich and old. They loved the Wife of Bath, and, in return, she exerted control over them.
The fourth husband had a mistress, or paramour. Out of anger and jealousy, the Wife of Bath was in turn unfaithful. She wed the fifth husband, Jankin, the only husband given a name, out of love, not for money. But Jankin was mean and spent his free time reading a book about vile and cunning women. The Wife of Bath became so jealous that she tore pages out of his book while he was reading and hit him. Jankin, in turn, struck her in the head with such force that she was nearly dead. Jankin begged for her forgiveness and promised never to strike her again. Jankin gave her governance of the house, and she made him burn his book.
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