In the closing years of the fourteenth century, an anonymous French writer compiled a Book addressed to a fifteen-year-old bride, narrated in the voice of her husband, a wealthy, aging Parisian.
The work also provides a rich assembly of practical materials for the wife\'s use and for her.
The Book was designed to teach this young wife the moral attributes, duties, and conduct befitting a woman of her station in society, in the almost certain event of her widowhood and subsequent remarriage.
In the closing years of the fourteenth century, an anonymous French writer compiled a Book addressed to a fifteen-year-old bride, narrated in the voice of her husband, a wealthy, aging Parisian