In the second volume of Jankyn's Book of Wikked Wyves, readers of Chaucer get the fullest possible background for understanding his satire on antifeminism in the "Wife of Bath's Prologue," and the "Dissuasio Valerii" commentaries extend significantly our understanding of medieval attitudes, in general, toward women and marriage.

In Volume One of Jankyn's Book of Wikked Wyves (Georgia, 1997), Ralph Hanna and Traugott Lawler presented authoritative versions of three medieval texts invoked by Jankyn (fifth husband of the Wife of Bath) in The Canterbury Tales. In Volume Two, Lawler and Hanna revisit one of those texts by way of presenting all the known contemporary commentaries on it.