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Chaucer was prepared for his travels to Italy by the fact that his acquaintances knew Italy well.

English culture was shaped by widespread literacy, English nationalism and political unity, a common language and traditions, schools, study of Latin, biblical commentary, knowledge of the classics, the humanistic movement, travel, and foreign…

Frame and vision are linked according to late-medieval literary expectations which establish in the dreamer a state of "need" and in the audience the expectation of that need to be "fulfilled."

Produced at a time when authors as individuals and literary structures were emerging, Chaucer's texts should be read both as an individual author's work and as the work of a "construct." The relationship appears in HF and develops through TC to the…

Reviews history and problems of translating Chaucer into French.

Twenty previously published essays, in English or German, and a bibliography (447-69) arranged by individual work. The volume opens with Erzgräber's "Chaucer-Forschung im 20. Jahrhundert: Einleitung" (pp. 1-31), an introduction to the essays…

Noting increasing sophistication of Chaucer criticism in the twentieth century, Fisher moves beyond historical criticism toward reader-response theories and the thesis that Chaucer is indeed prescient, a poet for all times as in ClT.

Working in a tradition of opposing elements, Chaucer emphasizes differences yet achieves unity in diversity.

Chaucer's dream visions reveal him as immersed in a literary quarrel of ancients and moderns. His iconoclasm is restrained in BD and HF, but he mocks the artificiality and decadence of contemporary love poetry in PF and LGWP.

A collection of essays on Chaucer; the career of Davis; "Piers Plowman;" a poem to William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester;the printing of medieval texts; Jocelin of Brakelond; ME linguistics; and clocks and dials. For six essays that pertain to…

"Nuditarian," a euphemism for "bawdy" that was applied to Chaucer in 1869, points to a "cognitive dissonance" between Chaucer's greatness and his dealing with unfit subjects.

Evidence both internal and external suggests that women were a distinct minority in Chaucer's audience.

Analyzes modern approaches to Chaucer's portrayal of women.

Vol. 1.

On current Chaucer scholarship.

Vol. 1: Text and Introduction.

These poems from the University of Pennsylvania MS French 15 show what was happening to the pastourelle and serventois in France from 1300 to the time when Froissart began writing similar lyrics in London, before 1364.

Examines the cultural, social, economic, religious, and literary aspects of Italy in Chaucer's day.

In an effort to "historicize" Arthurian legend, Knight discusses the societies that "produced and consumed" various Arthurian works. Does not discuss works by Chaucer.

Although both Chaucer and Shakespeare inherited the classical misogynist tradition, their works reflect a belief in the equality of the sexes, the value of marriage, and the association of virtue with with women.

The editors claim "Z" (a proto-A), found only in the defective MS Bodley 851, to be the earliest version of "Piers Plowman." Introduction examines textual, linguistic, and codicological evidence; edition compares "Z" with "A."

Four Platonic "forms" infuse Chaucer's works: eating and drinking, sexuality and love, play and seriousness, and the making of art.

Ten essays on court culture in Chaucer's England. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for English Court Culture in the Later Middle Ages under Alternative Title.

Although fools hardly appear in Chaucer, in his own self-caricature the poet often plays the clown, as in CT and TC. Italian influence on Chaucer's comic vision is greater than that of the French "fabliaux."

2 vols.