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Responds to two critical analyses of PrT by Aranye Fradenburg and Lee Patterson, which highlight "methodological and ethical concerns" with historical analysis of the Tale. Promotes the need to "theorize and historicize" in order to gain deeper…

Looks at Rome's classical geography and topography within Petrarch's "Letter to Colonna" and Chaucer's SNT. Argues that these "medieval topographies" create ways of "taxonomizing space" and deepen an understanding of the material history of medieval…

Examines the "logic of sacrifice" that motivates actions in KnT, arguing that previous criticism "has done insufficient justice to the vile enjoyment and identificatory power" of KnT.

Includes thirty-eight essays, new and previously printed. by various authors who examine debates within English medieval literary studies on topics that focus on gender and sexuality, politics, language, nationhood, science, and desire. For six…

Refers to Chaucer throughout, first by supposing what his early education was like, then by addressing the late-medieval relation between Latin and English as evident in HF, NPT, and ManT. Argues that "the work of Chaucer, Langland, and Gower…

Introduces the essays in a special issue of ChauR dedicated to Lee Patterson.

Recognizes the difficulties surrounding modern translations of Chaucer's work and its relation to humanism. Using Nazmi Ǎgıl's Turkish translation of SqT as a test case, argues that studying non-anglophone translations of CT activates both Emily…

Combines traditional literary Chaucerian scholarship with innovative ways of looking at the material culture of medieval texts and early modern drama. Focuses on how Chaucer plays with time, "temporal circularity," and textual history. Includes…

Considers walking and other forms of mobility in terms of social expectations of urban movement and movers. Examines works by various authors, including Chaucer, Hoccleve, and Shakespeare.

Examines the idea of the horizon in relation to dream activity and Chaucer's dream poetry.

Includes the argument that the material context of FranT must be considered as a relevant framework for reading Middle English Breton lays.

Although courtly love, magic, and supernatural situations make up the framework of FranT, the role played by binding agreements, contracts, and consent in the Tale alters the traditional definition of magic. Claims that fourteenth-century society was…

Concentrates on rhythm in FranT and contends that FranT is successful as a poetic composition, but cannot claim to be a Breton lay.

Compares FranT with Breton lays, and centers on how memory, and the unreliability of the past, weaken the connection between Middle English lays and Breton lays.

Argues that Chaucer's interest in Breton lays rests on the genre's association with magic and language. WBT has features of a Breton lay, but is not marked as such; FranT, even though it has its sources in the Italian novelle, is marked as a Breton…

Discusses theoretical approaches to the study of Breton lays, including gender and postcolonial studies. Includes brief references to FranT.

Explores the semantic and cultural fields underlying the terms 'Breton' and 'Celtic'. Posits that Chaucer willingly betrays his knowledge of the traditional geography and culture connected with Breton lays in FranT.

Assesses the theme of keeping one's word in Breton lays, including FranT, focusing on the theme's Middle Ages: pledging and keeping one's word, and its opposite, breaking one's promise or betraying one's pledge.

This volume focuses on historical, mythical, and literary heritage of Breton lay narratives. For ten essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for 'Gode is the lay, swete is the note' under Alternative Title.

Despite the widely accepted claim that French and Middle English Breton lays are concerned primarily with love, argues that the English poems pay relatively little attention to romantic love, and are more concerned with identity, family separation…

Addresses landscape descriptions in Middle English Breton lays. Focuses on two literary categories of landscapes: romance and magical settings.

Includes comments on Chaucer's use of the term "orisante."

Chaucer's use of ME "glareth" in HF and "glose" in ParsP supports Williams's larger argument that the central theme of "ocular scepticism" in "Pearl" is extended into its formal alliterative structures, especially in polysemous ME "gl"- words.

Argues that medieval English literature in general, and Chaucer's poetry in particular, is primarily a product of a cross-cultural and multilingual experience. Compares multilingualism in Chinese with aspects of medieval English culture, and…

Examines the meaning of "meat and drink" in Chaucer's texts, referring to the "OED" and biblical uses. Discusses the "process of idiomatization" of this expression by looking into its uses through Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, and Dickens.