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Includes discussion of FranT as one among several examples of late medieval English romances that explore "noble identity and chivalric values" and use magic to place these values in starker relief than can be accomplished realistically.

Studies physical motion, readerly motion, and other motions related to texts in late medieval English literature, including a chapter on Chaucer's "engagement with motion as a concept in natural philosophy" in HF and PF, connecting it with the…

Investigates the role of Chaucerian apocrypha and adaptations in defining "Chaucerian," a concept "that was as much a product of Chaucer's later editors, adapters, and imitators as it was a product of his contemporaries and predecessors." Considers…

Identifies characters throughout Shakespeare's canon who "process and engage Chaucer's ideas on theater, authorship and performance," and demonstrate "how Chaucer's poetry is relevant to drama and theatricality."

Studies "the moral meaning of spiritual and political mediation" in late medieval England, focusing on miracles of the Virgin, TC, Julian of Norwich's "A Revelation of Love," and Thomas Hoccleve's "Regiment of Princes," using aspects of Emmanuel…

Examines Marguerite in the context of other historical writers of "framed short fiction," including Chaucer, and suggests commonalities with CT, and ClT, in particular.

Argues that along with works by Langland and Gower, Chaucer's writings, especially CT, may be read as an indirect critique of crusading.

Considers "the trope of the female body entowered" in selected romances and lyrics, BD, and the Paston letters.

As part of an examination of the image of the virgin body as "a dwelling place for God's Word," looks at Aelfric, Kempe, and SNT.

Considers Chaucer's repeated engagement with a passage from Boethius's "Consolation" in Bo, several shorter works, PF, and TC, leading to an argument that Chaucer ultimately suggests that some limits of translation are insurmountable.

Explores a Middle English scrapbook from the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries that includes some Chaucerian love literature, and considers the book's role in a performance of gentility, particularly on the part of its women readers.

Considers the diction of Chaucer, his successors, and CT editor Thomas Tyrwhitt as part of a larger argument for the interrelationship of late medieval and early modern poetic language.

While attempting to locate courtesy literature in a larger literary milieu, examines Machaut and BD on the way to an examination of Langland.

As part of a consideration of censorship, subjects several works, including PF, to a hypothetical "model of intolerance" based on Abelard, Ockham, and John of Salisbury.

Considers PF and other works in a discussion of how "the roots of formal print censorship in England are to be found in earlier forms of intolerance."

Considers the connection between ethics and emotional response in several Middle English texts, including TC.

Suggests that Chaucer deployed the tradition of grammatical "correction" as a metaphor for moral reform, finding examples in CT, TC, and Adam.

Considers BD in a larger survey of dream visions, with particular attention to "connections [to] the conventions of medieval mystical texts."

Considers medieval understandings of the relationship between attention and distraction or diversion, using several texts, ranging from Augustine to Walter Hilton, Julian of Norwich, and TC.

Considers marginal glossing in manuscripts of TC and CT as examples of actual reader experience of those texts, with an eye toward recognizing different interpretations and hermeneutic approaches from relatively contemporary readers.

Examines Chaucer's efforts, in BD, HF, LGW, and PF, to meld two strands of dream poetry: the philosophical and amorous subspecies of the form.

Uses HF, among other texts, to demonstrate a versatile permeability between "science and the humanities" in the medieval period, in contrast to current more isolated approaches to these disciplines.

Investigates two "networks of meaning" within which to view late medieval English lyrics: the relationships among lyrics in manuscript collections (using "network mapping software") and the relationships between embedded lyrics and "narrative events"…

Considers how the three titular authors equate excessive emotional response and similar qualities to texts with immaturity. Reads ClPT as Chaucer's reaction to Petrarch on the vernacular.

Suggests that Chaucer engages the Boethian tradition in TC and HF, only to challenge (and ultimately reject) that tradition's ideas of self-regulation.