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Studies "depictions of armor" in CT, Malory's "Le Morte D'Arthur," and Spenser's "The Faerie Queene," "exploring how these works help us understand medievalism in contemporary media," and investigating "how armored bodies function as a way to think…

Examines Chaucer's engagement with his French contemporaries (e.g., Machaut, Froissart, Deschamps), suggesting that Chaucer may have adapted elements from those writers such as voice and form in establishing his own poetic authority.

Links the rise of falconry in the Middle Ages to the use of falconers' discourses as lenses for understanding texts. Discusses falconry metaphors in TC.

Includes discussion of Chaucer's "two brief glimpses" of Solomon as a figure of wisdom in CT, and more extended discussion of Solomon as author in Mel, WBP, MerT, and ParsT.

Considers the use of women and their bodies as metaphorical vehicles for the consideration of Christian life, with particular attention to MLT and SNT.

In the course of a discussion of a medieval aesthetic associating romance's luxury with aristocracy, finds examples in HF and TC, among other period works.

Examines Horatian influence on works ranging from the Exeter Book to Langland, Gower, and Fragments VIII and IX of CT.

Argues that fourteenth-and fifteenth-century dream visions "challenged routine modes of thinking about and being in the world." Chapter 4 includes discussion of stained glass in HF and John Lydgate's "Temple of Glass."

Considers Spenser's perception of Chaucer as inspiration, influence, and creator whose creations have themselves been mediated by other writers and society.

Examines CT and Gower's "Confessio Amantis" as part of an imaginative reaction to the political circumstances following the Second Barons' War, arriving at a new role in "speaking to and for" the Henrician community.

Considers how Chaucer (in ClT, LGW, and ParsT) develops the concept of pity from European sources, and privileges the concept in English literary discourse.

Uses WBT as a case study in the development of circumcision's use as a metaphor for situations ranging from shifting of intellectual ground to the process of reading itself.

Argues that Middle English romances reflect "medieval awareness of the problems caused by militarization." Includes discussion of KnT where, "for hardened fighting men who have seen years of service in war, combat is always 'real,' and conduct…

Considers the philosophical ramifications of understanding music, particularly as evidenced in BD, HF, PF, and ManT.

Considers Shakespeare's intersections with Chaucerian works (e.g., KnT and TC) with regard to the idea of plays gaining regard as literary works in and of themselves.

Argues that Aristotelian theories of matter, form, and substance interact with medieval poetics, particularly in such works as ManT, SqT, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," and those of Hoccleve and Metham.

Examines the treatment of books as physical objects in the works of Chaucer, Gower, and Hoccleve, suggesting that this treatment may create a way of perceiving the text on the part of the reader.

Examines the medieval conception of sight (both as sense and as ingress of the seen to the soul) in TC and Malory.

Discusses Chaucer and Langland in this study of outlawry, suggesting that the sovereign ban may be interpreted as a Galenic purgation of imbalance in the body politic.

Addresses Chaucer's works as part of a larger examination of the influence of Ovid's "Metamorphoses," particularly his employment of ekphrasis--the use of poetry to
portray other types of art.

Considers names in BD as part of a larger examination of nomenclature's role in defining Englishness within the context of other linguistic traditions.

Argues that the "creative potential of understanding invention at once as a textual and historical concept . . . receives its fullest treatment in the poetic exchanges of Chaucer and Gower," examining how in MLT and MkT Chaucer undercuts Gower's…

Discusses nominalism, realism, and idealism in "Pearl," "Piers Plowman," and HF, arguing that in the latter nominalism leads to realism.

Examines the use of riddling and the structure of riddles as a means of representing "the wondrous in the everyday." Specifically considers Chaucer's use of this in BD and PF. Additionally suggests that the "Secretum philosophorum" is an intertext in…

Considers Ret in the context of texts rendered physically inscrutable, forbidden, or recanted as literary/rhetorical strategies.