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Expressions of hatred of Criseyde belie a persistent love for her and thus motivate new attempts at telling her story. In this way, hatred serves as "a sign of dispossession" of Criseyde "that invites repossession by the next author."

Discusses the "political implications" of Rom as it reflects Chaucer's attitudes towards French during the Hundred Years' War, suggesting that Chaucer may be "resisting French literary culture." Also assesses Eustace Deschamps' praise of Chaucer as a…

In referring to St. Margaret of Antioch in this poem, Hoccleve draws out her "implied presence" in the form of the marguerite in the prologue to Chaucer's LGW.

Asserts that Chaucer's dream visions dramatize the act of reading and illustrate the author's interest in the reciprocity of author, text, and reader in making and renewing of meaning. Argues that Chaucer represents the failure of all kinds of…

In the chapter "Becoming Woman in Chaucer: 'On ne naît pas femme, on le devient en mourant'," Gilbert reads BD and LGW through the lenses of Robert Hertz's and Jacques Lacan's theories, respectively. BD represents a response to death that follows a…

Discusses General Ethan Allen Hitchcock's 1865 published explication of Chaucer's BD. Argues that this study of Chaucer's dream visions offers new insights into "Chaucer's reception in the nineteenth-century United States."

This comparative study of the two texts, based on the same motif of the gathering of birds, aims at exposing the spiritual and moral differences of the works. The theological and philosophical intention in Attar has disappeared in Chaucer's treatment…

Explores the type, use, and functions of formulas in Th, in relation to parody; in Mel, in dramatic form reinforcing allegory.

Provides historical, literary, and religious backgrounds to PrT, intended for classroom teaching of the tale and focusing on ethical values. In Hungarian.

Uses ABC, Hoccleve's "Complaint of the Virgin Before the Cross," and other sources to outline a mutually reinforcing relationship between the Lancastrians (orthodox supporters of the Church) and the Church (which allied with the Lancastrians).

As part of a larger consideration of John Shirley's role in English literary culture and canon formation, mentions the presence of several unique Chaucer poems in Shirley's library.

As part of a larger discussion of changing paradigms of friendship, considers TC, along with Shakespeare, Milton, Lanyer, and others.

In the context of spheres of male and female acts of treason, suggests that women's disloyalty (e.g., Criseyde) was typically seen as simultaneously political and romantic, whereas a male traitor's action could be more easily compartmentalized, as in…

Places HF in the intellectual and philosophical contexts of its era, particularly the tradition of Boethius and Wyclif, arguing that Chaucer supports the existence of universals.

In an effort to rehabilitate the medieval romance, argues that Th, when read through the prism of the Auchinleck MS, shows more affection for the form than is generally believed.

Presents PrT as one of several texts that are considered as performed/heard experiences, and as instruments of "late medieval identities and communities."

Discusses how the late medieval Church encouraged and participated in "fraternal corrections," and establishes connections with major English reformist writings, including "The Book of Margery Kempe" and "Piers Plowman." Brief mention of Chaucer's…

Reads CYP and ManPT in light of Agamben's theories of sovereignty and exclusion and de Certeau's notion of a "person in-between," considering as well several instances of slander and accusation in late-medieval London records. London, the Host, and…

This introduction to a collection of essays on "Representing the Middle Ages" begins by providing an overview of representations of experience in the NPT. After presenting an overview of key criticism, the article asserts that the tale seeks to…

The program of illustrations in the unique witness to "La Crónica Troyana de Alfonso XI" inadvertently undermines Alphonso XI's efforts to situate his people and himself within a "heroic, even mythical, past" and predicts the tragedy that would…

In the context of medieval humoral symptomatology, Chaucer's Pardoner fits the profile of a phlegmatic male. This diagnosis explains, in turn, his corrupt character, for "incontinence, excess, deceitfulness, cowardice, and negligence" in a man were…

While vernacular precedents for Chaucer's satirical portrait of a pardoner have so far eluded scholars, five Latin exempla in a fourteenth-century French Dominican's collection, "Scala coeli," suggest that "the pardoner was already a type of the…

Analysis of PhyT and its connection with the storyteller through the notions of authority, sovereignty and power. In the post-plague context, when doctors had become broadly distrusted, a story that stresses these aspects would help to restore the…

Assesses Jacques Lacan's and Slovoj Žižek's discussions of courtly love, focusing on the hermaphroditic potential of the Courtly Lady, and discusses FranT for the ways that hermaphroditic and masochistic tendencies inhabit the main characters'…

Although the SqT draws on missionary accounts of Mongol culture in which religion and magic, the "holy" and the "unholy," are seen as confused, the Tale itself treats magic as something manmade, a technological marvel, eliciting admiration and…