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Four plenary papers and eight sectional papers from the Twenty-Second Annual Conference, Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, 21-22 October 1988.

In medieval literature, the human (especially the female) body is treated ambivalently--as ideal, as erotic, and as grotesque, as with Chaucer's Pardoner ("feminized male grotesque") and characters in BD, LGW, KnT, MLT, PrT, ClT, and SNT.

An anthology of nine essays by Rex, four of which pertain to PrT, revised from previous publications. For five essays that pertain to Chaucer, first printed here, search for Sins of Madame Eglentyne under Alternative Title.

Assesses brief passages from Langland and Chaucer as indications of late-fourteenth-century proto-pragmatism--or reliance on experience and rhetorical argument as epistemological modes. The variegated opinions, unstable exempla, and inconclusive…

For five essays that pertain to Chaucer, of this volume.

In 1397, Richard II's rule became more tyrannical, a fact reflected, some chroniclers report, in more elaborate forms of address that were more appropriate for God than for a king.

Later medieval literature (as represented by Chaucer and others) demonstrates "cultural anxiety," manifested through marginal glosses, commentary, and illumination that make each manuscript unique, unlike modern printings.

Presents the social history of late-fourteenth-century England so readers may duplicate medieval food, clothing, entertainment, etc.

Reads Chaucer's reference to cooks' turning "substaunce to accident" (PardT 538-40) as a joke about Lollard attitudes toward the Eucharist. Employing Freudian psychology of jokes and New Historicist evaluation of Lollard views and views of Lollards,…

Surveys the critical application of nominalism to medieval literary texts, suggesting three main approaches: nominalist text as source, as coeval philosophical substratum, and as historical corroboration of modern perceptions.

Sixteen essays by different authors, one on the Old English dual pronoun, thirteen on Middle English (Chaucer, Langland,and the Pearl poet), one on the reception of Gower by Ben Johnson, and one on the scholar Elizabeth Elstob (1683-1756). For eight…

Ten essays address correspondences between late-medieval nominalism and literature, including Julian of Norwich, "Sir Gawain and The Green Knight," Jean Molinet, and Chaucer.

Explores the relation of gender and the genre of romance in Chaucer's CT, especially the mutually defining and delimiting power of the two categories. Women conform to the particular roles romance carves out for them, while the genre is…

Nine essays by various authors, addressing topics such as Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, the "Ancren Riwle," the Paston daughters, Malory's Guenivere, and several works by Chaucer.

Combines in one volume Wilkins's two previously published works, "Music in the Age of Chaucer" (1979) and "Chaucer Songs" (1980).

A report on the history and the goals of the "Canterbury Tales" Project.

Similarities between Chaucer and the Middle English mystics do not imply a conscious intention on his part either to imitate the mystics or to parody them ironically.

Chaucer's pilgrims in CT do not reach the martyr's shrine in the cathedral, Langland's pilgrims in "Piers Plowman" do not attain any of his even remoter visionary goals, and Spenser's Arthur in "The Faerie Queene" falls short of his ideal destination…

Chaucer's works reflect a pattern of concern with the realist-nominalist issues of language. Early on, Chaucer critiques realism, and, later on, nominalism, while TC and especially CT pose the two views in dialogic debate. Fragment 6 (Phyt and PardT)…

Chaucer's use of the word "craft" and its derivations in CT indicate a difference between individuals and the world they want to control.

Intended as a "do-it-yourself course" for first-time readers of CT, the Companion is organized in a series of separate chapters devoted to GP and to most tales, although the Links, CkT and SqT, Thop, Mel, MkT, and ParsT are consigned to appendices.

Describes the frame tale as a device of an "oral/literate continuum" that enabled medieval authors to draw on both traditions and to produce a flexible form.

Analyzes MerT, MilT, ShT, and FranT in light of the two-fold nature of the English medieval marriage contract: personal duties and business responsibilities.

Chaucer's allusions to the Orient or to the East (e.g., to Turkey, Syria, and India) refer, on the one hand, to a practical knowledge of geography and, on the other--with ecclesiastical use of the "mappae mundi" in mind--to a symbolic spiritual goal,…

CT resists the dominant medieval gender discourses that it inscribes.