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McCormick outlines game theory and summarizes the medieval rhetorical tradition in which debate and dream vision were memorial and ethical media. She describes how exempla were used in the "Querelle des Femmes," arguing that LGW engages the…

McCormick compares LGW and Christine de Pisan's "Le livre de la cité des dames" with the reality TV show "Manor House," exploring how each poses a "liminal space" from which to "contemplate societal stereotypes and strictures by revisiting the…

Explores Chaucer's depictions of women in LGW and Christine de Pizan's illustration of women in Cité, demonstrating how "recent work in cognitive science, which studies how humans create categories," shows that "both Chaucer and Christine are…

McCormick uses game theory and the debate genre to investigate the structure of LGW and of Pizan's "Le livre de la cité des dames." The former is "a ludic puzzle"; the latter, "an architectural mnemonic."

Mentions MLT, PrT, and ClT in the larger context of gender and blood in medieval culture. McCracken argues that gendered cultural values are "mapped onto blood and that cultural values are inscribed into a natural order." Compares Chaucer's MLT with…

Identifies a tripartite pattern in several of the Canterbury narratives (introduction, confessional prologue, and tale), applying it to CYPT. Comparisons with WBPT, MerPT, and PardPT illuminate the structure of CYPT.

Suggests a link between the Gild of St. Nicholas, performance of mystery plays by parish clerks, and Nicholas of MilT.

Reads "out of towne" in the GP description of the Miller's bag-piping as a play on "out of tune."

Locates a satiric pun on "doghty" as either "valiant" or "dough-like" in Th 7.724-25.

Explores Chaucer's and Lydgate's assumptions about their audience's knowledge of history, and discusses how and to what extent it may indicate irony in KnT, MkT, TC, and several works by Lydgate.

A novel set in the contemporary U.S. that alludes to CT in sustained ways. The plot follows a group of racecar fans on the Dale Earnhardt Memorial Pilgrimage, and includes a tour organizer named Bailey; participants named Reverend Knight, Mr.…

Thirteen essays (plus an introduction) from the 1991 G. L. Brook Symposium on Old and Middle English Metrics. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for English Historical Metrics under Alternative Title.

Appreciative criticism of Chaucer's "genius," particularly his innovative use of iambic pentameter in English.

Aligns details of GP 1.361-78 with historical evidence to argue that the five tradesmen or "Burgesses" described by Chaucer belonged to a "craft fraternity [rather than a parish fraternity] and that the Drapers' Fraternity (or Brotherhood of St. Mary…

Includes discussion of Rita Copeland's representation of Chaucer as an author intending to supersede previous texts; where Chaucer would supplant classical texts, Langland is presented as attempting to conserve and extend scriptural/liturgical texts.

Studies the medieval and early modern theory of tropological, or moral, sense of Scripture. Argues that tropology can be "theory of literary and ethical invention" as a way to interpret the Bible. Includes brief discussions of Langland's and…

As bearer of the Word, teacher, muse, and pilgrims' guide, Mary provides a feminine model of poetics for Dante, Chaucer, and Lydgate.

Shows how the theme of common profit and the figure of tolerant Nature bridge the opposing views of the love among the high- and low-class birds in PF. Other contrastive pairs in the poem--the two sides of the gate, Priapus and Venus,…

A close examination of Ireland's references to Melibeus suggests that, despite differences in contest and moral lesson, Ireland used Chaucer's version as his source.

Includes discussion of Alice Chaucer's literary interests and patronage, literary involvement of her father (Thomas Chaucer), various manuscripts affiliated through common works (Chaucerian and otherwise), John Paston II's compilation and curation of…

Manuscript evidence shows that fifteenth-century female readers of LGW were urban and either household servants or daughters of the gentry, whereas the implied female audience of fourteenth-century manuscripts consisted of members of the nobility,…

McDonald describes the principles and operation of two late medieval ribald games of "amorous divination" - Ragman Roll and Chaunce of Dice - as a means to explore the female audience for such games and related literature, particularly LGW. "Demandes…

Item not seen. From the abstract: "The focus of my discussion is on the presentation of Medea in late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth century English literature where her story is recounted by three historians of Troy . . . as well as by Chaucer, in…

Describes what it meant to be a reeve in terms of social status, day-to-day life, and relations with people of other professions, especially clerks. The viciousness of the Reeve of GP and RvT is consistent with what medieval people expected of…

Shows that throughout his career Chaucer "attempts to stike a balance between apologizing for the instability of his meaning and open acceptance of the capricious nature of language." Comments on Chaucer's attitudes toward language, interpretation,…