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Conflicted cooperation between authority and authorization is a manifestation of the fundamentally hybrid nature of the preacher's calling, one recognized in medieval handbooks as standing between earth and heaven. Significantly, women's preaching…

Lampert decenters Christianity and releases the study of Jews and Judaism from a "restricted economy of particularism." She shows how representations of Jews go beyond representations of the "Other" in a range of English texts by revealing…

Studies the ways that chess represents types of political and social order, examining the "Liber de Moribus Hominum et Officiis Nobilium" of Jacobus de Cessolis, "Les echecs amoureux," BD, the "Tale of Beryn," Hoccleve's "Regement of Princes," and…

Includes seventeen essays on various aspects of medieval literature: five on Chaucer, eight on other medieval literary studies, two on linguistics, and two on editing medieval texts. Includes a professional biography of Baugh and a partial list of…

Surveys patristic commentary and theory regarding miracles, and treats miracles associated with various shrines: Saint Faith, Saint Benedict, Saint Cuthbert, Saint WIlliam, Saint Godric, Saint Friedeswide, and Saint Thomas of Canterbury, as well as…

Concerned with textual ambiguity and flexibility in oral performance, Bowden compares varying interpretations of passages from CT. Pedagogical interpretative slant.

Treats the Judgment of Paris motif in the ancient world, as history, and as allegory. Includes an appendix on the Judgment of Paris in medieval art.

Critical edition of a fifteenth-century manuscript of a Middle English translation of "Speculum humanae salvationis," written between 1310 and 1324. The work is a compilation for both laity and clergy, a handbook or compendium of images and stories…

Explores Boccaccio's use of Statius's "Thebaid"--his "systematic transformation" of the epic in the historical context of Boccaccio's day--and Chaucer's reshaping of the epic in KnT. Chapter 4, "Imitation of the 'Thebaid' in the "Knight's Tale,"…

Treats selected major figures and works of English literature from "Beowulf" to Congreve, concentrating on the feudalistic idea of the "pledged word," as a shaping "master trope." By elevating the word to sign, Canfield applies theories of Derrida,…

Disputes the traditional view that the English alliterative poetical tradition was consistent from the seventh through the fifteenth centuries and proposes profound differences between Old English meter, early Middle English meter, and Alliterative…

Argues in detail that the "Gawain"-poet develops a "visually focused descriptive poetic" in his works and, by way of conclusion, asks whether such a poetic is unusual in late-medieval English literature, going on to treat works by Chaucer, "Sir…

A collection of essays treating literary approaches to the Roman de la Rose, its iconographic tradition, and its reception in and out of France. Includes a revised reprint of Lee Patterson, "For the Wyves Love of Bathe," SAC 7 (1985), no. 156.

Examining Joachim of Fiore, Bonaventure's Legenda Maior, Roman de la rose, Dante's Commedia, and CT, Emmerson and Herzman argue that, in eschatological perspective, CT exemplifies typical medieval apocalyptic thought. The general structure,…

Stillinger addresses intertextual and formal strategies used by Dante, Boccaccio, and Chaucer "in search of new ways to make a book." The "Vita nuova" explores structures in relation to authority in prose and verse, and "Filostrato" mines the…

A collection of ten feminist essays focusing on representations of the physical body in medieval literature and their sociopolitical importance. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature…

Six essays that treat literature as "another kind of history" by "problematizing the question of history both within and around medieval literature." Challenging historicist approaches, the essasy are deconstructive, psychoanalytic, and feminist,…

Studies the influence of the book of Psalms on moral discourse in late-medieval England.

Examines visual and verbal representations of the sexual power of women as "a topos of exemplification within the theory and practice of ancient and medieval rhetoric," especially as it developed in the twelfth through fourteenth centuries. Focuses…

Outlines the mixture of authorial deference and criticism within a mostly English mirror-for-princes tradition, from the "Secretum secretorum" to Machiavelli. Historicizes the works of James Yonge, John Gower, and Thomas Hoccleve within particular…

Includes an introduction by Justice, five essays by various authors, and an edition and translation of the "autobiographical" passage in "Piers Plowman" (C-text, "passus" 5.1-104).

Crane investigates a wide range of cultural rituals, demonstrating how identity was performed in late medieval England and how such performances make meaning and establish identity. She explores the Chaucer coat of arms as self-representation rooted…

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…

Considers PF (pp. 111-15) as part of an expansive discussion of medieval depictions of Nature as a goddess, observing Chaucer's modifications of Jean de Meun's Natura and commenting on the political implications of the later poem. Also comments on…

Includes brief discussion of the Wife of Bath's claim that verbal disorder is the special preserve of women; in this way, the Wife shares important parallels with the unruly wife of Noah in the Chester and York Flood plays.