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Twelve essays by various authors on gender construction in TC, with an introduction (pp. 1-8). For individual essays, search for Men and Masculinities under Alternative Title.

Exploring the question "When is Chaucer known in Italy?" Heffernan surveys other scholars who have examined Chaucer's writings within the Italian tradition and focuses on shared comedic themes in the works of Boccaccio and Chaucer. She reviews…

Assesses Chaucer's relationship with Petrarch, focusing on translation theory, humanism, and Chaucer's uses of the Italian writer as source for ClT and the "Canticus Troili" of TC. Also assesses Chaucer's references to Petrarch in ClT and in MkT, as…

Twenty-five essays by various authors and an introduction by Dutton, with a cumulative bibliography and index. The volume was inspired by the first international congress of the John Gower Society (2008). The essays range widely in Gower…

Saunders studies medieval understandings of "magic, enchantment, the demonic, marvel and miracle." Surveys these topics in biblical and classical precedents, focuses on a range of romances in Middle English, and provides an epilogue that looks toward…

Examines what "medieval romances convey about the possibilities for female social and cultural influence" during the Middle Ages. Chapter 1 analyzes how Chaucer's depictions of Cassandra and Criseyde were influenced by "representations of women's…

In an analysis of Gower's legal associations, examines how Chaucer uses "jurisprudential topoi" in CT, particularly in SumT. Also discusses law in FrT, PardT, and Mel.

Explores Chaucer's familiarity with conventional costume description and fabric reference in medieval genres, especially romances and fabliaux, and argues that Chaucer often reverses traditional patterns of audience expectation in which romances are…

Argues that Gower's intention in "Confessio Amantis" is both "poetic, as well as political." Emphasizes how Chaucer and Gower are concerned with "authority and experience" in their poems. Discusses WBT in relation to Gower's "Tale of Florent."

Eleven essays and an introduction (by Davis) deal with Chaucer's concern with poetic fame and/or with his poetic reputation among his contemporaries, down to the twenty-first century. The introduction (pp. 1–19) describes the essays and comments on…

Studies how recollection is achieved through physical, cognitive, and interpretive challenges. Uses examples from Chaucer's romances to explore individual and collective memory processes, discussing memory in KnT, BD, and TC.

Presents a collection of essays that respond to and commemorate Helen Cooper's "contribution to the study of medieval and Renaissance literature, literary history and periodisation." For an essay that pertains to Chaucer, search for Medieval into…

Begins with an introduction to Spearing's place in scholarship and situates him in the wider context of English and American approaches to texts. Follows with a chronological bibliography of Spearing's published work. This collection of essays is…

Addresses connections between Boccaccio's "Decameron" and CT, with particular focus on ShT, MilT, and WBT. Presents a "hermeneutic argument" that explores areas including "alchemy, domestic spaces, economic history, folklore, Irish/English politics,…

Describes the contents of the 167 manuscripts in the Rawlinson Collection that include Middle English prose; the following have Chaucerian material: D.3 [1] (Astr); D.913 [9] (Astr); poet.141 [1] (Mel); poet.149 [1] (Mel); poet.149 [3] (ParsT); and…

Explores "varieties of the medieval unspeakable," from ineffability and mysticism to same-sex eroticism, in Old and Middle English literary tradition, employing an analytical method adapted from Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, and Giorgio Agamben,…

Collects sixteen essays from the Third International Congress of the John Gower Society and divides into three groups: Part 1, "Knowing the Self and Others"; Part 2, "The Essence of Strangers"; Part 3, "Social Ethics, Ethical Poetics." The collection…

Includes nine essays, plus a response, by various authors, with an index and an introduction by the editor. Argues for a reassessment of the critical relevance of BD, which has often been marginalized, as a work that is simultaneously "multilingual"…

Examines connection between "language and cultural identity" and claims that Chaucer mocks "Alexander's 'storie' as 'commune' "in MkT. Analyzes how Latin, French, and English Alexander narratives were read, and rewritten, in medieval literature…

Focuses on fifteenth-century writers such as Audelay, Hoccleve, Kempe, and Charles d'Orléans, and shows how these authors fashioned themselves as self-publishing and scribes in their own right. Argues that this modeling was influenced by Chaucer,…

Consists of fourteen essays and a calendar of life records by various authors, clarifying Gower's life and works in relation to the "intellectual culture of the social, religious, and political controversies of his day." No single essay focuses on…

Describes backgrounds, and analyzes depictions of and references to Minerva in late medieval British literature, exploring her as ""redemptress, mistress of the liberal arts, patroness of princes, idol, and Venus' ally," and arguing that writers of…

Discusses LGW alongside Middle English romance and an "hermeneutic tradition stretching from Jerome and Alan of Lille." Argues through these intersections for a mode of interpretation that centers on female desires, including silenced narratives of…

Argues that Christian and pagan acts of prayer in Chaucer's works are fundamental to understanding his creative piety. Chaucer's literary representations of prayer are collaborative and participatory "scripts" that involve the reader in the sacred…

Explores "expressions of mobility" in the frame narrative and tales of CT to show how physical and metaphorical mobilities are shaped by "geographical, ecological, sociopolitical, and gendered identities."