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Comprises nineteen pedagogical essays in English, history, philosophy, theater, and Judaic studies by various authors who participated in a series of NEH research seminars conducted between 2003 and 2014. The introduction by the editors addresses…

Ten essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors. "Introduction: 'Greet prees at Market'-- Money Matters in Medieval English Literature" comments on recent critical interest in the social and political aspects of late medieval…

Assesses Chaucer's "enticing eroticism and provocative perversity" as "clear and vital signs of premodern pornography." Historicizes terms such as "obscene," "pornographic," and "erotic," and proposes "Chauceroticism" to describe the various ways the…

Theorizes ecopoetic criticism, considering anthropocentrism, anthropotropism, and the "writability" of voices, whether human or nonhuman. Considers the "turn" to the human that opens GP and how the "impenetrability" of the human in GP is "often…

Argues that Shakespeare and "his fellow dramatists . . . consciously revived . . . non-dramatic forms of medieval culture . . . in order to challenge the new constraints placed on public dissent by Tudor and Stuart absolutism" and affirm "the power…

Investigates the "agency and influence of medieval queens" by comparing the careers of the English queens Philippa of Hainault and Anne of Bohemia and the "almost queen" Joan of Kent. Examines patronage and intercession and explores the extent to…

Explores literary legacy of medieval writers, including Chaucer, Gower, and Wyclif "in light of the translation and interpretive reproduction of the Bible in Middle English. For four essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for Writers, Editors and…

Collects twelve essays that provide context and background to the work of Manly, Rickert, and their collaborators as cryptologists, writers, and scholars, including recurrent mention of their work in Chaucer studies. For an essay that pertains to…

Thirteen essays, an introduction by the editors, and an afterword by Ren Navarro "describe alcohol consumption in the Middle Ages across much of Northern Europe, engage with the various myths employed in modern craft beer advertising and beer…

Explores the "psychological continuities between the Black Death and COVID-19" in a series of four essays, arranged chronologically, with an introduction, conclusion, and comprehensive index. Chapter 2, titled "The Pardoner, the Prioress, and the…

Studies the manuscripts of John Gower's "Confessio Amantis" as evidence of his status and role in the production of Lancastrian literature and propaganda, challenging long-held assessments of the dates and sequence of the manuscripts and what they…

Includes discussion of MerT that explains Chaucer's precision in using astronomical data for poetic purposes. Suggests that Chaucer used Alfonsine tables, and aligns the astronomical details and imagery of MerT with celestial events that occurred in…

Introduces Chaucer's language and its place in English language history, describing his vocabulary (including a list of misleading cognates and obsolete or difficult forms), morphology, grammar, and phonology--all exemplified in the booklet and in…

Offers "pedagogical realism" as an approach to reconciling the "goals of social justice" with canonical "curricula standards" in English instruction, illustrating how to use the motif of rape in teaching WBT.

Brawer compares infatuation with "dot.com startups" with aspects of CYPT, arguing caution in such ventures given the number of repeated failures.

A program of thirty-six illustrated lectures on English history, including lecture 29, "Chaucer and the Rise of English," which includes comments on literary and linguistic developments, summarizes CT and GP (a series of "capsule biographies"), and…

Includes two thirty-minute audio-visual recordings of lectures (nos. 35 and 36) on "Geoffrey Chaucer--Life and Works" and "Geoffrey Chaucer--'The Canterbury Tales'." The first surveys Chaucer's life and works; the second describes CT, with attention…

Includes a thirty-minute audio lecture (Part 2 of 4, disc 9, Lecture 17) on "Chaucer's 'The Canterbury Tales'," with emphasis on the frame narrative (in contrast to Boccaccio's "Decameron"), appropriateness of tales to tellers, dramatic interaction…

Lerer's lecture, "Chaucer's English" (Part 1, Lecture 10; 17 minutes) comments on the opening eighteen lines of GP, on diction and etymology, verse form, and linguistic conditions at the time. "Dialect Jokes and Literary Representation" (Part 1,…

Audio-visual recording of thirty-six lectures by Bowers (on topics ranging from the Bible to Tolkien and postcolonialism), illustrated with occasional still pictures and linguistic examples. One thirty-minute lecture (Lecture 17, "Chaucer--The Father…

Audio-visual recording of twelve lectures by Sutherland (from Anglo-Saxon roots to Paradise Lost), illustrated with occasional still pictures and linguistic examples. Two thirty-minute lectures pertain to Chaucer: Lecture 2, "Chaucer--Social…

A series of twenty-four lectures (each 30 minutes) about the topography and social conditions of London. Lectures 4 and 5, entitled "Economic Life in Chaucer's London" and "Politics and Religion in Chaucer's London" describe the physical, economic,…

It is not necessary to claim unity in the love, death, and heavenly reward of Troilus. Endings mark the boundaries between the work and the world (a central theme in modern social anthropology concerns boundaries or threshold crossing).

In BD, Chaucer relies on Latin "artes poeticae" and French courtly poetry for sources and models. "Amplificatio" is prominent: "expolitio," "circumlocutio," "collatio," "apostrophatio," "prosopopeia," "digressio," "descriptio," and "oppositio." …

Demonstrates how PF uses the naive Boethian narrator--who, confused about love, turns "Ciceronian virtue and vice into varieties of 'love'." Reader expectation is frequently thwarted: the narrator misperceives his "own relationship to the locus of…