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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…

Compares and contrasts how Boccaccio's two analogues to ShT evoke differing senses of locale and the signifying potential of language.

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,"…

Examines same-sex love in English literature and culture between 600 and 1200, with commentary on later tradition.

Pearsall surveys traditional accounts of the rise of an English standard and comments on recent emphases and remaining issues. Considers the Auchinleck Manuscript as evidence of the London literary culture that precedes Chaucer.

Characterizations of Grendel, the Green Knight, and Chaucer's Pardoner can be used for a "queer pedagogy" based on the theories of Henry Giroux and Stanley Aronowitz. Zeikowitz suggests discussions and written assignments that encourage analysis of…

Item not seen. WorldCat record includes an abstract: "This book examines cases of [question-begging] reasoning in Chaucer studies, book history, and in other humanistic fields." In it, Joseph Dane critiques "himself and his own formulation of…

Basing her work on a study of 189 poems, Davidoff analyzes common features of "framing fictions." With attention to Chaucer's sources and literary tradition, she offers readings of BD, demonstrating relationship of meaning to structure; of HF,…

Argues that various narrative and stylistic devices in KnT evoke the question "Does human life have a final meaning?" The poem begins with an ending and ends with a beginning, these complemented throughout by stoppings and startings and various…

Personal reflections on having multiple sclerosis during the COVID-19 pandemic, describing changes that these conditions brought to (re)reading BD.

Focusing on failures of the male body depicted in the consummation scene of TC and in the autobiographical episode of the C-text, Calabrese compares Troilus of TC and Will of "Piers Plowman" as masculine questors in search of truth. Pandarus…

Reports on the author's completing a Ph.D. in medieval English and pursuing a career during the COVID-19 pandemic; includes comments on the "clear parallel" between teaching Chaucer's works and teaching online courses generally.

Although the concept of solitude is considered a Renaissance phenomenon, it occurs often in Chaucer's works as "alone" or "privity" and in the concept of private space, such as Nicholas's room in MilT. The "struggle for personal space" was an…

Clarifies that Boethius was a model for "medieval authors with political ambitions--and missteps--of their own." Imprisoned and accused of treason, Usk aligned himself in his "Testament" with Boethius, although his depiction of his own "seditious…

Shows how Chaucer's oeuvre offers many glimpses of readers' and listeners' encounters with the written word, but that last wills and testaments offer more direct insights into "the ways the majority of people interacted with and interpreted 'English'…

Comments on forerunners of ecocritical thinking in medieval literature, and explores the connotations of "green" (often in contrast with "blue") in Wom Unc, SqT, FrT, WBT, and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," arguing that medieval usage reflects a…

Identifies several aspects of medieval legal discourse concerning rape and explores how they "inform the representation of rape" in RvT. Also assesses implications of modern resistance to recognizing the two rapes in RvT, viewing that resistance as…

Examines the development of Belial as a personification of the power of rhetoric to deceive; discusses Chaucer's Pardoner as an example.

Both Criseyde's dream in Bk. 2 and Troilus's dream in Bk. 5 of TC are generally understood in terms that debase Criseyde. But Chaucer's intertextual construction of these dreams and his reconstruction of Cassandra and Criseyde from his sources…

Episode from a science fiction series about memory erasure and personality manipulation via futuristic technology. Several scenes set in a classroom and teacher's office with references to Chaucer and the Wife of Bath, including a brief reading from…

Historical, romantic novel about a young woman who joins Chaucer and his scribe, Luke, on their journey to Canterbury.

Considers the characterizations of Helen and Criseyde in TC through multiple contexts, including estates of medieval women and the ways Helen is depicted in Greek literature.

Examines Spenserian and Shakespearean medievalism, seen by Ben Jonson as an irritating return to Chaucerian English.

Discuses the complex response to Chaucer in Jonson's annotations on his copy of Thomas Speght's 1602 edition of Chaucer, especially the affinity of ethical and poetic thought, concentrating on two poems, "The Remedie of Love" and "Of the Cuckow and…

Through their dramatic rendering of the lovers' discrepant responses to the coming of dawn, the aubades in TC highlight the tempermental differences of the characters and prefigure their separate, though intertwined, fates.