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Recorded at the Fourteenth Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ANZAMRS) Conference, University of Sydney. Readers include Francis de Vries, Mary Dove, Diane Speed, Gary Simes, David May, Andrew Lynch, Tom…

Critical edition of BD with introduction, text and notes, and an appendix which includes selections from analogous French works by Machaut and Froissart.

Fantasy novel, loosely based on NPT, featuring Chauntecleer and Pertelote, along with various barnyard, woodland, and mythic animals. Sequel to Wangerin's "The Book of the Dun Cow" (1978).

In an interdisciplinary study drawing upon "modern hermeneutical theory; art history and codicology; psychology and anthropology; the histories of medicine, education, and of meditation and spirituality," Carruthers posits that "medieval culture was…

The chapter entitled "Who's the Head of the Family?" includes the modern translation of WBPT by A. Kent Hieatt and Constance Hieatt, somewhat abridged.

Illustrated tourist information pertaining to British writers and their works, arranged by geographical area, including introductions to sites associated with Chaucer: his tomb in Poets' Corner, his window in Southwark Cathedral, the Tabard Inn, and…

Examines the historical situation of John of Gaunt and Blanche of Castile, challenging the traditional interpretation that The Book of the Duchess is an elegy for Blanche.

Review article of Gellrich (poststructuralist) vs. Minnis (militant historicist).

Chapter 2 focuses on free volition (as formulated by John Duns Scotus), empathy, and fraternal bonding in "Amis and Amiloun" and in SNT. In the latter, Valerian and Tiburce “forgo political loyalties and prioritize their fraternal bond by…

Clanvowe uses Chaucerian themes and conventions with deftness. He recognizes irony based on logic, characterizes through rhetoric, and employs all three conventional endings of debate form.

Transcribes the text of "The Boke of Coumfort of Bois," a Middle English translation of Book 1 of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, found only in MS Auct. F.3.5. Accepts the claim in the Bodleian catalogue that the translation depends upon…

Publishes "for the first time a full transcription of an anonymous Middle English translation of Book I of the "Consolation of Philosophy" which is held by the Bodleian Library of Oxford University and catalogued as MS AUCT. F.3.5," drawing the title…

Cannon explores the critique in MilT of the limited Boethianism of KnT. The double plot of MilT and its emphasis on turning harm to joke are more genuinely Boethian than is the tragic emphasis of KnT.

Knowing Boethian philosophy (as Chaucer intended his audience to do) enables the reader of TC to gain a double perspective, both inside and outside the temporal limits of the text. This position is analogous to God's position and allows one to…

Regards Criseyde's departure from Troy in TC as a "fated event," while it is a matter of fortune in Boccaccio's "Filostrato." Shows how Chaucer adjusts his source, increases the dramatic irony of the plot, and gives to his readers a perspective that…

Details way in which the dialogue between the Dreamer and Black Knight in BD "closely follows the pattern of the first two books" of Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy," with the Dreamer paralleling Philosophy and the Knight the character…

Applies Freudian and feminist theory to three extracanonical medieval texts, presenting them as the "unconscious" of works in the literary canon. Also analyzes BD and TC.

Examines the "“fissure between spoken utterances and the body's voice" in Arveragus's burst into tears (FranT 5.1479–80), engaging the theme of truth in the Tale and the "dynamic between . . . irruptions of the somatic voice and the dissociative…

Travis explores the Host's "hypermasculine vision of literary genius" in Part 7 of CT, especially the Host's comments in MkP, NPP, and NPE. Using parody rather than satire, Chaucer gently exposes the "phallocentric presuppositions" of Western…

Includes (pp. 23-46) WBP in J. U. Nicolson's modern iambic pentameter translation.

Describes "premodern theories of affect rooted in humoral theory and faculty psychology," and explores the affects of wonder and shame in FranT as well as its queered futurity, focusing on Aurelius's brother, who occupies "the position of the…

Ten essays by various authors, originally presented at a symposium on "The Body and Soul in Medieval Literature." Most of the essays focus on Middle English literature, including some comparisons with medieval French and Italian works and some later…

Cautions that what we say about the Pardoner's body "might say something about ourselves"; summarizes critical discussion of the Pardoner's sex, sexuality, and rhetoric; and comments on the Old Man, Death (compared to Terry Pratchett's Mort), the…

Considers how the bodies of Jews are related to Christian bodily miracles in Chaucer's PrT and the Croxton "Play of the Sacrament." Kruger clarifies the relation between the positive valuation of the body in late-medieval spirituality and the attack…

A collection of essays treating the legend of Jews killing Christians, particularly children. Fourteen essays cover such areas as case histories, folkloristic tales and literary texts, surveys of the legend in different locales, ritual-murder…