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Explores aspects of sexual consent and non-consent in RvT--particularly Malyne's romanticizing of Aleyn's assault--linking them with Augustine's comments on Lucretia in "De civitate Dei," modern notions of "retroactive consent," and the Chaucer life…

Connects the "gendered terror" of female sexuality and the "evasiveness" of J. R. R. Tolkien's treatment of sexual violence against women in his Middle-Earth narratives, and assesses suppression of rape in Tolkien's 1939 bowdlerized version of RvT in…

Focuses on RvT and argues that newly discovered documents allow scholars to move beyond Chaucer's individual blame and address structural issues and concerns with language describing and depicting sexual assault in late medieval texts.

Investigates the restless "emotional movement" of "roaming" in KnT, as expression of both confined frustration and openness to new adventures enacted by Palamon, Emelye, and Arcite. Compares Chaucer's depictions of these movements and emotions with…

Argues that the "unique aspect" of the depiction of imprisonment in KnT is that the "only liberation that can happen is apparently at the end of this life, which is seen as a prison," hence "hardly a liberation at all." Comments on Chaucer's likely…

Explores the theme of knightly and royal pity (and related concepts, such as mercy, compassion, and resulting actions) in literary representations of war in a range of late medieval English texts, with particular attention to the Alliterative "Morte…

Uses trauma theory to read KnT as a "meditation on catastrophe and survival."

Attends to the source relations between KnT and Boccaccio's "Teseida" to examine the latter in light of game theory.

Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate this is an adaptation of KnT for early readers.

Argues that 'Augustine's theology allows us to see providence in romance as a doubled perspective that recognizes the existential smallness of individuals and their collective participatory power in a plural world," addressing KnT, ClT, and…

Uses Homi Bhabha's concepts of borderline community and mimicry ("The Location of Culture" [1994]) to investigate the descriptions of the guildsmen in GP, 361-78, as they relate to shifts and tensions in Chaucer's contemporary society, focusing on…

Facing-page Middle English and lineated Turkish translation of GP, with introductions to Chaucer's life, his works, and this translation.

Lesson plan for teaching GP in high school classes (senior level), introducing the four humors and using a personality test for students.

Facing-page translation of GP into modern English iambic decasyllables; features illustrations of the pilgrims--reproductions of Caxton's woodcuts paired with original woodcut portraits--and an extensive glossary.

Electronic edition of GP, designed for download and web access on mobile devices, based on the Hengwrt manuscript (fully reproduced in color), with hyperlinked transcription, translation, glosses and notes, and an audio performance by Lina Gibbings…

Presents a "new way to conjoin Chaucer's sophisticated engagement with philosophical thought and his obvious focus on amatory concerns" in CT, arguing that the narrative "authoritatively abandons authority"--a paradox that recalls logical…

Chapter 7, "Chaucer: Die 'Canterbury Tales,' " summarizes the individual tales of CT, following the Chaucer Society order, and provides brief explanations of religious backgrounds and details.

Theorizes "the consequences of political discourse on bodies" in literary and cinematic frame-narratives, including discussion of CT, along with the "Pañcatantra," the "Vetala" of Somadeva, Boccaccio's "Decameron," Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Trilogy of…

"[A]pproaches the Canterbury Tales through the lens of humor theory, responding to a much-noted gap in existing scholarship by focusing primarily on the structures and mechanisms of humor in the text."

Tabulates liturgical references within CT and argues that the poem depicts the secularization of liturgy and its appropriation for social control, while also presenting a carnivalesque celebration of the reversal of social hierarchy.

Argues that CT (specifically GP, KnT, MilT, and RvT) and Bodiam Castle "converge as ideological constructions," comparing the lives of Chaucer and Sir Edward Dallingridge (builder of Bodiam)--both witnessed at the Scrope vs. Grosvenor trial--and…

Describes the social implications of food and dining practices in late medieval cookbooks, social records, and aesthetic literature, commenting on the culinary concerns associated with the Franklin, Prioress, Squire, and Cook in GP and similar…

Surveys literary representations of sounds in various landscapes found in late medieval literature, including mention of the tournament in KnT and description of the tale-telling, singing, and music-making among the Canterbury pilgrims.

Interprets CT as a "compelling psychogram of a diverse community processing massive demographic shifts in the wake of recurrent epidemic waves." Explores disruptions of social and linguistic categories, PardT as an allegory of plague death, various…

Argues that Chaucer favors the popular idea that Brittonic literature and history are primarily oral. By doing so, Chaucer distances his contemporary England, with its reliance on Latin textual and cultural authority, from the political reality of…