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Explores Chaucer's attitude toward the Boethian notion that "right reasoning alone should guarantee rhetorical success." Mirrored in Chaucer criticism and inflected by issues of gender and point of view, "objectivity," effective persuasion, and…

Introduces medical, historical, sociological, and literary aspects of various infectious human diseases, including addiction, illustrated with sidebar facts, literary examples, and photographs and reproductions. A chapter on "The Black Death"…

Addresses the "rise of first-person fiction in the later Middle Ages," including discussion of CT, BD, and Chaucer's "other dream poems."

Engages several literary and anthropological theories of gifts, and addresses related motifs of reciprocity, generosity, promising, and exchange in medieval English texts, especially romances. Individual chapters assess "King Horn"/"Horn Childe"…

Part of Paravicini's three-volume study of the crusades against Lithuania undertaken by the Teutonic order, focusing on literary backgrounds to the chivalric imagination underlying the crusades. Includes evidence of tensions between crusading and…

Explores how writers and audiences in medieval England "approached textually constructed audiences," considering evidence from rhetorical theory, readers' comments, and "signs of adaptation undertaken by authors, correctors, and scribes."…

Personal response to two essays concerning medieval female consent in light of a rape in London in 2021; both essays are included in this volume of "Studies in the Age of Chaucer."

Anthologizes a wide array of medieval texts that pertain to disability studies, each with an introduction and apparatus by individual contributors. Entries include Historical and Medical Documents, Religious Texts, Poetry, Prose, Drama, and visual…

Comments on editing SAC and offers personal and historical perspective on the journal's development.

"[E]xplores how understandings of nonhuman animals and the environment shaped which human behaviors were labeled natural prior to the Enlightenment." Includes comments on animals, animal imagery, and environmental idealism in Form Age, MilT, and PF.

Describes depictions of affective female friendship in works by Chaucer (TC and FranT), John Gower (Albinus and Rosamund in the "Confessio Amantis"), and Thomas Malory (portions of "Le Morte Darthur"), contrasting them with source materials and…

Identifies three ways to illuminate female friendship in CT, disclosing "identity of feeling" among women (Custance, the Sultaness, and Hermengild in MLT), "enclaves . . . afforded by misogynistic discourses" (the Wife, her gossip, and female…

Collects twelve essays that celebrate friendship among women in medieval literature, with an Introduction by the editors, an Afterword by Penelope Anderson, and a cumulative Index. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Women's Friendship…

Uses Paul Ricoeur's "theory of narrative identity" to explore various aspects of Chaucer's poetry, including issues of female agency in FranT, ClT, and TC; racialized narratives and white identity in CT; Chaucer's "talking-animal poetry"; and "poetic…

Anthologizes seventeen essays by Knight, "written over several decades focused on the social and political contexts of medieval literature," three previously unpublished, one of which pertains to Chaucer: Chapter 14, "Chaucer's Fabliaux and Late…

Argues that Pizan and Chaucer "used their writing to open up educational opportunities" for their readers, seeking "to facilitate practices of engaged reading" for an expanding vernacular audience, with Chaucer modeling "problematic reading…

Demonstrates the importance and central role of the "clerical proletariat"--i.e., clerics who worked "in liminal spaces between the ecclesiastical and lay worlds"--in the proliferation of late medieval books and literature in English, with primary…

Offers advice on how an undergraduate course focusing on Chaucer can serve the curricula of both literary and linguistics programs. Proposes several learning outcomes, and provides classroom strategies and emphases whereby linguistic and literary…

Opens with an account of teaching PrT in comparison with Patience Agbabi's adaptation of it in "Telling Tales" (2015), helping to introduce the goal of the entire volume: promoting resistance to racist, xenophobic, and homophobic distortions and…

Analyzes the relationship between conceptions of social class and literary representations of them in Britain from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century. Chapter 2, "Perceptions of Class in the Late Middle Ages," addresses William Langland's…

Discusses the Pardoner's "queerness and fitness to tell a moral tale" in light of ethical concerns about J. K. Rowling's "public comments about trans women," suggesting pedagogical uses.

Assesses Chaucer's and Lydgate's inset lyrics for the ways that they imply "a sense of poetry as an assemblage of physical materials collected from the past, and poets as the collectors and mediators of those materials." Considers aspects of BD;…

Based on "Sara Ahmed's phenomenological theorization of 'orientation'," offers case studies of how "the orientation(s) of medieval readers might have influenced their experience of a text," discussing the experience of reading CT in Wynkyn De Worde's…

Analyzes "how English and Scottish literature and law during the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries connected the figure of the tapster to sex work, transgression, public harm, and dangerous agency over men," and traces residue of this misogyny…

Assesses references to ale and wine in PardPT as they reflect the Pardoner's "submerged desire" to bond with the Host and his simultaneous attempt to compete with Harry as leader of the pilgrimage. Argues that "the metaphorical ale-stake associated…