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There is more to Pier Paolo Pasolini's film version of CT than mere adaptation, for the shift from one semiotic system to another implies some puzzling metamorphoses. Yet, paradoxically, the spirit of the original is cleverly restored on the screen.

Explores the nature and constitutive motifs of obscenity in the twelfth-century "Lidia," Boccaccio's "Decameron" 7.9, MerT, and the fifteenth-century "Cent nouvelles nouvelles."

Facing-page (English/Latin) edition of Innocent's treatise, "De Miseria Condicionis Humane," unemended from British Library Manuscript Lansdowne 358, with extensive critical and textual information. including descriptions of the manuscripts and…

Explores thematic parallels between Odo of Cheriton's "Sermones" and "Fabulae" and PardT. Though not intended to prove any direct influence of the former on the latter, shows how some topics that were widespread in ecclesiastical texts were adopted…

Thirteen essays survey topics in the history of medieval preaching from the Carolingian period to the fifteenth century, two focusing on fourteenth-century lives and Christ and Wycliffism respectively.

Reprint of Dutch verse translation of CT, with introduction and notes, first published 1930-33 and reissued recurrently.

Chaucer is a poet with a highly developed sense of the relative--someone who instinctively shies away from those absolutes necessary for the creation of "auctoritas," who denies experience in love, and who claims to be a mere reporter. This stance…

Claims that the "Pardoner's atypical sexuality is subversive of the medieval gender matrix and that his challenge to heteronormativity is ultimately encompassed and disarmed." The descriptions of the Pardoner in GP and PardPT disrupt "the medieval…

In the course of examining changing ideas of female readers, considers Chaucer's self-definition as a "writer of feminine genres" (e.g., devotions, saints' lives, and conduct literature).

Examines Chaucer's varied and metaphorical use of "herte" in BD. In Japanese.

Examines as ritual murder the death of the clergeon in PrT. In Japanese.

Traces the development of the doctrine of purgatory in medieval art and literature, focusing on Middle English homiletic and didactic writings on death and the necessity of intercession for souls in purgatory.

In SumT 1851-53, the Friar smoothly transforms the mother's concern for her own dead child into his own self-aggrandizement. Hints of the son's death appear throughout SumT to reinforce the Friar's failure with Thomas.

Argues that in PardT "allegory and form straddle the boundaries of finitude in order to raise the question of how finitude is constituted," thereby sharing or anticipating several concerns and questions raised by object-oriented, materialist…

Gauges the degree of "heroism" in death scenes in a variety of narratives, considering in individual chapters "The Battle of Maldon," "Beowulf" and "Judith," Layamon's "Brut," the "Alliterative Morte Arthure," the death of Arcite in KnT, the…

Kennedy analyzes Benjamin Franklin's self-presentation in his Memoir, commenting on his validation of his surname by reference to Chaucer's GP sketch of the Franklin and other early sources.

Item not seen. Citation derives from WorldCat record.

Collects essays that focus on the theme of death from the later heroic era to the eighteenth century. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Death in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times under Alternative Title.

Murder mystery which features Chaucer, pilgrims from CT, and historical figures, cast as a series of narratives told while the pilgrims pause at the Priory of Saint Innocents.

Considers relations between PardPT and the Museum of London’s carved wooden panel that depicts details of the tale. Calculates the "absurdity of the hoard" in the tale, and explores possible responses of the "London economic elite" to the differing…

Highlights that BD conveys the inevitability and incomprehensibility of death, offering a reading of the poem that moves beyond consolation of poetry and memory.

The Pardoner's pragmatic claims for salvation are part of a larger "question of Christian worldly prudence" in CT. His "response to his own tale . . . alerts us to the growth of a pragmatic attitude toward individual death and salvation."

Modern prose adaptation for staging of PartT (without PardP), designed for child or adolescent actors, with illustrations by Mike Spoor. A simultaneously published pamphlet of "Play Teaching Notes," also titled "Death's Trick," by David Calcutt and…

Seven essays by various authors who challenge "orthodox views about dialects and dialectology" while discussing topics of dialect and "standard" in English, especially British English. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Debating…

Item not seen; cited in WorldCat, which indicates that a woodcut by Margaret Lock accompanies an excerpt from part 5 of CT.