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Criseyde's statement that she lacks Prudence's third eye should be understood in the context of Augustine's theories of time and intentionality and the philosophical realism on which they draw. Her observation points up her failure to see…

Assesses "The Assembly of Ladies" in light of several Chaucerian techniques, particularly his use of a disarming narrative persona. The relatively straightforward female narrative persona of "Assembly" is unlike the narrator of LGW, although both…

Tabulates and analyzes various combinations of Middle English infinitive markers--the -e(n) ending, the particle "to," and the particle phrase "for to"--finding that they occur in no identifiable grammatical or semantic patterns of distribution in…

Reads the tragedies that constitute MkT as disability narratives, exploring how formal strategies within stanzaic units interface with a thematic focus on bodily disorder. MkT enacts a "symbiotic relationship between literary form and social…

Twenty-eight essays by various authors addressing Chaucer, Langland, medieval drama (English, Spanish, and French), Malory, Thomas More, and Renaissance drama, especially Shakespeare. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Divers Toyes…

The authors critique several Korean translations of CT published since the early 1960s: those by J. Kim, B. Song, Dong-il Lee and Dongchoon Lee, and another attributed to J. Kim.

Item not seen. From the abstract: "The focus of my discussion is on the presentation of Medea in late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth century English literature where her story is recounted by three historians of Troy . . . as well as by Chaucer, in…

Gauges the implications of the wide range of musical images in GP, exploring the exegetical roots of Chaucer's uses of these images, and assessing concord, discord, and silence as indicators of moral approval or censure. Chaucer's uses are not…

Identifies parallels between Chaucer's and Spenser's depictions of ranges and varieties of love-relationships in PF; TC; CT; and "The Faerie Queene," books III–IV. Introduced via allusion to FranT, Britomart is central to Spenser's collection of…

Studies tensions between family approval and the consent of marital couples in late medieval England and its literature, arguing that TC and LGW offer conflicting views of the tension while MLT resolves it.

Chaucer's use of philosophy, classic and medieval, goes far beyond Boethius. KnT explores order and disorder in terms of scholasticism; TC treats will and determinism in the light of views from Augustine to Bradwardine; and NPT subtly inverts…

Studies the tradition in which God speaks through humans and the proto-reformation implications of literary texts where the laity use speech usually reserved for priests. Chapter 4, "Cursed Speakers," considers the carter's and old woman's curses in…

Polarities in Chaucer's work lead the reader to nonjudgmental acceptance of opposites through involvement with characters,triangular relationships, and language.

Surveys "the wide influence exerted by the Islamic eschatological narrative known as 'Mohamme's Ladder' on European literary production until the 17th century." Discusses the possibility that Chaucer knew the work, and assesses correspondences…

A survey of the organization, theory, and practice of medicine and surgery from the Black Death until the founding of the Royal College of Physicians.

Focuses on the association of preaching and the preacher's body in medieval tradition, exploring the association through traditional identification of women and the body. Women preachers of hagiographic tradition and various exemplary women…

Background of Spirleng, a copyist of CT (Glasgow, Hunterian MS U.1.1).

In Chaucer's day the Epistle was regarded as canonical. In James 3.3-10, the theme is the tongue, the use and abuse of language--the theme not only of the Manciple's mother's advice but of the tale itself.

Argues that Chaucer intended to complete SqT, evident in the fact that the Franklin's interruption is unjustified or inconsistent with the characterization of the Franklin in several ways.

Documents various "medieval representations of Hell's Mouth," and suggests that the example in ManP (9.35-40) complements the concern with Last Judgment in ParsP.

Reviews and evaluates discussions of the authenticity of "the six-line continuation and the final couplet of the Nun's Priest's epilogue," agreeing on textual grounds with the "traditional judgment of scholars" that the lines are "inauthentic" and…

Argues that PhyT not only addresses changes in the medieval social power structure, but also serves as a "critique of masculine power" within the medieval European court system.

The actions of the Host and the Pardoner in fragment 6 connect PhyT and PardT and their respective tellers, bringing "the male body into view to an extent not seen elsewhere" in CT.

Read in the light of late medieval letter collections and conduct manuals for women, the comedy of ShT springs from a recognition of the merchant's wife's "clever manipulation of her roles: as hostess, social networker, housekeeper, business…

Associations of the home and domestic situation with "ambiguity, insecurity, and women's vulnerability" are most effective in TC and ClT. In the medieval home, the hall was the domain of the male and open to public affairs; the chamber was the…