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Includes sixty trans lyric poems, presented in a “transliteration of English—Chaucerian in affect, but revolutionary in effect,” with spelling reminiscent of Middle English.

Uses CT and PF, among other texts, to examine the development and contemporary understanding of the concept of English Parliament.

Comprehensive study of over 500 manuscripts containing Lollard writings from 1375 to 1530. Analyzes textual culture associated with Lollard movement. Brief references to MLT, PardT, PhyT, and TC.

Studies "the literary, religious, and legal histories of felony procedure," focusing on literary depictions of felony, including those in ParsT and MLT.

Offers pedagogical strategies for confronting "literary representations of sexual violence" in a range of medieval romances and novelle within story collections, including KnT; FranT; and works by Malory, Boccaccio, Gower, and Marguerite de Navarre.…

Discusses LGW alongside Middle English romance and an "hermeneutic tradition stretching from Jerome and Alan of Lille." Argues through these intersections for a mode of interpretation that centers on female desires, including silenced narratives of…

Examines admonitory treatises on female sexual behavior and actual women's accounts. Refers to Prioress, Wife of Bath.

The Wife of Bath has served as an example of a medieval feminist. However, it would be more accurate to describe her as an androgyne--a person possessing both male and female characteristics. While it can be argued that she has liberated herself…

Sixteen essays by various authors. For six essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Feminea Medievalia I under Alternative Title.

WBT, PrT, and SNT all confront the masculine authority of books, the nature of love and marriage, and the nature of feminine authority--issues of female identity and agency. They assert a feminine response to masculine discourse in CT, culminating in…

Examines depictions of masculine attractiveness in medieval romances, including TC. Influenced by rhetorical and courtly traditions, such depictions (and parallel cautions against seduction) emphasize moral and social qualities rather than personal…

Revised version of "The Second Nun's Tale," first published in C. David Benson and Elizabeth Robertson, eds. Chaucer's Religious Tales (Cambridge: Brewer, 1990).

Explores the "powerlessness of the voiceless" in ManPT, focusing on Phebus's wife, who has no voice in the Tale, in contrast with the speaking crow whose voice is taken from him and the ventriloquized mother of the Manciple. Designed for pedagogical…

In his modernization of WBT, John Dryden diminishes the "egalitarian" views of Chaucer's original and presents an outlook that is distinctly less feminist.

A collection of ten feminist essays focusing on representations of the physical body in medieval literature and their sociopolitical importance. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature…

Argues that Jill Mann's approach to Chaucer's treatment of women is more helpful for classroom application than is Elaine Hansen's.

Asks to what extent CT and Boccaccio's "Decameron" advocate "women's equality," exploring female laughter in these works, and focusing on Boccaccio's Pampinea and on the Wife of Bath as a "comic performer who has an intent to play."

Ten essays by various hands, including an introduction by the editors, plus previously published pieces by Mary Carruthers (with a new Afterword), Sheila Delany, and Susan Schibanoff. Topics include Christine de Pizan, Margery Kempe, "Piers Plowman,"…

Recent feminist study of the early Christian movement reveals that women enjoyed a high degree of authority and autonomy. Read against this background, SNT exhibits the changed status of women by the late fourteenth century.

Examines "the role of women in literary texts as counselors to kings" in late medieval England, assessing works by Chaucer (LGW and Mel), John Gower, and Stephen Scrope.

Argues that in "Life of Our Lady" and "Life of Saint Margaret" John Lydgate uses the "paradoxical image" of the virginal and fecund "sanctified female body" to distance himself "from the patriarchal Chaucerian poetic model" and assert that his…

A new version of Mann's book "Geoffrey Chaucer" (1991), with expanded references, footnotes, and bibliography. A new preface (pp. vii-xix) sketches developments in "Chaucerian gender studies" since c. 1990 and argues that Chaucer's exploration of…

Collection of essays in French and English that examine factual and fictive female pilgrims, focusing on their representation in spiritual and courtly literature. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Femmes et pèlerinages under…

The warnings in ParsT against contraceptive methods are literary evidence that women successfully limited fertility in the late Middle Ages.

Reviews, by way of the anthropological studies of Turner and van Gennep, the effects of pilgrimage on the social behavior of the pilgrims in CT. Pilgrimage removes them from the center of normative social behavior: it homogenizes social rank, blurs…