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Assesses the Franklin as a "hybrid and mimic who is caught in between the medieval acknowledged identities of the commoners and the nobility," striving upward, and searching for "for a recognisable identity" in his changing medieval society. Includes…

Surveys the attitudes toward and conditions of hunting in late-medieval society, describing practices, laws, criminal offense, social variety, and artistic representations in literature and visual art. Includes brief comments on KnT, BD, and the GP…

In Japanese and English. For eight essays that pertain to Chaucer; search for Medieval Heritage under Alternative Title.

Examines what is lost when we look at a digitized manuscript instead of the material book, which invokes the senses of touch, smell, and taste and the habits of the medieval reader. Mentions the graphic tail-rhyme in Th as a type of habit that…

Identifiess medieval and Renaissance characteristics of RvT and an early modern analogue,"The Mylner of Abyngton," and concludes that the two works share much in common.

In HF, Chaucer makes parodic use of traditional topics of the "artes grammaticae," especially in the Eagle's explanation of the propagation of sound and in Chaucer's treatment of the reliability and importance of "auctores."

Assesses Chaucer's works in the light of medieval English and European art.

Western tradition bifurcates the go-between into two separate traditions: the first, working for idealized love; the second, working for lustful sexual conquest. Mieszkowski surveys go-between figures in medieval tradition and discusses how Pandarus…

Assesses gluttony in CT and Piers Plowman, arguing that each presents consumption as both an occasion of the sin and part of its symbolic apparatus. In these works and in scriptural and patristic traditions, gluttony signifies human potential for all…

Discusses medieval English, French, and Latin sources and offers directions for discovering queerness by connecting these texts to recent developments in queer theory, including queer phenomenology and queer failure. For two essays pertaining to…

Nine essays by various authors on topics related to common attitudes toward the future in the Middle Ages, i.e., theories and practices rather than apocalyptic concerns. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval Futures under…

Nine essays on medieval food and drink, including their representation in medieval art and poetry.

Individual entries on topics from "Accused Queen" to "Zither" include brief descriptions and, when appropriate, bibliography. One entry on Chaucer (1.167-73); multiple references to motifs in his works, especially in CT.

Includes recurrent attention to Chaucer studies, while exploring the history of feminism in medieval studies and the need for a "dialectical questioning" between concerns of particular historical women and their more general contexts.

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…

An introduction to pilgrimage in medieval western Europe that describes motives for pilgrimage, kinds of pilgrims, geography, relics and souvenirs, responses to pilgrimage, etc. Webb pays recurrent attention to CT, especially as a depiction of social…

Surveys Old English and Middle English works to determine interconnectedness of the language and texts. Brief discussion of Chaucer's GP. Includes glossary and bibliography.

Gathers secular and religious travel narratives of England
and France. The volume is divided into three sections: critical essays; twenty-six texts, or excerpts, from narratives, including SqT; and supporting bibliographies.

A bibliography of Old and Middle English scholarship in Spanish up to 1988, with particular attention to Chaucer. Includes listings of M.A. and Ph.D. theses, and offers separate sections on critical studies of Chaucer (items 147-78) and editions and…

Outlines the literary and social contexts in which late medieval English romances were produced. Assesses a number of these romances and their "afterlives," exploring their gender affiliations, uses of symbols, concerns with familial and cultural…

Nineteen essays by various hands emphasizing religious and ethical change and focusing on Chaucer's religious poetry and "Piers Plowman" but including religious writings in the Old English period and the sixteenth century.

Considers Chaucer's works in the context of medieval poetry, approached here as "instantiations of performance," i.e., understood as interplay among author, performer, audience, and the material form of the texts.

Introduces a special issue on manuscript studies and history of the book in relation to critical theory; also, summarizes the issue's articles. Discusses CT, TC, and Th.

Offers "a general introduction to manuscript studies for readers whose particular interests lie in medieval literature," commenting on material concerns, paleography, decoration and illustration, codicology, and principles of manuscript description,…

Anthologizes 187 English lyric poems and lyrical excerpts from the twelfth through the sixteenth centuries, arranged in chronological order, with an Introduction (pp. 13-49), on-page glosses, end-of-text notes, an appendix of Types and Titles of the…