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Considers John Trevisa's translations of "compendious" encyclopedic texts as examples of a prose literary form that is an influential part of a late medieval literary history, an "alternative" to the better-known tradition of Trevisa's poetic…

Explores "reductio ad absurdum" in "theology and romance texts of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries," including discussion of Chaucer's uses of it as "a marker of generic resistance to chivalric romance" in KnT and ClT.

Argues that "evolving discourses of gentility . . . served as models" for Chaucer, Sir Thomas Malory, and Henry Medwall, inspiring them "to write, variably, about socio-linguistic reform . . . and meta-literary reflection on the impact of newly…

Exemplifies ways in which medieval "romance writing takes up the notion that physiological processes and exterior influences can interweave to produce powerful psychological experiences," showing how the "creative possibilities of interweaving the…

Describes various depictions of breath, breathlessness, and "vital spirits" that signal deep emotion in medieval literature, including comments on BD, TC, and KnT, among other courtly and religious works.

Addresses issues of disease, medical practice, faith, household remedy, and gender in fourteenth-and fifteenth-century Middle English "medical discourse," often found embedded in or juxtaposed to broader works, including narrative poetry that engages…

Posits that Philip Perry, an eighteenth-century priest and early practitioner of medievalism, was a pioneer in using original sources, among them Chaucer. Perry's unpublished notebooks contain detailed information on many medieval writers and their…

Considers relations between moral virtue and courtly love in a variety of Chaucer's works and Scottish Chaucerian works, analyzing a series of pairings--Rom and William Dunbar's "Golden Targe," Chaucer's Boethian poems and "The Kingis Quair," HF and…

Opens with commentary on oldness in KnT, MilT, and RvT, and proceeds to assess old age as a source "of debility and impairment as well as authority and veneration" in Scog, Adam, the Reeve’s description in GP, RvPT, and WBT. Disability studies and…

Highlights the amount of potential material in The National Archives as compared to more traditional repositories for high-value manuscripts. Considers approaches to find and use this material with new examples for Chaucer, Gower, and Skelton.

Studies "ways in which medieval British romances conceived of ecological contexts" and identifies a "range of economic, religious, and social values attached to landscape"--hills and mines; seashores and beaches; and foreign, domestic, and fantastic…

Assesses and combines various attempts to define Chaucerian "resonance" as a term of intertextuality and the reception of Chaucer; also summarizes each of the twelve essays included in this special number of Comparative Drama. For summaries of the…

Describes and assesses NEH K-12 Seminars for high school teachers pertaining to CT and held in London, 2008–14; reflects on 2014 legislation that discontinued funding for such programs held outside the USA; and encourages future collaboration…

Examines "Middle English lyric writing before and after Chaucer, assessing its evolving relationship to the Continent" and interactions between sacred and secular within the genre. Analyzes Chaucer's (and his successor's") uses of French lyric formes…

Shows how Chaucer's life and literature were "embedded in European contexts," even as he "ostentatiously displays the Englishness of his poetry." Comments generally on Continental and English aspects of Chaucer's style and content, and examines how…

Thirty-seven essays by various authors on the forms, borders, networks, writers, and texts of medieval English, along with modern critical approaches, with an introduction by the editors (on "Trans-European and Global Contexts"), a timeline, and…

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.