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Argues that Chaucer’s critique of "curiositas" as "the prevailing failure and motivation of medieval travel" is "successfully negotiated" by several late medieval travel authors. Concentrates on readings from travel accounts by Simon Simeonis and…

Reviews Prudence's "allegorical reading practices" and argues that Mel is based on the "relationship between the literary mode of moralizing allegory and contingent reading practices."

Focuses on how protocol, a term for systems of rules allowing communication and behavior, is frequently used in digital environments, and builds on Alexander Galloway’s comparison of internet protocol to chivalry in "Protocol: How Control Exists…

Examines alliterative English writing by focusing on Anglo-Saxon legal-homiletic discourse within vernacular English poetry. Brief mention of FranT, ParsT, MLT, and Mel.

Essays on reviews of scholarship, language and paleography, and literary criticism. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Fifteenth-Century Studies: Recent Essays under Alternative Title.

Fifteen essays by various authors, each essay originally presented at the annual meeting of the John Gower Society between 1992 and 1997. Revised for publication, the essays explore issues of Gower's poetics and methods, his political concerns, and…

For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for John Gower, Recent Readings under Alternative Title.

The seven essays assess Gower and Chaucer as joint recipients of an antique heritage, as readers of (and borrowers from) each other's works, and as writers whose work reveals much about late-medieval attitudes toward language and about the constantly…

Eighteen essays comprise an "'Un'festschrift" that celebrates Terry Jones as a comedian, cinematographer, historian, and Chaucerian. For five contributions that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval Python under Alternative Title.

Twenty-six essays on topics from Marie de France's "Guigemar" to Edward Burne-Jones's "Miracle of the Merciful Knight," with recurrent emphasis on the intersection between visual and verbal traditions. Includes a bibliography of Kolve's publications…

Twenty-five pedagogical essays by various authors, with an introduction by the editors and a comprehensive index. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower under Alternative Title.

Discusses Gower's influence on other Middle English writers and provides recommendations for teaching Gower, from community college to graduate programs. Includes several essays specific to Gower's relationship to Chaucer. Includes bibliography…

Explores the influence of Eustache Deschamps on the development of non-musical fixed forms in the English lyric tradition, commenting on poems from Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson D. 913; the poems of "Ch"; and works by Chaucer and John Gower,…

Primarily discusses medieval humor in Gower, yet addresses how Gower's and Chaucer's humorous characters are female. Looks at Criseyde in TC, Alison in WBT, the merchant's wife in ShT, and Alisoun in MilT.

Unlike their biblical source, Chaucer's and Gower's allusions to Jephthah's daughter indicate concern with pain and emotional suffering. Also considers the illustration in Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M.126 that accompanies Gower's tale of Virginia in…

Considering the possibility that Gower "was the foremost poet of his age," Yeager contrasts the poetic powers of Gower and Chaucer and compares Gower's poetic techniques in "In Praise of Peace" and "Confessio Amantis" with Chaucer's techniques in CT.

Considers the importance of Spain in Chaucer's life, in the politics of his age, and in his literary allusions, arguing that Chaucer could read Spanish and that his familiarity with the tale collections of Petrus Alfonsi and Don Juan Manuel "would…

Yeager summarizes Chaucer's education and career for the purpose of identifying the books, languages, and classical and vernacular literatures with which Chaucer was clearly acquainted. Discusses Chaucer's strategies for keeping literary authority at…

Yeager finds a partisan second level of meaning underneath the sycophantic surface of the envoy of Purse - one that challenges Henry's right to rule.

Yeager reads Purse as a political poem rather than a begging poem, addressed initially to Richard. When Chaucer added the envoy, he was under duress from the court of Henry, not financial distress. The poem undermines Lancastrian legitimacy and if…

Yeager contrasts Gower's uses of imagery in the 'Tale of Constance" with Chaucer's techniques in MLT, arguing that Gower is more minimalist, but that, like Chaucer, Gower challenges readers to discover the moral implications of the world he…

According to a theological tradition of the late Middle Ages, gluttony included swearing, blasphemy, sorcery, witchcraft, and devil worship, as well as excessive eating and drinking.

Caxton's Chaucer is "moral," while Thynne's is "gentle." In their selection and rejection of texts both were guided by established critical principles.

Gower's reputation as "moral" rests on his mid-1380's stance as a reformer, a classicist, and a clear and consistent portrayer of good and evil. By citing him in TC, Chaucer encourages moral interpretation of the hero's attitude at the end of the…

A late-sixteenth-century account of Chaucer's life and works, never before published, "gives fresh insight into the nature and transmission of the poet's reputation in England during the Renaissance."