...Brenda Deen Schildgen The essay examines a specific case of “wood-stripping” that occurs in three related texts: one ancient, Statius's Thebaid , and two medieval romance versions of Statius's poem, Giovanni Boccaccio's La Teseida and Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale . It argues that all three...

...Lynn Shutters While there is a long history of viewing Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris (Famous Women) as a misogynist text in response to which Christine de Pizan's Livre de la Cité des Dames (Book of the City of Ladies) constitutes a proto-feminist critique, this essay compares these works...

..., Mikhail. Rabelais and His World . Trans. Hélène Iswolsky. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984 . Bloch, R. Howard. The Scandal of the Fabliaux . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986 . Boccaccio, Giovanni. Decameron . Ed. Vittore Branca. 2 vols. Florence: Felice le Monnier, 1960...

... . By Giovanni Boccaccio. Ed. Vittore Branca et al. Vol. 1 . Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori, 1992 . Brea, Mercedes, et al., eds. Lírica Profana Galego-Portuguesa: Corpus completo das cantigas medievais, con estudio biográfico, análise retórica e bibliografía específica . 2 vols. Santiago de Compostela...

... Confessio Amantis.” Philological Quarterly 70 ( 1991 ): 403 – 21 . Print . Bloomfield Josephine . “‘The Doctrine of These Olde Wyse’: Commentary on the Commentary Tradition in Chaucer's Dream Visions.” Essays in Medieval Studies 20 ( 2003 ): 125 – 32 . Print . Boccaccio...

... . Alighieri Dante . The Divine Comedy . Trans. and commentary Singleton Charles S. . 3 vols . Princeton : Princeton UP, Bollingen Series 80 , 1973 . Print . Armstrong Guyda . The English Boccaccio: A History in Books . Toronto : U of Toronto P , 2013 . Print . Awdry...

... of Art.” Poetry, Language, Thought. Trans. Albert Hofstadter. HarperCollins: New York, 2001 . 15 -76. Heinrichs, Katherine. “`Lovers' Consolation of Philosophy' in Boccaccio, Machaut, and Chaucer.” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 11 ( 1989 ): 93 -115. Heller-Roazen, Daniel. Fortune's Faces...

.... Petrarca . Rome: Salerno Editrice, 1999 . Boccaccio, Giovanni. Opere latine minori . Ed. A. F. Massèra. Bari: Laterza, 1928 . Bondanella, Julia Conaway, and Mark Musa, eds. and trans. The Italian Renaissance Reader . New York: Plume Penguin, 1987 . Dotti, Ugo. Petrarca civile: Alle origini...

... proprietatibus . Frankfurt: Richter, 1601 . Bersuire, Pierre. “L'Ovidius moralizatus' di Pierre Bersuire.” Ed. F. Ghisalberti. Studj Romanzi 23 ( 1933 ): 5 -136. Birkholz, Daniel. The King's Two Maps: Cartography and Culture in Thirteenth-Century England . New York: Routledge, 2004 . Boccaccio...

... in texts. Her garments—like Griselda’s, or perhaps even like Joan of Arc’s—are, as Boccaccio might have put it in the Genealogy of the Gentile Gods, the garments of fiction. Poetry, he wrote, “brings forth strange and unheard of creations of the mind; it arranges these meditations in a fixed order...

... as figures for imaginative literature it- self. Chaucer’s Wife of Bath is covered in textiles, but she is also covered in texts. Her garments—like Griselda’s, or perhaps even like Joan of Arc’s—are, as Boccaccio might have put it in the Genealogy of the Gentile Gods, the garments of fiction. Poetry, he...

... Wife of Bath is covered in textiles, but she is also covered in texts. Her garments—like Griselda’s, or perhaps even like Joan of Arc’s—are, as Boccaccio might have put it in the Genealogy of the Gentile Gods, the garments of fiction. Poetry, he wrote, “brings forth strange and unheard of creations...

... Wife of Bath is covered in textiles, but she is also covered in texts. Her garments—like Griselda’s, or perhaps even like Joan of Arc’s—are, as Boccaccio might have put it in the Genealogy of the Gentile Gods, the garments of fiction. Poetry, he wrote, “brings forth strange and unheard of creations...

... with smocks and dresses, fabric and sumptu- ousness. But such things often found themselves as figures for imaginative literature it- self. Chaucer’s Wife of Bath is covered in textiles, but she is also covered in texts. Her garments—like Griselda’s, or perhaps even like Joan of Arc’s—are, as Boccaccio...

... as figures for imaginative literature it- self. Chaucer’s Wife of Bath is covered in textiles, but she is also covered in texts. Her garments—like Griselda’s, or perhaps even like Joan of Arc’s—are, as Boccaccio might have put it in the Genealogy of the Gentile Gods, the garments of fiction. Poetry, he...

...). The article suggests that the latter could be a brutal parody of the former, which in turn parodies an earlier pastoral tradition. The analysis is contextualized by references to other key moments of the tradition (Boccaccio, Dante, Roman de la Rose), and it concludes by asking whether Dunbar knew Suero’s...

... in books such as Boccaccio’s Decameron, particularly in the cornice, or 5 The term “morbus gallicus” was used in Germany and Italy, where the earliest extant treatises on syphilis were published. German humanist Joseph Grünpeck translated the expression “mala de franzos,” French disease, as “Böse...

... is that it expends a great deal of effort to recount the historical “event behind [the] poem” (p. 32), presumably to show how individual poets retreat from it into narcissist fantasy. Braden puzzles about Laura’s identity and that of her husband (pp. 46-47), about that of Boccaccio’s senhal Fiammetta (pp. 63...

... is that it expends a great deal of effort to recount the historical “event behind [the] poem” (p. 32), presumably to show how individual poets retreat from it into narcissist fantasy. Braden puzzles about Laura’s identity and that of her husband (pp. 46-47), about that of Boccaccio’s senhal Fiammetta (pp. 63...

... is that it expends a great deal of effort to recount the historical “event behind [the] poem” (p. 32), presumably to show how individual poets retreat from it into narcissist fantasy. Braden puzzles about Laura’s identity and that of her husband (pp. 46-47), about that of Boccaccio’s senhal Fiammetta (pp. 63...