... of the ways a medieval poet could harness the material forms of books to achieve specific literary ends. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 medieval Bible Geoffrey Chaucer manuscript compilation biblical reception biblical influence...

... structures but also understood the inherent limitation that emplotment and narrativization entails. Focusing on a doctor, John Arderne, a patient-poet, Thomas Hoccleve, and a poet, Geoffrey Chaucer, the essay explores how all three reveal their understanding of the artifice of narrativizing pain and illness...

...Patricia Clare Ingham Engaged with insights from trauma theory, this essay offers a reading of Geoffrey Chaucer's Knight's Tale as a profound meditation on catastrophe and survival. This account refocuses the Knight's Tale 's famous oscillation between consolation and devastation, philosophy...

... and somewhat unrewarding concatenation of “tragedies” proves a kind of mise-en-abyme meditation on the idea of tragedy itself. For the Monk, “tragedy” is a category for thinking critically in, not a category to fetishize. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 Geoffrey Chaucer “The Monk’s Tale...

... of perturbaciouns, and this power they han, that they mai moeve a man from his place (that is to seyn, fro the stabelnesse and perfeccion of his knowynge). —Geoffrey Chaucer, Boece, Book I, Prose 6 What can medieval and early modern literature say about catastrophe? Crisis, disaster, and catastrophe were...

... John Clanvowe, Geoffrey Chaucer, and James I of Scotland,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 34, no. 2 (2004): 279 – 307, at 291; Gregory C. Kratzmann, Anglo-­ Scottish Literary Relations, 1430 – 1550 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980), 36; Olga...

... Laud Misc. 416 additionally includes the universal history Cursor mundi and John Clifton’s translation of Vegetius’s treatise, De re militari. The final text in the manuscript is an imperfect version of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowls.3 The works in Laud Misc. 416 thus comprise a fairly...

... expertise and spiritual insight, would enhance human happiness. Two of the great English comic writers, maybe the two greatest, wrote directly about alchemy. For both Geoffrey Chaucer’s audience and Ben Jonson’s, I will claim, alchemy was a practice familiar enough...

... The overinflated claims of pardoners concerning their powers of absolution are well illustrated by Geoffrey Chaucer’s Pardoner, who will be discussed below. But all the blame may not be laid at the feet of the quaestores. Some popes themselves went beyond the limits of strict theological propriety—as when...

..., this is the ideal of rulership. It is an ideal she shares with Geoffrey Chaucer's Parson. In his treatment of the vice of avarice, the Parson contends that “sovereyntee [was] ordeyned, to keep and mayntene and deffenden hire underlynges or hire subgetz in resoun, as ferforth as it lith in hire power, and nat...

... literatures, not least in canonical texts such as Dante s Divina Commedia, Petrarch s Itinerarium, and Geoffrey Chaucer s Canter- bury Tales.2 Despite this centrality of pilgrimage, however, research remains in a preliminary state for many of the actual texts, manuscripts, and books of the pilgrimage route...

.... Teatro Umanistico, vol. 4. Firenze: Sismel, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2011. cxix, 268 pp. Paper eur 56.00. [Latin verse text with facing-­page Italian prose translation.] Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation. Translated by Sheila Fisher. New York: W. W. Norton...

.... $29.95. [Latin text with facing-­page English translation.] Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Merchant’s Tale. Translated by E. B. Richmond. London: Hesperus Press, 2011. xvi, 88 pp. Paper £6.99. [Middle English verse text from the Riverside Chaucer with facing-­page modern English verse translation...

...  –  28, ed. Perry, Babrius and Phaedrus, 254. 22 Geoffrey Chaucer,Th e Canterbury Tales, in Larry D. Benson, gen. ed., The Riverside Chaucer (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987). 23 Fables of “Walter of England,” ed. Wright, 132; my trans. 24 Perry, Babrius and Phaedrus, appendix, 585...

... Civilizations and Historical Eras, vol. 4. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2001. xli, 478 pp.; 16 photographs. $85.00. Rudd, Gillian. The Complete Critical Guide to Geoffrey Chaucer. The Com- plete Critical Guide to English Literature (series). London: Routledge, 2001. xiii, 200 pp. $75.00, paper $19.95...

..., the most perceptive are Hawkins, “Chaucer’s Prioress,” 621; and Jerome Mandel, Geoffrey Chaucer: Building the Fragments of the “Canterbury Tales” (Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1992), 172–74. See also Ann W. Astell, Chaucer and the Universe of Learning (Ithaca...

...,” in Gonzalo de Berceo, Milagros de Nuestra Señora, ed. E. Michael Gerli (Madrid: Cátedra, 1997), 132 – 36. 31 Rubin, Gentile Tales, 11. 32 Geoffrey Chaucer,Prioress’s Tale, Canterbury Tales VII, 453 – 700, in The River- side Chaucer, gen. ed. Larry D. Benson, 3rd ed. (Boston: Houghton...

... of how archival practices and archival encounters structure and control our reading of medieval books and the texts they contain. John Gower might seem at first glance a peculiar choice for this exploration. The manuscripts of his more famous contemporary, Geoffrey Chaucer, are in some ways more...

...; a nationalistic alliterative revival was arising north of London; Parliament enacted legislation against the colonization of English by Celtic loanwords and proper names. The Sultan of Babylon was probably written around 1400, the year that Geoffrey Chaucer died, and perhaps just...