...Holly A. Crocker This article argues that Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida continues an important late medieval poetic tradition that highlights the troubling consequences of virtue’s performativity for idealized women. If Chaucer is pessimistic about the potential for Criseyde’s ethical agency...

... 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...

...Jennifer Summit © by Duke University Press 2000 Topography as Historiography: Petrarch, Chaucer, and the Making of Medieval Rome Jennifer Summit...

... Chaucer's Canterbury Tales , it argues that interpretations of the Bible dependent on these codicological forms are more germane to the understanding of Chaucer's text than Robertsonian hermeneutics. Attention to three kinds of manuscript compilations that include biblical material illustrate some...

...Lee Patterson © by Duke University Press 2001 a “The Living Witnesses of Our Redemption”: Martyrdom and Imitation in Chaucer’s Prioress’s Tale...

...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...

...Eleanor Johnson This essay argues that Chaucer’s much- unloved “Monk’s Tale,” rather than being a failure or misfire on Chaucer’s part, actually constitutes a high- water mark of the bold and experimental literary theory that characterizes much of Chaucer’s later career. In this case, the Monk...

... by its superior historical self-awareness. This essay reassesses these themes through a reading of Shakespeare and Fletcher's The Two Noble Kinsmen (1634). This is a play of knighthood and chivalric spectacle, adapted from Chaucer's Knight's Tale , which brings Chaucer on stage in the play's prologue...

... 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...

... English crown in Ire- land. I am interested in how these blood laws seep into the debate over nobility intrinsic to Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale. The divided and overlapping technologies of blood laws and pedagogy in this medieval example challenge us...

... 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...

... 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...

... Spain of the converso, a hybrid who blurs the boundaries between Christian and Jew. Using recent psychoanalytic criticism of the Prioress's Tale , Chaucer's sentimentalized representation of the murdered child's mother is contrasted with the very different one in Damián de Vegas's Memoria del Santo...

..., accord- ing to Rivkah Zim, “many of the recurrent ideas and tactics for prison writ- ing in the West can be found.”13 Boethius’s seminal text enjoyed significant popularity in medieval England: Chaucer’s prose translation Boece (ca. 1385) was followed (and eclipsed) by John Walton’s 1410 highly...

... 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...

... giantess Amiete in Fierabras, the cannibalistic hunch- back Guinehart of Aliscans, or the diabolical sultaness in Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Tale.47 De Weever finds in the vituperative figure of the black female Saracen a hybridization of misogyny and racism through a triple...

... of resourceful ways of refashioning cultural material to fit whatever needs are at hand. Although the notion of bricolage has usually been applied to sub- cultural activities, where it is obviously apt, it need not be limited to those uses, as the example of the Lancastrian appropriation of Chaucer’s...

... 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...