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Imaginings of Time in Lydgate and Hoccleve's Verse
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 99.95Through a series of close readings of selected short poems and Lydgate's Troy Book, Fall of Princes, and Siege of Thebes and of Hoccleve's Regiments of Princes and Series, Smyth looks at expressions of time and examples of the authors' negotiation of time consciousness, illustrating how both poets manipulate a range of cultural narratives of time in... more...
The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi, Vol. I
University of Ottawa Press 1978; US$ 16.99The medieval poem Cursor Mundi is a biblical verse account of the history of the world, offering a chronological overview of salvation history from Creation to Doomsday. Originating in northern England around the year 1300, the poem was frequently copied in the north before appearing in a southern version in substantially altered form. Although... more...
Comedy in Chaucer and Boccaccio
Boydell & Brewer 2009; US$ 90.00Although many of Chaucer's sources have been exhaustively studied, relatively little work has been done on the influence of his contemporary Boccaccio, a gap which this book aims to fill. It examines the relationship of the comic tales, the so-called fabl more...
Chaucer and the Social Contest (Routledge Revivals)
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 42.95First published in 1990, Chaucer and the Social Contest takes a fresh view of The Canterbury Tales , by placing the storytelling contest among the Canterbury pilgrims within the larger social contests in the changing England of the late fourteenth century. The author focuses on three crucial fields of contention: the division of social duties into... more...
Geoffrey Chaucer
Infobase Publishing 2007; US$ 54.00Fourteenth-century author, poet, and civil servant Geoffrey Chaucer is best known for "The Canterbury Tales," his major literary achievement. "The Canterbury Tales" is a collection of stories as told by fictional pilgrims on their way to the cathedral at Canterbury. The work is remarkable for its use of the English vernacular and... more...
Playing the Canterbury Tales
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 99.95Playing the Canterbury Tales addresses the additions, continuations and reordering found in early copies of the Canterbury Tales. Using examples and theories from new media studies, Higl demonstrates that the Tales are best viewed as an 'interactive fiction.' Readers participated in the on-going creation and production of the tales by adding... more...
Ecofeminist Subjectivities
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00This book analyzes the interaction between gender and species in Chaucer's poetry and strives to understand his adaptation of medieval discourse through an ecofeminist lens. Works that either speak of animals, or more pertinently those with animals speaking, offer fruitful results in the attempt to understand the medieval textual handling of the... more...
Chaucer and Religion
Boydell & Brewer 2010; US$ 99.00New essays on Chaucer's engagement with religion and the religious controversies of the fourteenth century. more...
John Gower, Trilingual Poet
Boydell & Brewer 2010; US$ 99.00New essays demonstrate Gower's mastery of the three languages of medieval England, and provide a thorough exploration of the voices he used and the discourses in which he participated. more...









