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The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi, Vol. III
University of Ottawa Press 1985; US$ 14.99The 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...
The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi, Vol. V
University of Ottawa Press 2000; 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...
Myths We Live By
University of Ottawa Press 1998; US$ 11.99Colin Grant challenges the popular use of "myth" as a dismissive designation of the superstitions and falsehoods of "other" cultures. The author maintains that myths occupy a place in our present-day lives that is every bit as important to us as the divinities and heroes of classical antiquity were to the ancients. The myths themselves are in a constant... more...
The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi, Vol. II
University of Ottawa Press 1990; US$ 12.99The 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...
The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi, Vol. IV
University of Ottawa Press 1997; US$ 11.99The 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...
Chaucer, Ethics, and Gender
OUP Oxford 2006; US$ 44.99This book makes a vigorous reassessment of the moral dimension in Chaucer's writings. For the Middle Ages, the study of human behaviour generally signified the study of the morality of attitudes, choices, and actions. Moreover, moral analysis was not gender neutral: it presupposed that certain virtues and certain failings were largely gender-specific.... more...
Chaucer and Petrarch
Boydell & Brewer 2010; US$ 90.00First full study of Chaucer's readings and translations of Petrarch suggests a far greater influence than has hitherto been accepted. more...
Troilus and Criseyde
Oxford University Press, UK 1998; US$ 8.99Chaucer's masterpiece and one of the greatest narrative poems in English, the story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde is renowned for its deep humanity and penetrating psychological insight.This new translation into modern English by a major Chaucerian scholar includes an index of the names relating to the Trojan War and an Index of Proverbs.... more...
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Continuum International Publishing 2000; US$ 120.00A collection of ten critical essays on the Prologue to Chaucer's well-known work, arranged in chronological order of their original publication. more...
The Canterbury Tales
OUP Oxford 2011; US$ 7.99Whoever best acquits himself, and tellsThe most amusing and instructive tale,Shall have a dinner, paid for by us all...'In Chaucer's most ambitious poem, The Canterbury Tales (c. 1387), a group of pilgrims assembles in an inn just outside London and agree to entertain each other on the way to Canterbury by telling stories. The pilgrims come... more...









