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ISBN: 9780268105822
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
Series: ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern
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Chaucer and Religious Controversies in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras adopts a comparative, boundary-crossing approach to consider one of the most canonical of literary figures, Geoffrey Chaucer. The idea that Chaucer is an international write... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780268104627
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
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In Theater of the Word:Selfhood in the English Morality Play, Julie Paulson sheds new light on medieval constructions of the self as they emerge from within a deeply sacramental culture. The book examines the medieval morality play, a genre that e... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781487502461
Published by : University of Toronto Press
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It is a medieval truism that the poet meddles with words, the lawyer with the world. But are the poet's words and the lawyer's world really so far apart? To what extent does the art of making poems share in the craft of making laws, and vice versa... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780691160092
Published by : Princeton University Press
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A groundbreaking biography that recreates the cosmopolitan world in which a wine merchant's son became one of the most celebrated of all English poets More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the center ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781783273553
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
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Reading, writing, sharing texts, and book ownership in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and how they fostered social and intellectual links and networks between individuals, particularly among women: these are subjects which the pioneering w... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781501734045
Published by : Cornell University Press
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Scribes of Space posits that the conception of space-the everyday physical areas we perceive and through which we move-underwent critical transformations between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. Matthew Boyd Goldie examines how natural phil... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503577814
Published by : Brepols
Series: Early European Research
Volume: 13
Text is one of the most valuable and plentiful sources of information available to scholars interested in medieval emotion. The medieval world may have vanished centuries ago, and its human subjects with it, but a wealth of textual traces remains:... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781526129154
Published by : Manchester University Press
Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
This unique and exciting collection, inspired by the scholarship of literary critic Stephanie Trigg, offers cutting-edge responses to the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer for the current critical moment. The chapters are linked by the organic and natu... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781843845089
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
Series: Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages
Volume: v. 2
Birds featured in many aspects of medieval people's lives, not least in their poetry. But despite their familiar presence in literary culture, it is still often assumed that these representations have little to do with the real natural world. By a... .... Learn More