Geoffrey Chaucer in context /
Geoffrey Chaucer is widely acknowledged as the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages. His texts are studied extensively but, in order to be fully appreciated, they demand a nuanced understanding of the medieval period. This volume provides freshly illuminated access to Chaucer's writing thro...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York :
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2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Chaucer as context
- What was Chaucer like? / J. A. Burrow
- Chaucer's life and literary 'profession' / Andrew Galloway
- Part II. Books, discourse and traditions: Chaucer's linguistic invention / Jeremy J. Smith
- Chaucer and London English / Jeremy J. Smith
- Manuscripts and manuscript culture / Rhiannon Purdie
- Chaucer's books / Wendy Scase
- Authority / Mishtooni Bose
- Literary theory and literary roles / Ian Johnson
- Metre and versification / Ad Putter
- Dialogue / Sarah James
- Romance / Stephen H. A. Shepherd
- Love / Corinne Saunders
- Chaucer and the classics / Vincent Gillespie
- French context / Stephanie A. Virbeck Gibbs Kamath
- Italian tradition / K. P. Clarke
- English context / Marion Turner
- Chaucer's competitors / Wendy Scase
- Boethius / Tim William Machan
- Part III. Humans, the world and beyond: Chaucer's God / Ryan Perry
- Holiness / Marlene Villalobos Hennessy
- Secularity / Alastair Minnis
- Self / Valerie Allen
- Women / Rosalynn Voaden
- Sex and lust / Bruce Holsinger
- Animals in Chaucer / Gillian Rudd
- Part IV. Culture, learning and disciplines: Childhood and education / Nicholas Orme
- Philosophy / Stephen Penn
- Medieval universe / Seb Falk
- Medicine and the mortal body / Samantha Katz Seal
- Law / Richard W. Ireland
- Art / Julian Luxford
- Architecture / Richard Fawcett
- 4tHeraldry, heralds and Chaucer / Katie Stevenson
- Part V. Political and social contexts: Dissent and orthodoxy / John H. Arnold
- Church, religion and culture / Rob Lutton
- England at home and abroad / Anne Curry
- Chaucer's borders / Anthony Bale
- Rank and social orders / Chris Given-Wilson
- Chivalry / Craig Taylor
- Chaucer and the polity / Gwylim Dodd
- Economy / Christopher Dyer
- Towns, villages and the land / Mark Bailey
- London's Chaucer: A psychogeography / John J. Thompson
- Everyday life / Wendy Childs
- Household and home / Peter Fleming
- Marriage / Sally Dixon-Smith
- Dress / Laura F. Hodges
- Part VI. Chaucer traditions: First Chaucerians: reception in the 1400s / Robert J. Meyer-Lee
- Reception of Chaucer in the Renaissance / Alex Davis
- Reception of Chaucer from Dryden to Wordsworth / Bruce E. Graver
- Reception of Chaucer from the Victorians to the twenty-first century / David Matthews
- Cyber-Chaucer / Stephen Kelly.