Dante and the Author of the Decameron : Love, Literature, and Authority in Boccaccio / Martin Eisner. Boccaccio's Early Romances / Warren Ginsberg -- Chaucer's Petrarch: 'enlumnyed ben they' / Ronald L. Martinez -- Dante and the Medieval City: How the Dead Live / David L. Pike -- The Romance of the Rose : Allegory and Lyric Voice / David F. Hult -- Challenging the Patronage Paradigm: Late-Medieval Francophone Writers and the Poet-Prince Relationship / Deborah McGrady -- Ovid: Artistic Identity and Intertextuality / Jamie C. Fumo -- Chaucer and the Textualities of Troy / Marilynn Desmond -- Historiography: Nicholas Trevet's Transnational History / Suzanne Conklin Akbari -- Grammar and Rhetoric, c. 1100-c. 1400 / Rita Copeland -- Philosophy, Logic and Nominalism / Fabienne Michelet, Martin PickaveĢ -- 'Gaufred, deere maister soverain': Chaucer and Rhetoric / James Simpson -- The Poetics of Trespass and Duress: Chaucer and the Fifth Inn of Court / Eleanor Johnson -- Medicine and Science in Chaucer's Day / E. Ruth Harvey -- Logic and Mathematics: The Oxford Calculators / Edith Dudley Sylla -- Wycliffism and its After-Effects / Stephen E. Lahey -- "Anticlericalism," Inter-clerical Polemic and Theological Vernaculars / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Melissa Mayus, Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis -- Chaucer as Image-Maker / Denise Despres -- Chaucer's Travels for the Court / Peter Brown -- 'O Hebraic People!' English Jews and the Twelfth-Century Literary Scene / Ruth Nisse -- Anti-Judaism / Anti-Semitism and the Structures of Chaucerian Thought / Steven F. Kruger -- The Hazards of Narration: Frame-Tale Technologies and the 'Oriental Tale' / Karla Mallette -- Fictions of Espionage: Performing Pilgrim and Crusader Identities in the Age of Chaucer / Suzanne M. Yeager -- Geographesis, or the Afterlife of Britain in Chaucer / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen -- Vernacular Authorship and Public Poetry: John Gower / T. Matthew N. McCabe -- Lydgate's Chaucer / Anthony Bale -- Chaucer and Contemporary Courts of Law and Politics: House, Law, Game / Matthew Giancarlo -- Dialogism in Hoccleve / Jonathan M. Newman -- Old Books and New Beginnings North of Chaucer: Revisionary Reframings in the Kingis Quair and the Testament of Cresseid / Iain Macleod Higgins -- At Home in the 'Countour-Hous': Inhabiting Space on Chaucer's Polyglot Dwellings / Jonathan Hsy -- Labour and Time / Kellie Robertson -- Books and Booklessness in Chaucer's England / Alexandra Gillespie -- The Role of the Scribe: Genius of the Book / Martha Rust -- Dante and the Author of the Decameron : Love, Literature, and Authority in Boccaccio / Martin Eisner.
Summary:
This handbook addresses Chaucer's poetry in the context of several disciplines, including late medieval philosophy and science, Mediterranean culture, comparative European literature, vernacular theology and popular devotion.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.