Chaucer and the Cult of Saint Valentine
Author: Henry Ansgar Kelly
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9789004078499
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Saints & Angels
Author: Doreen Virtue
Publisher: Hay House
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1401955401
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author "introduces you to the various ministering spirits of heaven and 42 inspirational figures who walked the earth. As you read this ... book, you'll come to understand the exact roles that different beings of God fulfill both in the Bible and in our lives and how they can help you today"--Dust jacket flap.
Chaucer's Miller's, Reeve's, and Cook's Tales
Author: David Biggs
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780802008749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn annotated bibliography describing editing and critical works on three of Chaucer's tales. The authors make extensive use of the standard bibliographies of English literature, medieval studies, and Chaucerian studies.
Chaucer's Narrators and the Rhetoric of Self-representation
Author: Michael Foster
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9783039111213
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMethods of representing individual voices were a primary concern for Geoffrey Chaucer. While many studies have focused on how he expresses the voices of his characters, especially in The Canterbury Tales, a sustained analysis of how he represents his own voice is still wanting. This book explores how Chaucer's first-person narrators are devices of self-representation that serve to influence representations of the poet. Drawing from recent developments in narratology, the history of reading, and theories of orality, this book considers how Chaucer adapts various rhetorical strategies throughout his poetry and prose to define himself and his audience in relation to past literary traditions and contemporary culture. The result is an understanding of how Chaucer anticipates, addresses, and influences his audience's perceptions of himself that broadens our appreciation of Chaucer as a master rhetorician.
The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer
Author: Piero Boitani
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-01-12
Total Pages: 510
ISBN-13: 1107494648
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to the success of the first edition and to recent debates in Chaucer Studies. Important material has been updated, and new contributions have been commissioned to take into account recent trends in literary theory as well as in studies of Chaucer's works. New chapters cover the literary inheritance traceable in his works to French and Italian sources, his style, as well as new approaches to his work. Other topics covered include the social and literary scene in England in Chaucer's time, and comedy, pathos and romance in the Canterbury Tales. The volume now offers a useful chronology, and the bibliography has been entirely updated to provide an indispensable guide for today's student of Chaucer.
Culture and History, 1350-1600
Author: David Aers
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780814324165
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSix essays explore the making of human identities and agency in English communities between the Great Plague and about 1600. They also focus attention on the processes of understanding past cultures and their texts. Among the topics are court politics, sacred and secular drama, and women. Paper edition (2416-9), $15.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Law and Religion in Chaucer's England
Author: Henry Ansgar Kelly
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-05-31
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 1000948544
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese essays, in a second collection by Professor Kelly, investigate legal and religious subjects touching on the age and places in which Geoffrey Chaucer lived and wrote, especially as reflected in the more contemporary sections of the Canterbury Tales. Topics include the canon law of incest (consanguinity, affinity, spiritual kinship), the prosecution of sexual offences and regulation of prostitution (especially in the Stews of Southwark), legal opinions about wife-beating, and the laws of nature concerning gender distinction (focusing on Chaucer's Pardoner) and the technicalities of castration. Sacramental and devotional practices are discussed, especially dealing with confession and penitence and the Mass. Chaucer's Prioress serves as the starting point for a treatment of regulations of nuns in medieval England and also for the presence, real and virtual, of Jews and Saracens (Muslims and pagans) in England and conversion efforts of the time, as well as sympathetic or antipathetic attitudes towards non-Christians. Included is a case study on the legend of St Cecilia in Chaucer and elsewhere, and as patron of music; and a discussion of canonistic opinion on the licit limits of medicinal magic (in connection with the ministrations of John the Carpenter in the Miller's Tale).
Critical Companion to Chaucer
Author: Rosalyn Rossignol
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 657
ISBN-13: 1438108400
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the life and writings of Geoffrey Chaucer, including detailed synopses of his works, explanations of literary terms, character portraits, social and historical influences, and more.
The Familiar Enemy
Author: Ardis Butterfield
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009-12-10
Total Pages: 477
ISBN-13: 0199574863
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Familiar Enemy examines the linguistic, literary, and cultural identities of England and France during the Hundred Years War. It explores works by Deschamps, Charles d'Orléans, and Gower, as well as Chaucer who, the book argues, must be resituated within the context of the multilingual cultural geography of medieval Europe.
Chaucer and His Readers
Author: Seth Lerer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-10-06
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 0691219699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChallenging the view that the fifteenth century was the "Drab Age" of English literary history, Seth Lerer seeks to recover the late-medieval literary system that defined the canon of Chaucer's work and the canonical approaches to its understanding. Lerer shows how the poets, scribes, and printers of the period constructed Chaucer as the "poet laureate" and "father" of English verse. Chaucer appears throughout the fifteenth century as an adviser to kings and master of technique, and Lerer reveals the patterns of subjection, childishness, and inability that characterize the stance of Chaucer's imitators and his readers. In figures from the Canterbury Tales such as the abused Clerk, the boyish Squire, and the infantilized narrator of the "Tale of Sir Thopas," in the excuse-ridden narrator of Troilus and Criseyde, and in Chaucer's cursed Adam Scriveyn, the poet's inheritors found their oppressed personae. Through close readings of poetry from Lydgate to Skelton, detailed analysis of manuscript anthologies and early printed books, and inquiries into the political environments and the social contexts of bookmaking, Lerer charts the construction of a Chaucer unassailable in rhetorical prowess and political sanction, a Chaucer aureate and laureate.
