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  • The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer

    Edited by Craig E. Bertolet, Susan Nakley ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer offers 40 chapters by leading scholars working with contemporary, theoretical, and textual approaches to the poetry and prose of Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400) in a global context. This volume is an ideal starting point for beginners, offering contemporary perspectives on Chaucer both geographically and intellectually, including:• Exploration of major and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Later Middle English Literature, Materiality, and Culture

    Essays in Honor of James M. Dean

    by Brian Gastle, Erick Kelemen, Mark Amsler, Craig E. Bertolet, John M. Ganim, Scott Lightsey, Kathryn McKinley, Gabrielle Parkin, Karla Taylor0, Joseph Turner1, Lawrence Warner2, Christian Zacher3, R.F. Yeager4 ...
    The essays in this volume consider the ways in which material and intellectual culture both shaped and were shaped by the literature of late medieval England. The first section, “Textual Material,” reflects on cultural and social issues generally referred to as the History of Ideas, and how those ideas manifest in later medieval English texts. Essays address, for example, affect in The Book of ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve and the Commercial Practices of Late Fourteenth-Century London

    by Craig E. Bertolet ...
    As residents of fourteenth-century London, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, and Thomas Hoccleve each day encountered aspects of commerce such as buying, selling, and worrying about being cheated. Many of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales address how pervasive the market had become in personal relationships. Gower's writings include praises of the concept of trade and worries that widespread fraud has harmed ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Money, Commerce, and Economics in Late Medieval English Literature

    Edited by Craig E. Bertolet, Robert Epstein ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This is the first collection of essays dedicated to the topics of money and economics in the English literature of the late Middle Ages. These essays explore ways that late medieval economic thought informs contemporary English texts and apply modern modes of economic analysis to medieval literature. In so doing, they read the importance and influence of historical records of practices as aids to ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer

    Edited by Piero Boitani, Jill Mann ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The 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 ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100–1500

    Edited by Larry Scanlon ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The medieval period was one of extraordinary literary achievement sustained over centuries of great change, anchored by the Norman invasion and its aftermath, the re-emergence of English as the nation's leading literary language in the fourteenth century and the advent of print in the fifteenth. This Companion spans four full centuries to survey this most formative and turbulent era in the history ... Read more

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  • Edmund Spenser in Context

    Edited by Andrew Escobedo ...
    Series series Literature in Context
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  • Medieval Shakespeare

    Pasts and Presents

    Edited by Ruth Morse, Helen Cooper, Peter Holland ...
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  • Female Desire in Chaucer's <I>Legend of Good Women</I> and Middle English Romance

    by Lucy M. Allen-Goss ...
    In both medieval and modern contexts, women who do not desire men invite awkward silences. Men's dissident sexual practices have been discussed energetically by writers of law and religion, medicine and morality; reams of medievaltexts are devoted to horrified or fascinated references to men's deviant intimacies with men. Yet women - despite the best efforts of recent scholars - remain at the ... Read more

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  • Common: The Development of Literary Culture in Sixteenth-Century England

    by Neil Rhodes ...
    This volume explores the development of literary culture in sixteenth-century England as a whole and seeks to explain the relationship between the Reformation and the literary renaissance of the Elizabethan period. Its central theme is the 'common' in its double sense of something shared and something base, and it argues that making common the work of God is at the heart of the English Reformation ... Read more

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