Auteur: Thomas A. Prendergast

In the South Transept of Westminster Abbey in London, the bodies of more than seventy men and women, primarily writers, poets, and playwrights, are interred, with many more memorialized. From the tim …

This book investigates the troubled relationship between medieval studies and medievalism. Acknowledging that the medieval and medievalism are mutually constitutive, and that their texts can be read …

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In Chaucer »s Dead Body, Thomas Prendergast looks at the material reasons behind Chaucer »s transformation into a touchstone for the whole of the Anglophone Middle Ages. This book weaves an intricate …

In Chaucer »s Dead Body, Thomas Prendergast looks at the material reasons behind Chaucer »s transformation into a touchstone for the whole of the Anglophone Middle Ages. This book weaves an intricate …

This book investigates the troubled relationship between medieval studies and medievalism. Acknowledging that the medieval and medievalism are mutually constitutive, and that their texts can be read …

The facts and fictions that continue to shape our understanding of Chaucer and his place in literary tradition Is Chaucer the father of English literature? The first English poet? Was he a feminist? …

The facts and fictions that continue to shape our understanding of Chaucer and his place in literary tradition Is Chaucer the father of English literature? The first English poet? Was he a feminist? …

The questions of fame and reputation are central to Chaucer’s writings; the essays here discuss their various treatments and manifestations. Fama, or fame, is a central concern of late medieval liter …