This collection of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century documents is
designed for students of Chaucer and Middle English literature. It
makes readily available accounts of key historical events and
descriptions of pertinent cultural phenomena.
* * Brings together in one volume fourteenth- and fifteenth-century
historical and cultural texts.
* Documents shed light on the themes and styles that appear in
Chaucer and other Middle English literature.
* Contains twelve important images from the period.
* Concise introductions and bibliographies accompany all
documents.
Tabella dei contenuti
List of Literary Works and Related Topics.
Table of Dates, 1325-1500.
List of Plates.
Acknowledgements.
Map.
Introduction.
1. Conventions And Institutions.
Benedictine Rule.
Friars.
Humors.
Marriage.
Pilgrimage.
Prioresses.
2 Force And Order.
Battle of Agincourt.
The English and England.
Lollardy Trials.
Usurpation.
3 Gender, Sexuality, And Difference.
Amazons.
Chastity, Marriage, Widowhood, And Virginity.
The Far East.
God’s Unknowability.
Lechers And Sodomites.
Saracens.
Women: Margaret Paston.
4 Images.
Lovell Lectionary.
Anne Of Burgundy, Duchess Of Bedford, Before St. Anne.
Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (Ellesmere).
Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (Hengwrt).
Chaucer Portrait: Thomas Hoccleve, Regiment Of
Princes.
Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde.
Court Of King’s Bench.
‘Miracle Of The Boy Singer’.
New College, Oxford University.
Revolt: Jean Froissart, Chroniques.
Richard Ii Presented To The Virgin And Christ.
Royal Benefactors.
5 Labor And Capital.
Guilds.
Ordinance And Statute Of Laborers.
Pestilence.
The Revolt.
6 Style And Spectacle.
Feasts.
The Hunt.
Pageants.
Processions.
Sumptuary.
Tournaments.
7 Textualities.
Audience Reactions To Sermons.
Books.
Censorship.
Enarratio (Analysis And Exposition Of Texts).
The English Language.
Plays and Representations.
Appendix: Currency, Income, Prices; Measures.
Glossary.
Bibliography.
Index.
Circa l’autore
Matthew Boyd Goldie is Assistant Professor of English at Rider University.
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