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| chaucer age: Writing on Skin in the Age of Chaucer Nicole Nyffenegger, Katrin Rupp, 2018-09-10 Owing to its relatedness to parchment as the primary writing matter of the Middle Ages, human skin was not only a topic to write about in medieval texts, it was also conceived of as an inscribable surface, both in the material and in the figurative sense. This volume explores the textuality of human skin as discussed by Geoffrey Chaucer and other writers (medical, religious, philosophical, and literary) of the fourteenth and fifteenth century. It presents four main aspects of the complex relations between text, parchment, and human skin as they have been discussed in recent scholarship. These four aspects are, first, the (mostly figurative) resonances between parchment-making and transformations of human skin, second, parchment as a space of contact between animal and human spheres, third, human skin and parchment as sites where (gender) identities are negotiated, and fourth, the place of medieval skin studies within cultural studies and its relationship to the major concerns of cultural studies: the difficult demarcation of skin from body, the instability of any inscription, and the skin’s precarious state as an entity of its own. |
| chaucer age: Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the Early English Poet William Godwin, 1803 |
| chaucer age: The Living Age , 1873 |
| chaucer age: The Pelican Guide to English Literature Boris Ford, 1966 |
| chaucer age: Studies in the Age of Chaucer Sebastian Sobecki, Michelle Karnes, 2021-02 Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore the culture and writing of later medieval Britain (1200-1500). Each SAC volume also includes an annotated bibliography and reviews of Chaucer-related publications. |
| chaucer age: History of English Literature N. Jayapalan, 2001 The Study Deals With All Aspects Of History Of English Literature In A Comprehensive Manner. It Covers The Entire Period Of English Literature From Chaucer Down To The Modern Age. Every Age Has Been Portrayed In A Simple Manner So As To Fulfil The Requirements Of The Students Of Various Indian Universities Covering The Entire Field Of English Literature. The Study Also Provides A Clear Picture About The Life And Works Of All Great Literary Figures Such As Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Johnson, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Thomas Hardy And Others. More Attention Has Been Focused On The Important Aspects Of The History Of English Literature And All Superfluity Has Been Avoided. The Book Is A Boon For All Those Who Are Interested In The Study Of The Subject, As It Makes A Rapid Survey Of The Whole Field Without Going Into Unnecessary Details. |
| chaucer age: Littell's Living Age , 1873 |
| chaucer age: English Literature in the Age of Chaucer Dieter Mehl, 2014-06-11 Written in an engaging and accessible manner, English Literature in the Age of Chaucer serves as both a lucid introduction to Middle English literature for those coming fresh to the study of earlier English writing, and as a stimulating examination of the themes, traditions and the literary achievement of a number of particulary original and interesting authors. In addition to detailed and sensitive treatment of Chaucer's major works, the book includes chapters on his chief contemporaries, such as John Gower, William Langland and the Gawain-poet. It also examines the often underrated contribution to the English literary tradition of his successors John Lydgate and Thomas Hoccleve, as well as the interesting and original work of the Scottish poets, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar and Gavin Douglas, who also claim Chaucer as their model. Apart from the narrative poetry of Chaucer and his followers, the book also contains chapters on the Middle English lyric; Middle English prose, including Mandeville's travels; the most original and imaginative writings of the Middle English mystics, in particular Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe; and Thomas Malory's impressive prose compilation of Arthurian stories. |
| chaucer age: Studies in the Age of Chaucer David Matthews, 2011-01-17 Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore the culture and writing of later medieval Britain (1200-1500). Each SAC volume also includes an annotated bibliography and reviews of Chaucer-related publications. |
| chaucer age: A Guide to English Literature: The age of Chaucer Boris Ford, 1954 |
| chaucer age: The Riverside Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer, Larry Dean Benson, 2008 The third edition of the definitive collection of Chaucer's Complete Works, reissued with a new foreword by Christopher Cannon.Since F. N. Robinson's second edition of the The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer was published in 1957, there has been a dramatic increase in Chaucer scholarship. This has not only enriched our understanding of Chaucer's art, but has also enabled scholars, working for the first time with all thesource-material, to recreate Chaucer's authentic texts.For the third edition, an international team of experts completely re-edited all the works, added glosses to appear on the page with the text, andgreatly expanded the introductory material, explanatory notes, textual notes, bibliography, and glossary.In short, the Riverside Chaucer is the fruit of many years' study - the most authentic and exciting edition available of Chaucer's Complete Works. |
| chaucer age: Littell's Living Age Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, 1873 |
| chaucer age: Studies in the Age of Chaucer , 1987 |
| chaucer age: A Companion to Chaucer Peter Brown, 2008-04-15 Designed as both a contribution to original research and as a stimulating and accessible text, this volume is a helpful, reliable, responsive and adaptable resource for students of Chaucer at all levels. |
| chaucer age: Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Albrecht Classen, 2007 After an extensive introduction that takes stock of the relevant research literature on Old Age in the Middle Ages and the early modern age, the contributors discuss the phenomenon of old age in many different fields of late antique, medieval, and early modern literature, history, and art history. Both Beowulf and the Hildebrandslied, both Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival and Titurel, both the figure of Merlin and the trans-European tradition of Perceval/Peredur/Parzival, then the figure of the vetula in a variety of medieval French, English, and Spanish texts, and of the Old Man in The Stricker's Daniel, both the treatment of old age in Langland's Piers the Plowman and in Jean Gerson's sermons are dealt with. Other aspects involve late-antique epistolary literature, early modern French farce in light of Disability Studies, the social role of old, impotent men in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Netherlandish paintings, and the scientific discourse of old age and health since the 1500s. The discourse of Old Age proves to have been of central importance throughout the ages, so the critical examination of the issues involved sheds intriguing light on the cultural history from late antiquity to the seventeenth century. |
| chaucer age: The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: Romaunt of the rose. Minor poems Geoffrey Chaucer, 1894 |
| chaucer age: Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed. and arranged by H. Morley Cassell, ltd, 1876 |
| chaucer age: Critical Companion to Chaucer Rosalyn Rossignol, 2006 Examines 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. |
| chaucer age: Printing the Middle Ages Siân Echard, 2008-09-03 Printing the Middle Ages focuses on the life of medieval texts after the Middle Ages, tracing the impact of the books that transmitted medieval literature to the English-speaking world, showing how these books imitated and refashioned the medieval past for later audiences. |
| chaucer age: Cosmopolitanism and the Middle Ages J. Ganim, S. Legassie, 2013-03-20 This collection of essays uncovers a wide array of medieval writings on cosmopolitan ethics and politics, writings generally ignored or glossed over in contemporary discourse. Medieval literary fictions and travel accounts provide us with rich contextualizations of the complexities and contradictions of cosmopolitan thought. |
| chaucer age: Studies in Chaucer Thomas R. Lounsbury, 1891 |
| chaucer age: Chaucer's 'Boece' Englisht from "Anicii Manlii Severini Boetii Philosophiae Consolationis, Libri Quinque." Boethius, 1886 |
| chaucer age: Chaucer and the Poems of 'Ch' James I Wimsatt, 2009-03-01 On several counts, one particular collection of French lyrics made in France in the late fourteenth century, University of Pennsylvania MS 15, is the most likely repository of Chaucer's French poems. It is the largest manuscript anthology extant of fourteenth-century French lyrics in the formes fixes (balade, rondeaux, virelay, lay, and five-stanza chanson) with by far the largest number of works of unknown authorship. |
| chaucer age: Tellers, Tales, and Translation in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Warren Ginsberg, 2015 Tellers, Tales, and Translation argues that Chaucer often recast a coordinating idea or set of concerns in the portraits, prologues, tales, and epilogues that make up a 'Canterbury' performance. |
| chaucer age: Daily Life in Chaucer's England Jeffrey L. Forgeng, Will Mclean, 2008-12-30 Experience the medieval world firsthand in this indispensable hands-on resource, and examine life as it was actually lived. The first book on medieval England to arise out of the living history movement, this volume allows readers to understand-and, if possible, recreate-what life was like for ordinary people in the days of Geoffrey Chaucer. Readers will learn not only what types of games medieval Britons played, what clothes they wore, or what food they ate, but actual rules for games, clothing patterns, and recipes. Written with impeccable detail, this volume examines all aspects of life in medieval England, down to basic fundamentals like nutrition, waste management, and table manners. Parallel situations and quoted material from The Canterbury Tales draw direct connections to Chaucer's work. Student researchers will benefit from a multitude of resources, including primary source sidebars, a chapter on online resources and digital research, information on medieval reenactments, a timeline of events, a glossary of terms, numerous illustrations, and a comprehensive print and nonprint bibliography of accessible sources. Supporting the world history curriculum and offering an interactive supplement to literature curricula, this volume is a must-have for students and interested readers. Detailed and meticulous, this volume examines all aspects of life in medieval England, down to basic fundamentals like nutrition, waste management, and table manners. Readers will explore, seasons, holidays and holy days, the prevalence and normalcy of death, the average workday, crafts and trade, decorating practices, and recreational activities like archery and falconry. Parallel situations and quoted material from The Canterbury Tales also draw direct connections to Chaucer's work. |
| chaucer age: The Middle Ages After the Middle Ages in the English-speaking World Marie-Françoise Alamichel, Derek Brewer, 1997 Studies of the influence of the middle ages on aspects of European and American life and culture from 16c to the present day. |
| chaucer age: Chaucer's Italian Tradition Warren Ginsberg, 2002 Explores provocative questions about the dynamics of cross-cultural translation and the formation of tradition |
| chaucer age: Aging and the Aged in Medieval Europe University of Toronto. Centre for Medieval Studies. Conference, 1990 |
| chaucer age: Middle English Dictionary Robert E. Lewis, 1956 The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies |
| chaucer age: Chaucer’s Translation of Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy , 2023-07-24 This edition offers you the first Modern English version of Chaucer’s only previously untranslated major work, Boece. Boece is Chaucer’s Middle English translation of the 6th-century CE philosopher Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy. For over a thousand years, The Consolation underpinned Christian understanding of Fate, Fortune, Free Will, and Divine Providence, and its ideas influenced Chaucer’s major works. While many editions offer a Modern English translation from the original Latin, this edition gives you an approachable version of Chaucer’s translation and puts you face-to-face with his phrasings and emendations. Here, the father of English poetry’s voice finally speaks up, so you can enjoy his poetic turns and even track where the language from Boece echoes in The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde. |
| chaucer age: Chaucer and the Child Eve Salisbury, 2017-01-09 This book addresses portrayals of children in a wide array of Chaucerian works. Situated within a larger discourse on childhood, Ages of Man theories, and debates about the status of the child in the late fourteenth century, Chaucer’s literary children—from infant to adolescent—offer a means by which to hear the voices of youth not prominently treated in social history. The readings in this study urge our attention to literary children, encouraging us to think more thoroughly about the Chaucerian collection from their perspectives. Eve Salisbury argues that the child is neither missing in the late Middle Ages nor in Chaucer’s work, but is,rather, fundamental to the institutions of the time and central to the poet’s concerns. |
| chaucer age: Delphi Complete Works of William Henry Hudson (Illustrated) William Henry Hudson, 2024-08-15 Born in Argentina, W. H. Hudson was a late Victorian author, naturalist and ornithologist, best known today for his exotic romances, including his masterpiece ‘Green Mansions’. He also published important works of non-fiction, including a series of books on the English countryside, which due to their imaginative descriptions helped foster the “back-to-nature” movement of the 1920’s and 1930’s. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Hudson’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Hudson’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * All the novels, with individual contents tables * Rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Famous works are fully illustrated with their original artwork * Rare story collections * Includes Hudson’s complete non-fiction – spend hours exploring the author’s naturalist works * Features the compelling memoir of the author’s early years in Argentina * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres CONTENTS: The Novels The Purple Land that England Lost (1885) A Crystal Age (1887) Ralph Herne (1888) Fan (1892) Idle Days in Patagonia (1893) Green Mansions (1904) A Little Boy Lost (1905) The Shorter Fiction El Ombú (1902) Tales of the Pampas (1916) Dead Man’s Plack and An Old Thorn (1920) A Traveller in Little Things (1921) The Non-Fiction Argentine Ornithology (1888) The Naturalist in La Plata (1892) Birds in London (1898) Nature in Downland (1900) Birds and Man (1901) Hampshire Days (1903) Land’s End (1908) Afoot in England (1909) A Shepherd’s Life (1910) Adventures among Birds (1913) An Outline History of English Literature (1913) The Book of a Naturalist (1919) Birds in Town and Village (1919) A Hind in Richmond Park (1922) Rare Vanishing and Lost British Birds (1923) Articles from ‘Popular Science Monthly’ The Autobiography Far Away and Long Ago (1918) |
| chaucer age: English Writers Henry Morley, 1867 |
| chaucer age: Chaucer’s Ethical Philosophy Laura Ashe, 2025-01-02 Chaucer’s Ethical Philosophy argues that Chaucer's fictions engage with the most urgent questions of modern political and moral philosophy. Close analysis of Troilus and Criseyde, the Canterbury Tales, and the Book of the Duchess reveals the ways in which Chaucer anticipates modern philosophical debates, using his fictions to explore the ethics of subjectivity and recognition, agency and moral responsibility; concerns that Chaucer experimentally formulated and discomposed across his works are amongst those that most animate and trouble contemporary ethical philosophy. This book places Chaucer in close dialogue not only with medieval philosophy and theology, and his great European literary sources (Boccaccio, Dante, Guillaume de Machaut), but with major figures and concepts of modern philosophical thought (Hegel, Levinas, Wittgenstein, Butler; recognition, subjectivity, gender). It illuminates his use of distinctively medieval forms of narrative to explore ideas and develop philosophies that we have been conditioned to think of as exclusively modern. In this he reveals both the essential nature of the questions, and the contingent, socially--and culturally--conditioned nature of our answers; and he shows us that medieval structures of thought remain central to our understandings of the world. In response to the fundamental ethical question-how should I treat another person?--Chaucer's fictional experiments are shown to be as philosophically complex and ethically powerful as anything in current thought. |
| chaucer age: Literature and Heresy in the Age of Chaucer Andrew Cole, 2011-11-24 After the late fourteenth century, English literature was fundamentally shaped by the heresy of John Wyclif and his followers. This study demonstrates how Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, John Clanvowe, Margery Kempe, Thomas Hoccleve and John Lydgate, far from eschewing Wycliffism out of fear of censorship or partisan distaste, viewed Wycliffite ideas as a distinctly new intellectual resource. Andrew Cole offers a complete historical account of the first official condemnation of Wycliffism - the Blackfriars council of 1382 - and the fullest study of 'lollardy' as a social and literary construct. Drawing on literary criticism, history, theology and law, he presents not only a fresh perspective on late medieval literature, but also an invaluable rethinking of the Wycliffite heresy. Literature and Heresy restores Wycliffism to its proper place as the most significant context for late medieval English writing, and thus for the origins of English literary history. |
| chaucer age: Ryme-indexes to the Ellesmere Ms. of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Henry Cromie, 1875 |
| chaucer age: Chaucer's Chain of Love Paul Beekman Taylor, 1996 This book explores the Chain of Love, a Platonic metaphor for the invisible bond between Creator and Creation, for the space between beginnings and ends of temporal succession, and for the heard, or unheard, word between thought and deed, or between contrition and satisfaction in the process of penitence. |
| chaucer age: CLASSICAL LITERATURE AND HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE (English Book) Prof. (Dr.) Sangeeta Arora , Dr. Prabhat Kumar Dixit, Dr. Ashok Kumar , 2023-07-01 Read e-Book of CLASSICAL LITERATURE AND HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE (English Book) for B.A. 5th Semester for all UP State Universities Common Minimum Syllabus as per NEP. ये ई-बुक्स खासतौर पर यूपी राज्य विश्वविद्यालय के लिए डिजाइन की गई हैं। जैसे भीम राव अंबेडकर विश्वविद्यालय आगरा, चौधरी चरण सिंह विश्वविद्यालय मेरठ, महात्मा गांधी काशी विद्या पीठ, वाराणसी, गोरखपुर विश्वविद्यालय, रज्जू भैया विश्वविद्यालय प्रयागराज, रुहेलखंड विश्वविद्यालय, बरेली, पूर्वांचल विश्वविद्यालय आदि। |
| chaucer age: Chaucer's Narrative Voice in The Knight's Tale Ebbe Klitgård, 1995 The first specialised study of narrative voice in The Knights' Tale. |
| chaucer age: Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages Rita Copeland, 2021-11-18 Rhetoric is an engine of social discourse and the art charged with generating and swaying emotion. The history of rhetoric provides a continuous structure by which we can measure how emotions were understood, articulated, and mobilized under various historical circumstances and social contracts. This book is about how rhetoric in the West, from Late Antiquity to the later Middle Ages, represented the role of emotion in shaping persuasions. It is the first book-length study of medieval rhetoric and the emotions, coloring that rhetorical history between about 600 CE and the cusp of early modernity. Rhetoric in the Middle Ages, as in other periods, constituted the gateway training for anyone engaged in emotionally persuasive writing. Medieval rhetorical thought on emotion has multiple strands of influence and sedimentations of practice. The earliest and most persistent tradition treated emotional persuasion as a property of surface stylistic effect, which can be seen in the medieval rhetorics of poetry and prose, and in literary production. But the impact of Aristotelian rhetoric, which reached the Latin West in the thirteenth century, gave emotional persuasion a core role in reasoning, incorporating it into the key device of proof, the enthymeme. In Aristotle, medieval teachers and writers found a new rhetorical language to explain the social and psychological factors that affect an audience. With Aristotelian rhetoric, the emotions became political. The impact of Aristotle's rhetorical approach to emotions was to be felt in medieval political treatises, in poetry, and in preaching. |
Geoffrey Chaucer - Wikipedia
Geoffrey Chaucer (/ ˈ tʃ ɔː s ər / CHAW-sər; c. 1343 – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. [1] He has been called the …
Geoffrey Chaucer | Biography, Poems, Canterbury Tales, & Facts
May 14, 2025 · Geoffrey Chaucer, the outstanding English poet before Shakespeare. His The Canterbury Tales ranks as one of the greatest poetic works in English. He also contributed in …
Life of Chaucer | Harvard's Geoffrey Chaucer Website - Harvard …
For a brief chronology of Chaucer's life and times, click here. Geoffrey Chaucer led a busy official life, as an esquire of the royal court, as the comptroller of the customs for the port of London, …
Geoffrey Chaucer - World History Encyclopedia
Apr 29, 2019 · Geoffrey Chaucer (l. c. 1343-1400 CE) was a medieval English poet, writer, and philosopher best known for his work The Canterbury Tales, a masterpiece of world literature.
Geoffrey Chaucer: Life, Major Works and Accomplishments of the …
Nov 12, 2024 · Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400), often celebrated as the “father of English literature,” played a transformative role in shaping the English literary tradition.
The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer is widely regarded as England’s greatest medieval poet and has been called the father of the English language. Despite a great deal of scholarship, the exact details of …
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Mar 24, 2025 · Who was Geoffrey Chaucer? Geoffrey Chaucer was a prominent English poet and public servant born around 1340, best known for his landmark work, "The Canterbury Tales." …
Geoffrey Chaucer | The Poetry Foundation
Geoffrey Chaucer was born between the years 1340-1345, the son of John and Agnes (de Copton) Chaucer. Chaucer was descended from two generations of wealthy vintners who had …
The Canterbury Tales - Wikipedia
Chaucer was a courtier, leading some to believe that he was mainly a court poet who wrote exclusively for the nobility. He is referred to as a noble translator and poet by Eustache …
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Apr 2, 2014 · English poet Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the unfinished work, 'The Canterbury Tales.' It is considered one of the greatest poetic works in English.
Geoffrey Chaucer - Wikipedia
Geoffrey Chaucer (/ ˈ tʃ ɔː s ər / CHAW-sər; c. 1343 – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil …
Geoffrey Chaucer | Biography, Poems, Canterbury Tales, & F…
May 14, 2025 · Geoffrey Chaucer, the outstanding English poet before Shakespeare. His The Canterbury …
Life of Chaucer | Harvard's Geoffrey Chaucer Website - H…
For a brief chronology of Chaucer's life and times, click here. Geoffrey Chaucer led a busy official life, as an esquire …
Geoffrey Chaucer - World History Encyclopedia
Apr 29, 2019 · Geoffrey Chaucer (l. c. 1343-1400 CE) was a medieval English poet, writer, and philosopher best …
Geoffrey Chaucer: Life, Major Works and Accomplishments …
Nov 12, 2024 · Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400), often celebrated as the “father of English literature,” played …
