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Hearing, smelling, savoring, and touching in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

Medievalists.net — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 15:03:13 +0000

Chaucer's scholar's have long recognized the poet's keen sense of observation and have commented upon the poet’s ability to transfer his visual images to his writing.

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INTERVIEW: A Conversation with SD Sykes about Plague Land

Medievalists.net — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 11:20:52 +0000

My interview with fiction author, SD Sykes about her fantastic medieval crime novel, Plague Land.

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The “Discrete Occupational Identity” of Chaucer’s Knyght

Medievalists.net — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 19:47:26 +0000

Popular critical opinion favors reading the pilgrim Knyght of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales as the representative of the idealized chivalric knight; however, the pilgrim Knyght bears the hallmark of the early professional soldier that began to evolve as early as the eleventh century.

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Chaucer’s female characters in the Canterbury Tales: Born to thralldom and penance, and to been under mannes governance

Medievalists.net — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 23:45:00 +0000

This essay will also demonstrate that in order to be considered a good wife a woman
needed to be humble and obedient and to accept her fate as being subject to male authority figure without resistance.

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The Canterbury Tales as Framed Narratives

Medievalists.net — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 11:08:00 +0000

Although I think that the notion of modern art as organic must be qualified and questioned, there is a certain force and validity to Jordan's distinction between medieval and modern art. Modern art expects the parts to be somewhat subordinate to the whole. The dominant stress of New Criticism was on the organic nature of art.

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I Wol Yow Nat Deceyve: The Pardoner’s Virtuous Path in The Canterbury Tales

Medievalists.net — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 22:45:38 +0000

The Pardoner of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is usually perceived as terrible and morally bankrupt. As a result, he is often categorized as an evil and one-dimensional character.

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Chaucer’s Solar Pageant: an Astrological Reading of the Canterbury Tales

Medievalists.net — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 02:24:28 +0000

This thesis proposes a correlation between the twenty-four Canterbury Tales and an external ordered system, namely the twelve signs of the zodiac, from which one might infer Chaucer's intended ordering of the Tales.

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Wrestling for the Ram: Competition and Feedback in Sir Thopas and The Canterbury Tales

Medievalists.net — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 00:42:45 +0000

The purpose of this essay will be to explore the significance of competition and feedback in The Canterbury Tales, by applying historical evidence of literary competition in the fourteenth century to a discussion of the frame narrative, especially the prologue and epilogue to Chaucer’s Tale of Sir Thopas.

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‘Fromm thennes faste he gan avyse/This litel spot of erthe’: GIS and the General Prologue

Medievalists.net — Thu, 02 May 2013 05:34:05 +0000

This paper was given at the Canada Chaucer Seminar on April 27, 2013.

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Chaucer’s Arthuriana

Medievalists.net — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:58:22 +0000

The majority of medieval scholars, including Roger Sherman Loomis, argue that the popularity of the Arthurian legend in England was therefore on the wane in the latter half of the fourteenth century; as a result, the major writers of the period, such as John Gower and Geoffrey Chaucer, refrained from penning anything beyond the occasional reference to King Arthur and his court.

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