Englishwomen as Pilgrims to Jerusalem: Isolda Parewastell, 1365
Isolda Parewastell from Somerset, who was in Jerusalem in 1365, fitted into this fourteenth-century pattern. Despite the risks involved, women pilgrims were inspired by an instinct for travel and change, as well as by a sense of religious obligation and the hope of spiritual reward.
Chaucer’s Inferno: Dantean Burlesques in The Canterbury Tales
Like Dante, Chaucer composed in the vernacular rather than in Latin, organized his work by means of the frame story of a guided pilgrimage, and included himself as a character in the journey that he describes. Yet Chaucer gives each of these elements a carnivalesque turn, so that the serious matter of Dante’s Commedia becomes, in The Canterbury Tales, the stuff of comedy.
Love, Marriage, and Happiness: Changing Systems of Desire in Fourteenth-Century England
It is my intention not only to explore the discourse of love and desire in the fourteenth century, but also to examine how the ideas have been altered from those present in the Anglo-Norman and Latin material that was written or widely read in twelfth-century England and what pressures and influences may have brought about these changes.
That country beyond the Humber”: the English North, regionalism, and the negotiation of nation in medieval English literature
The English North is “Not London” but is “before Scotland,” a strangely liminal space between the familiar
South and those undesirables north of the River Tweed.
Naught by Nature: Chaucer and the (Re)Invention of Female Goodness in Late Medieval Literature
The women in Chaucer’s stories are not content to live life in the margins, and these characters are neither as good as they should be according to medieval standards of proper female behavior, nor are they as bad as these same standards would have one believe
A Chivalrous Man is Not a Gentleman: A Look at Chivalry in the Age of Chaucer
The concept of knighthood began as a military strategy used to supply men to fight kings’ wars, but it gradually developed into the glamorized ideal of chivalry and became associated with virtuous behavior expected during times of both war and peace.
The Judgement of Urines
The Judgement of Urines Canadian Medical Association Journal, v.159:12 (1998) Abstract An earnest physician of Renaissance England counted this as one of the…
The Bad Behaviour of Friars and Women in Medieval Catalan fabliaux and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
They perpetrate many deceptions in order to gain a sexual or monetary advantage over their victims and are portrayed as malicious mischief-makers and the protagonists of humorous and smutty stories. Women also feature in these either as deceived victims or as the perpetrators of deception, as they outwit their husbands in order to enjoy their own adulterous affairs.
Herbal healers and devil dealers: a study of healers and their gendered persecution in the medieval period
Herbal healers and devil dealers: a study of healers and their gendered persecution in the medieval period McPhee, Meghan Thesis: M.A., (History), California State…
Geoffrey Chaucer: Feminist Or Not?
Geoffrey Chaucer: Feminist Or Not? By Michael Carosone Published Online (2011) Introduction: Her name is Alisoun, but she is better known as “The Wife…
Lay Literacy and the Medieval Bible
Lay Literacy and the Medieval Bible By Graham D. Caie Nordic Journal of English Studies, Vol.3:1 (2004) Introduction: Among Arne Zettersten’s impressive research…
The Aesthetics of Marriage in The Canterbury Tales
The Aesthetics of Marriage in The Canterbury Tales Kuo, Ju-ping M.A. Thesis, The Institute of Foreign Languages and Literature, June 23 (2003) Abstract…
Contradictory Responses to the Wife of Bath as evidenced by Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Variants
Contradictory Responses to the Wife of Bath as evidenced by Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Variants Kennedy, Beverly The Canterbury Tales Project: Occasional Papers Vol.2, edited by Norman Blake…
Material and Meaning in Lead Pilgrims’ Signs
Material and Meaning in Lead Pilgrims’ Signs Lee, Jennifer (Indiana University – Purdue University of Indianapolis) Peregrinations, Vol.2, Issue 3 (2009) Abstract Thanks to…
Women in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales: Woman as a Narrator, Woman in the Narrative
Women in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales: Woman as a Narrator, Woman in the Narrative By Vladislava Vaněčková Master’s Thesis: Masaryk University, 2007 Introduction:…
AURAL EKPHRASIS AND STATIAN SOUND IN CHAUCER’S TEMPLE OF MARS
AURAL EKPHRASIS AND STATIAN SOUND IN CHAUCER’S TEMPLE OF MARS Leitner, Valerie Ann MA Thesis, University of Florida (2006) Abstract Geoffrey Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale,…
Clerics and Courtly Love in Andreas Capellanus’ The Art of Courtly Love and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
In both The Canterbury Tales and The Art of Courtly Love Geoffrey Chaucer and Andreas Capellanus deal with various aspects of courtly love. In particular, both of them focus to some degree on the question of clerical celibacy.
Arthuriana and the Limits of C.S. Lewis’ Ariosto Marginalia
Arthuriana and the Limits of C.S. Lewis’ Ariosto Marginalia Ross, Charles Arthuriana 21.1 (2011) Abstract C.S. Lewis always marked the Arthurian moments in…
The Wife of Bath: Sexuality vs. Symbol
The Wife of Bath: Sexuality vs. Symbol By Frances Beer Canadian Women’s Studies, Vol. 3:2 (1981) Introduction: In the figure of the Wife…