Medievalists.net » Chaucer http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 REVIEW: The Ballad of Robin Hood http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/30/review-the-ballad-of-robin-hood/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/30/review-the-ballad-of-robin-hood/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2015 00:25:07 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=62897 Over the holiday season, Southwark Playhouse is presenting their reinterpretation of The Ballad of Robin Hood.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/30/review-the-ballad-of-robin-hood/feed/ 0 Animated Epics: The Canterbury Tales http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/20/animated-epics-the-canterbury-tales/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/20/animated-epics-the-canterbury-tales/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2015 20:53:22 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=62658 A 1998 animated version of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/20/animated-epics-the-canterbury-tales/feed/ 0 Shrews, Rats, and a Polecat in the ‘Pardoner’s Tale’ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/11/shrews-rats-and-a-polecat-in-the-pardoners-tale/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/11/shrews-rats-and-a-polecat-in-the-pardoners-tale/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2015 20:12:37 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=62458 The animals of particular interest to us are creatures that function in two distinct ways: as familiar dead metaphors and as familiar live animals.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/11/shrews-rats-and-a-polecat-in-the-pardoners-tale/feed/ 0 Dreams and lovers: the sympathetic guide frame in Middle English courtly love poems http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/17/dreams-and-lovers-the-sympathetic-guide-frame-in-middle-english-courtly-love-poems/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/17/dreams-and-lovers-the-sympathetic-guide-frame-in-middle-english-courtly-love-poems/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2015 03:54:08 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=61847 When is a dream not a dream? The Middle English convention of the ‘dream vision’ has been read by modern scholars as a genre that primarily reveals the medieval understanding of dreaming and dream theory, so that events and stories presented within a dream frame are necessarily read through that specific hermeneutic.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/17/dreams-and-lovers-the-sympathetic-guide-frame-in-middle-english-courtly-love-poems/feed/ 0 Book Burning in Chaucer and Austen http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/06/book-burning-in-chaucer-and-austen/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/06/book-burning-in-chaucer-and-austen/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2015 19:34:51 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=61595 Chaucer has also composed a scene in which he, a maker of books, makes a character who destroys books, combining both making and unmaking in the work of creation.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/06/book-burning-in-chaucer-and-austen/feed/ 0 The Priest and the Fox: Tricksters in Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/13/the-priest-and-the-fox-tricksters-in-chaucers-nuns-priests-tale/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/13/the-priest-and-the-fox-tricksters-in-chaucers-nuns-priests-tale/#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2015 01:36:56 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=60382 Although the figure of Reynard is prevalent in trickster lore, the primary trickster at play in the Nun’s Priest’s Tale may be not the fox but the teller of the tale, the Nun’s Priest himself who travels the road to Canterbury.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/13/the-priest-and-the-fox-tricksters-in-chaucers-nuns-priests-tale/feed/ 0 Fourteenth-Century Weaponry, Armour and Warfare in Chaucer and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/08/fourteenth-century-weaponry-armour-and-warfare-in-chaucer-and-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/08/fourteenth-century-weaponry-armour-and-warfare-in-chaucer-and-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight/#comments Sun, 09 Aug 2015 03:49:14 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=60258 This essay attempts to re-appraise selected passages of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight from a wider military historical and archaeological perspective.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/08/fourteenth-century-weaponry-armour-and-warfare-in-chaucer-and-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight/feed/ 0 Be A Part of Chaucer’s Tale http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/22/be-a-part-of-chaucers-tale/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/22/be-a-part-of-chaucers-tale/#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2015 02:39:34 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=57823 For many people, The Canterbury Tales is not only Geoffrey Chaucer’s great masterwork, but one of the cornerstones of English literature.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/22/be-a-part-of-chaucers-tale/feed/ 0 Chaucer the Love Poet: A Study in Historical Criticism http://www.medievalists.net/2015/01/27/chaucer-love-poet-study-historical-criticism/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/01/27/chaucer-love-poet-study-historical-criticism/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2015 21:33:49 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=55716 This thesis is an historically based inquiry into the aesthetic function and moral significance of the themes of marriage, fornication, and adultery in Chaucer's poetry about sexual love

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