Studies in the Age of Chaucer

Sarah Salih

Description

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.  

Sujets

• Inglés medio
• Literature
• Medieval Britain
• Academic journal
• Scholarship
• Middle English
• Geoffrey Chaucer

Informations

• Publié par: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date de parution: 15 janvier 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9780933784925
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

Extrait

publications of the new chaucer society

THE NEW CHAUCER SOCIETY

President 2018–2020 Executive Director Trustees 2016–2020

Trustees 2018–2022

Editor, Studies in the Age of Chaucer Book Review Editor

Editorial Assistant Advisory Board

Administrative Assistant

RuthEvans, Saint Louis University ThomasGoodmann, University of Miami AnthonyBale, Birkbeck College, London SimonHorobin, Magdalen College, Oxford PatriciaIngham, Indiana University, Bloomington EmilySteiner, University of Pennsylvania SeetaChaganti, University of California Davis DavidRaybin, Kent State University MarionTurner, Jesus College, Oxford SarahSalih, King’s College London

ShayneLegassie, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CharlotteKnight, King’s College London SusanCrane, Columbia University AlastairMinnis, Yale University CarolynDinshaw, New York University DavidWallace, University of Pennsylvania RichardFirthGreen, Ohio State University JessicaRezunyk, Washington University

BibliographerStephanieAmsel, Southern Methodist University Studies in the Age of Chaucer, the yearbook of The New Chaucer Society, is published annually. Each issue contains substantial articles on all aspects of Chaucer and his age, book reviews, and an anno tated Chaucer bibliography. Manuscripts should follow theChicago Manual of Style, 16th edition. Unsolicited reviews are not accepted. Authors receive twenty free offprints of articles and ten of reviews. All correspondence regarding manuscript submissions should be directed to the Editor, Sarah Salih, Department of English, King’s College London, Virginia Woolf Building, 22 Kingsway, London WC2B 6LE, United Kingdom; email [e-mail]. Subscriptions to The New Chaucer Society and information about the Society’s activities should be directed to Ruth Evans, Department of English, Saint Louis University, Adorjan Hall 231, 3800 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63108–3414. Back issues of the journal may be ordered from University of Notre Dame Press, Chicago Distribution Center, 11030 South Langley Avenue, Chicago, IL 60628; phone: 8006212736; fax: 800621 8476; from outside the United States, phone: 7737027000; fax: 7737027212.

Studies in the Age of Chaucer

Studies in the Age of Chaucer

Volume 40 2018

EDITOR SARAH SALIH

PUBLISHED ANNUALLY BY THE NEW CHAUCER SOCIETY SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS

The frontispiece design, showing the Pilgrims at the Tabard Inn, is adapted from the woodcut in Caxton’s second edition of theCanterbury Tales.

Copyright2018 by The New Chaucer Society, Saint Louis University. First edition. Published by University of Notre Dame Press for The New Chaucer Society.

ISBN10 0933784422 ISBN13 9780933784420 ISSN 01902407

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CONTENTS

ARTICLES Transmedial Technics in Chaucer’sTreatise on the Astrolabe: Translation, Instrumentation, and Scientific Imagination J. Allan Mitchell Parallel Lives: William Rokele and the Satirical Literacies of Piers Plowman Andrew Galloway The Merchant’s Tale:Berynand the London Company of Mercers Matthew W. Irvin TheSwetenesseof Confection: A Recipe for Spiritual Health in London, British Library, Additional MS 61823,The Book of Margery Kempe Laura Kalas Williams The Textual Worlds of Henry Daniel Sarah Star “Bot a quene!”: Calculating Salvation inPearl Kenneth Chong The Mythological Sciences of John Gower, Medieval Classicists, and Morgan MS M. 126 Amanda Gerber Chaucer’sGnof Frederick M. Biggs Chaucer’s Death, Lydgate’s Guild, and the Construction of Community in FifteenthCentury English Literature Bridget Whearty

COLLOQUIUM: London Living Edited by Matthew Boyd Goldie and Sarah Stanbury Matthew Boyd Goldie. Spatial History: Estres, Edges, and Contents Sarah Crover. Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Inconvenient Truth: Making Sense of the JanusFaced Thames

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Laura Varnam. “4e9atez stoken watz neuer9et”: London, the New Jerusalem, and the Materiality ofEntreinPearlandThe Pilgrimage of the Lyfe of the Manhode

Martha Carlin. Why Stay at the Tabard? Public Inns and Their Amenities c. 1400

Marion Turner. Unlocked Doors: Geoffrey Chaucer’s Writing Rooms and Elizabeth Chaucer’s Nunnery

Samuel F. McMillan. Talk of the Tavern and Boatmen’s Songs: Authorship in Thomas Hoccleve’sMale regle

REVIEWS Frederick M. Biggs,Chaucer’s Decameron and the Origin of the “Canterbury Tales”(Brendan O’Connell) Glenn D. Burger,Conduct Becoming: Good Wives and Husbands in the Later Middle Ages(Michelle M. Sauer)

Seeta Chaganti,Strange Footing: Poetic Form and Dance in the Late Middle Ages(Nicole Nolan Sidhu) Ian Cornelius,Reconstructing Alliterative Verse: The Pursuit of a Medieval Meter(Jordan Zweck) Robert R. Edwards,Invention and Authorship in Medieval England (Jamie C. Fumo) Suzanne M. Edwards,The Afterlives of Rape in Medieval English Literature(Vickie Larsen) Alexander N. Gabrovsky,Chaucer the Alchemist: Physics, Mutability, and the Medieval Imagination(Joe Stadolnik)

Jennifer Garrison,Challenging Communion: The Eucharist and Middle English Literature(Katie Little)

Geraldine Heng,The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages (Shyama Rajendran) John M. Hill,Chaucer’s Neoplatonism: Varieties of Love, Friendship, and Community(Jonathan Fruoco) Michael Johnston,Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England (Hope Johnston)

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James F. Knapp and Peggy A. Knapp,Medieval Romance: The Aesthetics of Possibility(Daniel Reeve) Alison Langdon, ed.,Animal Languages in the Middle Ages: Representations of Interspecies Communication(Michael Warren) David Lavinsky,The Material Text in Wycliffite Biblical Scholarship: Inscription and Sacred Truth(Michael P. Kuczynski) Jamie McKinstry,Middle English Romance and the Craft of Memory (Caitlin Watt) Susan Nakley,Living in the Future: Sovereignty and Internationalism in the “Canterbury Tales”(T. S. Miller) Stephen H. Rigby, ed., with the assistance of Alastair Minnis, Historians on Chaucer: The “General Prologue” to the “Canterbury Tales”(Michael Calabrese) Catherine Sanok,New Legends of England: Forms of Community in Late Medieval Saints’ Lives(Jennifer Garrison) Tara Williams,Middle English Marvels: Magic, Spectacle, and Morality in the Fourteenth Century(Sif Rikhardsdottir) Karen A. Winstead,The Oxford History of LifeWriting, Vol. 1,The Middle Ages(Rebecca Krug)

BOOKS RECEIVED

AN ANNOTATED CHAUCER BIBLIOGRAPHY, 2016 Stephanie Amsel Classifications Abbreviations of Chaucer’s Works Periodical Abbreviations Bibliographical Citations and Annotations Author Index—Bibliography

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