The Sententiae in Chaucer's Works...

The Sententiae in Chaucer's Works...
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Total Pages : 568
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Synopsis The Sententiae in Chaucer's Works... by : Raymond Walker Barry

Chaucer Name Dictionary

Chaucer Name Dictionary
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 474
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ISBN-10 : 9781135614461
ISBN-13 : 1135614466
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Synopsis Chaucer Name Dictionary by : Jacqueline de Weever

Praised by reviewers as highly recommended, indispensable, and thorough, comprehensive, usable, and unquestionably useful, theChaucer Name Dictionary is the ultimate A-Z guide to the writer who stands at the head of the English curriculum. It provides full information on all the hundreds of proper names mentioned throughout Chaucer and essential to an understanding of his works. Each entry provides historical and/or literary definition, references to occurrences in Chaucer's works with explanations of the context, a list of related words, etymology, and a bibliography of primary and secondary works. Special Features The only reference source that identifies the hundreds of historical, literary, and mythological names mentioned in Chaucer, Provides reliable background information essential to understanding Chaucer's text, Alphabetical arrangement and clear format allow quick answers to reference questions, Includes an important Glossary of Astronomical and Astrological Terms, along with six astrological maps Suitable for courses in:Chaucer, Medieval English Poetry, Medieval Literature in Translation, Old and Middle English Literature, Glossary Also includes maps.

The Chaucerian Apocrypha

The Chaucerian Apocrypha
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Total Pages : 188
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Synopsis The Chaucerian Apocrypha by : Kathleen Forni

The poems in this volume were prized and preserved because of their association with Chaucer's name and have been, paradoxically, almost entirely ignored by modern readers for the same reason. Many of these pieces are worthy of study, not only in the context of Chaucerian reception, but also as specimens of the kinds of vernacular poetry that circulated in late medieval manuscripts and which remained in print, largely by the accidental virtue of their association with Chaucer, throughout the Renaissance and well into the nineteenth century. The various genres represented in this sampler (the dream vision, good counsel, female panegyric, mass parody, proverbial wisdom, lover's dialogue, prochecy, advice to princes, elegiac complaint, courtly parody, and anti-feminist satire) attest to the diversity of late medieval literary tastes and to the flexibility of the courtly idiom. In the sixteenth century both Chaucer's poetry and the diverse works with which it circulated appear to have continued to have been valued for their perceived courtly qualities. Chaucer's early scribal and print editors also appear to have prized his sphere of influence (attested to by imitation, continuation, and emendation) and his adaptability to contemporary social and political needs.

The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: Chaucerian and other pieces, being a supplement to the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Oxford, in six volumes. 1894)

The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: Chaucerian and other pieces, being a supplement to the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Oxford, in six volumes. 1894)
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Total Pages : 770
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Synopsis The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: Chaucerian and other pieces, being a supplement to the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Oxford, in six volumes. 1894) by : Geoffrey Chaucer

Chaucer's Boece and the Medieval Tradition of Boethius

Chaucer's Boece and the Medieval Tradition of Boethius
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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages : 218
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ISBN-10 : 9780859913683
ISBN-13 : 0859913686
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Synopsis Chaucer's Boece and the Medieval Tradition of Boethius by : Alastair J. Minnis

Chaucer's translation of Boethius' work is related to medieval intellectual culture, with attention to Trevet's Boethius commentary. This collection seeks to locate the Boece within the medievaltradition of the academic study and translation of the Consolatiophilosophiae, thereby relating the work to the intellectual culturewhich made it possible.It begins with the fullest study yet undertakenof the Boethius commentary of Nicholas Trevet, this being a majorsource of the Boece. There follow editions and translationsof the major passages in Trevet's commentary whereNeoplatonic issuesare confronted, then Chaucer's debt to Trevet is assessed in a detailedreview. The many choices which faced Chaucer as a translator are indicated and the Boeceis placed in a long line of interpreters of Boethius in which both Latin commentators and vernacular translators played their parts. Finally, a view is offered of the Boece as anexample of late-medieval `academic translation': if the Boeceis assigned to this genre, it may be judged a considerable success.