Among the surviving records of fourteenth-century England, Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry is the most vivid. Chaucer wrote about everyday people outside the walls of the English court--men and women who spent days at the pedal of a loom, or maintaining the ledgers of an estate, or on the high seas. In Chaucer's People, Liza Picard transforms The Canterbury Tales into a masterful guide for a gloriously detailed tour of medieval England, from the mills and farms of a manor house to the lending houses and Inns of Court in London.
In Chaucer's People we meet again the motley crew of pilgrims on the road to Canterbury. Drawing on a range of historical records such as the Magna Carta, The Book of Margery Kempe, and Cookery in English, Picard puts Chaucer's characters into historical context and mines them for insights into what people ate, wore, read, and thought in the Middle Ages. What can the Miller, "big...of brawn and eke of bones" tell us about farming in fourteenth-century England? What do we learn of medieval diets and cooking methods from the Cook? With boundless curiosity and wit, Picard re-creates the religious, political, and financial institutions and customs that gave order to these lives.
Автор: Carlson Название: Chaucer`s Jobs ISBN: 1403966257 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403966254 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11878.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Geoffrey Chaucer was not a writer, primarily, but a privileged official place-holder. Chaucer`s Jobs shows that the servile and disciplinary nature of the daily work Chaucer did was repeated in his poetry, which by turns flatters his aristocratic betters and deals out discipline to malcontent others.
Автор: Prendergast, Thomas A. Название: Chaucer`s Dead Body ISBN: 0415966795 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415966795 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5970.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Christopher Cannon Название: The Making of Chaucer`s English ISBN: 0521022673 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521022675 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 7128.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book examines the presumption that Chaucer invented literary English, and argues instead that his English is largely traditional. It provides a thorough history of every one of Chaucer`s words and maps the origins and patterns of use that have made these words so compelling for 600 years.
Автор: Kelly, Henry Ansgar Название: Law and Religion in Chaucer`s England ISBN: 1409407519 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409407515 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 24499.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Collette Carolyn P. Название: Rethinking Chaucer`s Legend of Good Women ISBN: 1903153492 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781903153499 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 10296.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A fresh reading of the Legend shows it to be one of Chaucer`s most carefully crafted and significant works.
Автор: Stadnik, Katarzyna Название: Chaucer`s choices ISBN: 3631663838 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631663837 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 9971.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The monograph discusses the relation between language and visual culture, focusing on two Chaucerian narratives, «Knight’s Tale» and «Troilus and Criseyde». The study highlights the significance of the continuity of imagery in language and material culture for cultural transmission, providing insights into the relation between Chaucer’s linguistic usage and the late medieval symbolic tradition. Undertaken within the Cognitive Linguistic framework, the research indicates the usefulness of adopting a panchronic perspective on the development of language and culture.
Автор: Hussey, S.S. Название: Chaucer`s Humor ISBN: 0367357496 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367357498 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7348.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Originally published in 1994. This collection presents essays that define the nature of Chaucerian humor, examine Chaucer`s works from a variety of theoretical perspectives, and consider genres of humor. This is an excellent work of critical discourse that adds important understanding of Chaucer as well as the field of comedy in literature.
Автор: Kelly, Henry Ansgar Название: Law and Religion in Chaucer`s England ISBN: 1138375810 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138375819 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7042.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: These essays investigate legal and religious subjects relevant to the age and places in which Geoffrey Chaucer lived and wrote, especially as reflected in The Canterbury Tales. Topics include the canon law of incest, sexual offences, prostitution, the laws of nature concerning gender distinction (focusing on Chaucer's Pardoner) and castration. Chaucer's Prioress is the starting point for the treatment of the regulations of nuns and for the presence, real and virtual, of Jews and Saracens (Muslims and pagans) in England. It concludes with a case study on the legend of St Cecilia, and a discussion of canonistic opinion on the licit limits of medicinal magic (with regard to John the Carpenter in the Miller's Tale).
Автор: Ruud, Jay Название: Many a song and many a leccherous lay ISBN: 0367357585 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367357580 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5051.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Originally published in 1992. Although they were apparently much appreciated in his own time, Chaucer’s lyrics have for most of the modern era been the most neglected of his poetic productions. This work offers a comprehensive overview of Chaucer’s lyric corpus. The author extends his scope to include in-depth discussions of literary and cultural influences that have their impact on Chaucer’s lyrics. Students who come to Chaucer’s poems for the first time will here receive an excellent introduction to each poem, the important literary issues surrounding the poem as defined by previous scholarship, and Ruud’s own clear style and balanced judgment. The persuasive proofs for Chaucer’s lyric innovations and his special style of poetry will also be of interest to Chaucerian specialist academics. The book traces Chaucer’s development as a lyric poet, from more conventional early works to more individualized later ones.
Автор: J. Pitcher Название: Chaucer`s Feminine Subjects ISBN: 1349534471 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349534470 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 6986.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: "This study shows how contemporary theory can serve to clarify structures of identity and economies of desire in medieval texts. Bringing the resources of psychoanalytic and poststructuralist theory to bear on Chaucer`s tales about women, this book addresses those registers of the Canterbury project that remain major concerns for recent feminist theory: the specificity of feminine desire, the cultural articulation of gender, the logic of sacrifice as a cultural ideal, the structure of misogyny and domestic violence. This book maps out the ways in which Chaucer`s rhetoric is not merely an element of style or an instrument of persuasion but the very matrix for the representation of de-centered subjectivity. "--
