By Corinne Saunders
This concise spouse offers a succinct creation to Chaucer’s significant works, the contexts during which he wrote, and to medieval idea extra commonly. Opens with a common introductory part discussing London lifestyles and politics, books and authority, manuscripts and readers. next sections concentrate on Chaucer’s significant works – the dream visions, Troilus and Criseyde and The Canterbury stories. Essays spotlight the main spiritual, political and highbrow contexts for every significant paintings. additionally covers vital normal themes, together with: medieval literary genres; dream idea; the Church; gender and sexuality; and interpreting Chaucer aloud. Designed in order that each one contextual essay might be learn along one among Chaucer’s significant works.
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St Paul’s was the greatest church in the walled city – in other contemporary poems such as St Erkenwald it functions as a kind of symbol of London – and so this reference firmly locates the Man of Law in an urban context. Chaucer shows off his familiarity with legal discourse in this portrait as the description is dripping with legal language: ‘By patente and by pleyn commissioun’, ‘fee symple’, ‘statut’, ‘assise’. The Man of Law is a lawyer of lawyers – he knows all the cases and judicial decisions from 1066 to the present day, and knows every statute by heart.
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Theory and the Premodern Text. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Strohm, Paul (1990). ‘Politics and Poetics: Usk and Chaucer in the 1380s’. ), Literary Practice and Social Change in Britain, 1380–1550. Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of California Press, pp. 82–112. Strohm, Paul (1989). Social Chaucer. : Harvard University Press. Trigg, Stephanie (2002). Congenial Souls. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Turner, Marion (2003). ‘Troilus and Criseyde and the “treasonous aldermen” of 1382: Tales of the City in Late Fourteenth-century London’.