The Clerkes Tale

The Clerkes Tale PDF Author: Chaucer
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Languages : en
Pages : 116

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The Clerkes Tale

The Clerkes Tale PDF Author: Chaucer
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Pages : 116

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Canterbury Tales

Canterbury Tales PDF Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
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Languages : en
Pages : 318

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A Medieval Woman's Companion

A Medieval Woman's Companion PDF Author: Susan Signe Morrison
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1785700804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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What have a deaf nun, the mother of the first baby born to Europeans in North America, and a condemned heretic to do with one another? They are among the virtuous virgins, marvelous maidens, and fierce feminists of the Middle Ages who trail-blazed paths for women today. Without those first courageous souls who worked in fields dominated by men, women might not have the presence they currently do in professions such as education, the law, and literature. Focusing on women from Western Europe between c. 300 and 1500 CE in the medieval period and richly carpeted with detail, A Medieval Woman’s Companion offers a wealth of information about real medieval women who are now considered vital for understanding the Middle Ages in a full and nuanced way. Short biographies of 20 medieval women illustrate how they have anticipated and shaped current concerns, including access to education; creative emotional outlets such as art, theater, romantic fiction, and music; marriage and marital rights; fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, contraception and gynecology; sex trafficking and sexual violence; the balance of work and family; faith; and disability. Their legacy abides until today in attitudes to contemporary women that have their roots in the medieval period. The final chapter suggests how 20th and 21st century feminist and gender theories can be applied to and complicated by medieval women's lives and writings. Doubly marginalized due to gender and the remoteness of the time period, medieval women’s accomplishments are acknowledged and presented in a way that readers can appreciate and find inspiring. Ideal for high school and college classroom use in courses ranging from history and literature to women's and gender studies, an accompanying website with educational links, images, downloadable curriculum guide, and interactive blog will be made available at the time of publication.

The Merchant's Prologue and Tale

The Merchant's Prologue and Tale PDF Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316615472
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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Six-hundred-year-old tales with modern relevance. This stunning full-colour edition from the bestselling Cambridge School Chaucer series explores the complete text of The Merchant's Prologue and Tale through a wide range of classroom-tested activities and illustrated information, including a map of the Canterbury pilgrimage, a running synopsis of the action, an explanation of unfamiliar words and suggestions for study. Cambridge School Chaucer makes medieval life and language more accessible, helping students appreciate Chaucer's brilliant characters, his wit, sense of irony and love of controversy.

Patient Grissil

Patient Grissil PDF Author: Henry Chettle
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Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Chaucer and the French Tradition

Chaucer and the French Tradition PDF Author: Charles Muscatine
Publisher: Univ of California Press
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Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Chaucer's Discussion of Marriage

Chaucer's Discussion of Marriage PDF Author: George Lyman Kittredge
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Languages : en
Pages : 56

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The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye

The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye PDF Author: A. S. Byatt
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307483878
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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The magnificent title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and uncanny relationship between its extravagantly intelligent heroine--a world renowned scholar of the art of story-telling--and the marvelous being that lives in a mysterious bottle, found in a dusty shop in an Istanbul bazaar. As A.S. Byatt renders this relationship with a powerful combination of erudition and passion, she makes the interaction of the natural and the supernatural seem not only convincing, but inevitable. The companion stories in this collection each display different facets of Byatt's remarkable gift for enchantment. They range from fables of sexual obsession to allegories of political tragedy; they draw us into narratives that are as mesmerizing as dreams and as bracing as philosophical meditations; and they all us to inhabit an imaginative universe astonishing in the precision of its detail, its intellectual consistency, and its splendor. "A dreamy treat.... It is not merely strange, it is wondrous." --Boston Globe "Alternatingly erudite and earthy, direct and playful.... If Scheherazade ever needs a break, Byatt can step in, indefinitely." --Chicago Tribune "Byatt's writing is crystalline and splendidly imaginative.... These [are] perfectly formed tales." --Washington Post Book World

The Man of Law's Tale

The Man of Law's Tale PDF Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales

The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales PDF Author: Leonard Michael Koff
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780838638002
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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That resistance, informed by a model of literary influence grounded on the idea of interruption, would keep the Canterbury Tales away from the Decameron, though not the rest of Chaucer from other works by Boccaccio. In the end, of course, that resistance tells us more about Chaucer's reception since the fifteenth century than about Chaucer himself or his sources."--BOOK JACKET.