Disseminal Chaucer

Disseminal Chaucer
Author: Peter W. Travis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: English poetry
ISBN: 9780268042356

Travis reassesses Chaucer's The Nun's Priest's Tale and its reception as a traditionally confusing and simple tale.

Nuns' Priests' Tales

Nuns' Priests' Tales
Author: Fiona J. Griffiths
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2018-03-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812249755

List of Abbreviations -- Prologue -- The puzzle of the nuns' priest --Biblical models : women and men in the apostolic life -- Jerome and the noble women of Rome -- Brothers, sons, and uncles : nuns' priests and family ties -- Speaking to the bridegroom : women and the power of prayer -- Conclusion -- Appendix : Beati pauperes.

Five Canterbury Tales

Five Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: OXFORD
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-12-17
Genre: Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
ISBN: 9780194247580

A retelling of five of Chaucer's classic tales in simplified language for new readers. Includes activities to enhance reading comprehension and improve vocabulary.

The Nun's Priest's Prologue and Tale

The Nun's Priest's Prologue and Tale
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2016-06-02
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1316615529

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 Nun's Priest'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.

Chaucer's Monk's Tale and Nun's Priest's Tale

Chaucer's Monk's Tale and Nun's Priest's Tale
Author: Peter Goodall
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 540
Release: 2009-02-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1442691905

Of all the stories that comprise The Canterbury Tales, certain ones have attracted more attention than others in terms of literary scholarship and canonization. The Monk's Tale, for instance, was popular in the decades after Chaucer's death, but has since suffered critical neglect, particularly in the twentieth century. The opposite has occurred with the Nun's Priest's Tale, which has long been one of the most popular and widely discussed of the tales, cited by some critics as the most essentially 'Chaucerian' of them all. This annotated bibliography is a record of all editions, translations, and scholarship written on The Monk's Tale and the Nun's Priest's Tale in the twentieth century with a view to revisiting the former and creating a comprehensive scholarly view of the latter. A detailed introduction summarizes all extant writings on the two tales and their relationship to each other, giving a sense of the complexity of Chaucer's seminal work and the unique function of its component stories. By dealing with these two tales in particular, this bibliography suggests the complicated critical reception and history of The Canterbury Tales.

The Regiment of Princes

The Regiment of Princes
Author: Thomas Hoccleve
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1999-11-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1580444199

Thomas Hoccleve was born in 1367 and entered government service as clerk in the office of the Privy Seal in 1387, an office that he held until his death in 1426. His earliest datable poem (the Epistle of Cupid, a free translation of Christine de Pisan's Epistre au Dieu d'Amour) was completed about 1402. The Regiment of Princes, written about 1410-11, was composed at a time when England was still feeling the consequences of the deposition of Richard II. Essentially it is addressed to a prince on the subject of his governance, but it exhibits considerable generic instability and thus raises fundamental questions about how we should understand the tone of considerable portions of the poem. For all the problems it presents, The Regiment shows that Hoccleve has strengths as a poet. At times he could be a very talented prosodist. In autobiographical sections of the poem he creates a most interesting early-modern subjectivity. He has distinctive observations to make about his time, and, in his self-critical awareness, probes the limits of what is means to be a poet writing in the wake of Chaucer.

The Merchant's Prologue and Tale

The Merchant's Prologue and Tale
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2016-06-02
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1316615472

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.