Product Description: More than a hundred primary documents offer students of later medieval English literature, society, and history intriguing original perspectives through which to understand the literary texts of the period 1350-1500 as well as the culture which created and received them...read more

Product Description: This book discusses the changing social impression of women's voices as expressed in late fourteenth century Anglo-French texts. Together the essays that comprise this book offer evidence for three closely related arguments: that the ideology of late medieval gender roles as articulated in Anglo-French texts of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries outlined important roles for women's voice and agency in supporting the larger polity as well as the smaller household; that the acceptance and the value of those roles diminished as models of polity in both church and state in England changed in the early modern period; that to see evolution merely in terms of gender roles is to miss the vital link between the status of women and the political construction of individual relationship to authority...read more

Product Description: The essays in this volume explore the context and reception of Chaucer's neglected The Legend of Good Women from a variety of late medieval cultural perspectives, verbal, political, and social, expanding our understanding of the web of poetic and cultural conventions in which the Legend was created and received...read more

Product Description: The Canterbury Tales is one of the landmarks in the history of English literature that evokes an interpretation from all who pass by. Given the sheer age of the text, it is hard to believe a new interpretation is possible. Yet Carolyn P...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Emphasizing the interplay between reader and writer, Finding Common Ground shows writers ways of maintaining a personal presence in their writing no matter what the subject, audience, or discourse. Finding Common Ground offers advice about writing drawn from short, vivid pieces representing a broad spectrum of viewpoints, situations, styles, and subjects...read more