Tabla de Contenidos: “…Melia -- Politics, prodigality, and the reception of Chaucer's Purse / Thomas A. Prendergast -- Defining the "discipline" of Reformation studies / Kenneth J.E. …”

“…In "The Return of Christian Humanism", Lee Oser ranges widely over English literature, from Chaucer to Beckett, taking in the thoughts of critics, philosophers, and theologians in order to compare the fruits of Christian humanism with those of its rivals, both secular and religious. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Reichberg -- Poets and politics : just war in Geoffrey Chaucer and Christine de Pizan / Kate L. Forhan -- Reflections on Medieval just war theories : a commentary on part one / Gerson Moreno-Riaño -- Maintaining the protection of noncombatants / James Turner Johnson -- Protecting the natural environment in wartime : ethical considerations from the just war tradition / Gregory M. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Edwards -- Transgender and the Chess Queen in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess / Jenny Adams -- Statues, Bodies, and Souls : St. …”

“…In the world of My Gay Middle Ages, Chaucer and Boethius are the secret-sharers of A.W. …”

“…The essays in this volume were first presented at the 2014 New Chaucer Society Congress in Reykjavik, Iceland where a meeting of minds in a shared intermediate space initiated dialogue from diverse perspectives and wended its way through the invisible spaces between concrete categories, objects, and entities. …”

“…Cotton Nero A.x contains the only versions of the poems we now know as Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, generally agreed to have been composed sometime in the latter half of the fourteenth century—the time of Piers Plowman and Geoffrey Chaucer, though radically different from either. No one knows who the poet was. …”

“…Looking at a variety of formats including novels, drama, film, graphic fiction, and lyric poetry the book also includes focus on specific authors such as Shakespeare, Chaucer, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, and Viet Thanh Nguyen. …”

“…The selection of texts, which include the most commonly taught works in university curricula, allows readers to understand and enjoy the evolution of the English language and the main writers and works of these periods, from William Langland to Geoffrey Chaucer, from Sir Philip Sidney to Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and from Christopher Marlowe to William Shakespeare. …”

“…PrefaceMichel Vovelle, L'histoire des hommes au miroir de la mortOtto Gerhard Oexle, Die Gegenwart der TotenPhilippe Ariès, Une conception ancienne de l'au-delàJoseph Avril, La pastorale des malades et des mourants aux XIIe et XIIIe sièclesRolf Sprandel, Alter und Todesfurcht nach der spatmittelalterlichen BibelexegeseJacques Chiffoleau, Ce qui fait changer la mort dans la région d'Avignon à la fin du moyen âgeGerhild Scholz Williams, Der Tod als Text und Zeichen in der mittelalterlichen LiteraturJoël Saugnieux, Le vocabulaire de la mort dans l'Espagne du XIIIe siècle d'après l'oeuvre de BerceoPhilippa Tristram, Olde stories longe tyme agoon: Death and the Audience of Chaucer's PardonerDaniel Poirion, La mort et la merveille chez Marie de FranceJean Charles Payen, L'homo viator et le croisé: la mort et le salut dans la tradition du douzainJean Dufournet, Commynes et la mortClaude Thiry, De la mort marâtre à la mort vaincue: Attitudes devant la mort dans la déploration funèbre FrançaiseClaude Blum, La folie et la mort dans l'imaginaire collectif du moyen âge et du début de la RenaissanceIndex nominumIndex codicum manuscriptorum…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…'Yfallen out of heigh degree' : Chaucer's Monk and crises of liminal masculinities / Martin Laidlow, page 107-- 8. …”

“…Exploring two related medieval justifications of literary pleasure-one finding hygienic or therapeutic value in entertainment, and another stressing the psychological and ethical rewards of taking time out from work in order to refresh oneself-Glending Olson reveals that, contrary to much recent opinion, many medieval writers and thinkers accepted delight and enjoyment as valid goals of literature without always demanding moral profit as well.Drawing on a vast amount of primary material, including contemporary medical manuscripts and printed texts, Olson discusses theatrics, humanist literary criticism, prologues to romances and fabliaux, and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He offers an extended examination of the framing story of Boccaccio's Decameron. …”

“…Its best known examples outside of Iberia are Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales , Boccaccio’s Decameron , and the Thousand and One Nights . …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…La ciencia textual; Gramáticos vs. lógicos; Poesía didáctica médica y sobre la naturaleza; El universo de Dante; Chaucer…”

“…As she traces the complex influences of classical and biblical texts on vernacular literature, Astell offers provocative readings of works by Dante, Chaucer, Spenser, Malory, Milton, and many others. …”

“…Robert Marteau est aussi traducteur de Shakespeare, de Chaucer, notamment, et ses choix de traducteur confortent son écriture de poète, à la fois érudite, cherchant à saisir les flux infimes de ce réel. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…LITERATURA OCCIDENTAL DEL MEDIEVO AL BARROCO; ÍNDICE; 1 LA EDAD MEDIA; Rasgos esenciales; La poesía épica; Epopeya germánica; La epopeya; Epopeyas neolatinas: Francia y España; El cantar de la gesta; La literatura medieval; Los romances en España; La poesía lírica; El teatro; El auto y el auto sacramental; El misterio y la moralidad; La tragicomedia; Paso, entremés y sainete; La prosa; Prosa de ficción; Antología; Anónimo; La canción de Roldán; Anónimo; Beowulf; Anónimo; Poema de Mío Cid; François Villon; IV- Balada; Geofrey Chaucer; Cuentos de Canterbury; Dante; La divina comedia; Petrarca…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Ringraziamenti -- Prefazione -- 1 Introduzione -- 2 Arte e scienza: i confini -- 2.1 Le due culture -- 2.2 Una prospettiva unitaria -- 2.3 Il linguaggio della scienza -- 2.4 Singolari coincidenze -- 3 Uno sguardo alle origini: l'alchimia -- 3.1 La Grande Opera -- 3.2 Miti, fiabe e alchimia -- 3.2.1 Gli argonauti e il vello d'oro -- 3.2.2 Il mito di Proserpina -- 3.2.3 Cappuccetto rosso -- 3.2.4 Cenerentola -- 3.2.5 Pinocchio -- 3.3 Alchimia nella Divina Commedia -- 3.4 Chaucer: Il garzone del canonico -- 4 La chimica per l'arte -- 5 Chimica, molecole e il mondo delle forme -- 5.1 Chimica e pittura -- 5.1.1 Las Meninas di Velazquez -- 5.1.2 Chimica e topologia -- 5.2 Chimica come architettura molecolare -- 5.2.1 Molecole e simmetria -- 6 Chimica e letteratura -- 6.1 Alfabeto e parole della chimica -- 6.1.1 Simmetria di parole e molecole -- 6.2 La poesia della chimica -- 6.2.1 Lucrezio -- 6.2.2 La chimica in versi -- 6.2.3 Chimica e romanticismo -- 6.2.4 Futurismo e chimica -- 6.2.5 Echi della poesia della chimica -- 6.3 La chimica nella narrativa -- 6.3.1 I racconti di Primo Levi -- 6.3.2 Il sistema periodico -- 6.4 Chimica: metafora delle vicende umane -- 6.4.1 Le afinità elettive -- 6.4.2 Frankenstein -- 6.4.3 Dottor Jekyll e Mister Hyde -- 6.4.4 Balzac e l'Assoluto -- 6.4.5 Chimica e narrativa americana -- 6.4.6 La chimica di Sherlock Holmes -- 6.5 La chimica in scena -- 6.6 Le categorie di Italo Calvino e la chimica -- 6.6.1 Leggerezza -- 6.6.2 Rapidità -- 6.6.3 Esattezza -- 6.6.4 Visibilità -- 6.6.5 Molteplicità -- Appendice: Locuzioni in alchimia e chimica -- Bibliografia -- Indice dei nomi…”

“…The volume shows how a wide variety of genres and works are deeply engaged with responses to the war, from women’s visionary writing by figures like Catherine of Siena to anonymous lyric poetry, from Christine de Pizan’s Book of the City of Ladies to Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales…”

“…Was there more to comedy than Chaucer, the Second Shepherds' Play, or Shakespeare? …”