Chaucer has been a persistently popular subject for editors, scholars and readers. This detailed and often challenging study, parts of which have been published before or presented as lectures, examines the changing nature of Chaucerian studies and the significance of Chaucer's works as a bridge between the medieval and modern worlds.
Chaucer has been a persistently popular subject for editors, scholars and readers. This detailed and often challenging study, parts of which have been...
This edition of the fourteenth-century Middle English alliterative poem "Wynnere and Wastoure" provides a highly useful introduction to the manuscript discussing in detail its date, provenance, and metre. In addition, it offers a concise summary, criticism, a bibliography, a commentary, glossary, and an index of names.
This edition of the fourteenth-century Middle English alliterative poem "Wynnere and Wastoure" provides a highly useful introduction to the manuscript...
"It's a nice piece of pageantry. . . . Rationally it's lunatic, but in practice, everyone enjoys it, I think." HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Founded by Edward III in 1348, the Most Noble Order of the Garter is the highest chivalric honor among the gifts of the Queen of England and an institution that looks proudly back to its medieval origins. But what does the annual Garter procession of modern princes and politicians decked out in velvets and silks have to do with fourteenth-century institutions? And did the Order, in any event, actually originate in the wardrobe malfunction of...
"It's a nice piece of pageantry. . . . Rationally it's lunatic, but in practice, everyone enjoys it, I think." HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh...
"It's a nice piece of pageantry. . . . Rationally it's lunatic, but in practice, everyone enjoys it, I think." HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Founded by Edward III in 1348, the Most Noble Order of the Garter is the highest chivalric honor among the gifts of the Queen of England and an institution that looks proudly back to its medieval origins. But what does the annual Garter procession of modern princes and politicians decked out in velvets and silks have to do with fourteenth-century institutions? And did the Order, in any event, actually originate in the wardrobe malfunction of...
"It's a nice piece of pageantry. . . . Rationally it's lunatic, but in practice, everyone enjoys it, I think." HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh...
