By exploring the places Chaucer visited, the buildings he inhabited, the books he read, and the art and objects he saw, this landmark biography tells the extraordinary story of how a wine merchant’s son became the poet of The Canterbury ...
Biography & Autobiography
Unlocked doors: Geoffrey Chaucer's writing rooms and Elizabeth Chaucer's nunnery
December 2018
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Journal article
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Studies in the Age of Chaucer
In A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf asserts that, “a lock on the door means the power to think for oneself” as part of her powerful argument that “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” Literal physical separation from others is connected with mental independence. Demonstrating a similar understanding of the parallels between the self and the room, Lakoff and Johnson argue that “container” metaphors are ontological. They write that people are “bounded and set off from the rest of the world by the surface of our skin” and that: “Rooms and houses are obvious containers. Moving from room to room is moving from one container to another.” But all of these twentieth-century authors make certain assumptions both about the material conditions in which people live and about how personal space, privacy, and indeed the body and mind themselves are conceptualized. Our skin does not actually separate us from the world; through its openings and through our senses it connects us with the world. People do not always live in rooms and houses, and if they do, those rooms are sometimes not private spaces or are divided from other spaces by curtains rather than locks. The metaphors we live by are not the same in all places or times. As Matthew Boyd Goldie writes in his introduction to this essay cluster, “in other times and places, space itself can be different.” An exploration of the rooms that Chaucer imagined and of the structures his daughter inhabited illustrates the openness and flexibility of the spaces of later medieval London.
Chaucer
December 2018
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Chapter
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A Companion to Literary Biography
Biography & Autobiography
Illness Narratives in the Later Middle Ages: Arderne, Chaucer, and Hoccleve
January 2016
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Journal article
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4303 Historical Studies, 4705 Literary Studies, Chronic Pain, Pain Research
A Handbook of Middle English Studies
January 2013
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Book
A diverse selection of well-known works and more obscure medieval texts are considered, including the poetry of Chaucer, The Book of Margery Kempe, Piers Plowman, Mandeville’s Travels, and various romances of the period.
Literary Criticism
Imagining Polities: Social Possibilities and Conflict
January 2012
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Chapter
Thomas Usk and John Arderne
January 2012
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Journal article
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Chaucer Review: a journal of medieval studies and literary criticism
Writing Revolution
January 2012
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Chapter
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Blackwell Companion to British Literature, vol 1: 700-1450
Conflict
January 2011
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Chapter
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The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology
4404 Development Studies, 44 Human Society, 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
'Usk and the Goldsmiths'
January 2008
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Chapter
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New Medieval Literatures
Chaucerian Conflict Languages of Antagonism in Late Fourteenth-Century London
January 2007
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Book
This book offers a completely new reading of Chaucer. While most critics have seen his work as essentially socially optimistic and congenial, Marion Turner argues that Chaucer was profoundly concerned with conflict and social antagonism.
History
Greater London
January 2006
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Chapter
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Chaucer and the City
Literary Criticism
Politics and London Life
January 2006
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Chapter
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A Concise Companion to Chaucer
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4705 Literary Studies
The Carnivalesque
January 2005
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Chapter
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Chaucer An Oxford Guide
Literary Criticism
Troilus and Criseyde and the Treasonous Aldermen of 1382: Tales of the City in Late Fourteenth Century London
January 2003
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Journal article
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Studies in the Age of Chaucer
“Certaynly His Noble Sayenges Can I Not Amende”: Thomas Usk and Troilus and Criseyde
January 2002
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Journal article
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The Chaucer Review
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4705 Literary Studies