Life in Words: Essays on Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, and Malory 9781442617421, 9781442648654, 144261742X

This volume collects fifteen landmark essays published over the last three decades by the distinguished medievalist Jill

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Life in Words: Essays on Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, and Malory
9781442617421, 9781442648654, 144261742X

This volume collects fifteen landmark essays published over the last three decades by the distinguished medievalist Jill

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This volume collects fifteen landmark essays published over the last three decades by the distinguished medievalist Jill

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Geoffrey Chaucer is increasingly recognized as a writer whose work is particularly congenial to modern tastes. The essay

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I learned that before entering the kitchen, I must get the measure of its hold over me.’ Food can embody our personal h

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We disagree. From small questions of taste to large questions concerning the nature of existence, intellectual debate ta

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'A genuinely fascinating book, the best kind of popular history' Literary Review This first, and some would

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An intellectual biography of Geoffrey Chaucer, which focuses on the places – real and conceptual – that shaped him. A

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A valuable collection of C. K. Barrett's writings on Paul, the summation of a lifetime's work by the pre-emine

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Vintry Ward, London -- Great Household -- Reims and Calais -- Hainault and Navarre -- Lancaster -- Genoa and Florence --

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