David Wallace

Holds the Paul W Frenzel Chair in Medieval Studies David Wallace

This study of Chaucer's poetry and prose incorporates approaches gleaned from modern Marxist historiography, gender theory, and cultural studies. It presents an articulation of Chaucerian polity through analyses of art, architecture, city and country, household space, guild and mercantile cultures, as well as literary texts. The author argues that The Canterbury Tales reveal the influence of Chaucer's Italian journeys and exposure to the the great Trecento authors Dante, Boccaccio, and Petrarch and the Trecento's most crucial material and ideological conflict - that between the associational polity of Florence and the prototype absolutist state of Lombardy. In drawing these parallels, the author challenges conventional divisions between the medieval and the Renaissance.

Absolutist Lineages and Associational Forms in England and Italy

Chaucerian Polity

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Carolyn Dinshaw

This Companion examines the lives of medieval women by focusing on the texts that emerged from and shaped their experience.

Holds the Paul W Frenzel Chair in Medieval Studies David Wallace

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