{"title":"Readers Then and Now: Coerced Consent in Dame Sirith","authors":"A. Raw","doi":"10.1353/sac.2022.0041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sac.2022.0041","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53678,"journal":{"name":"Studies in the Age of Chaucer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41815444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Writing Regional Identities in Medieval England: From the \"Gesta Herwardi\" to \"Richard Coer de Lyon by Emily Dolmans (review)","authors":"R. Rouse","doi":"10.1353/sac.2022.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sac.2022.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53678,"journal":{"name":"Studies in the Age of Chaucer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46545442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Reception of Chaucer's Shorter Poems, 1400–1450: Female Audiences, English Manuscripts, French Contexts by Kara A. Doyle (review)","authors":"Sarah Wilma Watson","doi":"10.1353/sac.2022.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sac.2022.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53678,"journal":{"name":"Studies in the Age of Chaucer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48541540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This paper proposes that Chaucer first wrote his verse narrative of the classic story of The Chorister as the Clergeon, long before he conceived of putting it in the Canterbury Tales as The Prioress's Tale. I suggest that Chaucer's version of the miracle of The Chorister or The Boy Slain by Jews (along with the invocation to Mary and the concluding prayer to "little Hugh" of Lincoln) was composed for Holy Innocents' Day to be delivered in the choir of Lincoln Cathedral by a young boy-bishop sometime in the early or mid-1380s. I examine the pairing of two genres on which Chaucer drew, timeless miracle and historical record, questioning more closely Chaucer's knowledge of the account of the thirteenth-century Hugh. I conclude with questions that these hypotheses suggest for further consideration.
{"title":"Prior to the Prioress: Chaucer's Clergeon in Its Original Context","authors":"E. Rose","doi":"10.1353/sac.2022.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sac.2022.0030","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper proposes that Chaucer first wrote his verse narrative of the classic story of The Chorister as the Clergeon, long before he conceived of putting it in the Canterbury Tales as The Prioress's Tale. I suggest that Chaucer's version of the miracle of The Chorister or The Boy Slain by Jews (along with the invocation to Mary and the concluding prayer to \"little Hugh\" of Lincoln) was composed for Holy Innocents' Day to be delivered in the choir of Lincoln Cathedral by a young boy-bishop sometime in the early or mid-1380s. I examine the pairing of two genres on which Chaucer drew, timeless miracle and historical record, questioning more closely Chaucer's knowledge of the account of the thirteenth-century Hugh. I conclude with questions that these hypotheses suggest for further consideration.","PeriodicalId":53678,"journal":{"name":"Studies in the Age of Chaucer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47649844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Continental England: Form, Translation, and Chaucer in the Hundred Years' War by Elizaveta Strakhov (review)","authors":"Rory G. Critten","doi":"10.1353/sac.2022.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sac.2022.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53678,"journal":{"name":"Studies in the Age of Chaucer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44160592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chaucer and the Fantasy of Retroactive Consent","authors":"Leah Schwebel","doi":"10.1353/sac.2022.0046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sac.2022.0046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53678,"journal":{"name":"Studies in the Age of Chaucer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43471186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sleep and Its Spaces in Middle English Literature: Emotions, Ethics, Dreams by Megan G. Leitch (review)","authors":"Jamie K. Taylor","doi":"10.1353/sac.2022.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sac.2022.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53678,"journal":{"name":"Studies in the Age of Chaucer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46514681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"A kysse onely\": The Problem of Female Socialization in William Caxton's Blanchardyn and Eglantine","authors":"Jennifer Alberghini","doi":"10.1353/sac.2022.0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sac.2022.0047","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53678,"journal":{"name":"Studies in the Age of Chaucer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41625915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Chaucer's place in the canon and on the syllabus has at various times during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, in various places around the world, been questioned by students, academics, administrators, and professional organizations, in response to very specific and often highly localized cultural, historical, and institutional factors. The history and nature of those factors are instructive if we want to continue to make the case for the value of studying Chaucer. In this address I consider some of the national and international contexts that have put pressure on the study of Chaucer, contexts that include US and UK responses to institutional racism, and feminist literary criticism's critique of Chaucer's sexism and of the institutionalization of feminist criticism. I consider some of the historical rejections of Chaucer, from that of the black British writer David Dabydeen in the 1970s to the brief flare of the Chaucer Wars of 2021. I argue that decentering Chaucer needs an informed critique of how canons are constructed and of the specific ways in which they are ethnocentric and non-representative. I then consider some of the ways in which Chaucer's work has been reimagined in positive political ways, such as Refugee Tales. I argue that we should continue to read Chaucer because his writings and the history of their reception continue to generate new and important ways of understanding the past history of race and racism, and thus enable the envisioning of more hopeful futures for Chaucerian scholars and our students.
{"title":"On Not Being Chaucer","authors":"Ruth Evans","doi":"10.1353/sac.2022.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sac.2022.0028","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Chaucer's place in the canon and on the syllabus has at various times during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, in various places around the world, been questioned by students, academics, administrators, and professional organizations, in response to very specific and often highly localized cultural, historical, and institutional factors. The history and nature of those factors are instructive if we want to continue to make the case for the value of studying Chaucer. In this address I consider some of the national and international contexts that have put pressure on the study of Chaucer, contexts that include US and UK responses to institutional racism, and feminist literary criticism's critique of Chaucer's sexism and of the institutionalization of feminist criticism. I consider some of the historical rejections of Chaucer, from that of the black British writer David Dabydeen in the 1970s to the brief flare of the Chaucer Wars of 2021. I argue that decentering Chaucer needs an informed critique of how canons are constructed and of the specific ways in which they are ethnocentric and non-representative. I then consider some of the ways in which Chaucer's work has been reimagined in positive political ways, such as Refugee Tales. I argue that we should continue to read Chaucer because his writings and the history of their reception continue to generate new and important ways of understanding the past history of race and racism, and thus enable the envisioning of more hopeful futures for Chaucerian scholars and our students.","PeriodicalId":53678,"journal":{"name":"Studies in the Age of Chaucer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49480066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This essay examines the ways in which an anonymous fifteenth-century preacher addressed issues of apathy among his congregations, preserved in the English sermon cycle known as Jacob's Well. Through the preacher's expositions of the sin of sloth—and the dramatic exempla that accompany such passages—I argue that the text encapsulates an anxiety over apathy among the preacher's (fictionalized or real) lay audiences. The essay complicates the idea that laypeople in late medieval England believed homogeneously in the religious teachings delivered from the pulpit. Indeed, Jacob's Well is read here as an example of a preacher grappling with the difficulties of managing a congregation made up of diverse experiences and intensities of faith, in which religious indifference had the potential to be deep-rooted. I argue that the medieval Church's conceptualization of "sloth" belies a concern over lay apathy, understood as a potentially subversive mode of unbelief, rather than lay ignorance.
{"title":"Ode to Titivillus: Apathy and the Transformative Potentialities of \"Sloth\" in Late Medieval England","authors":"N. Calder","doi":"10.1353/sac.2022.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sac.2022.0035","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay examines the ways in which an anonymous fifteenth-century preacher addressed issues of apathy among his congregations, preserved in the English sermon cycle known as Jacob's Well. Through the preacher's expositions of the sin of sloth—and the dramatic exempla that accompany such passages—I argue that the text encapsulates an anxiety over apathy among the preacher's (fictionalized or real) lay audiences. The essay complicates the idea that laypeople in late medieval England believed homogeneously in the religious teachings delivered from the pulpit. Indeed, Jacob's Well is read here as an example of a preacher grappling with the difficulties of managing a congregation made up of diverse experiences and intensities of faith, in which religious indifference had the potential to be deep-rooted. I argue that the medieval Church's conceptualization of \"sloth\" belies a concern over lay apathy, understood as a potentially subversive mode of unbelief, rather than lay ignorance.","PeriodicalId":53678,"journal":{"name":"Studies in the Age of Chaucer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46515619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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