{"title":"The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance by Leah DeVun (review)","authors":"M. Goodrich","doi":"10.1353/sac.2022.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sac.2022.0006","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":"41435113","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 investigates the role of collective, reiterative storytelling within Piers Plowman. More specifically, it characterizes Langland's Four Daughters' debate in Passus B XVIII/C XX as a moment of metanarrative reflection that considers the power and limitations of storytelling for knowing God. At the poem's narrative climax, between the Crucifixion and the Harrowing of Hell, Langland inserts a deliberative pause in which Mercy, Truth, Justice, and Peace attempt to discern what the death of Christ means. While scholars typically read the debate as a discursive exchange, the speakers repeatedly tell stories. Most poignantly, within this larger life of Christ, Mercy, Peace, and the personification Book all narrate new lives of Christ. Langland presents the nested vitae Christi as acts of discernment that integrate select aspects of biblical history and forget or exclude others. By means of narrative selectivity, the speakers render God more legible, while also manifesting ideologies and potentially fostering misunderstanding. Ultimately, the essay argues that Langland presents any individual vita Christi as an insufficient means to know God, but affirms the collective, multivocal project of storytelling as vital to the quest for such knowledge.
{"title":"Storytelling at the Gates of Hell: Narrative Epistemology in Piers Plowman","authors":"Mary Raschko","doi":"10.1353/sac.2022.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sac.2022.0033","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay investigates the role of collective, reiterative storytelling within Piers Plowman. More specifically, it characterizes Langland's Four Daughters' debate in Passus B XVIII/C XX as a moment of metanarrative reflection that considers the power and limitations of storytelling for knowing God. At the poem's narrative climax, between the Crucifixion and the Harrowing of Hell, Langland inserts a deliberative pause in which Mercy, Truth, Justice, and Peace attempt to discern what the death of Christ means. While scholars typically read the debate as a discursive exchange, the speakers repeatedly tell stories. Most poignantly, within this larger life of Christ, Mercy, Peace, and the personification Book all narrate new lives of Christ. Langland presents the nested vitae Christi as acts of discernment that integrate select aspects of biblical history and forget or exclude others. By means of narrative selectivity, the speakers render God more legible, while also manifesting ideologies and potentially fostering misunderstanding. Ultimately, the essay argues that Langland presents any individual vita Christi as an insufficient means to know God, but affirms the collective, multivocal project of storytelling as vital to the quest for such knowledge.","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":"44390883","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":"Practical Cues and Social Spectacle in the Chester Plays by Matthew Sergi (review)","authors":"Carla Neuss","doi":"10.1353/sac.2022.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sac.2022.0015","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":"43319853","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":"Consent and Misogyny: Response to Sarah Baechle and Sara V. Torres","authors":"Suzanne Edwards","doi":"10.1353/sac.2022.0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sac.2022.0045","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":"43470220","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:The question of "how one sees" gives rise to a brief, learned interjection on optics and perspectiva in the Squire's unfinished, interlaced romance—an intervention that draws "Alocen," the Arabic mathematician Ibn al-Haytham (Latin: Alhacen or Alhazen) into discussion. Alhacen's De aspectibus, the Latin translation of his extraordinary treatise Kitāb al-Manāzir (Book of Optics) has long been acknowledged and utilized in Chaucer scholarship. However, little focused attention has been paid to tracing the intertextual routes that lead to Chaucer's "Alocen" from Jean de Meun's reference to "Alhacem" in the Roman de la Rose, through to entries on "Ibn al-Haytham" in Arabic bio-bibliographic dictionaries. In tracing the ways that European vernacular literature can be connected with Arabic textualtradi tions, this article also challenges the under-examined Eurocentric approaches to Chaucer and late medieval vernacular literature where Arabic figures such as "Alocen" have been collapsed into generic molds of medieval philosophers. It argues that repositioning Chaucer's "Alocen" as an Arabic mathematician and optical authority allows us to understand better not only his presence in The Squire's Tale, but the depiction of the physical act of looking and the cognitive and psychological consequences of key moments of sight beyond this romance. In order to demonstrate this, the exact question of "how one sees" as presented in the Kitāb al-Manāzir is explored with particular attention paid to the psychology of sight in examining the relationship between perception and judgment in three pivotal acts of looking in The Knight's Tale, The Physician's Tale, and Troilus and Criseyde.
摘要：在Squire未完成的、交错的浪漫故事中，“一个人如何看待”的问题引发了对光学和透视的简短而习得的插话——这一插话吸引了阿拉伯数学家Ibn al-Haytham（拉丁语：Alhacen或Alhazen）“Alocen”的讨论。Alhacen的De aspectibus是他非凡论文Kitāb al-Manāzir（《光学之书》）的拉丁文翻译，长期以来一直被Chaucer学术界所认可和使用。然而，很少有人关注Chaucer的《Alocen》的互文路径，从Jean de Meun在《罗马玫瑰》中提到的“Alhacem”，到阿拉伯语生物书目词典中关于“Ibn al-Haytham”的条目。在追踪欧洲白话文学与阿拉伯文本传统的联系方式时，本文还对乔叟和中世纪晚期白话文学的欧洲中心主义方法提出了质疑，在这些方法中，像“Alocen”这样的阿拉伯人物已经被瓦解为中世纪哲学家的通用模式。它认为，将乔叟笔下的“Alocen”重新定位为一位阿拉伯数学家和光学权威，不仅可以让我们更好地理解他在《松鼠的故事》中的存在，还可以更好地理解对视觉的身体行为以及这段浪漫之外的关键视觉时刻的认知和心理后果的描述。为了证明这一点，《Kitāb al-Manāzir》中提出的“如何看待”的确切问题，在《骑士的故事》、《医生的故事》以及《特洛伊洛斯与基督》中，在考察感知和判断三个关键行为中的关系时，特别关注了视觉心理学。
{"title":"Chaucer and Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen): Perspectiva, Arabic Mathematics, and Acts of Looking","authors":"Shazia Jagot","doi":"10.1353/sac.2022.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sac.2022.0029","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The question of \"how one sees\" gives rise to a brief, learned interjection on optics and perspectiva in the Squire's unfinished, interlaced romance—an intervention that draws \"Alocen,\" the Arabic mathematician Ibn al-Haytham (Latin: Alhacen or Alhazen) into discussion. Alhacen's De aspectibus, the Latin translation of his extraordinary treatise Kitāb al-Manāzir (Book of Optics) has long been acknowledged and utilized in Chaucer scholarship. However, little focused attention has been paid to tracing the intertextual routes that lead to Chaucer's \"Alocen\" from Jean de Meun's reference to \"Alhacem\" in the Roman de la Rose, through to entries on \"Ibn al-Haytham\" in Arabic bio-bibliographic dictionaries. In tracing the ways that European vernacular literature can be connected with Arabic textualtradi tions, this article also challenges the under-examined Eurocentric approaches to Chaucer and late medieval vernacular literature where Arabic figures such as \"Alocen\" have been collapsed into generic molds of medieval philosophers. It argues that repositioning Chaucer's \"Alocen\" as an Arabic mathematician and optical authority allows us to understand better not only his presence in The Squire's Tale, but the depiction of the physical act of looking and the cognitive and psychological consequences of key moments of sight beyond this romance. In order to demonstrate this, the exact question of \"how one sees\" as presented in the Kitāb al-Manāzir is explored with particular attention paid to the psychology of sight in examining the relationship between perception and judgment in three pivotal acts of looking in The Knight's Tale, The Physician's Tale, and Troilus and Criseyde.","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":"49592993","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":"Scripting the Nation: Court Poetry and the Authority of History in Late Medieval Scotland by Katherine H. Terrell (review)","authors":"D. Davies","doi":"10.1353/sac.2022.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sac.2022.0018","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":"47088584","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":"Uncertain Refuge: Sanctuary in the Literature of Medieval England by Elizabeth Allen (review)","authors":"Randy P. Schiff","doi":"10.1353/sac.2022.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sac.2022.0000","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":"48446622","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":"Denying Consent and Manipulating Victimhood in \"Come over the woodes fair and grene\"","authors":"Sarah Baechle","doi":"10.1353/sac.2022.0043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sac.2022.0043","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":"42848869","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":"#NotAllMen: In Conversation with Lucia Akard and Samantha Katz Seal","authors":"R. Moss","doi":"10.1353/sac.2022.0039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sac.2022.0039","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":"44082884","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":"Paper in Medieval England: From Pulp to Fiction by Orietta Da Rold (review)","authors":"Megan l. Cook","doi":"10.1353/sac.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sac.2022.0005","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":"47048017","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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