Chaucer and Boccaccio Antiquity and Modernity

In the late Middle Ages, Chaucer invents two imaginative domains crucial to his culture and to our understanding of the emergence of selfhood, subjectivity and social arrangements; antiquity and late-medieval modernity. Edwards demonstrates in this study

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Robert R. Edwards

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Chaucer and Boccaccio

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Chaucer and Boccaccio

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Also by Robert R. Edwards THE DREAM OF CHAUCER: REPRESENTATION AND REFLECTION IN

CHAUCER'S EARLY NARRATIVE

RATIO AND INVENTION: A STUDY OF MEDIEVAL LYRIC AND NARRATIVE

THE POETRY OF GUIDO GUINIZELLI

THE MONTECASSINO PASSION AND THE POETICS OF MEDIEVAL DRAMA

JOHN LYDGATE, `TROY BOOK: SELECTIONS' (editor)

ART AND CONTEXT IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLISH NARRATIVE: ESSAYS IN

HONOR OF ROBERT WORTH FRANK, JR. (editor)

MATRONS AND MARGINAL WOMEN IN MEDIEVAL SOCIETY (co-editor with

Vickie Ziegler)

THE OLDE DAUNCE: LOVE, FRIENDSHIP, SEX, AND MARRIAGE IN THE

MEDIEVAL WORLD (co-editor with Stephen Spector)

10.1057/9781403907240preview - Chaucer and Boccaccio, Robert R. Edwards

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JOHN LYDGATE, `THE SIEGE OF THEBES' (editor)

Chaucer and Boccaccio

Antiquity and Modernity

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Robert R. Edwards

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Q Robert R. Edwards 2002 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission.

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1. Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400ÐKnowledgeÐLiterature. 2. Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313±1375ÐAppreciationÐEngland. 3. Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375ÐInfluence. 4. Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400ÐSources. 5. English poetryÐItalian influences. 6. Aesthetics, Medieval. 7. Aesthetics, Ancient. 8. Intertextuality. I. Title. PR1912.B6 E39 2002

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