Chaucer and the Child
This book addresses portrayals of children in a wide array of Chaucerian works. Situated within a larger discourse on childhood, Ages of Man theories, and debates about the status of the child in the late fourteenth century, Chaucer’s liter
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CHAUCER AND THE CHILD Eve Salisbur y
The New Middle Ages Series Editor Bonnie Wheeler English & Medieval Studies Southern Methodist University Dallas, Texas, USA
The New Middle Ages is a series dedicated to pluridisciplinary studies of medieval cultures, with particular emphasis on recuperating women’s history and on feminist and gender analyses. This peer-reviewed series includes both scholarly monographs and essay collections.
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14239
Eve Salisbury
Chaucer and the Child
Eve Salisbury English Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
The New Middle Ages ISBN 978-1-137-43636-8 ISBN 978-1-137-43637-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-43637-5 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016962724 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Cover illustration: © MS Bodleian 686, by permission of the Bodleian Library, Oxford Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Nature America Inc. The registered company address is: 1 New York Plaza, New York, NY 10004, U.S.A.
For Madeleine Rose
Acknowledgments
There are many people to thank in the writing of a book, people with whom conversations take place over time in disparate venues: from professional gatherings to casual hallway exchanges. Chaucer and the Child began to evolve in just such a way: at a conference at the University of Kent in Canterbury (2006), organized by Christine Li Ju Tsai, where researchers from several disciplines came together to talk about ways in which to advance the study of children in the Middle Ages. Conversations with literary scholars such as Peter Beidler, Laurel Broughton, J. Alan Mitchell, Derek Brewer, and historians Nicholas Orme and P.J.P. Goldberg expanded my purview on a topic far greater in scope than I had first imagined. That pr
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