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Sympathy For The Monastery: Monks And Their Stereotypes In The Canterbury Tales, Shiela Pardee

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The two monks that appear in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the pilgrim Daun Piers and Daun John in the Shipman's Tale, seem to be everything one would expect from medieval estates satire. They are attractive outdoorsmen with sophisticated appetites, fine clothing, and healthy complexions; in spite of their vows of poverty, they are the very image oof medieval prosperity. Although Chaucer conforms to the image of the worldly monk familiar to his audience, his intentions are more complex than simply to replicate and confirm the stereotype. In addition, he calls attention to the effects of the stereotype on the clerics …

Divergent Journeys: Devils, Readers, And The Narrator's Art In 'Þe Deuelis Perlament', Gary D. Schmidt

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In 1509, Wynkyn de Worde published a five-hundred-line poem that he, in defiance of the poet's own suggestion that the piece be called 'þe Deuelis Perlament' (1 490), entitled 'The Parliment of Fyendys'. It would remain known by that title — if it can be said to have been known at all — for the next three centuries, when the Roxburghe Club reprinted de Worde's text about 1820 for private distribution. A wider audience would wait almost another half-century for Furnivall's EETS edition in 1868. But still another century would pass before 'þe Deuelis Perlament' began to be taken seriously …

Review Essay: Sommerville, John C. The Discovery Of Childhood In Puritan England, Daniel W. O'Bryan

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Sommerville, John C. The Discovery of Childhood in Puritan England. University of Georgia Press, Athens 1992. 211 pp. $35.00.

Review Essay: Ashley, Kathleen, And Pamela Sheingorn, Edd. Interpreting Cultural Symbols: Saint Anne In Late Medieval Society, Susan Stakel

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Ashley, Kathleen, and Pamela Sheingorn, edd. Interpreting Cultural Symbols: Saint Anne in Late Medieval Society. University of Georgia Press, Athens 1990. 243 pp. $30.00 / $15.00.

Blumenfeld-Kozinski, Renate, ed. Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y. 1991. 315 pp. $41.50 / $15.95.

Review Essay: Poly, Jean-Pierre, And Eric Bournazel. The Feudal Transformation, 900-1200, Francis X. Hartigan

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Poly, Jean-Pierre, and Eric Bournazel. The Feudal Transformation, 900-1200. Trans Caroline Higgitt. Holmes and Meier, New York 1991. 404 pp. $42.95.

Review Essay: Duplessis, Robert S. Lille And The Dutch Revolt: Urban Stability In An Era Of Revolution, 1550-1582, Kelly Devries

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DuPlessis, Robert S. Lille and the Dutch Revolt: Urban Stability in an Era of Revolution, 1500-1582. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1991. xv + 372 pp. $69.95.

Two Towns Where There Was Once One: The Aldea In Medieval Aragon, Donald J. Kagay

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No medieval era was more significant for the creation of royal, clerical, and urban institutions than the thirteenth century as sovereign and pope alike began to form the political structures of western European society in a way that closed many avenues of power to the trustees of societal authority of an earlier period, the nobility. Baronial resistance to the monarchical 'innovations' of the era would eventually direct the course of such state — building towards a fuller partnership between sovereign and subject. Though the best-known examples of such conflicts between custom and law occurred in England with the royal issuance …

Review Essay: Frese, Dolores Warwick. An Ars Legendi For Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Re-Constructive Reading, Charles R. Smith

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Frese, Dolores Warwick. An Ars Legendi for Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Re-Constructive Reading. University of Florida Press, Gainesville 1991. x + 238 pp. $34.95 / $17.95.

Review Essay: Del Sera, Beatrice. Amor Di Virtù: Commedia In Cinque Atti, 1548, Robert M. Johnston

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Del Sera, Beatrice. Amor di virtù: Commedia in cinque atti, 1548. Ed Elissa Weaver. Longo Editore, Ravenna 1990. 286 pp.