{"product_id":"a-companion-to-chaucer-and-his-contemporaries-texts-and-contexts-9781551117966","title":"A Companion to Chaucer and his Contemporaries:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Companion to Chaucer and his Contemporaries\u003c\/em\u003e provides a detailed introduction to medieval culture, broadly considered. This sourcebook gives readers fuller access to Middle English literary works by situating these works within their sometimes alien historical and cultural contexts. Chapters open with an overview that suggests how contemporary debates and attitudes influence meaning in works like the \u003cem\u003eCanterbury Tales, Piers Plowman, and Mankind\u003c\/em\u003e. The main body of the text is thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations, such as excerpts from the chronicles, law treatises, sermons, court records, medical and alchemical tracts, and performance records, as well as maps and manuscript illustrations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This invaluable collection offers students a first-hand glimpse of the diversity of voices and ideas that underlie, complicate, and exceed the canonical literature of the later Middle Ages.” — Nathanial B. Smith, \u003cem\u003ePedagogy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eA Companion to Chaucer and his Contemporaries\u003c\/em\u003e will be essential to teaching Chaucer in the 21st century. It gives students direct and convenient access to the documents and texts that have changed the way we think about late medieval literature. From the dramatic vistas of rebellions, heresies and schisms to the practice of everyday life, the texts provided by Amtower and Vanhoutte demonstrate how history and literature shape each other, both in the Middle Ages and in our own time.” — John Ganim, Professor of English, University of California Riverside and former President of the New Chaucer Society\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePREFACE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 1\u003cbr\u003ePOLITICS AND IDEOLOGY IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eCivil Conflict and the War with France\u003cbr\u003eThe Plague\u003cbr\u003eThe Peasant’s Revolt\u003cbr\u003eThe Merciless Parliament and Its Repercussions\u003cbr\u003eThe Lancasters\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eDOCUMENTS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eEdward III Makes Ready for War (1337)\u003cbr\u003eClose Roll (1337)\u003cbr\u003eStatutes of the Realm (1340)\u003cbr\u003eThe Battle of Poitiers. Henry Knighton (1346)\u003cbr\u003eThe Plague. Henry Knighton (1348-50)\u003cbr\u003eThe Plague and Its Aftermath. Henry Knighton (1349)\u003cbr\u003eStatute of Laborers (1351)\u003cbr\u003eAlice Perrers. Thomas Walsingham (late 14thc)\u003cbr\u003eThe Poll Tax (1380)\u003cbr\u003eJohn Ball. Thomas Walsingham (1381)\u003cbr\u003eThe Burning of the Savoy. Thomas Walsingham (1381)\u003cbr\u003eThe King’s Dire Straits. Thomas Walsingham (1381)\u003cbr\u003eThe Death of Wat Tyler. Thomas Walsingham (1381)\u003cbr\u003eRichard’s Words to the People. Thomas Walsingham (1381)\u003cbr\u003eProclamation for Keeping the Peace within the City (1381)\u003cbr\u003eLetter from Richard Revoking Their Liberties. Thomas Walsingham (1381)\u003cbr\u003eJohn Ball Letters (1381)\u003cbr\u003eA Censure of the Mendicant Friars. Thomas Walsingham (late 14thc)\u003cbr\u003eThe Merciless Parliament (1388)\u003cbr\u003eDeposition of Richard II (1399)\u003cbr\u003eHenry IV’s words to Richard II, upon Richard’s Abdication. Froissart (1399)\u003cbr\u003eCoronation of Bolingbroke (1399)\u003cbr\u003eDeath of Richard II. Froissart (1400)\u003cbr\u003eSt. Joan’s Appearance to Deliver France (1429)\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 2\u003cbr\u003e“FROM EVERY SHIRES ENDE”: THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIETY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe Three Estates\u003cbr\u003eSocial Conflict and Social Change\u003cbr\u003eThe Situation of Women\u003cbr\u003eThe Anti-Feminist Tradition\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eDOCUMENTS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe Treatise on the Laws and Customs of the Realm of England Commonly Called Glanville (12thc)\u003cbr\u003eThe Sumptuary Laws of 1363 and 1463\u003cbr\u003eApprenticeship Contracts (13thc)\u003cbr\u003eThe Oath for the Issue of Apprentices (15thc)\u003cbr\u003eThe Petition of the Tailors against Nicholas Brembre (1386)\u003cbr\u003eOn Amazons\u003cbr\u003eMen, Women, Wives, Husbands, and Servants. Bartholomew Anglicus (trans. 1397)\u003cbr\u003eThe Ballad of the Tyrannical Husband (15thc)\u003cbr\u003eChaucer and the Raptus of Cecily Chaumpaigne (1380)\u003cbr\u003eWidows and Clerical Anti-Feminism. Christine de Pizan (1405)\u003cbr\u003eFourteenth-Century Court Cases Involving Women\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eFirst Epistle to the Corinthians\u003c\/em\u003e (1388)\u003cbr\u003e“The Wife Is Subject to the Husband.” John Wyclif (c. 1378 and 1384)\u003cbr\u003eThe Clerical Tradition on Women\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 3\u003cbr\u003e“OF METE AND DRYNK”: DAILY LIFE IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eMedieval London\u003cbr\u003eGetting Around\u003cbr\u003eThe Country\u003cbr\u003eDaily Activities\u003cbr\u003eFood and Drink\u003cbr\u003eMedieval Money\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eDOCUMENTS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eCoroners’ Cases and Court Cases (14thc)\u003cbr\u003eOf Swine, Bawds, Thieves, and Courtesans (14thc)\u003cbr\u003eThe Goodman’s Instructions on Hosting, Cooking, and Serving (1392-94)\u003cbr\u003eA Feast Fit for a King (14thc)\u003cbr\u003eLetters from the Pastons (15thc)\u003cbr\u003eOn Manners (15thc)\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 4\u003cbr\u003e“HOOLY THOUGHT AND WERK”: RELIGIOUS LIFE, RITUAL, AND PRAYER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePopular Religion and Daily Life\u003cbr\u003eThe Clerical Hierarchy\u003cbr\u003eAnti-Semitism\u003cbr\u003eReligious Orders and Religious Professionals\u003cbr\u003eCorruption and Anticlericalism\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eDOCUMENTS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eOn Christian Doctrine\u003c\/em\u003e. St. Augustine (c. 396-427)\u003cbr\u003e“Religious Symbolism.” William Durandus (1286)\u003cbr\u003e“The Lives of Spiritual Women.” \u003cem\u003eThe Ancrene Wisse\u003c\/em\u003e (13thc)\u003cbr\u003e“Interpretations of Biblical Verse on the Conduct of Women.” \u003cem\u003eThe Ancrene Wisse\u003c\/em\u003e (13thc)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlma Redemptoris Mater\u003c\/em\u003e (11thc)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Myrour to Lewde Men and Wymmen\u003c\/em\u003e (14thc)\u003cbr\u003e“Against Pilgrimage.” Lollardist Treatise (14thc)\u003cbr\u003eMargery Kempe’s Pilgrimage to Rome and Jerusalem. Margery Kempe (c. 1436-38)\u003cbr\u003e“The Two Powers.” Hugh of St. Victor (1134)\u003cbr\u003eA Punishment for Lollardy (1389)\u003cbr\u003e“Epistola 391: On the Jews.” Bernard of Clairvaux (early 12thc)\u003cbr\u003eThe Murder of Hugh of Lincoln. Matthew of Paris (1255)\u003cbr\u003eThe Papal Bull Defending the Jews. Gregory X (1272)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eVox Clamantis\u003c\/em\u003e. John Gower (c. 1380s)\u003cbr\u003eOn the Pope. John Wyclif (1370s)\u003cbr\u003eBull of Pope Gregory XI, Against John Wycliffe (1384)\u003cbr\u003eTwelve Conclusions of the Lollards (1395)\u003cbr\u003eAgainst Confession. Lollard Treatise (1394)\u003cbr\u003e“The Case for Translation.” John Wyclif (1370s)\u003cbr\u003eOn Biblical Translation. Lollard Treatise (early 15thc)\u003cbr\u003eThe Constitutions of Archbishop Arundel Against the Lollards (1409)\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 5\u003cbr\u003e“TROUTHE AND HONOUR, FREEDOM AND CURTEISIE”: WAR, PAGEANTRY, AND THE KNIGHTHOOD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe Origins of Chivalry\u003cbr\u003eChivalry and Courtly Love\u003cbr\u003ePracticing Knighthood\u003cbr\u003eChivalric Orders\u003cbr\u003eWarfare and the Crusades\u003cbr\u003eClass Antagonism\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eDOCUMENTS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Book of the Order of Chivalry\u003c\/em\u003e. Ramon Llull (c. 1276, trans. 1484)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Tree of Battles\u003c\/em\u003e. Honoré Bonet (1387)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eLetter of Othea to Hector\u003c\/em\u003e. Christine de Pizan (1399-1400)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Art of Courtly Love\u003c\/em\u003e. Andreas Capellanus (1184-86)\u003cbr\u003eThe Book of Chivalry. Geoffroi de Charny (c. 1350)\u003cbr\u003eThe Jousts in Smithfield. \u003cem\u003eThe Brut, or Chronicles of England\u003c\/em\u003e (1388)\u003cbr\u003eFree Companies. Froissart (c. 1356)\u003cbr\u003eThe Black Prince’s Revenge on Limoges. Froissart (1370)\u003cbr\u003eOrder of the Garter. Froissart (1344)\u003cbr\u003eThe Condemnation of the Templars (1312)\u003cbr\u003eStatute on Livery and Maintenance (1390)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Defender of Peace\u003c\/em\u003e. Marsilius of Padua (1324)\u003cbr\u003eThe Conquest of Alexandria. Petrarch (1365)\u003cbr\u003eThe Capture of \u003cem\u003eAlexandria\u003c\/em\u003e. Guillaume de Machaut (after 1369)\u003cbr\u003eRelations with the Franks. Ousama Ibn Mounkidh (12thc)\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eVox Clamantis\u003c\/em\u003e. John Gower (c. 1380s)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Two Ways\u003c\/em\u003e. John Clanvowe (late 14thc)\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue to the \u003cem\u003eBook of the Order of Chivalry\u003c\/em\u003e. William Caxton (1484)\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 6\u003cbr\u003e“GLADLY WOLDE HE LERNE AND GLADLY TECHE”: READING, LITERACY, AND EDUCATION\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eINTRODUCTION \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eEducation\u003cbr\u003eThe Medieval Commentary Tradition\u003cbr\u003eHumanism\u003cbr\u003eThe Arrival of the Printing Press\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eDOCUMENTS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Boke of Curtasye\u003c\/em\u003e (c. 1460)\u003cbr\u003eA Fifteenth Century School Book (late 15thc)\u003cbr\u003eAristotle’s ABC (early 15thc)\u003cbr\u003eMorale \u003cem\u003eScolarium\u003c\/em\u003e. John of Garland (13thc)\u003cbr\u003eRules of the University of Paris (c. 1215)\u003cbr\u003eStudies Necessary Before Admission as a Master of Arts, 1431\u003cbr\u003eThe Statutes of New College, Oxford (1400)\u003cbr\u003eThe Study of the French Language and English Law at Oxford (1432)\u003cbr\u003eThe Commons Protest Against the Misbehaviour of the Scholars and Clerks of Oxford (1421)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eLetter to Can Grande\u003c\/em\u003e. Dante (early 14thc)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Philobiblon\u003c\/em\u003e. Richard de Bury (14thc)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eGenealogy of the Gentile Gods\u003c\/em\u003e. Giovanni Boccaccio (1360-74)\u003cbr\u003eThe Prologues and Epilogues. William Caxton (15thc)\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 7\u003cbr\u003e“MAGYK NATUREEL”: SCIENCE, MEDICINE, PSYCHOLOGY, AND ALCHEMY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eMedieval Science: Theory and Practice\u003cbr\u003eThe Elements\u003cbr\u003eThe Humours and Human Temperament\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eDOCUMENTS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eOn the Natural Faculties. Galen (170)\u003cbr\u003eOf the Four Complexions (14thc)\u003cbr\u003eOf the Science of Physiognomy from the \u003cem\u003eSecreta Secretorum\u003c\/em\u003e (1422)\u003cbr\u003eAn Arab Opinion of the Crusaders’ Medicine (12thc)\u003cbr\u003eA Lollard View on Bodily and Spiritual Blindness (14thc-15thc)\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eDe Coitu\u003c\/em\u003e (On Intercourse). Constantinus Africanus (11thc)\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eOn the Properties of Things\u003c\/em\u003e. Bartholomew Anglicus (13thc)\u003cbr\u003eVarious Remedies. Gilbertus Anglicus (13thc)\u003cbr\u003eOn Lycanthropia (6th c)\u003cbr\u003eTwo Medical Cases (late 14thc)\u003cbr\u003eOn Natural Magic (16thc)\u003cbr\u003eOn Animals (12thc and 13thc)\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eThe Ordinal of Alchemy\u003c\/em\u003e. Thomas Norton (1477)\u003cbr\u003e“On Dreams.” Macrobius (c. 395-423)\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 8\u003cbr\u003e“TO FLAUNDRES WOL I GO”: INTERNATIONAL INFLUENCES AND EXCHANGES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eLate Medieval Conceptions of the World\u003cbr\u003eEngland and the Continent\u003cbr\u003eThe Stranger in Their Midst\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eDOCUMENTS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eInformation for Pilgrims (c. 1500)\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eMandeville’s Travels\u003c\/em\u003e (1356-57?)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Various Countries\u003c\/em\u003e. Bartholomew Anglicus (13thc)\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eThe Libelle of English Policy\u003c\/em\u003e (15thc)\u003cbr\u003eCourt Cases (14thc)\u003cbr\u003eThe Murder of Janus Imperial (1379)\u003cbr\u003eThe Rights of Aliens and the Petition of the Hansards (1389)\u003cbr\u003eThe Massacre of the Flemish (1381)\u003cbr\u003eMandate of Payment to Geoffrey Chaucer (11 November 1373)\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eBIBLIOGRAPHY\u003cbr\u003eSOURCES\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadview Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041306476887,"sku":"9781551117966","price":40.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781551117966.jpg?v=1750949743","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-companion-to-chaucer-and-his-contemporaries-texts-and-contexts-9781551117966","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}