Temporal Circumstances

Temporal Circumstances provides powerful and detailed interpretations of the most important and challenging of the Canterbury Tales. Well-informed and clearly written, this book will interest both those familiar with Chaucer's masterpiece and readers new to it.

LEE PATTERSON, F. W. Hilles Professor of English at Yale University, USA, is the author of Negotiating the Past: The Historical Understanding of Medieval Literature and Chaucer and the Subject of History, awarded the Christian Gauss prize by Phi Beta Kappa. A Fellow of the Medieval Academy, he is the author of numerous essays on medieval literature.

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LEE PATTERSON, F. W. Hilles Professor of English at Yale University, USA, is the author of Negotiating the Past: The Historical Understanding of Medieval Literature and Chaucer and the Subject of History, awarded the Christian Gauss prize by Phi Beta Kappa. A Fellow of the Medieval Academy, he is the author of numerous essays on medieval literature.

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Preface Introduction: Historicism and Postmodernity Putting the Wife in Her Place: The Place of Philology Putting the Wife in Her Place: The Place of History Freedom and Necessity: The Example of the Clerk's Tale Chaucer's Pardoner on the Couch: Clio and Psyche in Medieval Literary Studies 'What Man Artow': Authorial Self-Definition in the Tale of Sir Thopas and the Tale of Melibee 'Witnesses of Our Redemption: Jewish Martyrdom and Christian Sacrifice in the Prioress's Tale Perpetual Motion: Alchemy and the Technology of the Self