READINGS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Week One
For the first day of class, have read Pearsall's biography of Chaucer,
and study the pronunciation guide for Chaucer's Middle English in The
Riverside Chaucer, pp. xxx-xxxiv.
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for a picture of Edward III doing homage to Philip VI of France
Click here for a carving said to have been
made from Edward III's death mask
Week Two Court
and Manuscript Culture
Read The Book of the Duchess
University
of Calgary Book of the Duchess Project (a fabulous
project that includes transcriptions from the three manuscripts of BD
& notes to individual words in a separate box)
Also from Ovid's
Metamorphoses 11.410-748: story of Ceyx and Alcyone. [Note:
This is a gopher text without divisions into books. Text begins with Book
1.]
Also read To Rosemounde,
Truth,
Gentilesse,
Lak of Stedfastnesse, Adam Scriveyn
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for manuscript illustrations from Gaston Phebus's Livre de la chasse
(Book of Hunting)
Week Three Versions of Masculinity
(in fabliau writings)
The Miller's Tale, The Reeve's Tale, The Shipman's
Tale (from The Riverside Chaucer)
Week Four Versions of Masculinity
(in dream vision & romance)
WD Andreas Capellanus, 114-24; Thrush, 224-28
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for excerpts from Andreas Capellanus's De amore, from the Harvard
Chaucer Home Page
Week Five
Week Six
The Wife of Bath's Tale
From WD: Scripture, 31-37; Isidore of Seville, 43-45; Tertullian, 51-58;
Jerome, 63-77; Gautier
le Leu, 135-44; Jean de Meun, 148-66; Jehan le Fèvre, 177-97;
Walter Brut, 250-60.
Week Seven
The Clerk's Tale
The Merchant's Tale
Week Eight
The Franklin's Tale
The Pardoner's Tale
WD Christine de Pizan, 278-302
Week Nine
The Shipman's Tale
The Prioress's Tale
The Tale of Sir Thopas
From Melibeus
Week Ten
The Monk's Prologue
From The Monk's Tale
The Nun's Priest's Tale
The Second Nun's Tale
Week Eleven
The Canon's Yeoman's Tale
The Manciple's Tale
The Parson's Prologue
From The Parson's Tale
Retraction
Week Twelve
Troilus & Criseyde, Book 1
WD Guido, 48-49; Heloise, 87-91
Week Thirteen
Troilus & Criseyde, Books 2-3
WD Walter Map, 103-14
Week Fourteen (Dec. 7)
Troilus & Criseyde, Books 4-5