Tác giả: Susan Crane

Medieval courtiers defined themselves in ceremonies and rituals. Tournaments, Maying, interludes, charivaris, and masking invited the English and French nobility to assert their identities in gesture …

Traces of the living animal run across the entire corpus of medieval writing and reveal how pervasively animals mattered in medieval thought and practice. In fascinating scenes of cross-species encou …

In this fresh look at Chaucer’s relation to English and French romances of the late Middle Ages, Crane shows that Chaucer’s depictions of masculinity and femininity constitute an extensive and sympat …