Studies in the Age of Chauceris the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore the culture and writing of later medieval Britain (1200-1500). EachSACvolume also includes an annotated bibliography and reviews of Chaucer-related publications.
ARTICLES
Robert J. Meyer-Lee
Manuscript Studies, Literary Value, and the Object of Chaucer Studies
Tom Farrell
Hybrid Discourse in the General Prologue Portraits
Robert Epstein
"Fer in the north; I kan nat telle where": Dialect, Regionalism, and Philologism
Patricia DeMarco
Violence, Law, and Ciceronian Ethics in Chaucer's Tale of Melibee
Jessica Brantley
Venus and Christ in Chaucer's Complaint of Mars: The Fairfax 16 Frontispiece
Anita Helmbold
Chaucer Appropriated: The Troilus Frontispiece as Lancastrian Propoganda
Angela Florschuetz
Women's Secrets: Childbirth, Pollution, and Purification in NorthernOctavian
Margaret Aziza Pappano and Nicole R. Rice
"Beginning and Beginning-Again": Processions, Plays, and Civic Politics in York and Chester
Lisa Cooper
"His guttys wer out shake": Illness and Indigence in Lydgate's Letter to Glouster and Fabula duorum mercatorum
REVIEWS
Jenny Adams, Power PLay: The Litreature and PlĂ(