Index

A

Aristotle, 2 , 30 , 44 , 139

Art, musical, 136 , 235 ;

plastic and visual, 21 -24, 76 , 151 , 210 -11, 218 -20, 235 , 237 -38

Audience, 236 -38

Augustine, St., 1 , 67 , 74 , 99 , 101 , 122 , 145 , 151 , 159 -60, 165 , 174 , 176 , 177 , 203 -5, 207 , 214 , 230 , 232

B

Barthes, Roland, 71 , 93

Bersuire, Pierre, 110 -12, 144 n, 201 , 233

Bible, 160 ;

citations from, 157 , 158 , 162 , 165 , 180 , 207 ;

translating the, 41 , 83 -85, 120 -21

Blazon, 92 , 161 , 163

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 27 , 28 , 37 , 71 , 100 , 124 , 182 , 191 , 194 -95, 202 , 216 n, 240

Body, as text, 89 , 152 , 205 -7;

text as, 3 , 135 , 152 , 153 , 163 , 213

Bokenham, Osbern, 7 -8, 12 , 32 , 33 , 60 , 68 , 240

C

Canon, Chaucer, 8 , 60 ;

chronology of, 14 , 34 -43

Chaucer, Geoffrey, Anelida and Arcite,27 -28;

Astrolabe, 119 ;

Boece (Consolation of Philosophy ), 2 , 118 ;

Book of the Duchess,14 -20, 31 , 41 , 43 , 71 , 107 , 109 , 236 ;

Canterbury Tales,12 , 13 , 14 , 21 , 30 , 33 , 148 , 228 ;

Clerk's Tale,122 ;

"The Former Age," 2 ;

Franklin's Tale,2 , 105 , 164 , 190 , 195 , 214 , 232 ;

Friar's Tale,199 ;

House of Fame , 2 , 13 , 20 -26, 27 , 29 , 31 , 56 , 61 , 93 , 180 , 211 , 228 , 236 ;

Knight's Tale,104 , 167 , 175 , 208 ;

"Lak of Stedfastnesse", 2 ;

Man of Law's Tale,105 , 132 , 177 -78, 179 , 220 , 226 , 232 ;

Manciple's Tale,187 , 199 , 216 ;

Merchant's Tale,77 , 78 , 130 n, 146 , 217 , 232 ;

Miller's Tale,31 , 90 ;

Monk's Tale,146 , 160 , 167 -68, 175 , 232 ;

Nun's Priest's Tale,131 , 141 ;

Pardoner's Tale,139 , 171 , 236 ;

Parliament of Fowls,26 -27, 31 , 43 , 76 , 77 , 78 , 107 , 236 ;

Physician's Tale,187 , 203 ;

Reeve's Tale,108 , 131 n, 144 , 187 ;

Retraction, 94 , 135 , 236 ;

Romaunt of the Rose,56 , 59 , 119 , 120 , 122 , 146 , 148 ;

Summoner's Tale,130 ;

Troilus and Criseyde,12 , 28 -30, 31 , 37 , 58 , 61 , 65 -66, 92 , 102 -3, 105 , 143 , 145 , 156 , 228 , 232 , 236 ;

Wife of Bath's Tale,104 , 114 , 219

Chrétien de Troyes, 28 , 190 , 213 , 217

Christine de Pizan, 4 n, 56 , 82 , 94 -100, 101 , 124 , 218 , 240

Cixous, Hélèene, 93 -94

Crusade, 45 , 166 -76, 186 . See also Islam; Saracens

D

Dante Alighieri, 103 , 232

Dinshaw, Carolyn, 154 , 187 , 235

E

Ekphrasis, 21 -22, 24

English, history, 161 , 191 -92, 230 , 239 -40;

intellectual life, 48 -53 passim;

social attitudes, 9 -10, 18 -19, 234

Epistemology, 2 , 44 -56, 98 , 165 , 230

Essentialism, 82 , 106 -7, 135 , 208

Euripides, Alcestis,109

F

Fatalism, 226

Figuralism, 223 -24

Fisher, John, 8 , 9 , 41 , 231

Foucault, Michel, 32 , 110 , 117 , 145 , 165 , 174 , 229

Frank, Robert W., 9 , 70 , 147 , 189 , 213

G

Geoffrey of Monmouth, 191 -92, 230

Goddard, H. C., 8 , 150

Gower, John, 124 , 146 , 175 -76

H

Hagiography, 8 , 60 -69, 94 , 163 , 236 , 240 . See also Saints

Hardyng, John, 19

Heale, William, 3 -4, 12 , 240

Higden, Ranulf, 87 , 142 , 152 , 159 , 189 , 230

Historicism, 10 -12, 17

Hoccleve, Thomas, 4 , 32 , 118 , 231

Homosexuality, 140 , 149 , 180

I

Ideologeme, 88 , 234

Ideology, 5 , 11 -12, 32 , 71 , 94 , 232 , 240

Islam, 151 -52, 179 , 183 -85, 230 . See also Crusade; Saracens

J

Jean de Meun, 4 . See also Roman de la Rose

K

Kiser, Lisa, 9 , 67 n, 80 , 217 , 232

Kolve, V. A., 103 , 110 , 198

L

Lowes, John Livingston, 8 , 35 , 36 , 39 , 150 , 216 n

Lydgate, John, 5 -6, 67 , 76 n, 131 , 203 , 236

M

Maker (poet, producer of discourse), 13 -37 passim, 56 -59, 123

Medical theory, 50 -51, 131 , 131 n, 139 , 143 -44, 145 , 148 , 163 , 231

Minimalism, 2 bis, 235

Misogyny, 4 bis, 82 , 95 -97, 105 , 106 -7, 114

Money, 90 -91, 166 -67, 169 , 170 , 171 , 172 , 197

N

Names, 31 -34, 158 -61

O

Occasionalism, 8 , 10 -11, 17 -20, 41

Odyssey, 105 -7

Ovid, 100 , 117

Amores , 101 ;

Ars amatoria, 77 -78, 80 , 109 , 154 ;

Fasti, 202 , 207 ;

Heroides, 13 , 60 , 71 , 105 , 138 , 154 , 181 , 182 , 198 , 199 , 209 , 215 , 222 , 227 ;

medieval commentaries (scholia) on, 105 , 109 -10, 153 -55, l80 , 181 , 182 , 194 , 221 , 225 ;

Metamorphoses,13 , 14 , 21 , 117 , 123 -32 passim, 146 , 177 , 191 , 215 , 216 ;

Remedia amoris,137 , 154

Ovide moralisé,94 , 100 , 123 -35, 150 , 201 , 211 , 212 , 223 , 233 -35

P

Parody, 8 , 66

Payne, Robert O., 9 , 14 , 112

Plato, 44 , 73 , 80 , 109

Pope, Alexander, 133

Pound, Ezra, 116

Pun. See Wordplay

R

Rape (raptus ), 61 , 77 , 89 , 104 , 187 , 204 , 206 , 210 , 213 , 215

Robertson, D. W., Jr., 16 , 110 , 232

Roman de la Rose,74 , 80 -81, 101 -2, 120 , 158 , 202 . See also Jean de Meun

Rowe, Donald, 9 , 232

Rushdie, Salman, 151 -52, 156

S

Said, Edward, 11 , 165 , 176 , 178

Saints, 59 -68, 86 . See also Hagiography

Saracens, 160 . See also Islam;

Crusade Shakespeare, William, 124 -25, 130 n, 141 bis, 148

Sidney, Sir Philip, 215 , 231

Sign, 93 , 206 ;

and exchange, 79 , 89 -92, 93 ;

linguistic, 73 -75, 82

Signifier, 73 , 122

Skepticism, 14 , 47 -54, 98 , 192

Sklute, Larry, 235 , 236

Spenser, Edmund, 139

Strode, Ralph, 46 -47

Suffolk, William de la Pole, first duke of, 4 -5

Suicide, 181 , 193 ;

Alceste's, in BD,

Alceste's, in BD,112 -13;

in G text, 108 ;

Lucrece's, 146 -47, 203 -5, 206

U

Utopia, 101 , 232

Utopian desire, 1 -2, 92 -93, 123 , 151

V

Virgil, Aeneid,13 , 21 , 107 n, 180 , 194 -95, 196 , 197 -98

W

Wife of Bath, 3 , 90 , 103 , 164 , 210 , 226

Woolf, Virginia, 9 -11, 239 -40

Wordplay, 19 bis, 72 -73, 88 , 127 -32, 137 -51, 163 , 195 -96, 208 , 213 , 217

Wyclif, John, 41 -42, 45 -46, 84 , 85 ,121