Product Description: The twelfth-century Latin beast epic Ysengrimus is one of the great comic masterpieces of the Middle Ages. This long poem, composed in what is today Belgium, recounts the relentless persecution of the wolf Ysengrimus by his archenemy Reynard the fox, in the course of which the wolf is beaten to a pulp, flayed (twice), mutilated, and finally eaten alive by sixty-six pigs...read more

Product Description: The Text in the Community brings together essays by a diverse group of medievalists to consider the multiple ways in which readers approach texts and manuscripts as part of "communities" of readers, authors, scribes, and scholars...read more

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Product Description: Women are a major subject of Chaucer's writings, and their place in his work has attracted much recent critical attention. Feminizing Chaucer investigates Chaucer's thinking about women, and re-assesses it in the light of developments in feminist criticism...read more

Product Description: Professor Mann, first woman holder of the prestigious Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge, takes as the subject of her inaugural lecture the curiously frequent apologies made by male writers of the Middle Ages to the women in their audience...read more

Product Description: Medieval writers never seemed to tire of debating the nature of women: were they good or bad? Victims or shrews? Were they most truly represented by Dido, Penelope and Lucretia, or by Eve, Delilah and Clytemnestra? When Chaucer began to write, he was confronted with the problem of how "woman" was to be represented in terms that broke free of these traditional polarities, and even more importantly, with the problem of how she was to be evaluated for herself, rather than endlessly evaluated from the male standpoint implied in their formulation...read more

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