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A new critical biography of medieval England's most famous poet. For over six centuries, Chaucer has epitomized poetic greatness, though more recent treatments of The Canterbury Tales' lively and often risqué style have made his name more synonymous with bawdy humor. But beyond his poetic achievements, Chaucer assumed various roles including those of royal attendant, soldier, customs official, justice of the peace, and more. In this book, Mary...

It's easy to get wrapped up or lost while trying to achieve a goal, no matter what it is--always thinking about the finish line without appreciating the journey there. The steps you take along the way may be challenging, but if you take pride in each step you take, then the progress itself becomes as good as, if not better than, the goal. This timely 366-day journal includes simple prompts to help you learn to take it day by day, set realistic...

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Practicing shame investigates how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to safeguard their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against the possibility of sexual shame. A combination of inward reflection and outward comportment, this practice of 'shamefastness' was believed to reinforce women's chastity of mind and body, and to communicate that chastity to others by means of conventional gestures. The book uncovers the paradoxes ...

Jane Austen has come from 1816 to 2016. A guest of NY-based Time Travel Tours, she visits Limerick, Ireland, the home of her onetime love Tom Lefroy. She wonders how her work has endured through the centuries, and judging by the lukewarm reviews of some of her 19th Century Author companions, including Maria Edgeworth and the Brontës, she is not hopeful. However, she has plenty to distract her as the young tour guide, New Yorker Gina, confides ...

When Frances Whittier's tea planter husband died, she lost all, for he left her in desperate circumstances. She returned to England from India in 1956 with a broken heart, no money and only memories of seven years filled with colour, warmth and plenty. Even if she had become unhappy with the enigmatic Alec whom she had married at the age of eighteen, she had loved India and felt the loss of her adopted country and her home very keenly. Having ...

With 366 days of inspiring prompts, exercises and tips on self-care, this journal can help you focus on your journey to become the best you.

Practicing shame explores how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to secure their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against shame. The book transforms our understanding of the construction of femininity in the past and offers a new framework for thinking about honourable womanhood now and in the years to come. -- .

We are living in an age in which the relationship between reading and space is evolving swiftly. Cutting-edge technologies and developments in the publication and consumption of literature continue to uncover new physical, electronic, and virtual contexts in which reading can take place. In comparison with the accessibility that has accompanied these developments, the medieval reading experience may initially seem limited and restrictive, avai...

Tap into the magical way of unicorns with this unicorn-derived self help featuring a playful quiz and suggestions for establishing 'unicorn spaces'.

Groundbreaking essays show the variety and complexity of the roles played by inquisition in medieval England.

An examination of the subject of "fame" in Lydgate, showing it as central to his work.

We are living in an age in which the relationship between reading and space is evolving swiftly. Cutting-edge technologies and developments in the publication and consumption of literature continue to uncover new physical, electronic, and virtual contexts in which reading can take place. In comparison with the accessibility that has accompanied these developments, the medieval reading experience may initially seem limited and restrictive, avai...