Traditions and Innovations: Essays on British Literature of the Middle Ages and the RenaissanceDavid G. Allen, Robert A. White This collection considers a wide range of texts, authors, and concerns--from the Man of Law's Tale to Tis Pity She's a Whore; from the mysterious Thomas Malory to the widely visible Ben Jonson; from the image of St. Paul's thorn in Troilus and Criseyde to the Renaissance iconography of Ganymede. |
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Preface | 7 |
Separations and St Pauls Thorn in Chaucers Troilus | 35 |
of Chaucers Canterbury Tales and the Mental | 50 |
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