Uncollected Essays

Foreword by Paul A. Olson • Buzones Etymology • The Manuel des Péchés • Classical Origin of ‘Circumstances’ in the Medieval Confessional • The Cultural Tradition of Handlyng Synne • Marie de France, Lais, • Cumhthach Labhras an Lonsa • Chaucerian Tragedy • St. Foy among the Thorns • Amors de terra lonhdana • De Amore of Andreas Capellanus • Why the Devil Wears Green • On Conjointure • The Book of the Duchess • Chaucer Criticism • “And for my land thus hastow mordred me?” • Chaucer and the “Commune Profit”: The Manor • The Intellectual, Artistic and Historical Context • Religion and Stylistic History • Simple Signs from Everyday Life • Chaucer and Christian Tradition • The Wife of Bath and Midas • Date and Purpose of Troilus • Who Were “The People”? • Economic and Social Consequences of the Plague • Probable Date and Purpose of Knight’s Tale • The Physician’s Comic Tale • Wisdom and “The Manciple’s Tale”