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title	:	Chaucerian Polity : Absolutist Lineages and Associational Forms in England and Italy Figurae (Stanford, Calif.)
author	:	Wallace, David.
publisher	:	Stanford University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0804736618
print isbn13	:	9780804736619
ebook isbn13	:	9780585075556
language	:	English
subject	Chaucer, Geoffrey,--d. 1400--Political and social views, Chaucer, Geoffrey,--d. 1400.--Selections.--Canterbury tales, Chaucer, Geoffrey,--d. 1400--Knowledge--Italy, ram--Chaucer, Geoffrey,--(1340?-1400)--Et l'Italie, ram--Chaucer, Geoffrey,--(1340?-1400)-
publication date	:	1997
lcc	:	PR1933.P64W35 1997eb
ddc	:
subject	:	Chaucer, Geoffrey,--d. 1400--Political and social views, Chaucer, Geoffrey,--d. 1400.--Selections.--Canterbury tales, Chaucer, Geoffrey,--d. 1400--Knowledge--Italy, ram--Chaucer, Geoffrey,--(1340?-1400)--Et l'Italie, ram--Chaucer, Geoffrey,--(1340?-1400)-

Page i Chaucerian Polity Absolutist Lineages and Associational Forms in England and Italy

Page iii Figurae Reading Medieval Culture Advisory Board Teodolinda Barolini, Margaret Bent, R. Howard Bloch, Kevin Brownlee, Marina Scordilis Brownlee, Brigitte Cazelles, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Georges Didi-Huberman, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Rachel Jacoff, Sarah Kay, V. A. Kolve, Seth Lerer, Charles Mla, Jan-Dirk Mller, Stephen G. Nichols, Lee Patterson, Jeffrey Schnapp, Linda Seidel, Gabrielle Spiegel, Brian Stock, Karla Taylor, David Wallace, Rainer Warning, Michel Zink

Page v Chaucerian Polity Absolutist Lineages and Associational Forms in England and Italy David Wallace Stanford University Press, Stanford, California

Page vi Stanford University Press Stanford, California 1997 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University Printed in the United States of America CIP Data appear at the end of the book

Page vii FOR Lilian Beryl Lucetta and Sidney John Wallace PART OF THIS STORY

Page ix Contents Plates xi Preface xiii Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Chaucer in Florence and Lombardy 9 Chapter 2 The General Prologue and the Anatomy of Associational Form 65 Chapter 3 "From Every Shires Ende": English Guilds and Chaucer's Compagnye 83 Chapter 4 "No Felaweshipe": Thesian Polity 104 Chapter 5 Powers of the Countryside 125 Chapter 6 Absent City 156 Chapter 7 "Deyntee to Chaffare": Men of Law, Merchants, and the Constance Story 182 Chapter 8 Household Rhetoric: Violence and Eloquence in the Tale of Melibee 212 Chapter 9 After Eloquence: Chaucer in the House of Apollo 247 Chapter 10 "Whan She Translated Was": Humanism, Tyranny, and the Petrarchan Academy 261 Chapter 11 All That Fall: Chaucer's Monk and "Every Myghty Man" 299

Page x Chapter 12 "If That Thou Live": Legends and Lives of Good Women 337 Conclusion 379 Notes 391 Bibliography 497 Index 541

Page xi Plates 1. Paolo Uccello, Memorial to Sir John Hawkwood 36 2. Visconti Hours: (a) Annunciation and Psalm 109, ''Dixit Dominus"; (b) Psalm 118.81, "Defecit in salutare"; (c) Psalm 121, "Letatus sum"; (d) Psalm 126, "Nisi Dominus"; (e) "Kyrie"; (f) Canticle of the Three Hebrews (in the Fiery Furnace), "Benedicite" 48 3. Peter Bruegel the Elder, Peasant Wedding Feast (detail) 132 4. Andrea Bonaiuti and assistants, frescoes: (a) Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas and Allegory of the Sciences; (b) Allegory of the Church and of the Dominican Order

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