https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/alisonlangdon/activity/ Activity feed for Alison Langdon. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:18:09 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 0790240f8004fa3d40803400c398e9ad https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1590978/ Sat, 02 Dec 2017 05:39:07 +0000 At a pivotal moment in Maria Edgeworth’s 1805 novella “The Modern Griselda,” a party gathers for a reading of “The Clerk’s Tale” at the home of the eponymous character and her husband. In response to Griselda’s vehement indignation at her medieval counterpart’s example, one member of the party comments that perhaps, “if Chaucer had lived in our…[Read more]

]]> 0 ed48f6c46871f5ea55ce7e6911981b8f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1590977/ Sat, 02 Dec 2017 05:39:06 +0000 The canso attributed to Bietris de Roman participates in conventions that readily accommodate the language of desire within the exchange of political and social fidelity, offering another means by which to reconcile female authorship with a female object of courtly devotion.

]]> 0 46196a6b3f587aba304bf4d382aa44d6 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1590976/ Sat, 02 Dec 2017 05:39:06 +0000 Readers are often left baffled by the bizarre retribution Marie de France’s werewolf protagonist inflicts upon his treacherous wife: why bite off her nose, specifically? Though critics have offered a range of interpretations for the wife’s punishment in Marie’s lai, approaching the significance of noselessness from a dog’s perspective may deepe…[Read more]

]]> 0 46196a6b3f587aba304bf4d382aa44d6 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1590975/ Sat, 02 Dec 2017 05:39:06 +0000 Readers are often left baffled by the bizarre retribution Marie de France’s werewolf protagonist inflicts upon his treacherous wife: why bite off her nose, specifically? Though critics have offered a range of interpretations for the wife’s punishment in Marie’s lai, approaching the significance of noselessness from a dog’s perspective may deepe…[Read more]

]]> 0 58235c7b6a8017003f7322280ebb636b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1590974/ Sat, 02 Dec 2017 05:39:05 +0000 Though the deep and abiding concern with honor that Arveragus and Aurelius evince in the Franklin’sTale have been explored in detail, Doreen’s own preoccupation with honor—no less significant in the tale’s exposition of trouthe—has not received much critical attention. Indeed, the question of Dorigen’s honor is often preempted by analysis…[Read more]

]]> 0 8b7d902abbe7af70a8b4abb2efa531fd https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1590898/ Fri, 01 Dec 2017 17:41:43 +0000 At a pivotal moment in Maria Edgeworth’s 1805 novella “The Modern Griselda,” a party gathers for a reading of “The Clerk’s Tale” at the home of the eponymous character and her husband. In response to Griselda’s vehement indignation at her medieval counterpart’s example, one member of the party comments that perhaps, “if Chaucer had lived in our…[Read more]

]]> 0 b45acbb7d46ccfabb276972ce595621e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1590891/ Fri, 01 Dec 2017 17:06:35 +0000 0 ec9a9b73aa2ef89242190dca9204e425 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1590877/ Fri, 01 Dec 2017 16:33:34 +0000 The canso attributed to Bietris de Roman participates in conventions that readily accommodate the language of desire within the exchange of political and social fidelity, offering another means by which to reconcile female authorship with a female object of courtly devotion.

]]> 0 21588269241c6166a71d88067564c716 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1590874/ Fri, 01 Dec 2017 16:29:21 +0000 Readers are often left baffled by the bizarre retribution Marie de France’s werewolf protagonist inflicts upon his treacherous wife: why bite off her nose, specifically? Though critics have offered a range of interpretations for the wife’s punishment in Marie’s lai, approaching the significance of noselessness from a dog’s perspective may deepe…[Read more]

]]> 0 6bc7fdbbcdf1812f298700eebfa1bbd0 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1590872/ Fri, 01 Dec 2017 16:19:09 +0000 Though the deep and abiding concern with honor that Arveragus and Aurelius evince in the Franklin’sTale have been explored in detail, Doreen’s own preoccupation with honor—no less significant in the tale’s exposition of trouthe—has not received much critical attention. Indeed, the question of Dorigen’s honor is often preempted by analysis…[Read more]

]]> 0 c74525f7920542a2dd209fcb52c66066 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1589314/ Thu, 23 Nov 2017 05:38:22 +0000 The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages. Uniting a diverse set of emerging and established scholars, Animal Languages questions the assumed medieval distinction between humans and other animals. The…[Read more]

]]> 0 c74525f7920542a2dd209fcb52c66066 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1589313/ Thu, 23 Nov 2017 05:38:22 +0000 The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages. Uniting a diverse set of emerging and established scholars, Animal Languages questions the assumed medieval distinction between humans and other animals. The…[Read more]

]]> 0 57517dde280c938629fc9d364ec32f1a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1588969/ Sat, 18 Nov 2017 15:45:21 +0000 The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages. Uniting a diverse set of emerging and established scholars, Animal Languages questions the assumed medieval distinction between humans and other animals. The…[Read more]

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