"Chaucer probably interpreted Boccaccio's reference in the light of Dante's
account, where it is told that she led so vicious a life that she ... I have not been
able to see L. Samuel, ' Semiramis in the Middle Ages ', Medievalia et
Humanlstica (Boulder, Colorado) 2 (1944), 32. ... Yseult was married to King
Mark, Tristram's uncle, but she and Tristram unwittingly drank a love-philtre which
made them infatuated."
"There wereatleast three schools inLondon atthetime: StPaul«s (a grammar
school, with an almonry or song-school as a semi-independent attachment), the
Arches (atSt Maryle Bow), and StMartin«s le Grand.StPaul«s was nearest
Chaucer«s father«s house in Lower Thames Street, andhemay well havegone
there. The hours were long, and the holidays none except the festivals ... thelittle
boyin The Prioress's Tale, who had juststarted at such a ..."
Chaucer(3rd Edition) by Derek Brewer, D.S. Brewer Paperback, 254 Pages, Published 1973 by Prentice Hall Press ISBN-13: 978-0-582-48512-9, ISBN: 0-582-48512-6
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"Geoffrey Chaucer died on 25 October 1400. To mark the six-hundredth anniversary of his death Derek Brewer's classic book is once again available in a fully illustrated version: over one hundred contemporary colour and black and white illustrations, from the homely to the refined - from children's games and cooking to falconry and music-making - bring the late middle ages to life. Chaucer's English world - that of the second half of the ..."
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Tom Worthington s Civil War Shiloh, Sherman, and the Search for Vindication (Paperback) by James D. Brewer Paperback, 238 Pages, Published 2013 by Mcfarland & Co Inc Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-7864-7377-9, ISBN: 0-7864-7377-0
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Chaucer and his World(2nd Edition) by Derek S. Brewer Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1978 by Boye6 ISBN-13: 978-0-85991-366-9, ISBN: 0-85991-366-X
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Medieval Comic Tales by Derek Brewer Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2008 by D.S.Brewer ISBN-13: 978-1-84384-179-1, ISBN: 1-84384-179-7
"During the middle ages, a common fund of comic tales circulated throughout Europe. Writers such as Boccaccio, Chaucer, Rabelais and Cervantes drew on this material, and used it for their own purposes, but the brilliant medieval versions also deserve to be known in their own right. They are of great cultural interest and considerable entertainment value, varying from humour to farce, from sophisticated literary parody to blunt crudeness. ..."
From Cuchulainn to Gawain; Sources and analogues of Sir Gawain and the green knight; by Elisabeth Brewer 101 Pages, Published 1973 by D. S. Brewer Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-85991-001-9, ISBN: 0-85991-001-6