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    Black metaphors : how modern racism emerged from medieval race-thinking / by Whitaker, Cord J.

    Published 2019
    Table of Contents: “…Moving backward: Blackness in modernity, early modernity, and the middle ages -- Black metaphors in the King of Tars -- Shimmering contraries: Medieval grammar and the distortion of difference -- Chaucer's Miller's tale and the spiritual side of race -- Black metaphors inside and out in their narrative and spiritual contexts -- Separate and together: Strife, contrariety, and the lords and bondsmen of Julian of Norwich, G.W.F. …”
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    The middle English mystics / by Riehle, Wolfgang, 1937-

    Published 1981
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    Becoming the Pearl-poet : perceptions, connections, receptions /

    Published 2022
    Table of Contents: “…"Pay ar happen also pat con her hert stere" : virtue and nautical metaphor in Patience /…”
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    The Oxford handbook of medieval literature in English /

    Published 2010
    Table of Contents: “…'Sweit rois―delytsum lyllie' : metaphorical and real flowers in medieval verse /…”
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    The Oxford handbook of medieval literature in English /

    Published 2010
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    The corporeality of clothing in medieval literature : cognition, kinesis, and the sacred / by Brazil, Sarah, 1986-

    Published 2018
    Table of Contents: “…Clothing and the fallen body -- Graveclothes and resurrection: from Gospel to stage -- Coming forth, still bound: raising Lazarus in theology and performance -- Metaphorical shoes and the body.…”
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    Images of language in Middle English vernacular writings / by Cawsey, Kathy

    Published 2020
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Vernacular Transformation of the Latin Inheritance: Chaucer's House of Fame -- Depictions of Oral Language: The Owl and the Nightingale -- Ideas of Written Language: Merlin's Magical Writing -- Metaphors of Language and Power: The Titivullus Tales -- Disrupting the Power Structures of Language: Wheat and Chaff.…”
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    Disseminal Chaucer : rereading The nun's priest's tale / by Travis, Peter W.

    Published 2010
    Table of Contents: “…The nun's priest's body, or Chaucer's sexual genius -- The nun's priest's tale as grammar school primer, Menippean parody, and Ars poetica -- Close reading: beginnings and endings -- Chaucer's heliotropes and the poetics of metaphor -- The noise of history -- Chaucerian horologics and the confounded reader -- The parodistic episteme: learning to behold The fox.…”
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    Images of language in middle english vernacular writings. by CAWSEY, KATHY

    Published 2020
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- 1 Vernacular Transformation of the Latin Inheritance: Chaucer's House of Fame -- 2 Depictions of Oral Language: The Owl and the Nightingale -- 3 Ideas of Written Language: Merlin's Magical Writing -- 4 Metaphors of Language and Power: The Tutivillus Tales -- 5 Disrupting the Power Structures of Language: Wheat and Chaff -- Conclusions.…”
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    Disseminal Chaucer : rereading The nun's priest's tale / by Travis, Peter W.

    Published 2010
    Table of Contents: “…The nun's priest's body, or Chaucer's sexual genius -- The nun's priest's tale as grammar school primer, Menippean parody, and Ars poetica -- Close reading: beginnings and endings -- Chaucer's heliotropes and the poetics of metaphor -- The noise of history -- Chaucerian horologics and the confounded reader -- The parodistic episteme: learning to behold The fox -- Moralitas.…”
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    The style of John Wyclif's English sermons / by Knapp, Peggy Ann

    Published 1977
    Table of Contents: “…The Mysti Wits: Allegory and Metaphors -- 8. The Medieval Mind: Scholasticism and Folklore -- 9. …”
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    The five senses in medieval and early modern England /

    Published 2016
    Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on the Editors -- Notes on the Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part 1 Sensing and Understanding -- Chapter 1 Sight and Understanding: Visual Imagery asMetaphor in the Old English Boethius and Soliloquies -- Chapter 2 Coming to Past Senses: Vision, Touch and Their Metaphors in Anglo-Saxon Language and Culture -- Part 2 Vision and Its Distortion -- Chapter 3 Bleary Eyes: Middle English Constructions of Visual Disabilities -- Chapter 4 Exterior Inspection and Regular Reason: Robert Hooke's and Margaret Cavendish's Epistemologies of the Senses -- Chapter 5 Hierarchies of Vision in John Milton's Paradise Lost -- Part 3 The Perilous Senses -- Chapter 6 Strange Perceptions: Sensory Experience in the Old English "Marvels of the East" -- Chapter 7 The Perils of the Flesh: John Wyclif's Preaching on the Five Bodily Senses -- Chapter 8 The Senses and Human Nature in a Political Reading of Paradise Lost -- Part 4 The Multisensual -- Chapter 9 The Multisensoriality of Place and the Chaucerian Multisensual -- Chapter 10 'Eate Not, Taste Not, Touch Not'. …”
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    A place to believe in : locating medieval landscapes /

    Published 2006
    Table of Contents: “…Wickham-Crowley -- Gender and the nature of exile in old English elegies / Stacy S. Klein -- Spatial metaphors, textual production, and spirituality in the works of Gertrud of Helfta / Ulrike Wiethaus -- Strategies of emplacement and displacement : St Edith and the Wilton community in Goscelin's Legend of Edith and Liber confortatorius / Stephanie Hollis -- Faith in the landscape : overseas pilgrimages in The book of Margery Kempe / Diane Watt -- Preserving, conserving, deserving the past : a meditation on ruin as relic in post-war Britain in five fragments / Sarah Beckwith -- Changing places : rapid climate change and the cistercian settlement in Britain / Kenneth Addison -- Visible and invisible landscapes : medieval monasticism as a cultural resource in the Pacific Northwest / Ann Marie Rasmussen.…”
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