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Article: Medieval Literature and Historical Inquiry: Essays in Honour of Derek Pearsall.(Book Review)
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- Yearbook of English Studies
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- January 1, 2003
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ABSTRACT
Ed. by David
Aers. Cambridge: Brewer. 2000. xv+212 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $75.
This volume coheres through an interesting methodological focus. Without any particularistic brief, all the contributors have brought varyingly historicist perspectives to a range of late-medieval texts. The amalgam suggests the richness of approaches one has grown to appreciate in the theoretically informed world after the New Historicism.
For me, the most riveting contributions in the volume are the two at the centre, provided by the editor and his sometime collaborator Lynn Staley. David Aers, in 'Chaucer's Tale of Melibee: Whose Virtues?' ...