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Paul Strohm: Chaucers’s voices, 11 July 2002

Pagans, Tartars, Muslims and Jews in Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’ 
by Brenda DeenSchildgen.
Florida, 184 pp., £55.50, October 2001, 0 8130 2107 3
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... in fact, doctrinally on board, doing what the Christian religion of the time requires of them. Brenda DeenSchildgen, writing about the ‘Tale of Constance’, makes the point that ‘the location of the “other” and the “Christian” are not stable geographical places, suggesting that political possession of ...

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Barbara Newman: Boccaccio’s Reputation, 14 August 2025

Boccaccio: A Biography 
by Marco Santagata, translated by Emlyn Eisenach.
Chicago, 457 pp., £30, May, 978 0 226 82094 1
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Boccaccio Defends Literature 
by Brenda DeenSchildgen.
Toronto, 287 pp., £59, February, 978 1 4875 5891 8
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... This bilingualism is a dominant theme in both Marco Santagata’s new biography of Boccaccio and Brenda Schildgen’s critical study. Santagata links Boccaccio’s vernacularity to his appeal to a female audience, while Schildgen considers his contributions to literary theory in the Decameron and his Latin ...

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