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Alcuin Blamires explains how Chaucer shapes human problems in terms of the uneasy mix of moral traditions at the time. He looks at the main ethical and gender i
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The Cambridge Companion to ‘The Canterbury Tales'
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The Matter of Virtue
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Authors: Holly A. Crocker
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If material bodies have inherent, animating powers—or virtues, in the premodern sense—then those bodies typically and most insistently associated in the pre