Introduction 1. Models for the memory 2. Descriptions of the neuropsychology of memory 3. Elementary memory design 4. The arts of memory 5. Memory and the ethics of reading 6. Memory and authority 7. Memory and the book Afterword Appendixes List of abbreviations Bibliography.

The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture

From the apparently simple adaptation of a text into film, theatre or a new literary work, to the more complex appropriation of style or meaning, it is arguable that all texts are somehow connected to a network of existing texts and art forms. In this new edition Adaptation and Appropriation explores:

multiple definitions and practices of adaptation and appropriation
the cultural and aesthetic politics behind the impulse to adapt
the global and local dimensions of adaptation
the impact of new digital technologies on ideas of making, originality and customization
diverse ways in which contemporary literature, theatre, television and film adapt, revise and reimagine other works of art
the impact on adaptation and appropriation of theoretical movements, including structuralism, post-structuralism, postcolonialism, postmodernism, feminism and gender studies
the appropriation across time and across cultures of specific canonical texts, by Shakespeare, Dickens, and others, but also of literary archetypes such as myth or fairy tale. 


Ranging across genres and harnessing concepts from fields as diverse as musicology and the natural sciences, this volume brings clarity to the complex debates around adaptation and appropriation, offering a much-needed resource for those studying literature, film, media or culture.

Adaptation and appropriation

Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World

Introduction 1. Images of market trade 2. Regulation of the market 3. The behaviour of market traders 4. An evolving market morality? Conclusion Bibliography.

Medieval Market Morality: Life, Law and Ethics in the English Marketplace, 1200-1500

In 1979, in a study of the ‘inquisitors of heretical depravity” and their work against heresy in medieval Germany, I urged rethinking of the term ‘the Inquisition” and the concept behind it. There is no clear evidence, I argued, that people in medieval Europe used either inquisitio or officium inquisitionis with reference to an agency or institution. The former term was used for specific trials following inquisitorial procedure, while the latter was essentially parallel to officium predicationis , and referred to the office or function of an individual inquisitor, not to an institutional structure. Furthermore, I argued that there is no reason to suppose there actually was an institution in medieval Europe to which the term ‘the Inquisition” might meaningfully be assigned. Heresy inquisitors during the Middle Ages were not held together by a structure of inquisitorial authority, which could ensure vigorous action, procedural regularity, or interaction of members. ‘In these circumstances”, I tentatively concluded, ‘it would perhaps be advisable to avoid speaking of even papal inquisitors as if they formed a suprapersonal agency, or an Inquisition.”

The office of inquisition and medieval heresy: the transition from personal to institutional jurisdiction

"The House of Fame" is one of Chaucer's most intellectually challenging poems, drawing on diverse traditions such as dream poetry and mythology, but unified by the central concept of 'Fame'. It is this concept, and the 'imaginary world' which surrounds it, which Professor Boitani explores in this volume in the "Chaucer Studies" series. He begins with a brief outline and discussion of the poem, showing what problems it poses, and then turns to explore the 'history' and meaning of the idea of 'Fame', such as Chaucer might have received from tradition, a quest which leads him into Biblical, classical and Anglo-Saxon literature, into philosophy and into romance. He then examines the view of 'Fame' in Chaucer's Italian, French and English contemporaries, and shows that it is a central theme not only in Dante's "Divine Comedy" but also in the work of Boccaccio and Petrarch. The second half of the book returns to Chaucer's poem and examines the imaginary world which he constructs around Fame. Professor Boitani demonstrates that "The House of Fame" is in a sense Chaucer's creative manifesto, centred on 'Fame' as the goddess of language, myth and poetry, with poets as her prophets. In this poem, he defines many of the themes - love and nature, order and disorder, fortune and chance, reality and appearance - which occupied him in his other works. Here he deals with them directly rather than obliquely, revealing the formative influences behind his own imaginary world and mythology.

Chaucer and the Imaginary World of Fame

Introduction 1. Chaucer's Italy John Larner 2. English culture in the fourteenth-century Janet Coleman 3. Anglo-Italian contacts in the fourteenth century Wendy Childs 4. Chaucer, Dante and Boccaccio J. A. W. Bennett 5. What Dante meant to Chaucer Piero Boitani 6. Chaucer and Boccaccio's early writings David Wallace 7. Chaucer and the Filostrato Barry Windeatt 8. Style, iconography and narrative: the lesson of the Teseida Piero Boitani 9. The wake of the Commedia: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Boccaccio's Decameron Robin Kirkpatrick 10. The Griselda story in Boccaccio, Petrarch and Chaucer Robin Kirkpatrick 11. Chaucer, Boccaccio and the friars Nicholas Havely 12. Chaucer and Boccaccio's Latin works Peter Godman 13. Chaucer and the Italian Trecento: a bibliography Enrico Giaccherini Index.

Chaucer and the Italian trecento

1. The social and literary scene in England Paul Strohm 2. Chaucer's French inheritance Ardis Butterfield 3. Chaucer's Italian inheritance David Wallace 4. Old books brought to life in dreams: the Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame, the Parliament of Fowls Piero Boitani 5. Telling the story in Troilus and Criseyde Mark Lambert 6. Chance and destiny in Troilus and Criseyde and The Knight's Tale Jill Mann 7. The Legend of Good Women Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards 8. The Canterbury Tales: personal drama or experiments in poetic variety? C. David Benson 9. The Canterbury Tales I: Romance J. A. Burrow 10. The Canterbury Tales II: Comedy Derek Pearsall 11. The Canterbury Tales III: Pathos Robert Worth Frank, Jr. 12. The Canterbury Tales IV: Exemplum and fable A. C. Spearing 13. Literary structures in Chaucer Barry A. Windeatt 14. Chaucer's style Christopher Cannon 15. Chaucer's presence and absence, 1400-1542 James Simpson 16. New approaches to Chaucer Carolyn Dinshaw 17. Further reading: a guide to Chaucer studies Joerg Fichte.

The Cambridge companion to Chaucer

Note on the text 1. The social and literary scene in England Paul Strohm 2. Chaucer's continental inheritance: the early poems and Troilus and Criseyde David Wallace 3. Old books brought to life in dreams: the Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame, the Parliament of Fowls Pietro Boitani 4. Telling the story in Troilus and Criseyde Mark Lambert 5. Chance and destiny in Troilus and Criseyde and the Knight's Tale Jill Mann 6. The Canterbury Tales I: Romance J. A. Burrow 7. The Canterbury Tales II: Comedy Derek Pearsall The Canterbury Tales III: Pathos Robert Worth Frank Jr 8. The Canterbury Tales IV: Exemplum and fable A. C. Spearing 9. Chaucerian realism Morton W. Bloomfield 10. Literary structures in Chaucer Barry Windeatt 11. Chaucer's narrator, Troilus and Criseyde and The Canterbury Tales Dieter Mehl 12. Chaucer's poetic style Derek Brewer Further reading: a guide to Chaucer studies Joerg O. Fichte Index.

Piero Boitani

Papers

Chaucer and the Imaginary World of Fame

Chaucer and the Italian trecento

The Cambridge companion to Chaucer

The Cambridge Chaucer companion

Intellectuals and Writers in Fourteenth-Century Europe