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First edition. 222 pages. Cloth. Fine. No dustjacket required for this library edition. This edition of Chaucer Yearbook, the annual publication devoted to the exploration of English and related literatures of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, has a particular focus on different aspects of the feminine in Chaucer; articles examine his literary references to rape in the light of recently uncovered biographical information about the infamous raptus incident, look at his Prioress, and explore the rewriting of a saint's life in the Second Nun's Tale. Subsequent essays look at disputed textual alterations and passages, and other writers of the period, the Gawain-poet, Lydgate, Langland and Grosseteste, are also considered.…