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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Duchess
		1791-1847, empress of the French (1810-15) as consort of Napoleon I and duchess of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla (1816-47), daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Francis II (later Emperor of Austria as Francis I.) She was married (1810) to Napoleon I and was the mother of Napoleon II.
		(pl. duch·ies) the territory of a duke or duchess; a dukedom.
		Thomas Hope's house in Duchess Street: the interiors created by Hope to display works of art in his London house were some of the most influential of the Regency age.
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	Bibliography Subject Search Results
		Anderson, J. "The Narrators in the Book of the Duchess and the Parliament of Fowls." 26 (1992): 219-35.
		Condren, Edward I. "The Historical Context of the Book of the Duchess: A New Hypothesis." 5 (1971): 195-212.
		"Narrative Inconclusiveness and Consolatory Dialectic in the Book of the Duchess." 18 (1983): 1-17.
	library.northwestu.edu /chaucer/subject.php?id=99 (3947 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Duchess
		His first comedy, Love in a Wood (1671), was a huge success and won him the favor of the duchess of Cleveland, mistress of Charles II.
		In 1016 he married a duchess to whom he was distantly related, and the emperor Henry II used the marriage as a pretext to have him exiled.
		The wife of a duke is a duchess.
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	The Book of the Duchess - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Book of the Duchess is a dream vision narrative poem written by Geoffrey Chaucer.
		The Book of the Duchess is the earliest of Chaucer’s major poems, preceded only by his short poem An ABC and possibly his translation of The Romaunt of the Rose.
		The Book of the Duchess: an Elegy or a Te Deum?
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Book_of_the_Duchess (893 words)

	Essential Chaucer: Book of the Duchess
		Initiates the modern recognition of Book of the Duchess as psychological consolation, examining the role of the narrator in the poem, and arguing that his grief is "externalized and projected" in the figure of the Black Knight once the dream begins.
		Rejects the traditional notion that the narrator of Book of the Duchess suffers from love-sickness, suggesting instead that his symptoms and the context of their description before the tale of Alcyone indicate that his illness is "head melancholy," a potentially fatal illness that can be cured by no "phisicien but oon"--sleep.
		Contrasts aspects of Book of the Duchess and Machaut's Dit de la fonteinne amoureuse, clarifying Chaucer's modifications of his source and demonstrating the discontinuity between the frame and the dream in his poem, a discontinuity which questions the relevance of art to experience and suggests the limits of emotional idealism.
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		The Book of the Duchess is an elegy apparently written at the request of the Duke of Lancaster, John of Gaunt concerning his first wife Blanche, who died from the plague on September 12, 1368.
		Chaucer’s focus on fate and fortune in The Book of the Duchess should not be surprising; he relies heavily on Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy in a number of his works.
		Since Chaucer was writing about a real duchess at the request of John of Gaunt, he might have felt inclined to emphasize the knight's grief by closing with the image of the mourning knight.
	www.auburn.edu /chaucer/bookduch.htm (483 words)

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		This is true both for the general case of historical content in the Book of the Duchess, and also specifically for those details that construct the narrator's relationship to the Black Knight as a poet-patron relationship.
		The event depicted in the Book of the Duchess is not really political, though it touches the life of a man who is important politically.
		In the Book of the Duchess, we see that the idea that something can be theoretical and engaged does not preclude the possibility that something can look engaged and yet still be wholly theoretical.
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	§7. Early Poems. VII. Chaucer. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and American ...
		If The book of the Duchess (Blanche of Lancaster, who died in 1369) be really of the earliest—and The Complaint unto Pity is not usually assigned to an earlier date—Chaucer was a singularly late-writing poet.
		But we may, of course, suppose that his earlier work is lost, or that he devoted the whole of his leisure (it must be remembered that he was “in the service” in various ways) to the Rose.
		Of the three which usually dispute the position of actual primacy of date, The book of the Duchess or The Death of Blanche is a poem of more than 1300 lines in octosyllables, not quite so smooth as those of The Romaunt, but rather more adventurously split up.
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	Book
		Massacre of the Innocents occurs book according to the Gospel of Matthew.
		The only entry I book have added to this page was on Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, and it should be obvious that most persons here consider his election to have been a significant event.
		The elections in Taiwan determine the relations between Taiwan and mainland book China, one of the hotbeds of possible war on this planet.
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	Texts in Contexts A: Chaucer, Book of the Duchess
		The Book of the Duchess is also available separately, edited by Helen Phillips, 3rd ed.
		Annotated Bibliography for The Book of the Duchess
		Lawlor, J. 'The Pattern of Consolation in the Book of the Duchess.' Speculum 31 (1956): 626-48.
	www.english.bham.ac.uk /medievalstudies/me/duchess.htm (394 words)

	Cotroneo. The Book of the Duchess: An Elegy for the Living?
		According to this general criterion, Chaucer's The Book of the Duchess may stake a claim to this genre of literature.
		The ostensible occasion of Chaucer's poem is the death of Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster and wife of the author's benefactor, John of Gaunt.
		The Book of the Duchess is aimed at the living.
	www.luminarium.org /medlit/duchess.htm (1179 words)

	ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
		Chaucer's first important poem that can be called original in any meaningful sense of the word was The Book of the Duchess, a consoling lament for the death by plague in 1368 of Blanche, duchess of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt.
		The Book of the Duchess is important in part because it shows that Chaucer had developed by then an association of some importance with John of Gaunt, son of Edward III, brother to the dashing Prince Edward (the Black Prince), and uncle to the baby who would ten years later become King Richard II.
		The printed book was not to become a reality until a century later, but when it did, Chaucer was the first English poet to have his works collected and printed in book form.
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	Duchess
		We adopted Duchess from someone who was going to take him to the Humane Society because they no longer wanted to care for him.
		We adopted Duchess during the Summer of 1997.
		My children had already decided on the name Duchess and although I tried to convince them to come up with a more masculine name, they were not budging.
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	Amazon.com: Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire: Books: Amanda Foreman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The duchess was an intimate of ministers and princes, and she canvassed assiduously for the Whig cause, most famously in the Westminster election of 1784.
		This book was published when the Authoress Foreman was 30 years old, and was produced while she was even younger.
		Foreman's youth allowed her to bring The Duchess to us as her peer in age, which allowed more objectivity, and a candid portrayal that was brutally honest but never derogatory for it's own sake.
	www.amazon.com /Georgiana-Duchess-Devonshire-Amanda-Foreman/dp/0375502947 (2135 words)

	The Duchess of Tourzel (The Nation, June 7, 1883)
		The article focuses on the book "Memoirs of the Duchess of Tourzel." The duchess of Tourzel was the governess of the children of the royal family of France from 1789 to 1795.
		The duchess was born in Paris on June 11, 1749.
		It also talks about the time when the duchess was separated from the royal family.
	www.thenation.com /archive/detail/14038497 (177 words)

	Dr. Henry Livingston, Sr. and Susanna Storm Conklin
		The mantel shown on plate 169 is now in the house at Poughkeepsie which is maintained by the Daughters of the American Revolution as the Clinton Museum but originally it was in the house on the bank of the Hudson which was the homestead of the Livingston family.
		At that time the mantel in the southwest parlor was presented to the Daughters of the American Revolution and set up in the Clinton Museum.
		A brass grate, once encircled by this mantle, is shown in an old photograph in the Year Book of the Dutchess County Historical Society for 1919.
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		Every student of Chaucer repeats the truism that The Book of the Duchess (BD) is an elegy for Blanche, the Duchess of Lancaster, who died of the plague in 1368/69.
		The Book of the Duchess is...a tribute to both the living husband and the dead wife.
		In the "Retractation" ascribed to Chaucer, there is reference to the "Book of the Duchess," which was recited probably at a special commemorative service conducted at the dedication of the double tombs of the Duke and the Duchess.
	www.nd.edu /~zthundy/BD.html (5315 words)

	THE BOOK OF THE DUCHESS, etc.
		In the BOOK OF THE DUCHESS, after Alceone learns of Ceyx's death, she...
		The narrator of the BOOK OF THE DUCHESS suffers from...
		The tale of CEYX AND ALCEONE in the BOOK OF THE DUCHESS serves to inform the narrator of...
	wiz.cath.vt.edu /cgi-bin/quiz/quiz.cgi?file=3014quiz8 (220 words)

	GradeSaver: The Book of the Duchess and Other Poems Essay: Shattering the Dream (Vision)
		Whether the hero be of a certain estate, conquer insurmountable foes, or finally unite with his lover, specific standards serve to differentiate the epic from the Breton Lai.
		"The Book of the Duchess" breaks the rules of dream vision literature through its subtle adaptations of the expected elements.
		Although this passage embodies only one aspect of this adaptation, it serves as a standard of all of the alterations throughout the text.
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	duchess
		The first thing that strikes one in reading the Book of the Duchess is the quality of artlessness or naivete, to which, indeed, the poem owes much of its charm.
		He is as much a part of the fiction in the Book of the Duchess as the Merchant or the Pardoner or the Host is a part of the fiction in the Canterbury Tales.
		The Book of the Duchess belongs to Chaucer's early period, when his technique was almost purely that of the French love-allegory.
	www.litnotes.co.uk /duchess.htm (8000 words)

	Chaucer's Love Visions - Associated Content (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is not uncommon for dreams to exist as a way for one's subconscious to deal with emotional distress or to embody a mental or emotional journey.
		Two works in particular, The Book of the Duchess and The House of Fame, specifically use dreams as the dreamers' ways to explore their feelings and questions about love and fate.
		The replication of the grieving lover stories in The Book of the Duchess multiplies the skepticism of Chaucer's narrator toward love by two.
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	620syl
		If the preliminary bibliography is a critical book, you'll choose one or two chapters to annotate in writing; you'll distribute these annotations to the class.
		Ardis Butterfield, "Lyric and Elegy in The Book of the Duchess), Medium Aevum 60 (1991), 33-60.
		Dream books Steven Kruger's Dreaming in the Middle Ages details information about medieval dream books; also on reserve is Steven R. Fischer's Complete Medieval Dreambook, a "polyglot" assemblage of "Dream of Daniel" books.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~lmbishop/english/620syl.htm (1619 words)

	Summary of The Book of the Duchess
		The following summary is only intended to help you understand the basic plot of the story (not as a substitute for reading the poem!).
		At that point, he is so overpowered by drowsiness that he falls asleep right on his book and dreams a wondrous dream, which he relates here.
		The narrator dreams that it is May. In the dream he is awakened at daybreak by the beautiful harmony of a heap of birds singing outside on the roof of his chamber.
	www.sfu.ca /~dsymons/306s05/duchess.htm (1441 words)

	Celtic Traditions in Chaucer's The Book of the Duchess (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		One Celtic myth that is almost a parallel with The Book of the Duchess would be found in the Welsh set of legends known as The Mabinogion, which is more of a compilation of oral Celtic traditions first written down in the early 14th-century.
		It is a tale called "The Dream of Rhonabwy" and is almost completely identical to Chaucer’s work from the beginning insomniac sleep, to the dream sequence and the meeting of the knight, all the way until the abrupt ending of the dream and the story.
		There has been much speculation on the symbolism of this story as well, but it may very have been a way the storyteller alluded to the death of the King’s wife as she is taken off to the Celtic Otherworld.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Article/450951 (1190 words)

	CUNY Graduate Center Ph.D. Program in English
		Course Description: Chaucer’s work – from early dream visions like The Book of the Duchess and The House of Fame to The Canterbury Tales – evinces a strong interest in psychology, though a psychology very different from contemporary, post-Freudian frameworks.
		Links to catalogue (CUNY+) information about books placed on reserve in the library; the texts themselves are not online, but must be sought out on the reserve shelves on the first floor of the library.
		As these books are added to the library collection, they will be assigned call numbers in the E-Reserve system and placed on the reserve shelves in the library.
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	Department of English -
		Book of the Duchess (329-346), to line 486.
		House of Fame (354-373), Books II and III.
		Troilus and Criseyde, Book III and Book IV (538-560).
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	The assembly of Gods, Notes
		According to the book of Exodus, Aaron was Moses' brother and the first Jewish high priest (regarded as the founder of the Hebrew priesthood).
		Job, in the Old Testament book of the same name, was known for his patience in the face of increasing tribulation and persecution.
		In addition to the fourth book of the New Testament, he was thought to have written three epistles and the Book of Revelation.
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		According to medieval convention, 'love visions' were dreams dreamed by poets, allegories in which they made discoveries about the rutuals and emotions of courtly love.
		In The Book of the Duchess, Chaucer's first such 'love vision', he is entirely true to the convention, but progressively he enriches it with humorous and original events and dialogues, and with realistic story-telling.
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	Borders - Feature - Chaucer Playing Tetris: A Conversation with Lev Grossman
		I didn't want him to be an insufferable pedant—because I'm an insufferable pedant and I know how unpleasant that is. I wanted to see him go all the way from being an ordinary fellow to being something that he'd never thought he would become.
		Your book is, in an oblique way, a parable about the dangers of reading.
		Before that, they would pick up a book and automatically start reading words aloud, because reading was a public event.
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