Gerald Morgan was a Meyricke Exhibitioner at Jesus College, Oxford, and holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford. He was formerly a Senior Lecturer and Fellow in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin. His publications include Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Idea of Righteousness (1991), The Tragic Argument of Troilus and Criseyde (2005), The Shaping of English Poetry: Essays on ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’, Langland, Chaucer and Spenser (Peter Lang, 2010) and the edited volume Chaucer in Context: A Golden Age of English Poetry (Peter Lang, 2012).

• Contents: Misogyny in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – The dignity of Langland’s Meed – The adaptation of Boccaccio’s Temple of Venus in The Parliament of Fowls – Moral and social Identity in the General Prologue – Obscenity in The Miller’s Tale – The Man of Law and the argument for Providence – The logic of The Clerk’s Tale – Boccaccio’s Filocolo and the moral argument of The Franklin’s Tale.

Gerald Morgan was a Meyricke Exhibitioner at Jesus College, Oxford, and holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford. He was formerly a Senior Lecturer and Fellow in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin. His publications include Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Idea of Righteousness (1991), The Tragic Argument of Troilus and Criseyde (2005), The Shaping of English Poetry: Essays on ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’, Langland, Chaucer and Spenser (Peter Lang, 2010) and the edited volume Chaucer in Context: A Golden Age of English Poetry (Peter Lang, 2012).

• Contents: Misogyny in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – The dignity of Langland’s Meed – The adaptation of Boccaccio’s Temple of Venus in The Parliament of Fowls – Moral and social Identity in the General Prologue – Obscenity in The Miller’s Tale – The Man of Law and the argument for Providence – The logic of The Clerk’s Tale – Boccaccio’s Filocolo and the moral argument of The Franklin’s Tale.

Gerald Morgan was a Meyricke Exhibitioner at Jesus College, Oxford, and holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford. He was formerly a Senior Lecturer and Fellow in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin. His publications include Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Idea of Righteousness (1991), The Tragic Argument of Troilus and Criseyde (2005), The Shaping of English Poetry: Essays on ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’, Langland, Chaucer and Spenser (Peter Lang, 2010) and the edited volume Chaucer in Context: A Golden Age of English Poetry (Peter Lang, 2012).

• Contents: Misogyny in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – The dignity of Langland’s Meed – The adaptation of Boccaccio’s Temple of Venus in The Parliament of Fowls – Moral and social Identity in the General Prologue – Obscenity in The Miller’s Tale – The Man of Law and the argument for Providence – The logic of The Clerk’s Tale – Boccaccio’s Filocolo and the moral argument of The Franklin’s Tale.