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Notes

  1. Deluz claims Mandeville's routes contain ‘d’invitations au voyage’ (Deluz, 2000, 21).

  2. Dinshaw declares her ‘aim to make such histories manifest by juxtaposition, by making entities past and present touch’ (Dinshaw, 1999, 12).

  3. Prendergast (2003) examines the fragmented historicism that emerges from Chaucer's reinternments.

  4. Blumenberg (1983) posits a philosophical divide between medieval and modern that this volume explicitly opposes.

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Theories and Methodologies: Medieval Studies in the Twenty-First Century. 2009, Essay Cluster, In PMLA 124(2): 576–639.

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Strohm, P. Historicity without historicism?. Postmedieval 1, 380–391 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1057/pmed.2010.34

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