Citation

Allman WW, Hanks DT. Chaucer Rev. 2003; 38(1): 36-65.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, Pennsylvania State University Press)

DOI

10.1353/cr.2003.0016

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

At a time when the political status and cultural fashioning of bodies and gender identities commanded significant critical and university press attention, Christopher Cannon discovered a previously overlooked memorandum of May 7, 1380, regarding a quitclaim of Cecilia Chaumpaigne's complaint of raptus against Geoffrey Chaucer. We present a quick rehearsal of this Chaucerian episode, at once famous and obscure.