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Jane Zatta is probably best known for her Chaucer web site, a superb pedagogical resource widely praised by scholars and students alike. But it may not be clear to those outside her field of research that she was an accomplished and innovative pioneer in other ways. In the perspective of the twelfth to fifteenth centuries, Chaucer and the Chaucerian tradition we take as foundational in modern accounts of English literary tradition are in many ways a momentary neo-classical deviation (and were sometimes cast as that by Chaucer's successors even as they defer to him: some fifteenth-century over-writings of Chaucer nudge him away as...
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