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Preface i Acknowledgments v Introduction 1 Chapter I: Seriousness in theGame of Language 35 II: Serious Humor and Menippean Satire 43 III: TheProblem of Applying Bakhtin to Chaucer 51 IV: The Deceptive Nature of Craftas a Way of Life 67 V: The Serious Nature of the Wife's "Praktike" 81 VI:Craft and the "Most-High" Speaker 93 VII: Complex Craft and Freedom ofMovement 103 VIII: Craft, Disdain, and Risk-Taking Vulnerability 109 IX: TheSeriousness of the Strange Knight's Craft 121 X: Complex Craft,Mystification, and Multiple Identity 139 XI: The Canon's Yeoman and PossibleHumility 155 XII: Privy Knowledge and the Privileges of the Gods 163 XIII:Cecilia as Christian-Humanist Disputer of the Sacred 175 XIV: The Prioress'sComplex Craft of Privee Status 193 XV: Medieval Croeft and Magical-PrivyCraft Prior to Chaucer 227 XVI: Geoffrey of Vinsauf's Poetria Nova andChaucer's Rhetorical Craft Part 1: Complex Craft and Overcoming Nature 301Part 2: Geoffrey of Vinsauf's Artful Order and the Critics 308 Part 3:Medieval Metaphysics and Vinsaufian Humanism 320 Part 4: The Role ofVinsaufian Method in Chaucer 348 XVII: The Anti-Craft of Dame Prudence inTale of Melibee Part 1: Dame Prudence, Anti-Craft, and Maritalis Affectio 397Part 2: The New Office-Holder of Wise Statecraft 407 Part 3: Dame Prudence asWisdom Come Out of Heaven 421 Part 4: The Husband's Deferral to his Wife asDivine Wisdom 431 Part 5: The Real Nature of Synttro Croeft and GnosticSophia 445 Conclusion: The Rise and Fall of Craft 459 Works Cited 463 Index477