We discuss applying contemporary critical theory to medieval texts.
We touch on D.W. Robertson's Preface to Chaucer (1962); Louise O. Fradenburg's "'Voice Memorial': Loss and Reparation in Chaucer's Poetry" Exemplaria 1.1 (Spring 1990); and Geraldine Heng's "Inventions/Reinventions: Race Studies, Modernity, and the Middle Ages" from her book The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2018.