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    The injuries of time: Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Speght, and Wade’s boat
    TRIGG, STEPHANIE ( 2008)
    The State Library at Melbourne holds a wonderful collection of early Chaucer editions: two leaves from William Caxton’s editions of The Canterbury Tales (from 1478 and 1483), and a more substantial group of relatively rare sixteenth- and seventeenth-century editions. Starting with this impressive group, it is possible to use the Melbourne collection to track the major stages in the long history of editing and printing Chaucer, through John Urry’s lavish but inaccurate edition of 1721, the more scholarly text of Thomas Tyrwhitt in five volumes (1775-78), the numerous texts of various works produced by Frederick J. Furnivall for the Chaucer Society in the late nineteenth century, and the beautiful Kelmscott Chaucer of 1896, printed by William Morris and incorporating wood-cuts designed by Edward Burne-Jones, through to the scholarly and student editions of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These editions often differ considerably from each other. Not only have critical opinions varied substantially over the centuries as to the best manuscripts and the best methods of presenting Chaucer’s work, but the audience and the use anticipated for each edition (for different generations of general readers, scholars or students) also affects the nature of the prefatory material and the commentaries, notes and glossaries that surround the text.
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    I’ve written my talk: blogging, writing and temporality
    TRIGG, STEPHANIE ( 2007)
    Between the poles of speaking and writing, where do we place a published version of a written talk given about blogging? I find, as I write this up, that I can’t keep a straight writerly face. I’m unable to render the layers of past and present into a seamless tense, a smooth representation of speaking about writing, or writing about speaking. Mostly, we know how to read and write the conventions for ‘writing up a talk’, but the subject of blogging seems to call forth a different kind of reflection. Or does it?
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    “Shamed be …”: historicizing shame in medieval and early modern courtly ritual
    TRIGG, STEPHANIE ( 2006)
    This essay explores the relationship between shame and honor in various texts and practices associated with medieval chivalry, and especially in The Order of the Garter. The meaning and significance of the motto of the Order–Honi soit qui mal y pense–is contested, but it emphasizes the close relationship between shame and honor in courtly society. The motto may not be an embedded coded reference to an unknown event; it may have been coined by Edward III to generate a sense of mystery appropriate to a courtly elite. An examination of selected literary texts (incluing Malory’s Works and Shakespere’s Henry VI, Part One) and historical documents describing the ceremonial rituals of heraldic degradation and courtly shame suggests a remarkable continuity in the understanding of courtly shame between the medieval and the early modern period in England. This continuity is ignored by several recent commentators on shame, who unconsciously rehearse and repeat the abjection of the medieval past in contrast to the renaissance understanding of shame.
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    What is Happening to the Middle Ages?
    Prendergast, A ; TRIGG, S (Brepols, 2008)
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    ‘Medieval Literature' or 'Early Europe'?: How to win grants and change the course of scholarship
    TRIGG, STEPHANIE (Wiley Blackwell, 2006)
    This paper explores the unexpected success of the Network for Early EuropeanResearch, based at the University of Western Australia, which was recently awardedA$1.6 million over a five-year period to support research and postgraduate trainingin medieval and early modern studies in Australia. What lessons can be drawn fromthe success of this grant application for other projects in medieval studies that mustcompete for funding in national contests across all the disciplines? One of thedistinctive strengths of the Network is its willingness to think in unusually broadterms about the influential reach of medieval and early modern social and culturalforms into settler colonies like eighteenth-century Australia and beyond. But towhat extent might government priorities be driving the nature of research? Howcan medieval studies best respond to these external pressures?
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    'Medieval Literature' or 'Early Europe'? How to win grants and change the course of scholarship
    TRIGG, S (Wiley, 2006)
    Abstract This paper explores the unexpected success of the Network for Early European Research, based at the University of Western Australia, which was recently awarded A$1.6 million over a five‐year period to support research and postgraduate training in medieval and early modern studies in Australia. What lessons can be drawn from the success of this grant application for other projects in medieval studies that must compete for funding in national contests across all the disciplines? One of the distinctive strengths of the Network is its willingness to think in unusually broad terms about the influential reach of medieval and early modern social and cultural forms into settler colonies like eighteenth‐century Australia and beyond. But to what extent might government priorities be driving the nature of research? How can medieval studies best respond to these external pressures?
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    Learning to Live
    TRIGG, STEPHANIE (Oxford University Press, 2007)
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    The Vulgar History of the Order of the Garter
    TRIGG, S ; McMullan, G ; Matthews, D (Cambridge University Press, 2007)