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The book alsoargues that more important than the narratives that Chaucer borrowed is the literary technique that he learned from Boccaccio - to make tales from ideas. This technique, moreover, links the \"Shipman's Tale\" to the \"Miller's Tale\"and the new \"Wife of Bath's Tale\". Although at its core a hermeneutic argument, this book also delves into such important areas as alchemy, domestic space, economic history, folklore, Irish\/English politics, manuscripts, and misogyny.    FREDERICK M. 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