The General Prologue is the assumed title of the series of portraits that precedes The Canterbury Tales. It was the work of 14th Century English writer and courtier Geoffrey Chaucer. The conceit of the poem, as set out in the 858 lines of Middle English...
MANY YEARS AGO, I ATTENDED A SEMINAR TAUGHT BY RICHARD Sterba. He ended the seminar with an extemporaneous comment that Goethe once wrote, "Man cannot rise to heights that are beyond the ideals of his teachers." I never was able to get back to...
This special issue is a distant offspring of a State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project workshop held in 1998 on 'Women, Christians, Citizens: Being Female in Melanesia Today' (Douglas 1999a). The theme of women's organizing was central to only a handful of presentations...
