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Cover 1 Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Stories for an Uncertain World: Agency in the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales 4 Copyright 5 Series Page 6 Dedication 8 Acknowledgments 10 Contents 14 Introduction. Having the World by the Tale: A new comparative reading of the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales 16 A note on the text of the Canterbury Tales 20 1: Mapping the uncertain world Texts and contexts 22 The historical lineage and cultural breeding grounds of pragmatic prudence 24 Aristotle, Cicero, and the centrality of (moral) Prudence 24 The cultural parturition of an amoral prudence: three possible stimuli 28 Governance 33 Commerce 35 Institutional religion 37 Narrative antecedents 42 Fabulation: the triple challenge 44 Why tell? The function of the fabula in the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales 65 The mimetic topography of an uncertain world 73 Mapping opinion 73 The inner vocabulary of nascent practical wisdom 83 The three stages of prudent agency: acting opportunistically, acting appropriately, acting decisively 85 Acting opportunistically: seizing the critical moment 85 Acting appropriately 90 Acting decisively 100 2: Fortuna, Fama, and the challenge to agency 110 Fortuna 111 Deca

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Robert W. Hanning;

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