73 25 16381 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Bond, Bruce Robert. Published DAI 35.02 (1974):1087A. Date 1974 Chaucer Subject Background and General Criticism Parson and His Tale Journal by Volume Number Dissertation Abstracts International 35 (1974) Source mea; 1/29/2015 No SAC Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Study of 'Invidia' in Medieval and Renaissance English Literature Description An account of the resource Considers Chaucer's (and others') treatment of envy as a Deadly Sin as background to the Renaissance understanding of the vice, which was influenced by classical tradition as well. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Gehle, Quentin Lee. Published DAI 35.03 (1974): 1622A. Date 1974 Chaucer Subject Troilus and Criseyde Journal by Volume Number Dissertation Abstracts International 35 (1974) Source mea; 1/29/2015 No SAC Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Study of Character Motivation in Chretien's 'Cligés,' Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde,' and Malory's 'Morte D'Arthur' Description An account of the resource Proposes that the private motivations of Chaucer's Troilus help us to understand why critics have "tended to exclude" TC from the romance genre. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Fujimoto, Masashi. Published Tokyo : Ohtori, 2000. Date 2000 Physical Description vii, 270 pp. Chaucer Subject Canterbury Tales--General. Source jules SAC 24 (206) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Study of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Description An account of the resource Includes eight essays pertaining to CT, examining the similarities between the narrative structure of CT and the multi-layered system particular to Gothic aesthetics. In Japanese. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Herzman, Ronald Bernard. Published DAI 30.07 (1970): 2969A. Date 1970 Chaucer Subject Troilus and Criseyde Journal by Volume Number Dissertation Abstracts International 30 (1970) Source mea; 10/15/2016 No SAC Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Study of Chaucer's Use of Time in 'Troilus and Criseyde' Description An account of the resource Explores how narrative time in TC interacts with the theme of time in the poem, considering the epilogue to have its own, third time scheme. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Nagasawa, Hiroe. Published Doshisha Studies in English 03 and 12 (1972): 1-76, 1-23. Date 1972 Chaucer Subject Background and General Criticism Journal by Volume Number Doshisha Studies in English 03 (1972) Source mea; 6/18/2016 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Study of Chaucerian Narrators (Parts 1 and 2) Description An account of the resource Items not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that these studies were published in English. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Mathews, Johnye Elizabeth Strickland Published DAI 30.07 (1970): 2974-75A. Date 1970 Chaucer Subject Book of the Duchess Journal by Volume Number Dissertation Abstracts International 30 (1970) Source mea; 10/15/2016 No SAC Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Study of the 'Book of the Duchess': Problems in Chaucer's Relationships with His Audience Description An account of the resource Treats BD as oral "entertainment," considering its possible performance at court and how such a performance affects the meaning of the poem. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Park, Doo-byung. Published Journal of English Language and Literature (Korea) 37 (1991): 761-82. Date 1991 Chaucer Subject Style and Versification. Journal by Volume Number Journal of English Language and Literature (Korea) 37 (1991). Source mea Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Study of the Final -e in Chaucer Description An account of the resource Compares several theories of Middle English pronunciation, arguing that Chaucer's rhymes require pronunciation of final -e (in Korean with English abstract). Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Keen, William Parker. Published Dissertation Abstracts International 28.10 (1968): 4133-34A. Journal by Volume Number Dissertation Abstracts International 28 (1968) Chaucer Subject Canterbury Tales--General General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales Nun's Priest and His Tale Source mea;11/21/2017 Date 1968 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Study of the Host in "The Canterbury Tales." Description An account of the resource Traces the character development of the Host in CT (following the Ellesmere ordering of the parts) and reads NPT as his "turning point" when he abandons comic "crudity, violence, and carelessness" for "capable leadership." Assesses Harry Bailly's role throughout CT, including in GP where he is impressive, "greater than life." Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Harig, Sister Mary Labouré, S.N.D. Published DAI 32.08 (1972): 4465A. Date 1972 Chaucer Subject Romaunt of the Rose Book of the Duchess Parliament of Fowls House of Fame Legend of Good Women Troilus and Criseyde Canterbury Tales--General Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations Journal by Volume Number Dissertation Abstracts International 32 (1972) Source mea; 12/01/2015 No SAC Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Study of the Literary Garden Tradition and Chaucer Description An account of the resource Surveys the rise of the garden topos in western literary traditions--classical and medieval, idealized and courtly. Then assesses Chaucer's uses of the traditional iconography of garden conventions in Rom, BD, PF, LGWP, HF, TC, and CT. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Marsh, Henry Edward. Published Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Glasgow, 1999. Fully accessible via https://theses.gla.ac.uk/944/ (accessed April 6, 2023). Physical Description 286 pp.; illus Chaucer Subject Background and General Criticism Franklin and His Tale Style and Versification Source mea; 4/7/2026 Date 1999 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Study of the Modes of Imagination. Description An account of the resource Contemplates "fantasy, identification, and the imagination itself" as response modes in the process of reading, exploring their "distinctive epistemological implications and significance for identity." Includes comments on works by Chaucer (especially FranT) and Franz Kafka to exemplify how irony can deflect or disrupt "the natural impulse to identify ourselves with a narrator" and "blind us to his or her unreliability." Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Hartung, Albert E. Published Ph.D. Dissertation. Lehigh University, 1957. Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global and at https://preserve.lehigh.edu/lehigh-scholarship/graduate-publications-theses-dissertations/theses-dissertations/study-textual. Physical Description viii, 111 pp. Chaucer Subject Tale of Melibee Manuscripts and Textual Studies Sources, Analogues, and LIterary Relations Source 6/1/2025 Date 1956 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Study of the Textual Affiliations of Chaucer's "Melibeus" Considered in Its Relation to the French Source. Description An account of the resource Compares "the accepted and variant readings of 'Melibeus' with the corresponding passages in the French source, 'Le Livre de Melibee et Prudence'," assessing variants from fifty-seven manuscriptsof Mel and arguing that there was "an earlier version of 'Melibeus' by Chaucer in general circulation during the time the manuscripts we now have were copied." Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Sasamoto, Hisayuki. Published Osaka Shogyodaigaku Ronshu (Osaka University of Commerce) 112-113 (1999): 645-64, 1999. Date 1999 Chaucer Subject Background and General Criticism. Journal by Volume Number Osaka Shogyodaigaku Ronshu (Osaka University of Commerce) 112-113 (1999) Source jules SAC 23 (116) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Study on Chaucer's Animals : Monkey and Horse Description An account of the resource Analyzes animal images and their effects in the works of Chaucer. In Japanese. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Zhou, Yue. Published Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature 67 (2023): 19-35. Journal by Volume Number Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature 67 (2023) Chaucer Subject Troilus and Criseyde Language and Word Studies Style and Versification Source SAC 47:209 Date 2023 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Study on Chaucer's Description of Nature in "Troilus and Criseyde" from the Perspective of Adjectives. Description An account of the resource Analyzes nature-related adjectives in TC. Key findings include Chaucer's enhancement of Venus's role, symbolic natural imagery reflecting Criseyde's betrayal, and a sympathetic tone toward her in descriptions of animals and plants. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Zhou, Yue. Published Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature 65 (2021): 1-23. Journal by Volume Number Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature 65 (2021) Chaucer Subject Language and Word Studies Style and Versification Troilus and Criseyde Source mea; 4/15/2026 Date 2021 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Study on the Adjectives Modifying Criseyde. Description An account of the resource Assesses the characterization of Criseyde in TC in light of the adjectives she uses and those used of her by the narrator, Troilus, and Pandarus, helping to characterize them as well. Includes comparable data from Boccaccio's "Filostrato." Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Kamowski, William. Published Chaucer Review 21 (1987): 406-18. Date 1987 Chaucer Subject Troilus and Criseyde. Manuscripts and Textual Studies. Journal by Volume Number Chaucer Review 21 (1987) Source jules SAC 11 (256) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Suggestion for Emending the Epilogue of 'Troilus and Criseyde' Description An account of the resource Four stanzas that seem out of place in the conclusion can be removed and reinserted, resulting in improved syntactic and thematic continuity. There is no manuscript authority for the mistaken position (all manuscripts have the order of the received text), but the manuscripts do suggest that elsewhere Chaucer was constantly revising as he composed the poem. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Keller, James. Published Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales" (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 300-313. Date 1996 Alternative Title Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in "The Canterbury Tales." Chaucer Subject Summoner and His Tale. Friar and His Tale. General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. Source jules SAC 18 (1996), 187 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Sumonour Was Ther with Us in That Place Description An account of the resource Examines the structure of the medieval ecclesiastical court system and the role of the summoner, or apparitor, within that system. The Summoner and the summoner of FrT, as portraits of "two damned souls," reflect Chaucer's knowledge of the "duties and corruptions of the apparitor." Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Shikii, Kumiko. Published SELLA (1979): 61-77. Date 1979 Chaucer Subject Bibliographies, Reports, and Reference. Canterbury Tales--General. Journal by Volume Number SELLA (1979) Shirayuri English Language and Literature Association (1979) Source jules SAC 03 (11) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Survey of Chaucerian scholarship Description An account of the resource Some typical references are introduced to classify the characteristics of each period of Chaucerian scholarship from the fourteenth century to the present time. The paper also shows the necessity of trying a religious approach especially to CT to appreciate Chaucer's mind. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Hess, Lynn,and Caroline Duncan-Rose. Published J. Peter Maher and others, eds. Papers from the Third International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, vol. 13. Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science, 4th series. (Amsterdam: John Benjamins B.V., 1982), pp. 293-322. Date 1982 Contributor Duncan-Rose, Caroline. Chaucer Subject Language and Word Studies. Source jules SAC 08 (29) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Syntactic Correlate of Style Switching in the 'Canterbury Tales' Description An account of the resource A structural analysis of discourse and narration in CT reveals that tense shifting heretofore considered a flaw by some, is actually a manifestation of Chaucer's extraordinary ear for idiom and his careful exploitation of his audience's feel for language. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Miyake, Ko. Published Tokyo: Privately printed, 1973. Date 1973 Physical Description x, 103 pp. Chaucer Subject Language and Word Studies Source 05/25/2016; mea No SAC Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Syntactical Study of Chaucer's English Description An account of the resource Item not seen; the WorldCat record indicates that this book is written in English. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Arthur, Karen. Published Ian Lancashire, ed. Computer-Based Chaucer Studies (Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, 1993), pp. 67-85. Date 1993 Alternative Title Computer-Based Chaucer Studies. Chaucer Subject Troilus and Criseyde. Language and Word Studies. Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations. Source jules SAC 17 (249) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A TACT Analysis of the Language of Death in 'Troilus and Criseyde' Description An account of the resource Demonstrates the utility of the text-retrieval program "TACT" by examining references to death and cold in TC. Sketches the "vocabulary" of death in the poem, assesses the words in their contexts (especially Pandarus's threats of death to Criseyde), and contrasts them with Boccaccio's more conventional uses. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Watson, John. Published Port Adelaide, South Australia: Picaro Press, 2021. Physical Description Internet resource. Chaucer Subject Knight and His Tale Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion Source mea; 1/26/2025 Date 2021 Series Picaro poets. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Tale of Two Knights. Description An account of the resource Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates that "After Chaucer" follows the title on p. 6 of this volume--perhaps indicating a version of KnT. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Öğütcü, Murat. Published Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi 34 (2019): 183-91. Journal by Volume Number Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi 34 (2019) Chaucer Subject Troilus and Criseyde Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion Source mea; SAC 44:319 Date 2019 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Tale of Two Nations: Chaucer, Henryson, Shakespeare, Troilus and Criseyde. Description An account of the resource Argues that in TC Chaucer "initiates" a tradition of presenting the "multiple significations" of the story, while "Henryson makes it Scottish and Shakespeare unintentionally reflects the unification of the two countries on a literary level." Together, their versions produce an "intra-national literary hybridisation." Includes an abstract in Turkish and in English. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Dane, Joseph A. Published The Book Collector 48: 387-400, 1999. Date 1999 Chaucer Subject Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations. Journal by Volume Number The Book Collector 48 (1999) Source jules SAC 23 (14) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Tale of Two Title Pages : The 1542 Chaucer (STC 5069, STC 5070) Description An account of the resource Examines three copies of William Thynne's 1542 edition of Chaucer's Workes and their provenances, arguing that their differences are minimal, likely the result of booksellers' efforts to increase the works' value. The title pages are late replacements. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Coppola, Manuela. Published Journal of Postcolonial Writing 52 (2016): 305-18. Journal by Volume Number Journal of Postcolonial Writing 52 (2016) Chaucer Subject Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion Wife of Bath and Her Tale Source SAC 41:64 Date 2016 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Tale of Two Wives: The Transnational Poetry of Patience Agbabi and Jean "Binta" Breeze. Description An account of the resource Uses postcolonial theory to argue that Agbabi and Breeze "interrogate the borders of British poetry and its 'modernity,'" by capitalizing on the "subversive elements already present" in WBPT, "from the subtle irony and the crafty use of the 'vernacular' to the foregrounding of female empowerment." The two "contemporary revisions of the canon mirror an intertextual, transnational practice that was already widely present in the Middle Ages." Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Eisner, Sigmund. Published Wexford, [Ire.]: John English, 1957. Physical Description 148 pp. Chaucer Subject Wife of Bath and Her Tale Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations Source mea; 7/3/2024 Date 1957 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Tale of Wonder: A Source Study of "The Wife of Bath's Tale." Description An account of the resource Identifies and traces developments of the sources and analogues of WBT, emphasizing the transmission of Irish roots through Welsh elaboration, Arthurian development in Brittany and France, Middle English analogues, and various parallels in international folklore from Ireland to Persia. Includes attention to the history of scholarship of WBT and its appropriateness to the Wife of Bath, along with analysis of particular motifs such as transformation, sovereignty, the loathly lady, life-questions, "fier baiser" (daring kiss), rape, and what women most desire.