Davies, Joshua, and Caroline Bergvall, eds.
York: Arc Humanities, 2023.
Collects twenty-six critical essays about Caroline Bergvall's literary output and outlooks, accompanied by three interviews with her, a foreword by David Wallace, an afterword by Rachel Gilmore, and a comprehensive index. Several essays refer to…
Focuses on fifteenth-century writers such as Audelay, Hoccleve, Kempe, and Charles d'Orléans, and shows how these authors fashioned themselves as self-publishing and scribes in their own right. Argues that this modeling was influenced by Chaucer,…
Cooper, Helen.
Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 175 (2023): 170-78.
Assesses Edmund Spenser's quotation of FranT, 764-66, in Britomart's speech in T"he Faerie Queene," Book III, arguing that the Chaucerian material and its original context carry suggestions of the "need for tolerance in social relations" and "[set] a…
Historical novel in which friar-detective Rodric Chandler investigates murder as he seeks to hide Adam Pinkhurst's copy of CT from Lancastrian censors.
Atkinson, Laurie Ray.
Ph.D. dissertation (University of Durham, 2021), Dissertation Abstracts International C83.05(E). Fully accessible at http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14081/ (accessed January 30, 2025).
"[I]nvestigates the distinctive conceptions of literary authorship of John Skelton, William Dunbar, Stephen Hawes, and Gavin Douglas by means of close and comparative readings of their utilisation of a particular form and mode: framed first-person…
Yeager, R. F.
Catherine Gaullier-Bourgasses and Marylène Possamaï-Pérez, eds. Réécritures et adaptations de l'Ovide Moralisé (xive--xviie siècle) (Turnhout: Brepols, 2022), pp. 51–67
Challenges Conrad Mainzer's evidence that Gower was influenced by the "Ovide moralisé" and/or the "Ovidius moralizatus" of Pierre Bersuire, arguing that closer, more likely parallels exist between Gower's work and BD and LGW.
Ripplinger, Michelle.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 45 (2023): 139-69.
Reads TC as a "proleptic palinode" that gives Chaucer "something to apologize for" before he writes LGW, modeling his poetic career on Ovid's. Argues that Pandarus "grounds his amatory practice" in Ovid's works, considers Criseyde's and Cassandra's…
Green, Richard Firth, and R. F. Yeager, eds.
Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2022.
Collects eighteen essays on widely varied topics in Middle English, Anglo-Latin, French, and book production. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for under Alternative Title.
Simpson, James.
Richard Firth Green and R. F. Yeager, eds. "Of latine and of othire lare": Essays in Honour of David R. Carlson (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2022), pp. 67-81.
Discloses the implications--some "shocking"--of recognizing Statius's "Thebaid" as the source of Criseyde's imagining of "radical atheism" in TC, IV.1408-11. Explicates resonances of Thebes/Trojan parallels evident elsewhere in the poem and in…
Green, Richard Firth.
Richard Firth Green and R. F. Yeager, eds. "Of latine and of othire lare": Essays in Honour of David R. Carlson (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2022), pp. 82-100.
Proposes that the so-called "quarrel" between Chaucer and Gower found in MLP pertains to their uses of Ovidian, fabliau-like material, reading several tales of "Confessio Amantis" as experiments in "fabliauesque" narrative, purged of "schoolboy…
Singh, Devani.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Focuses "on fifteenth-century manuscripts of Chaucer, and . . . how these volumes were read, used, valued, and transformed" in the early modern period, reflecting "conventions which circulated in print and . . . convey prevailing preoccupations about…
Hanna, Ralph.
Journal of the Early Book Society 26 (2023): 209-21.
Presents previously overlooked "gleanings" of verse that are missing from the general catalogues: one is at the end of Mel in MS Barlow
20, while another is an analogue to lines from KnT.
Saunders, Corinne J., and Richard Lawrie, with Laurie Atkinson, eds.
Leiden: Brill, 2022.
Seventeen essays by various authors on topics in Middle English manuscripts, their legacies, and the career of Ian Doyle, with an introduction by Saunders and Lawrie, an afterword by Linne Mooney and Derek Pearsall, a list of Doyle's publications by…
Boffey, Julia.
Corinne J. Saunders and Richard Lawrie, with Laurie Atkinson, eds. Middle English Manuscripts and Their Legacies: A Volume in Honour of Ian Doyle (Leiden: Brill, 2022), pp. 55-68; 2 color illus.
Describes conjunctions--"many of them improbable or curious"--among the materials contained in manuscripts "which preserve just one or two of Chaucer's short poems," exploring what they "can tell us about the reception and transmission of Chaucer's…
Gameson, Richard.
Corinne J. Saunders and Richard Lawrie, with Laurie Atkinson, eds. Middle English Manuscripts and Their Legacies: A Volume in Honour of Ian Doyle (Leiden: Brill, 2022), pp. 237-54; 8 color illus
Challenges the traditional provenance of CT manuscript Oxford, Trinity College, MS 49, detaching it from Saffron Walden, and asserting that it was not donated to Trinity College by Sir Thomas Pope, founder of the college, but given by Thomas Unton,…
Studies the manuscripts of John Gower's "Confessio Amantis" as evidence of his status and role in the production of Lancastrian literature and propaganda, challenging long-held assessments of the dates and sequence of the manuscripts and what they…
Cook, Megan L.
Huntington Library Quarterly 85 (2022): 643-61.
Compares the contents of manuscripts of Chaucer's works and those of early printed editions, especially William Thynne's 1532 edition of "Works." Focuses on the heterogeneous mixture of Chaucerian materials, apocrypha, and works by other authors in…
Wolf, Sophia Philomena.
Contzen, Eva von.
New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy & Profession 4 (2023): 85-95.
Outlines "the lesson plan and pedagogical approach" (with course description and syllabus) for a senior, undergraduate course called "Retelling, Rereading, Rethinking--the Afterlife of Medieval Texts in Contemporary Literature." Includes explanation…
Peden, Helen.
P. J. M. Marks and Stephen Parkin, eds. The Book by Design: The Remarkable Story of the World's Greatest Invention (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023), pp. 204-13; 10 color illus.
Summarizes the development of Morris's Kelmscott Press and describes the achievement of his aesthetic ideals in the Kelmscott Chaucer.
Flannery, Mary.
Review of English Studies 73, no. 310 (2022): 442-58.
Examines Caxton's deletions from his first to his second edition of CT, showing that most of them were "bawdy spurious verse." Argues that the deletions evince Caxton's awareness of Chaucer's own "ribaldry" and that—not concerned with obscenity per…
Interpretive biography and critical exploration of Chaucer's professional, diplomatic, and literary engagements with Italy, Italians, and Italian culture, seeking to "follow in Chaucer's footsteps--to Milan, Genoa, Florence, Pavia, and beyond--and…
Menmuir, Rebecca.
Buchanan, Peter.
Kask, Pamela.
Year's Work in English Studies 102 (2023): 264-94.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2021, divided into four subcategories: general, CT, other works, and reception. See also "Middle English," YWES 102 (2023): 171-263.
