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Similarities of orthography and copying habits indicate that the Hammond scribe copied the following manuscripts: BL Additional 34360, BL Harley 2251, Trinity College Cambridge R.14.52, and Royal College of Physicians 113 [Py]. This scribe's spelling…

A short list of caveats for users of the 1977 photographic facsimile of the Findern manuscript, together with transcriptions of marginalia previously unprinted. Note 1 includes an extensive bibliography of scholarship on the manuscript.

Adds the Cardigan MS (University of Texas) and British Library Egerton MS 2864 to Matheson's list of manuscripts that include "peculiar versions" of Brut.

Mossser describes a watermark archive and a plan to mount the collection's data on the WWW, exemplifying the utility of the archive by identifying watermarks (and dates) of the paper stock in three manuscripts of CT: Cambridge MS Dd.4.24 [Dd],…

Argues that scribes altered Chaucer's modal auxiliaries, dative verb constructions, infinitives, and negations, simplifying Chaucer's syntax and making his stylistic compactness apparent by contrast.

Remley describes the Devonshire manuscript (British Library Additional 17492) and assesses the role and purposes of Shelton's writing it-e.g., protesting the incarceration of Margaret Douglas and Thomas Howard, reflecting Tudor practices of "making"…

Describes the history, goals, and methods of The Canterbury Tales Project, explaining how the electronic data have been organized and how the data can be accessed. Focuses on WBP.

Examines scribal uses of ye versus thou in manuscripts of WBP, excluding the so-called "additional" passages. Variants indicate that second-person pronouns were subject to individual manipulation for "interpersonal goals or creative effects."

Stubbs contends that the Hengwrt/Ellesmere scribe had a hand in making the copy of Bo in Peniarth 393D.

Uses the metropolitan scribe of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts as a benchmark to assess corrections to Langlandian manuscripts.

Augments history of Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 215 by identifying William Worcester, Sir John Fastolf's secretary, as an annotator.

Assesses Chaucer's adaptations of his sources and his influences on later tradition, examining his uses of Dante in TC (Paolo and Francesca, idea of gentility, and Paradiso 33) and tracing the transformations of the characters of KnT (particularly…

An anthology of the sources and analogues to selections from CT. Each section comments on source-and-analogue relations, edits the materials in a form close to what Chaucer might have known, and provides facing-page translations of non-English…

Wycliffite translation of Jewish Scripture and the glosses and prologues that supplemented it often reflect curiosity about Jewish scholarship. Chaucer may have read the translation and may have admired the reading practices of the Jews.

Boccaccio provided Chaucer with a means for understanding and configuring antiquity and modernity. Chapter 1 focuses on kinds of love, tensions in Theseus's rule, and the subjugation of women in KnT. Chapter 2 explores how chroniclers, Boccaccio, and…

Developing Walter Benjamin's model of translation and seeking to "rethink the dynamics of cross-cultural translation," Ginsberg explores how Chaucer's borrowings from and dependencies on Italian literature "disarticulate" the legacy of Dante,…

More than 3,200 annotated entries, compiled and edited from the annual bibliographies published in Studies in the Age of Chaucer, newly arranged and cross-listed in topical categories. Includes author and subject indexes.

A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2000, divided into four subcategories: general, CT, TC, and other works.

Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 399 items, plus listing of reviews for 84 books. Includes an author…

Goldstein assesses the "rhetoric of Troilus's suicidal death wish" in TC 1, 4, and 5, comparing passages with Boccaccio's version and challenging critical traditions that view Troilus's thoughts as merely rhetorical or absurd. Also evident in LGW and…

Chaucer employs "costume signs" in TC, affecting plot and characterization. Signature costumes assigned to each character shed light on significant parts of the plot, as do the reversal and degeneration of costume patterns. Characterization through…

Chaucer presents Calchus as both a father in misery and a "sheer opportunist," enabling us to see Criseyde's decision as her own. Shakespeare's Calchus is a manipulator; his Cressida, the object of manipulation.

Dividing TC into eighteen episodes highlights a series of analogous and oppositional relations centering on "ethical debt"; in addition, the poem's action can be charted through four cycles. Similar patterns, in some instances less symmetrical,…

Women in TC and Fernando de Rojas's "Celestina" seek to establish themselves and their fates through "control of language," but rhetorical control gives way as men eventually become subjects and women objects of physical desire.

Play and game reveal to knightly protagonists human imperfection and divine truth. Pandarus is the "game-master" of TC, and Troilus achieves perspective through the game of courtly love.