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Caxton's Second Edition of the Canterbury Tales
Blake, N. F.
A. S. G. Edwards, Vincent Gillespie, and Ralph Hanna, eds. The English Medieval Book: Studies in Memory of Jeremy Griffiths (London: British Library, 2000), pp. 135-53.
Critiques Thomas F. Dunn's analysis of Cx2 and extends it, describing the book's composition and comparing Cx2 with Cx1. Suggests a possible scenario for the preparation of Cx2, discussing the role of the unknown manuscript (designated Y by Dunn) and…
The Canterbury Tales: Complete
Benson, Larry D., ed.
Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
Based on The Riverside Chaucer, 3rd edition, providing a corrected text and set of glosses, with essentially the same apparatus, updated and adapted for beginning students.
Chaucer, 1340-1400 : The Life and Times of the First English Poet
West, Richard.
New York : Carroll and Graf; London: Constable, 2000.
A non-academic biography of Chaucer focusing on his responses to the sociohistorical concerns of the "Black Death, war, class, race, religion and social justice" (p. 256). It reprises a view of Chaucer held in the early twentieth century: genial,…
Reading Rape in Medieval Literature
Sylvester, Louise.
Studies in Medievalism 10: 120-35, 1998.
Reviews scholarship on the case of Chaucer and Cecilia Chaumpaigne, focusing on the meaning of raptus. Discusses recent treatments of rape as trope and explores its social and legal implications in medieval texts.
Chaucer's Tomb(s) and Arms
Ebi, Hisato.
Eigo Seinen 146.8: 488-92 (in Japanese), 2000.
Spec. issue on the sexcentenary of Chaucer's death. Suggests a new date-June 2, 1400-for Chaucer's death, based on John Bale's Index Brittaniae Scriptorium (1902 ed.), and surveys the historical background of Chaucer's tomb(s).
Chaucer and Rape : Uncertainty's Certainties
Cannon, Christopher.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 22: 67-92, 2000.
We remain uncertain about the meaning of Cecily Chaumpaigne's release of Chaucer from a charge of rape, but the topic of rape (and forced marriage) in Chaucer's poetry reflects his sensitivity to the complex "definitional problems" of raptus. Chaucer…
Middle English Word Studies : A Word and Author Index
Sylvester, Louise, and Jane Roberts.
Cambridge : D. S. Brewer, 2000.
An annotated bibliography of studies that pertain to Middle English words and word groups, especially studies that go beyond information available in the Middle English Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary. Includes studies of lexicon, word…
Chaucer's Pardoner's Prologue and Tale : An Annotated Bibliography, 1900 to 1995
Sutton, Marilyn, ed.
Toronto, Buffalo, and London : University of Toronto Press, 2000.
A comprehensive annotated bibliography of scholarly and critical discussion of The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale, subdivided into the following categories: editions (126 items); bibliographies, indexes, and textual studies (56 items); sources,…
Bibliography of Scholarship Treating The Parson's Tale
Raybin, David.
David Raybin and Linda Tarte Holley, eds. Closure in The Canterbury Tales: The Role of The Parson's Tale (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2000), pp. 209-52.
A "full" bibliography of scholarly work on The Parson's Tale; includes 175 annotated entries, each with a bibliographic citation and a description.
Medieval Folklore : An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs. 2 vols
Lindahl, Carl, John McNamara, and John Lindow, eds.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, 2000.
Individual entries on topics from "Accused Queen" to "Zither" include brief descriptions and, when appropriate, bibliography. One entry on Chaucer (1.167-73); multiple references to motifs in his works, especially in CT.
Studies in Old and Middle English Language in Poland (1900-2000)
Fisiak, J[acek]
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 35: 3-17, 2000.
Includes several items on Chaucer.
The Chaucer Review : An Indexed Bibliography, Vols. 1-30
Beidler, Peter G., and Martha A. Kalnin.
Chaucer Review 31.2, Supplement (1996): i-viii, 1-80. , 1996.
Indexes by author and subject the contents of The Chaucer Review, 1966-96. The 798 entries are also published with annotations at .
Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale : An Annotated Bibliography, 1900 to 1995
Beidler, Peter G., and Elizabeth M. Biebel, ed.
Toronto, Buffalo, and London : University of Toronto Press, 1998.
A comprehensive annotated bibliography of scholarly and critical discussion of WBPT, subdivided into the following categories: editions and translations (items 1-82), sources and analogues (items 83-206), the "Marriage Group" (items 207-56),…
Middle English: Chaucer
Allen, Valerie, and Margaret Connolly.
Year's Work in English Studies 78 (2000): 232-61.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 1997, divided into four subcategories: general, CT, TC, and other works.
An Annotated Chaucer Bibliography, 1998
Allen, Mark, and Bege K. Bowers.
SAC 22: 557-656, 2000.
Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 337 items, plus listing of reviews for 77 books. Includes an author…
The Lowly Paraf : Transmitting Manuscript Design in The Canterbury Tales
Fredell, Joel.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 22: 213-80, 2000.
Documents the features of ordinatio in the ten "landmark" manuscripts of CT, grouping the patterns as "dense" (Hengwrt/Ellesmere and related manuscripts) and "sparse" (Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 198, and related manuscripts), focusing on the…
Representing the Middle English Manuscript
Edwards, A. S. G.
Derek Pearsall, ed. New Directions in Later Medieval Manuscript Studies: Essays from the 1998 Harvard Conference (York; and Rochester, N.Y.: York Medieval Press, in association with Boydell and Brewer, 2000), pp. 65-79.
Edwards surveys attempts to "historicize" the representation of Middle English texts, from black letter type to computer transcription, focusing on the nineteenth-century efforts of Frederic Madden. Includes recurrent references representing the…
Fifteenth-Century Middle English Verse Author Collections
Edwards, A. S. G.
A. S. G. Edwards, Vincent Gillespie, and Ralph Hanna, eds. The English Medieval Book: Studies in Memory of Jeremy Griffiths (London: British Library, 2000), 101-12.
Evidence from late-medieval English verse collections indicates that the conception of an individual author's corpus was slow developing, not crystalizing until the 1532 printing of Chaucer's Works. Earlier manuscript collections of Chaucer (and…
Medieval Manuscripts and Electronic Media : Observations on Future Possibilities
Driver, Martha [W.]
Derek Pearsall, ed. New Directions in Later Medieval Manuscript Studies: Essays from the 1998 Harvard Conference (York; and Rochester, N.Y.: York Medieval Press, in association with Boydell and Brewer, 2000), pp. 53-64.
Assesses the Internet and CD-ROMs as tools in the study and teaching of manuscript research, summarizing the potential and limitations of each. Comments on the impact of a number of projects, products, and Web sites, focusing on the Canterbury Tales…
Duxworth Redux : The Paris Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
Crane, Susan.
Robert Boenig and Kathleen Davis, eds. Manuscript, Narrative, Lexicon: Essays on Literary and Cultural Transmission in Honor of Whitney F. Bolton (Lewisburg, Penn: Bucknell University Press; and London: Associated University Presses, 2000), pp. 17-44.
Argues that scribe John Duxworth, rather than his patron Jean d'Angoulême, was the guiding intelligence behind the execution of the Paris manuscript of CT (Ps) and that his revisions and errors are consistent with the habits of other scribes who…
The Links in the Canterbury Tales
Blake, Norman.
Susan Powell and Jeremy J. Smith, eds. New Perspectives on Middle English Texts: A Festschrift for R. A. Waldron (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000), pp. 107-18.
Like individual tales, the links of The Canterbury Tales exist in several authorial versions, indicating that Chaucer prepared several versions of the whole during his lifetime. Thus, the notion of a single manuscript stemma is impossible or…
The Virgule in the Wife of Bath's Prologue
Blake, N. F.
Loren C. Gruber, ed. Essays on Old, Middle, Modern English and Old Icelandic in Honor of Raymond P. Tripp, Jr. (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen Press, 2000), pp. 361-86.
Concludes that either the virgule replicates Chaucer's own mark, or its rather uniform placement signals a scribal practice not yet fully understood.
A New Approach to the Witnesses and Text of the Canterbury Tales
Blake, N. F.
Derek Pearsall, ed. New Directions in Later Medieval Manuscript Studies: Essays from the 1998 Harvard Conference (York; and Rochester, N.Y.: York Medieval Press, in association with Boydell and Brewer, 2000), pp. 29-40.
Summarizes the aims and methods of the Canterbury Tales Project, describes recent improvements in the analytic programs affiliated with the Project's data (SplitsTree rather than PAUP), and suggests ways the data may help to clarify manuscript…
The General Prologue on CD-ROM
Solopova, Elizabeth,with contributions from N. F. Blake, Daniel W. Mosser, and Peter Robinson. , eds.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Includes complete and interlinked digital images, transcriptions, collations, and descriptions of fifty-three fifteenth-century manuscripts and printed editions of GP. Spelling databases (original and regularized) enable examination of all variants.
Gender and the Literate Culture of Late Medieval England
Rogers, Janine.
Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (1998): 4420A, 1998.
Professional book production and circulation in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, including Chauceriana, present courtly models for gender, eventually affecting rural gentry. The Findern MS revises femininity, and the female voice can be…
