Crepin, Andre,and Helene Taurinya Dauby.
Paris: Nathan, 1993.
An introduction to literature written in England from Gildas's Latin chronicle to Sir Thomas Malory, including, among others, separate chapters on Chaucer (pp. 148-61) and Chaucer's influence and apocrypha (pp. 187-201).
Crépin, André.
Paris: Publications de l'Association des Medievistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Superieur, 1998.
Catalogue of the exhibition at the eleventh international congress of the New Chaucer Society, held at the Sorbonne. Lists books and objects that illustrate the "boundless influence of French-speaking cultures on Chaucer" and the "scholarly…
Cowgill, Jane.
Essays in Medieval Studies 12 (1995): 39-53.
As in late-medieval lyrics and drama, the suffering of mothers and children in Chaucer's works is presented as analogous to the suffering of Mary and Jesus. Surveys the presence and absence of references to children in Chaucer's works.
Carruthers, Leo, ed.
Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris-Sorbonne, 1998.
Ten essays by various authors exploring the four seasons in medieval English literature and society. Includes an essay by Sandra Gorgiewski about David Fincher's movie "Seven" in relation to ParsT and Dante. For an essay that pertains to…
Carruthers, Leo, ed.
Paris: Publications de l'Association de Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 1998.
Eight essays by various authors examining medieval dreams and prophecies in literature and society. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer search for Reves et propheties au Moyen Age under Alternative Title.
Brewer, Derek.
London and New York: Longman, 1998.
A "radical revision" (xi) of Brewer's 1984 "Introduction to Chaucer" (SAC 8 [1986], no. 55a); like its predecessor, a general introduction intended for specialists and first-time readers of Chaucer alike. Carried over from the first edition, the…
Burnley, David.
London and New York: Longman, 1998.
Historical survey of the language and actions of courtly behavior as evident in Anglo-Norman and Middle English writings, with some corroboration from Latin. Traces the emergence of aristocratic courtliness in the eleventh century through to its…
Bradbury, Nancy Mason.
Urbana and Chicago: University of illinois Press, 1998.
Explores how Middle English metrical romances reflect "proximity to orally transmitted legends." Treats the "Tale of Gamelyn" and related outlaw ballads as "fragmentary remains of a predominantly oral tradition,"Havelock the Dane" as an early…
Blum, Martin Albert.
Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1998): 163A.
Examines various ways gender, ethnicity, and disease interact with social class in selected texts. In MLT, race is less important than place in salvation history. The tale of Lucrece (LGW) seeks to keep women virginal for marital traffic. Erotic…
Bisson, Lillian M.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.
Reads Chaucer's works for the ways they reflect the "conflicting realities he confronted in his world." An opening section on "The Poet and His World" introduces the "double vision" of the intellectual world Chaucer inherited and describes his…
Biddick, Kathleen.
Durham, N. C., and London : Duke University Press, 1998.
Explores the "contemporary consequences of the methods used to initiate medieval studies as an academic discipline in the nineteenth century," particularly how the discipline is "still intimately bound" to the "fathers" of medieval studies.
Bertolet, Craig E.
Chaucer Review 33 (1998): 66-89.
Chaucer's envoys should be examined not within the context of history but within the context of the art of letter writing, the medieval concept of friendship, and the description of late medieval diplomacy. Chaucer's is a "public stance," which…
Beidler, Peter G., ed.
Cambridge; and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1998.
An introduction by the editor, plus seventeen essays by various authors. The collection includes one essay on the Host, thirteen on CT, and three on TC. For the individual essays, search for Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness under…
Baker, Peter S.,and Nicholas Howe, eds.
Toronto, Buffalo, and New York: University of Toronto Press, 1998.
Seventeen essays by various autors, focusing primarily on Old English language and literature. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Words and Works under Alternative Title.
An, Sonjae (Brother Anthony).
Seoul: Sogang University Press, 1997.
A traditional literary history of Britain from the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons until 1500, introducing major writers (including Chaucer) and works, with summaries and brief quotations.
Allman, Wendy West.
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 2642A.
Chaucer's uses of political discourse intersect with his concerns about poetic authority. In PF, "commune profyt" represents both an equivocal political ideal and an idealized community of readers. In KnT, just as Theseus aestheticizes his reign,…
Akehurst, F. R. P.,and Stephanie Cain Van D'Elden, eds.
Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
Nine essays by various authors on representation of and attitudes toward strangers in medieval literature and society. Topics include merchants as strangers, Jews in France, Wolfram von Eschenbach's "Wolfram, Renaut de Montaubon," the German poet…
Yonekura, Hiroshi.
Jacek Fisiak and Akio Oizumi, eds. English Historical Linguistics and Philology in Japan (Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1998), pp. 439-53.
Summarizes the distribution of the two suffixes and compares their semantic functions. A revision of an essay originally published in "Studies in Modern English 19 (1993): 1-255.
Tajima, Matsuji.
Jacek Fisiak and Akio Oizumi, eds. English Historical Linguistics and Philology in Japan (Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1998), pp. 323-39.
Like most of his contemporaries, Chaucer used gerunds primarily as nominals. Yet his usage is marked by a penchant for "determiner + gerund + 'of'-adjunct" and by an unusual number of gerunds with verbal properties, especially in his prose.
Staczek, John J.
Jacek Fisiak, ed. Middle English Miscellany: From Vocabulary to Linguistic Variation (Poznan: Motivex, 1996.), pp. 245-52.
Argues that certain English pronominal forms are "durable over time" when used in instructions. Assesses cookbooks and Astr as Middle English samples and compares their usage with modern American cookbooks.
Nagucka, Ruta.
Jacek Fisiak, ed. Middle English Miscellany: From Vocabulary to Linguistic Variation (Poznan: Motivex, 1996.), pp. 233-44.
Assesses the spatial prepositions in Astr, arguing that the availability of the instrument to the audience of Astr made it possible for Chaucer to use imprecise indicators of space, that the prepositions used are "semantically transparent," and that…
Lay, Ethna Dempsey.
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 4667A.
Using the electronic Glossarial Database of Middle English, Lay analyzes Chaucer's habits of combining native English vocabulary with Romance vocabulary in doublets and puns, a reflection of his bilingual imagination.
Collects previously printed essays, all here translated into English. The essays explore various relationships between diction and characterization as the key to Chaucer's literary craft. Concludes that Chaucer composed poetry as if he were…
Jimura, Akiyuki.
Hiroshima University Studies, Faculty of Letters 58 (1998): 199-208.
Charts word order in various editions of CT and TC with reference to manuscripts on which they are based. Although the evidence in CT is obscure, Root's edition of TC shows a marked tendency toward modern subject-verb-object syntax. Includes an…
Higuchi, Masayuki.
Journal of English Linguistics 26 (1998): 199-208.
In Chaucer's prose, where usage is unaffected by metrical considerations, the presence or absence of the "y-" prefix in past participles is not random. Chaucer uses "y-" for stylistic variations and to convert nouns to verbs, and it almost always…
