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Connects LGW with the "Livre du Chevalier de la Tour Landry" and the "Menagier de Paris." Suggests that the domestic sphere of "Livre du Chevalier de la Tour Landry" and the "Menagier de Paris" offers a place for productive, satisfying love; however,…

Discusses how LGW represents marital affection as contentious and unstable.

Traces the changes and continuities of fifty years of the journal "Chaucer Review.".

Explores the significance of Chaucer's travels through Kent. Claims that HF resonates with the cult and Church of St. Leonard in Kent.

Proposes that the Cook is suffering from illness, which challenges the traditional interpretation of the Cook as a drunkard.

Focuses on the concept of manipulation in language and magic in FranT.

Portrays the symbolic and naturalistic use of the cat and applies these concepts to SumT and its critique of the mendicant orders.

Argues that Chaucer is indecisive in CT when it comes to his relation to nominalism and realism, maintaining a grey area between the two through love.

Reads PhyT as a conflict between Jewish literal hermeneutics and a more metaphorical Christian reading of faith.

Argues that the use of Dante's "Paradiso" 53 in the initial presentation of faith in PrT reflects Chaucer's sophisticated engagement with the ways humans try to articulate transcendent truth.

Examines the ways in which the Legend of Ariadne in LGW reflects Chaucer's concerns over the cyclical and repeating tragedies of history.

Looks at how both erasure and the anxiety that erasure produces in material culture are revealed in FrT and SumT.

Traces the use of the minuscule "a" in the Latin quotations of the Ellesmere manuscript to support the argument that these annotations derive from the ways Chaucer imagines the form of CT.

Analyzes the ways in which Chaucer uses the word "sight" in order to examine concepts of taste and tastelessness in RvT.

Examines the use of final -"e" in the fourth stanza of Book II of TC, and the ways in which early copyists paid attention to Chaucer's use of the letter.

Examines the role of the mill in northern Europe as a site of merry-making and festival that newly informs Chaucer's Miller and MilT.

Examines the word "cunning," omission of its sexual connotations in the MED, and the ways in which Chaucer puns on the word in previously unconsidered sexual contexts.

Focuses on the circle rhyme in the second book of HF, which reflects the theory of poetic form and voice as found in the vision itself.

Explores prosimetrum in the Arthurian "Tristan en prose" as a way to understand Palamon's actions after he overhears Arcite's "formally elegant rondeau" in KnT 1.1510ff.

Explores the urban management of sound as found in CkT as a reflection of Chaucer's attitudes toward popular noise in London.

Argues that the use of the story of Pyramus and Thisbe in LGW reveals a queer critique of the patristic tradition of hermeneutics.

Examines how Sted is a poem not only about political issues, but also about the relationship between the local and the universal.

Examines the textual witnesses for issues of authorship and attribution, as well as the various forms in which Sted survives.

Considers KnT alongside didactic texts of the period to clarify how chivalric loyalty controls and ties men together.

Argues that the right use of anger in proper, hierarchical social relationships in SumT affirms aristocratic authority while undermining the pretenses of Friar John and Jankyn the clerk.