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A report of the publication schedule for the Chaucer Library Committee.

Selections from CT (GP, KnT, MilT, RvT, ShT, MkT, NPT, PardPT, WBPT, FrT, SumT, MerT, SqT, FranT, Ret) in Coghill's modernization (originally published 1951), with illustrations from medieval manuscripts, brasses, stained glass, and other artifacts.

School edition of WBPT and the description of the Wife in GP. Facing-page (modern prose opposite Chaucer's poem), accompanied by explanatory notes, a glossary, appreciative criticism of the Wife's characterization, commentary on the structure of…

A Middle English text and Spanish translation on facing pages, with bibliograghy, notes, and an 80-page introduction contextualizing and discussing main aspects of the work.

Selection of critical writings from fourteenth century through 1933. Vol. 1 (1385-1837) contains remarks about Chaucer by Deschamps, Usk, Lydgate, Caxton, Dryden, Hazlitt, Blake, Crabbe, and Coleridge; vol. 2 (1837-1933) contains hitherto neglected…

Written in the early fifteenth centruy, the Corpus Christi TC,one of the sixteen manuscripts of the poem, is probably the earliest extant copy of TC. Parkes gives a paleographical description of the manuscript; Salter, an iconographical study of the…

Cicero's ideal rhetorical style, which combined wisdom and eloquence, was redefined in Christian terms by Saint Augustine. Chaucer's Franklin, who pretends to follow Augustinian rhetorical ideals, in fact defines wisdom and eloquence in a worldly…

The courtly love interpretations of TC are not plausible; TC offers a burlesque of courtly love. In support of the exegetical promotion of "caritas," serious flaws in Troilus's character are revealed in animal imagery.

In Japanese.

In Japanese.

Constance is that rarity, a romance "heroine," who, like the more familiar hero, learns through trials and difficulties. The tale is thus perhaps one of those narratives that marks the transition from matriarchy to patriarchy in European culture. …

Evidence about medieval marital relationships appears in "auctoritee"--Church and civil records--and in "experience" reflected in literature. Legal and penitential documents depict an astounding range of sources of marital conflict, especially…

Nimrod ("Nembrot") is the only biblical figure in "The Former Age." The detail that he designed the Tower of Babel is traditional, but Chaucer's reference in this poem seems to be derived directly from Walafrid Strabo's "Glossa Ordinaria."

A discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1976.

Caroline Spurgeon's (1925) attribution of the first German essay on Chaucer to J. J. Eschenburg (1793) is inaccurate. Karl Friedrich Flogel published a short Chaucerian essay a decade earlier in "Geschichte der komischen Literatur" (1784-87). …

Chaucer obviosly expects his audience to be familiar with his person, his previous writings, and his reputation as an author. He also expects his audience to reflect about the moral function of poetry. He draws his audience into his poetry by using…

Newly discovered Spanish document reports 400 gold "fortes" paid to Lewis Clifford, Chaucer's friend, on behalf of Carlos II of Navarre, thus connecting Clifford with the Black Prince's Spanish campaign, and explaining some of his other connections…

Medieval courtly literature must be seen as a reflection of the chivalric ideal. The chivalric ideal in England was less integrated than on the Continent because it was the ideal of an alien Norman aristocracy. Native English landowners were…

The various works of the five scribes of Trinity College, Cambridge, MS. R.3.2, a Gower collection, suggest that the London book trade before the advent of printing relied on special orders rather than mass production. Scribes B and D produced the…

Though it has been universally assumed that de Worde's CT of 1498 merely followed the text of Caxton's second edition (c. 1484), recent work for the "Variorum" reveals important differences between the two. Instead, de Worde seems to have used an…

Though only three of the twenty-four poems attributed to the poet in John Stowe's "Chaucer" of 1561 are now accepted as genuine, comparative study of the mss used reveals remarkable substantive accuracy in the text of this early edition.

The finest ms of the greatest medieval English literary work, the Ellesmere, produced about 1410 in a commercial scriptorium, with twenty-three marginal portraits (all reproduced here), was the jewel of the great Bridgewater library assembled by Sir…

After William Caxton's 1485 edition of CT, Richard Pynson's is the earliest (c. 1492). Pynson's printing practice and his role within the historical scope of English printing provide backgrounds for analysis between the two texts of major variants…