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Shoaf, R[ichard] A[llen].   Journal of English and Germanic Philology 78 (1979): 313-24.
The poet in BD takes the role of confessor and "medicus animae" to the Black Knight, whose shrift and repentance return him to the duties of everyday living. The hunt, which sets the scene, is an allegorical image of the process of confession…

Hahn, Thomas.   Chaucer Newsletter 1.1 (1979): 7-8.
The prologue of LGW is a kind of "ars poetica" that contrasts seasonal renewal with eternal regeneration in order to show that poetry can mediate between them and serve as a true guide to love.

Crampton, Georgia Ronan.   Chaucer Newsletter 1.1 (1979): 8-9.
ABC is not polite praise of the Virgin or gentle expression of filial love: it is a needy, fearful, grasping cry for her protection, evincing the greed, craft, and importunity of a child seeking its mother's reassurance.

Aers, David.   London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979.
Aers explores the conflict between traditional Christian ideology and social and individual realities in "Piers Plowman," and Langland's criticism of abuse of power in all ranks of the clerical hierarchy. Langland calls for reformation within…

Mehl, Dieter.   Kurt Ranke, ed. Enzyklopadie des Marchens, Vol. 2 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1979), cols. 1256-67
Emphasis on Chaucer's sources and narrative patterns in the light of fairy tales and the oral tradition.

Rowland, Beryl, ed.   New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Twenty-two essays by noted Chaucerians on a range of topics: individual works, biography, backgrounds, source study, genre, etc. The essays survey fundamental critical issues and bibliography. For individual essays, search for Companion to Chaucer…

Davis, Norman,and Douglas Gray, Patricia Ingham, and Anne Wallace-Hadrill.   Oxford: Clarendon, 1979.
A glossary based largely on the Tatlock and Kennedy "Concordance." It does not go beyond A of Rom, nor does it cover the "Equatorie." Different meanings are cited by line references; etymologies are provided; there is a useful introductory note on…

Fisher, John H., et al.   Studies in the Age of Chaucer 1 (1979): 201-55.
A list of 273 items, including reviews, based upon the "MLA International Bibliography," with additions, compiled by an international team of scholars.

Kirby, Thomas A.   Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 80 (1979): 280-86.

Kirby, Thomas A.   Chaucer Review 14 (1979): 74-95.

Oizumi, Akio.   Eigo Seinen 125 (1979): 30-31.
A survey of Chaucer scholarship in America.

Ridley, Florence [H.]   Studies in the Age of Chaucer 1 (1979): 3-16.
Two major trends of the past two decades have been the attempt to define the Chaucerian aesthetic and to focus sharply on the poetry itself. Recently, there is a great increase in those critics who read medieval poetry in terms of modern, clinical…

Shikii, Kumiko.   SELLA (1979): 61-77.
Some typical references are introduced to classify the characteristics of each period of Chaucerian scholarship from the fourteenth century to the present time. The paper also shows the necessity of trying a religious approach especially to CT to…

Ackerman, Robert W.   Beryl Rowland, ed. Companion to Chaucer Studies. Rev. ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), pp. 21-41.
References to popular Christianity pervade Chaucer's work, especially CT and the shorter poems, but these usually concern the lower clergy and routine matters. His canon does not include ponderous didactic allegory or theological treatises.

Baugh, Albert C.   Beryl Rowland, ed. Companion to Chaucer Studies. Rev. ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), pp. 1-20.
Despite several still unresolved problems, Chaucer's life is well documented in the nearly 500 citations of the Crow and Olsen "Chaucer Life Records," based on the previous researches of Manly, Rickert, and Redstone.

Hieatt, Constance B.   Edward Vasta and Zacharias P. Thundy, eds. Chaucerian Problems and Perspectives: Essays presented to Paul E. Beichner, C.S.C. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979), pp. 139-63.
Food and eating provide central images and activities in Chaucer's poetry. Misunderstanding the foods mentioned, Chaucer's readers may miss points essential to their comprehension of his poetry. The revolution in tastes and eating habits may be…

Hira, Toshinori.   Bulletin of the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Nagasaki University, 20 (1979): 27-42.
Chaucer as a court poet adapts himself to the pattern of sentiments of the court audience. He views the bourgeois pragmatism from the aristocratic standpoint. However, in his fabliaux he could deliberately make fun of the attitude of the…

Wentersdorf, Karl P.   Journal of Medieval History 5 (1979): 202-31.
The obscure circumstances surrounding the three marriages of Joan of Kent are clarified by reference to the original documents. In 1340, at age 12, she secretly married Sir Thomas Holland. In 1341, while Holland was crusading in Prussia, she was…

Wood, Chauncey.   Beryl Rowland, ed. Companion to Chaucer Studies. Rev. ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), pp. 202-20.
Chaucer's many references to astrology have often been discussed, but only recently (as in Wood's "Chaucer and the Country of the Stars") have there been any book-length studies of the subject and of its function in his poetry.

Woolf, Rosemary.   Mary Salu and Robert T. Farrell, eds. J. R. R. Tolkien: Essays in Memoriam (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979), pp. 221-45. Reprinted in Rosemary Woolf, Art and Doctrine (London: Hambledon Press, 1986), pp. 197-218.
The epithets "moral" and "kindly" have for centuries been applied, respectively, to Gower and Chaucer, with a deleterious effect upon critical evaluation of the two poets. The epithets can revealingly be reversed. Gower is seen as kindly in his…

Blodgett, James E.   Library 6th ser. 1 (1979): 97-113.
Identifies through examination of printer's marks the printer's copy for Thynne's text of Rom, Bo, "The Assembly of Ladies," and the final six stanzas of "La Belle Dame sans Merci." Comments on Hunterian MS 5.3.7 and Longleat MS 258.

Windeatt, Barry   Studies in the Age of Chaucer 1 (1979): 119-142.
Scribal transcription of Chaucer's work offer line-by-line "active readings" through numerous intentional variations in word choice and syntax. Comparisons of the mss. yield inverse criticism which reflects the scribes' tendency for poetic cliche…

Burrow, J. A.   Review of English Studies 30 (1979): 385-96.
Implicit in the proverb are two distinct views of the order of human development: the order is either a 'high norm to be achieved" or a "low norm to be transcended." Although Chaucer never directly cites the proverb, evidence found in KnT and PrT,…

Hoya, Katusuzo.   Memoirs 30 (1979): 39-51.
A complete list of the Latin and French loan words in GP, including proper nouns. Chaucer is indebted to earlier borrowings, especially to those in the "Ancrene Riwle." The number of Chaucer's own borrowings is indicated. A high ratio of the…

Mustanoja, Tauno F.   Beryl Rowland, ed. Companion to Chaucer Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), pp. 65-94.
Chaucer's meters are of mixed Romance and native origin, but the details of scansion--whether the verse is accentual or syllabic and the pronunciation of final "e"--are still in dispute.
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