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Discusses the Franklin "class" of late-medieval England: etymology, legal status, land tenure, wealth, rank, and social position. Adducing contemporary evidence, some of which is here discussed for the first time, the author explores the clues…

Emphasizes the stylistic and rhetorical innovation of Chaucer's narrative voice, arguing that it can be perceived behind his various narrators and implied authors.

Evaluates the "style and structure" of Chaucer's poetry, exploring the interaction of pronunciation and versification and the limitations of medieval and modern rhetorics for describing and gauging Chaucer's techniques. Includes scansion of lines and…

Prints the text of ABC along with its source, i.e., lines 10,893-11,168 of Guillaume de Guilleville's "Pélèrinage de la Vie Humaine." Discusses ABC as a "direct paraphrase," considering how deviations from the source, particularly in imagery,…

Presents a "structural description" of TC which anatomizes its five-book construction, its "time units" and their chronology, and its "narrative units" (signaled by shifts in narrative "modes") and their patterning. The description of these various…

Treats Chaucer's use of and experimentation with conventional gesture as modified by genetic considerations in CT, TC, PF,HF, Anel, LGW, BD, Rom, and minor poems. Includes an appendix of relevant passages.

Supports the research of J. D. North by attesting that the astrological structure of SqT can be perceived through purely literary means, i.e., without astrological training or predisposition.

Twenty-two excerpts from previously published Chaucer criticism, from John Dryden and Matthew Arnold to twentieth-century approaches.

Considers three of the CT that contain 'virago' figures and focus on an encounter between East and West at the heart of the tales. Chaucer's attitude to the set of viragos is enigmatic. By discrediting the reliability of his narrators, he blurs the…

Spanish translation of HF, with facing-page Middle English. Includes a brief introduction (pp. 1-8) and extensive notes (pp. 195-346), with lists of bibliographical references and proper names.

Item not seen; reported by WorldCat as a Spanish translation of CT.

A facing-page Middle English/Spanish verse translation of PF, with notes and introduction by the translator.

A Middle English/Spanish bilingual edition of BD with notes and introduction by the translator.

Demonstrates the influence of Seneca's moral philosophy on CT by assessing Chaucer's quotations of Seneca. Translates Latin and Middle English quotations into both Spanish and modern English.

Argues that Don Juan Manuel's "El Conde Lucanor" and Chaucer's CT have many parallels and that CT may have been influenced by Manuel's work. Explores the presence of both authors in Spain and compares their didactic methods and their many…

For individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, of this volume.

Includes six essays about Chaucer by Leon Sendra and a summary-introduction by Jesus L. Serrano Reyes. The first essay proposes a sociolinguistic approach to Chaucer's works, based on the textual-linguistic theory of M. A. K. Halliday, and the other…

PF describes various aspects of love, but the continual shift of perspective works to supersede the previous interpretation in the following scene.

Challenges the traditional provenance of CT manuscript Oxford, Trinity College, MS 49, detaching it from Saffron Walden, and asserting that it was not donated to Trinity College by Sir Thomas Pope, founder of the college, but given by Thomas Unton,…

Describes conjunctions--"many of them improbable or curious"--among the materials contained in manuscripts "which preserve just one or two of Chaucer's short poems," exploring what they "can tell us about the reception and transmission of Chaucer's…

Explores Chaucer's use of romance conventions of the forest and the hunt. BD offers a particularly "artificial forest," reflecting the artifice of the work. In FrT, the forest is a kind of hell; in TC, the place of greatest freedom. WBT overturns…

Surveys Chaucers references to and possible knowledge of Homer, emphasizing mediating sources, especially Boccaccio.

Assesses the "depiction of women as ethical signifiers" in Chaucer's and Gower's writings, summarizing the "multilingual and transnational networks on which both poets draw," exploring the "ethical valences" of gender (especially feminine) in their…

Hanna discusses late medieval English "textual culture," commenting on the production and disposition of manuscripts, habits of collecting and anthologizing individual works, the vagaries of manuscript survival, reading practices, etc. Cites examples…

Comments on various aspects of dialect, diction, prestige, etc. in Middle English poetry, with many examples drawn from Chaucer's works.