Rusch, Willard J.
American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures 6 (1994): 1-50.
Studies of Chaucer's rhymes have traditionally assumed that textual criticism and historical phonology together could recover lost information about the pronunciation of his verse. The rhymes, however, possess their own unique written properties. …
Robinson, Michael.
American Journal of Physics 90 (2022): 745-54.
Explains the practical utilities and operations of astrolabes, reporting on several years' use of a homemade instrument. Includes recurrent references to Astr as a helpful guide, describing it as "apparently the earliest known technical manual…
Matthews, David.
American Literary History 22 (2010): 758-72.
Matthews considers ways of distinguishing between "medieval studies" and "medievalism" (relating the latter to "antimodernism") and assesses how late nineteenth-century American study of Chaucer "problematizes" the terms. The article contrasts…
Michelson, Bruce.
American Literary History 22 (2010): 773-80.
Explores the intensity of America's involvement in the Chaucer Society discussed by Matthews in "Chaucer's American Accent," focusing on the rise of British national tourism and the Gothic Revival, as well as on American romantic notions of…
Barrington, Candace.
American Literary History 22 (2010): 806-30.
Assessing the conservative ideological underpinnings of the pageantry and commenting on its "inability to control the polysemy of Chaucer's texts," Barrington summarizes the history of Mistick Krewe and describes its 1914 parade and party dedicated…
Sponsler, Claire.
American Literary History 22 (2010): 831-37.
Sponsler comments on the "appropriation theory" underlying Candace Barrington's analysis of a Chaucer-themed Mardi Gras pageant of 1914, raising broader questions about the ideology, methodology, and disciplinary implications of "American…
Rowland, Beryl.
American Notes and Queries 03 (1964)
Explores anatomical and associative parallels between Alison of MilT and the weasel, an animal to which she is likened via simile (1.3234); maintains that the connections lend symbolic depth to the characterization.
Isaacs, Neil D.
American Notes and Queries 1 (1962): 52-53.
Suggests that the version of the Constance story in the Middle English romance "Emare" may help to account for why in MLP the Man of Law says that he learned the story from a merchant.
Grennen, Joseph E.
American Notes and Queries 1 (1963): 131-32.
Suggests that "esy of dispence" in the GP description of the Physician (1.431) means not only "slow to spend money," but also "moderate in prescribing remedies," or perhaps that he prescribes palatable medicines.
Conlee, John W.
American Notes and Queries 12.9-10 (1974): 137-38.
Tallies similarities between RvT and a section in John Barth's novel "Sot-Weed Factor" that indicate direct influence: cast of characters, setting, straying-horse motif, etc.
Peed, Michael R.
American Notes and Queries 12.9-10 (1974): 143-46
Reads the narrator of TC as separate from the poet Chaucer and recognizable in two roles that exist in productive tension: an inexperienced servant of love and a fallible recorder of Trojan history.
Di Gangi, John J.
American Notes and Queries 13 (1974): 50-51.
Hende Nicholas of MilT and Frere N. Lenne, a source of "Astr," both refer to the Oxford astronomer and mathematician Nicholas of Lynne. This is borne out by chronological, local, and occupational similarities among the three.
Van Arsdale, Ruth.
American Notes and Queries 13 (1975): 146-48.
George Williams is wrong to claim homosexual implication for Th, in the light of a re-examination of the knight himself, the forest through which he rode, and Chuacer's use of "prike" in the tale. To find sexual connotations in the tale is to read…
Bugge, John
American Notes and Queries 14 (1976): 82-85.
The Prioress by omitting the passage which extolls King David in Psalm 8 betrays herself as ignorant of history. The Friar in blending vv.8-9 of Psalm 10 omits passages which chastise the aggrandisement of the friars at the expense of the poor. …
Jember, Gregory K.
American Notes and Queries 15 (1977): 82-86.
The use of the ambiguous word "greyn" in 7.662 indicates that Chaucer had more than one meaning in mind. One of the intentional referents probably was a grain of salt, because of the religious significance of salt. "Greyn" also suggests the seed,…
