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Develops the medieval concept of "middle age," one of the Ages of Man, as it differs from the modern concept.

Intertextual references in MerT invite recourse to medieval commentators on the Song of Solomon.

Wycliffite translation of Jewish Scripture and the glosses and prologues that supplemented it often reflect curiosity about Jewish scholarship. Chaucer may have read the translation and may have admired the reading practices of the Jews.

Significant Victorian writers, concerned with social problems as encountered in the past as well as in their own day, revolutionized Chacuer's reputation.

A psychoanalytic analysis suggesting parallels between the "scopophilic" instinct represented in TC and the "extreme intertextuality" of the poem. Both are forms of the Oedipal complex whereby Criseyde, although she is finally unknowable, is for…

Surveys "current critical trends" in the history of emotions and in Middle English literature, considering modern and postmodern criticism of TC ("a poem of emotional extremes") and "Sir Orfeo," and suggesting future directions for the study of…

In referring to St. Margaret of Antioch in this poem, Hoccleve draws out her "implied presence" in the form of the marguerite in the prologue to Chaucer's LGW.

Rebinding and rearrangement of John Dart's biography of Chaucer in one of the six seventeenth- and eighteenth-century editions of his work held in Paris, effectively reframe it as having been modeled "culturally and linguistically from French…

Discusses Eustace Deschamps's balade in praise of Chaucer, the Duxworth manuscript of Chaucer that belonged to Jean Angouleme, and two sixteenth-century French references to Chaucer that evince French awareness of Chaucer as a poet: an anecdote about…

Discusses the reception of Chaucer's poetry by nineteenth-century French critics who focused on CT, read Chaucer as a "European" rather than an English writer, discussed the accessibility of his language, and examined Chaucer's national literary and…

Considers the "non-lyric French inclusions" in Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.3.20 as evidence of what "French meant to [John] Shirley" and what this indicates about fifteenth-century English reception of French literature.

Studies the "narratological representation of the non-normative exemplarity of facial pallor" in Chaucer's poetry, exploring associations of facial paleness with facial expressions and emotional reactions, contrasting paleness with blushing, and…

Surveys historical interest and recent theorization of emotion and affect produced by 'works, and assesses the role of books in the opening of TC (tears as ink) and in WBP (Jankyn's book) as "affective, emotional objects that arouse a range of…

Linguistic analysis of Chaucer's syntactical techniques in GP.

Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate this is an adaptation of KnT for early readers.

Paleographic analysis of the five manuscripts or fragments attributable to the Ellesmere scribe: Ellesmere itself; the Hengwrt manuscript, except for "a few lines"; twenty-four folios of a copy of Gower's "Confessio Amantis;" a fragment of a leaf of…

Transcriptions of previously unpublished manuscript versions of three minor poems: "ABC" from Melbourne MS.; "Truth" from Nottinghame ME LM I; "Wom Unc" from Bodleian Fairfax 16.

Provides a full description of the Coventry manuscript (City Record Office, Coventry) that includes six of Chaucer's Short Poems (ABC, Buk, Gent, Purse, Sted, Truth), along with works by Hoccleve, Lydgate, Mandeville, and others). Edits the text of…

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…

Peter Beidler asserted that a "shadow allusion" to CYT in "Rip Van Winkle" had gone unnoticed; in fact, scholars of seventeenth-century literature have recognized the allusion. Further, Chaucer's statement that one cannot trust someone who swears to…

In Book 2 of TC, Criseyde gains subjectivity as a "reader" of Antigone's song. Although the narrator encourages female readers to "read like men" by identifying with Troilus, Margaret More Roper, in a letter to her father Sir Thomas More, aligns…

Excerpted from Chaucer's LGW and thus lacking a narrative frame, the Legend of Thisbe in the Findern manuscript leaves room for the assumption that the manuscript's female readers saw Thisbe "as simply a victim." The excerpt's codicological context,…

Combines feminist critical awareness, reception studies, and codicology to explore the construction of Chaucer as "womanis frend" in fifteenth-century manuscript compilations, studying the intertextualities of English and French works, including…

Medieval male authors, anticipating female resistance to their treatments of Criseyde, often represented her as an example of natural feminine fickleness, leading women to accept this negative view. Doyle examines masculine treatments of Criseyde,…

Focuses on quire xix of Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.3.20, showing how John Shirley connects Chaucer's Anel with the female-voiced French lyric tradition of skepticism about male courtly rhetoric.