Fisher, John H., Malcolm Richardson, and Jane L. Fisher.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1984.
Diplomatic transcriptions of select writings of "Signet clerks of Henry V, who established the first forms and style of the official written (English) language." Includes 241 letters,indentures, and other documents, with an introduction to forms and…
Deals with late ME pronunciation shown in rhymes of literary works written mostly in East Anglia and the Southeast Midlands, including London, 1300-1500.
Ikegami, Tadahiro.
Shounosuke Ishii and Peter Milward, eds. Renaissance Bungaku no nakano Yosei (Fairies in Renaissance Literature). (Tokyo: Aratake Shuppan, 1984),: pp. 33-58.
Using "elf, dwarf" and "fairy, fay" as key words, analyzes the meaning of fairies in literature from Old English through the fifteenth century in England.
Iwasaki, Haruo.
Key-Word Studies in Chaucer 1 (1984): 15-32.
Gives frequency of "gan" in each work by Chaucer, an exhaustive list of verbs in this construction, and rhythmical patterns according to frequency. Chaucer used the "gan" periphrasis in a conscious, stereotyped way.
Ross, Thomas W.
Robert F. Yeager, ed. Fifteenth-Century Studies: Recent Essays (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1984), pp. 137-60.
Latin-English glosses from BL MS Add. 37075 and other hitherto unpublished sources throw light on attitudes toward words for sex, body parts, and body functions as used by Chaucer and Scottish Chaucerians.
Ames, Ruth M.
Peter Cocozzella, ed. The Late Middle Ages (Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1984 (for 1981)), pp. 71-88.
Treats themes of predestination, Lollardy, and priestly celibacy in CT and TC.
Ames, Ruth M.
Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1984.
Written without footnotes for the nonspecialist, the book deals with Chaucer's Catholic-catholic Christian humanism, treating Chaucer as a Christian courtier whose comments on the church and the laity; sex, love, and marriage; the Old Testament and…
The comic theory of Aristotle is a source for CT comic realism in which all topics, however volatile, may be explored as in TC, MilT, HF, CYT, FrT, PardT, GP, NPT, and PF.
Bald, Wolf-Dietrich, and Horst Weinstock, eds.
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1984.
Seventeen essays on Old and Middle language and literature. For five essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval Studies Conference Aachen 1983 under Alternative Title.
Blake, N. F.
Archiv fur das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 221:1 (1984): 65-79.
Endings may have been lost for HF and other works. The thesis that works were abandoned by Chaucer leads to untenable theories that Chaucer lost his patronage or became bored or dissatisfied.
Eight chapters on the genre of PF; the relationship of Chaucer to English and European traditions; metonymy in Chaucer's poetry; Chaucerian poetic; popular comic tales; NPT as story and poem; the poetry of the fabliaux; and Chaucer's rationalism. …
General, introductory work in fourteen chapters on Chaucer's schooling, courtly life, literary traditions, BD, Chaucer as diplomat, HF and PF, from Boethius to Venus, KnT, TC, LGW, GP and CT, and Chaucer's last years.
Fifteen essays and notes on fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English and Scottish writings, four never before printed. For two previously unprinted essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Essays on Medieval Literature under Alternative Title.
Anecdotal revisitation of Harbledown, Bobbe-up-and-down, a mile from Canterbury. Chaucer himself likely traveled the Blean in official duties. As a type of Dante's "selva oscura," the Blean may have been in Chaucer mind in BD, TC, KnT, FrT, NPT,…
Ebin, Lois (A.). ed.
Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, Medieval Institute Publications, 1984.
A diversity of critical perspectives presented by R. W. Hanning, D. Kelly, F. Goldin, J. M. Ferrante, E. Vance, W. Wetherbee, G. D. Economou, J. B. Allen, G. Olson, R. O. Payne, and L. Ebin to focus on creation of poetic works of Lydgate, Dunbar,…
