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Focuses on the role of authorship within the scribal process, and emphasizes "intertextuality" as an important facet of medieval historiography. Briefly discusses how Chaucer "de-authorizes" Adam Scriveyn's work, yet reveals his own authorship in…

Examines patterns, trends, and values of private and public collections of Chaucer manuscripts sold in the twentieth century.

Argues that the Frontispiece of the 1420 manuscript of TC (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 61) demonstrates a medieval tradition of textuality that is not only oral and aural but social, and an example of group textuality in which words and…

Compares the first and second editions of Caxton's CT. Using digital tools to collate the first and second editions, finds that Caxton not only added and removed lines, but made over 3,000 changes based on a manuscript source that was closer to the…

Within this larger comprehensive study of 'Piers Plowman' in Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 733B (N), the authors note that Chaucer's scribe, Adam Pinkhurst, may have made scribal corrections to the B-text copy M (London, British…

Uses personal copy for close comparison with 1687 edition, and views book history as evidence of increasing inability to decode Middle English and the beginning of antiquarianism and collectable Chaucer.

Provides comprehensive study of reception and translation of Chaucer's works in Denmark from the late eighteenth century to 2012. Study reveals cultural changes and links between Denmark and England, and provides analysis of current Chaucerian…

Catalogues Chaucer resources at the Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin and focuses on Aitken as collector.

Fulk extols two collaborative editions of Chaucer for their excellent textual editing: The Variorum Chaucer by Ruggiers and Ransom, and Benson's Riverside Chaucer; additionally, praises Peter Robinson's digital Canterbury Tales Project. Warns…

Discusses the importance of "corrections" in Middle English manuscripts. In particular, addresses scribal errors and corrections in the Ellesmere and Hengwrt manuscripts.

Looks at distinction between "scribal variation" and "authorial revision" in medieval texts. Includes specific discussion of CT and TC.

Considers that editing the "multilayered text" of CT requires a combination of different methodologies, including codicology, textual evidence, and computer-based evidence, in order to restructure and represent Chaucer's true authorial intentions.

Collection of essays that discuss emerging challenges for scholars and editors in textual studies. For essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for Probable Truth under Alternative Title.

Collection of essays celebrating the teaching and varied scholarship of Howell "Chick" Chickering. For essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for Essays on Aesthetics and Medieval Literature under Alternative Title.

Discusses TC's "moral allegory and fictional realism" using a Kantian aesthetic lens. Focuses on the aesthetics of desire, as well as the rhythm, imagery, and mode of the poem.

Addresses shared tropes, themes, and language of LGW and TC. Presents LGW not as a "failed text" in its incompleteness, but as a work that is "grounded" in the tragedy of TC and that anticipates the "comedic narratives" of CT.

Examines plot and language repetition and "doublings" in CT. Focuses on irony and ambiguity in Th-MelL and claims that both tales have an "identical sentence" and are "the same story told twice. Also discusses MkT, NPT, and PrT.

Studies over 15,000 occurences of n-stem and r-stem nouns in the "Corpus of Middle English Verse and Prose," and uses the information to assess "his lady grace" (GP 1.88) and the incoherences in the Squire's performance of "chivalry," "courtliness,"…

Explores metaphors of eating, drinking, hunting, and food preparation, within the framework of the "storytelling performances" of the Wife of Bath in WBT and the unnamed Wife in ShT.

Emphasizes Chaucers skillful and "poetic" use of grammar, with special attention to nouns and pronouns in TC. Also addresses Chaucer's focus on rhetoric and logic in GP and ClT.

Discusses handcrafted production and aesthetic beauty of the Kelmscott Chaucer and responds to the question "What constitutes 'beauty' in medieval poetry?" Provides historical background on the Kelmscott Press, the relationship between William Morris…

Biography of Chaucer that centers on the events of 1386 when he left London for residence in Kent and, by "virtue of necessity," imagined a new audience for his poetry--the embedded audience of CT, depicted in GP. Explores social, civic, and…

Suggests that Pandarus's phrase "ye haselwodes shaken" (TC 3.890) might be paraphrased as "you offer food to pigs."

Argues that KnT is "mainly about" the tragedy of Arcite rather than the success of Palamon. The latter mistakes both the nature of Emelye and the rivalry of Arcite, who is a "worthier" man. Like Troilus, Arcite falls in fortune, and ultimately fails…

Describes considerations of mutability from "Antiquity Through the Middle Ages" and then focuses on Chaucer's works, with individual sections that assess aspects of the theme in Chaucer's translations, his lyric poems, his dream visions, TC, KnT, and…