Miltner, Robert.
[Rocky River, Ohio]: The Center for Learning, 1988.
Pedagogical materials for high school teachers, including ten lessons on CT, topics for assignments, handouts, report forms, and instructions on how to use these materials.
Study guide to PardPT and the Pardoner's description in the GP, with a running commentary (text not included), survey of topics and themes, suggestions for essay writing, a chronology, and supplemental materials
Fifteen volumes comprise this reading of CT in Middle English: 1) MilT, 2) GP and RvT; 3) GP and PardPT; 4) WBPT; 5) FranPT; 6) MerPT; 7) NPT, ShT, and PrPT; 8) FrPT, SumPT, and Thop; 9) ClT and PhyT; 10) KnT [two cassettes]; 11) MLT, CkT, and ManT;…
Baghdikian, Sonia.
In Graham Nixon and John Honey, eds. An Historic Tongue: Studies in English Linguistics in Memory of Barbara Strang (New York: Routledge, 1988), pp. 41-48.
Draws examples from Bo and Elizabeth I's translation of Boethius ("noght," "nowt," "nothing," etc.) to show that the ambiguity of morphological negation disappears between Middle and Early Modern English while that of syntactical negation survives.
Kolve, V. A., and Glending Olson. eds.
New York : Norton, 2005, 2018
Revised version of the 1989 Norton critical edition, with expanded selection and apparatus. Includes GP, KnT, MilPT, RvPT, CkPT, WBPT, FrPT, SumPT, ClPT, MerPT, FranPT, PardPT, PrPT, ThP and Th and selections from MelP and Mel, NPPT, ManPT, and…
Facing-page German prose translation of the Riverside text of CT. Original German apparatus includes notes, introductions to Chaucer's life and to the tales, a guide to pronunciation, a history of criticism, and a bibliography.
Nicholson, Peter.
Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1989
Line-by-line commentary on the Confessio that synthesizes criticism and scholarship. The introduction surveys critical tradition, and the notes clarify details, patterns,and literary relations of the work.
Speed, Diane, ed.
Sydney: Department of English, University of Sydney, 1989.
Correction and update of 1987 edition. Volume 1 includes a general introduction and bibliography, plus texts and introductions to Havelok, Sir Orfeo, Chevelere Assigne, Sir Cleges, Rauf Coilyear, and The Grene Knight. Volume 2 includes explanatory…
McIntosh, Angus, M. L. Samuels, and Margaret Laing.
Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1989.
Eighteen essays on dialects, scribes, transmission, word geography, and related topics. Only one essay has not been previously published: Margaret Laing's "Linguistic Profiles and Textual Criticism: The Translations by Richard Misyn of Rolle's…
Amos, Thomas L.; Eugene A. Green; and Beverly Mayne Kienzle.
Kalamazoo. Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1989.
Thirteen essays survey topics in the history of medieval preaching from the Carolingian period to the fifteenth century, two focusing on fourteenth-century lives and Christ and Wycliffism respectively.
Burrow, J. A., ed.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Includes nine Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lectures delivered since 1950, and one on Scots delivered in 1942. Reprints Dorothy Everett's "Some Reflections on Chaucer's Art Poetical" (1950), Derek Brewer's "Towards a Chaucerian Poetic" (1974), and…
Griffiths, Jeremy, and Derek Pearsall, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Fifteen original essays on such topics as early book design, book purchasing and ownership, Caxton, and production of various kinds of books. Includes C. Paul Christianson on "Evidence for the Study of London's Late Medieval Manuscript-Book Trade,"…
Analyzes Chaucer's self-consciousness as a writer though the narrator in the prologue, the proems, and the ending of TC. Not the result of naivete, the contradictions, emotional involvement, and irony suggest that the narrator's design is to whet the…
Stevens, Martin, and James Paxson.
Studies in Iconography 13 (1989-90): 48-79.
The conflation of the fool with the devil in medieval representation reflected unstable boundaries between the witless man, who had the protection of the Church, and his imitator, the artificial fool. The Wakefield Satan, an artificial fool, is…
Fisher, John H.
Medieval Perspectives 4-5 (1989-90): 1-24.
CT exhibits tension between the corporate nature of medieval society and the domestic impulses of an "inner-directed society," in which the emergence of the poet is an important aspect of assertion of the self. In GP, the narrator signals irony. …
Pickering, James D.
Medieval Perspectives 4-5 (1989-90): 140-49.
The final three fragments of CT are united in a purposeful pattern by reference to Jeremiah 6. Allusion to testing and failure suggests the alchemical metaphor, enabling correlations between the particulars of specific pilgrims and the generality of…
Cohen, Jeremy.
Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 1989.
Surveys the historical understanding and application of Gen. 1.28, tracing its "career" in Scripture, its interpretations in Hebrew and Christian traditions, and its roles in such literature as Bernard Silvestris's "Cosmographia," Alain de Lille's…
Hagen, Susan K.
Medieval Perspectives 4-5 (1989-90): 42-52.
Recent feminist study of the early Christian movement reveals that women enjoyed a high degree of authority and autonomy. Read against this background, SNT exhibits the changed status of women by the late fourteenth century.
Vitto, Cindy L.
Medieval Perspectives 4-5 (1989-90): 217-27.
Allusions to Christian heaven and hell suggest the inadequacy of the love of Troilus and Criseyde. Troilus's end, contrary to his Boethian source, indicates that he has no free will. It is unlikely that he achieves either Christian or pagan…
Hanna, Ralph, III, intro.
Rochester: Boydell & Brewer, 1989.
A reproduction of the rare 1911 facsimile. Hanna's critical introduction treats manuscript preparation, accuracy, scribal practice, and the value of the Ellesmere in textual matters.
