Baechle, Sarah.
In Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, John T. Thompson, and Sarah Baechle, eds. New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices: Essays in Honor of Derek Pearsall (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 384–405.
Discusses how editorial glosses and marginalia in extant manuscripts of CT were received and interpreted by medieval readers in the fifteenth century. Includes examination of Latin source glosses of WBPT.
Reads the manuscript glosses to TC in Cambridge, St. John's College, MS L.i and Cambridge, University Library, MS Gg.IV.27 as an "experimental early step toward the more elaborate marginal apparatus" in CT manuscripts. The TC glosses reflect a…
Focuses on RvT and argues that newly discovered documents allow scholars to move beyond Chaucer's individual blame and address structural issues and concerns with language describing and depicting sexual assault in late medieval texts.
Comparative analysis of the "correspondences" and the "disparities of ideas" in these works while revealing their "individual intentions." Originally presented as Baeten's Ph.D. dissertation, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2019.
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.
Juxtaposes the various rhetorical styles of BD and its central dialogue to highlight the resolution of the two in the final couplet. Assesses the narrator by comparing his text and its rhetoric and by examining borrowings from Ovid, the figure of the…
Bahr, Arthur William.
Dissertation Abstracts International A68.02 (2007): n.p.
Bahr explores parallels between manuscripts as compilations and groups of people as affinities in late medieval London. Chaucer in CT and Gower in Confessio Amantis differ in how they conceive of literary and social organization.
Bahr, Arthur, and Alexandra Gillespie.
Chaucer Review 47.4 (2013): 346-60.
Introduces a special issue on manuscript studies and history of the book in relation to critical theory; also, summarizes the issue's articles. Discusses CT, TC, and Th.
Bahr, Arthur.
Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2013.
In a chapter entitled "Constructing Compilations of Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'," considers CT through the lens of Walter Benjamin's historical materialism. Teases out three narrative threads by means of "compilational construction." The…
Bahr, Arthur.
Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, eds. Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the "Canterbury Tales" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 230-38.
Shows that the BBC television adaptation of PardPT concentrates more on sexual predation than on death, and argues that this eliminates both the sexual and the contextual queerness of Chaucer's original, which requires of its audience "rigorously…
Bahr, Arthur.
In Thomas A. Prendergast and Jessica Rosenfeld, eds. Chaucer and the Subversion of Form (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 165-81.
Traces allusions to BD and PF in Gower's "Cinkante balades" as preserved in the Trentham manuscript. The "intertextual play" and "interpretive challenges" activated by these allusions contribute to Lancastrian legitimization at the same time that…
An introductory textbook grammar of Middle English, particularly Chaucer's dialect, with a brief history of the English language and descriptions of the parts of speech, morphology, pronunciation, etc. Includes an edition of the GP, edited from the…
Bailey, Mark.
Stephen H. Rigby, ed., with the assistance of Alastair J. Minnis. Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 352-67.
Reviews the history of rural society in late fourteenth-century England, as well as stereotypes of medieval ploughmen. Reinforces how the plagues affected labor issues and "social relations within the third estate." Argues that Chaucer's Ploughman…
William Empson writes of the concentrated imagery and controlled partial confusion in TC. In book 5, Chaucer manipulates the imagery of the voyage, star-steer, sun-son, etc., to bring the poem to its climax, wherein the narrator cannot indict…
Traces the development of English "central government control over local institutions," discussing the emergence of local groups and mentioning the GP Guildsmen.
Baird-Lange, Lorrayne Y.
Lorrayne Y. Baird-Lange and Hildegard Schnuttgen, eds. A Bibliography of Chaucer (Hamden, Conn.: Shoe String Press, 1988, for 1987), pp. xi-liv.
Reviews developments in Chaucer studies 1974-85 within the context of major twentieth-century critical controversies (including modern critical theories) and notes possible trends for the future.
Baird-Lange, Lorrayne Y.
Fifteenth-Century Studies 11 (1985): 1-5.
Trede-fowl, the controlling image of a Middle English lyric (Sloane MS 2593), often cited as an analogue to images in NPT and MkT, suggests pagan, early Christian, priestly, and bawdy meanings.
Baird-Lange, Lorrayne Y.
Paul Strohm and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1, 1984 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1985), pp. 245-66.
The slandered Trotula as Dame Trote, or as a "trot," serves as a "type" of the Wife of Bath, personification of medieval misogyny, both medical and clerical.
Baird-Lange, Lorrayne Y., and Bege K. Bowers, with the assistance of Hildegard Schnuttgen et al.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 10 (1988): 219-87.
Continuation of SAC annual bibliography (since 1975); based on 1986 MLA "Bibliography" listings, contributions from an international bibliographic team, and independent research. A total of 336 items.
Baird-Lange, Lorrayne Y., and Bege K. Bowers, with the assistance of Hildegard Schnuttgen et al.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 12 (1990): 361-429.
Continuation of SAC annual bibliography (since 1975); based on 1986 MLA "Bibliography" listings, contributions from an international bibliographic team, and independent research. A total of 352 items, including reviews.
Baird-Lange, Lorrayne Y., and Bege K. Bowers, with the assistance of Hildegard Schnuttgen et al.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 11 (1989): 303-71.
Continuation of SAC annual bibliography (since 1975); based on 1987 "MLA Bibliography" listings, contributions from an international bibliographic team, and independent research. A total of 334 items, including reviews.
Baird-Lange, Lorrayne Y., and Bege K. Bowers, with the assistance of Hildegard Schnuttgen et al.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 08 (1986): 279-341.
Continutation of SAC annual bibliography (since 1975); based on 1984 MLA International Bibliography listings, contributions from international bibliographic team, and independent research.
Baird-Lange, Lorrayne Y., and Cynthia Dobrich Myers.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 06 (1984): 233-78.
A total of 232 items including reviews, compiled by an international team of scholars, and based upon the MLA International Bibliography, with additions.
Baird-Lange, Lorrayne Y., and Hildegard Schnuttgen
Hamden, Conn.: Shoe String Press, 1988, for 1987.
Definitive coverage of twelve years of Chaucer scholarship, including books, articles, dissertations, and reviews--numbered, cross-referenced, and indexed by author and subject. A continuation, with added features, of previous standard…
