Luttrell, Anthony.
Julia Bolton Holloway, Constance S. Wright, and Joan Bechtold, eds. Equally in God's Image: Women in the Middle Ages (New York: Peter Lang, 1990), pp. 184-97.
Refers briefly to the Wife of Bath while discussing a document about a female English pilgrim, Isolde Parewastell, who journeyed to Jerusalem from England and who requested that the pope grant her the right to a chantry in England because of her…
Makowski, Elizabeth M.
Julia Bolton Holloway, Constance S. Wright, and Joan Bechtold, eds. Equally in God's Image: Women in the Middle Ages (New York: Peter Lang, 1990), pp. 129-43.
Discusses canonical doctrine about sexual relations in marriage as it was understood between the twelfth and mid-fourteenth centuries--an era in which scientific jurisprudence came of age. Makowski focuses on the concept of conjugal debt, referring…
Brinton, Laurel J.
Sylvia Adamson, and others, eds. Papers from the Fifth International Conference of Historical Linguistics, Cambridge, 6-9, April 1987. Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science, 4th series. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, no. 65 (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1990), pp. 31-53.
Uses TC as a tests case to reinforce Otto Funke's argument that "gan" is a structural marker, noting its relations with sequencing adjectives.
Wicher, Andrzej.
REALB: The Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature (Tubingen) 7 (1990): 19-60.
Considers Chaucer's tales of marriage in light of patterns of the supernatural marriages in folktales, identifying MLT and SNT as tales that transcend marital opposition through allegory, and viewing ClT, MerT, FranT, and SqT as tales in which the…
Edwards, A. S. G.
Modern Language Quarterly 51 (1990): 409-26.
Surveys earlier responses to MerT and argues that the problems they identify cannot be solved; the "moral vacuum" of the tale leaves no criteria for moral evaluation. MerT is Chaucer's "bleakest" view of the relationship between poetry and morality.
Simmons-O'Neill, Elizabeth.
Modern Language Quarterly 51 (1990): 389-407
Unlike its analogues, MerT develops themes and images associated with the myth of Proserpine's rape and Ceres's search for her daughter. As a result, both May and January are presented as culpable and victimized.
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.
Eckhardt, Caroline D.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
In addition to sections on editions; bibliographies, indexes, and other research tools; general criticism and cultural background; language, metrics, and studies of manuscripts; and the springtime setting, this bibliography of 1,387 entries includes…
Baker, Donald C., ed.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,
A variorum edition of Chaucer's SqT based on the Hengwrt and built on the model that has evolved over many years: critical and textual introductions, newly established text for SqT, collations providing evidence both of the manuscripts and of the…
Beadle, Richard.
Ruth Morse and Barry Windeatt, eds. Chaucer Traditions: Studies in Honour of Derek Brewer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990) pp. 213-33.
In 1635, Sir Francis Kinaston published a translation into Latin verse of the first two books of Chaucer's TC under the title "Amorum Troili et Creseidae libri duo priores Anglico-Latini". This is best described as a parallel-text edition,for a…
In this study of Princeton MS 100.1, Boyd posits that the b-text, admittedly faulty, represents the parchment core of MS Helmingham, itself an effort to save CT through cutting and summarizing the text. Its errors might also lie in the fact that…
Examines two instances in which Hengwrt is markedly different from other early manuscripts. The first instance casts doubts on the authenticity of CYP and CYT (not in Hengwrt). The second suggests that the long form of NPP and those versions in…
Leland, Virginia E.
Medieval English Studies Past and Present. (Tokyo: Center for Medieval English Studies, 1990), pp. 56-60.
Discusses the careers of Manly and Rickert, their initiation of the Chaucer Project at the University of Chicago in 1924,and their techniques for collating Chaucer manuscripts. Emphasizing the professionalism and influence of the two scholars,…
Demonstrates, "on the basis of handwriting and dialect correspondences (and aided in part by the evidence of colophons), that the scribe who wrote the copy of the 'Canterbury Tales' in Rylands English MS 113 also wrote the first 53 folios of Bodleian…
An examination of the two earliest-known owners of a CT manuscript suggests that Chaucer's secondary audience was literate, secular in its interests, urban, and word-oriented.
Chaucer completed CkT in approximately seven hundred lines, but since the final quire of the booklet containing the tales of the Miller, Reeve, and Cook was lost very early in the manuscript tradition, the Hengwrt scribe--writing in London or…
Stevens, Martin, and Daniel Woodward.
Chaucer Newsletter 12:1 (1990): 1-3.
A report on plans to publish a facsimile volume of Huntington MS El 26 C9 and an accompanying volume of essays on the Ellesmere, both volumes to be edited by Daniel Woodward, librarian at the Huntington.
Drake, Graham Nelson.
Dissertation Abstracts International 50 (1990): 2046A.
A study of later medieval commentaries on classical myth in the Boethian work sheds light on such matters as Chaucer's treatment of the Muses and Lydgate's view of Hercules.
