Baird-Lange, Lorrayne Y., Bege K. Bowers, Bruce W. Hozeski, Hildegard Schnuttgen [et al.].
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 13 (1991): 293-368.
Continuation of SAC annual bibliography (since 1975); based on 1989 MLA Bibliography listings, contributions from an international bibliographic team, and independent research. A total of 359 items including reviews.
Baird-Lange, Lorrayne Y., Bege K. Bowers, Bruce W. Hozeski, Hildegard Schnuttgen [et al.].
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 14 (1992): 235-318.
Continuation of SAC annual bibliography (since 1975); based on 1990 MLA Bibliography listings, contributions from an international bibliographic team, and independent research. A total of 355 items, including reviews.
Baird-Lange, Lorrayne Y., comp. and ed., with the assistance of Hildegard Schnuttgen, Bege Bowers, et al.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 07 (1985): 295-338.
Baird-Lange, Lorrayne Y.,and Thomas A. Copeland, eds.
Youngstown, Ohio: Youngstown State University, 1989 (for 1988)
Twenty-one articles by various hands, including four articles on medieval women. The article by Baird-Lange, "Rutebeuf's 'Li Diz de l'Erberie': A Satire on Dame Trote and Her Tradition" (pp. 356-90), contains information on Trotula, a figure in…
Baird, Joseph L.
Chaucer Review 2.3 (1968): 188-90.
Identifies the legal denotations of the word "secte" (suit at law) and argues that the Clerk's use of it when referring to the Wife of Bath (4.1170-71) indicates that his Tale is a reply to hers.
Dryden's use of the term in the Preface to the "Fables" echoes Chaucer's use in CT I, 3162, "Goddes foyson." Chaucer's use has sexual overtones. Immediately after using it, Dryden explains that he will not translate Chaucer's indecent tales; so he…
Baird, Joseph L.
Chaucer Review 6.2 (1971): 117-19.
Cites examples from Middle English literary texts to support reading "secte" as meaning "petition" or legal suit in ClT 4.1171, referring to the Wife of Bath's argument.
Baird, Joseph L.
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 70 (1969): 104-06.
Suggests that in the drama of CT the Summoner's idea of friars residing in Satan's arse (SumP) was prompted by the demon's promise to the summoner in FrT that he would know the devil's "privetee" (3.1637), an echo of the Miller's claim about "Goddes…
Baird, Joseph L.
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 70 (1969): 679-83.
Suggests that behind several legal maxims found in RvPT stands the broader principle of measuring one law by another: "the old by the new, the Continental by the English, the private by the public, the Mosaic by the Christian."
Baird, Lorrayne Y.
Studies in Iconography 9 (1983): 19-30.
Pre-Christian and Christian traditions connecting "gallus" and "deus" bear on NPT, especially hymns of Jerome and Prudentius, iconography, and popular equations of the cock with Christ in apocrypha, devotionals, folklore, and slang. As antagonist of…
The Host's use of "tredefowel" in MkT and NPE suggests that he may have been aware of "cock" as an obscenity (as well as a symbol for priest), a meaning supported by evidence from other languages, literature, and iconography.
The bibliography includes books, articles, dissertations, reviews, reprints, and background studies. Annotations identify general, introductory, or background studies and those designed for undergraduates.
Bakalian, Ellen S.
Kathleen A. Bishop, ed. Standing in the Shadow of the Master? Chaucerian Influences and Interpretations (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010), pp. 82-112.
By discussing the tales of Rosiphelee and Alceone from "Confessio Amantis," Bakalian exemplifies how Gower (in contrast to Chaucer) urges readers to improve their behavior through right reason and rejection of irresponsible passion.
Baker, Alison A.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 23.1 (2016): 351-61.
Proposes a "mnemonic device" for six of the Roman classical gods (Apollo, Diana, Venus, Mars, Minerva, and Bacchus) "that can be used to teach and understand" them in CT and in Spenser's "Faerie Queene."
Baker, Alison Ann.
Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 2481A
Baker compares medieval and modern theories of textual production and examines the development of characters in TC by means of textual variants among the work's manuscripts.
Maintains that the referent for "my lord" at the end of NPT (7.3445) is Thomas Bradwardine, and identifies parallels between the ending and Bradwardine's "De causa Dei."
Baker, David Philip.
Ph.D. Dissertation. Durham University, 2013. Open access at http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/7716/ (accessed January 28, 2023).
Explores interrelations between literary and logical/mathematical texts in late-fourteenth century England, focusing on how "sophismata" (relatively standardized, imagistic, absurd logical puzzles) underlie late-medieval literary texts. Explains the…
Baker, David, ed.
Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1996.
A symposium on English poetic meter. Robert Wallace proposes ten rules for clarifying discussion of meter, and fourteen writers critique the validity and utility of the propositions; Wallace responds in a final essay. Recurring concerns include the…
