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Boyd, Beverly.   Anne Clark Bartlett, Thomas H. Bestul, Janet Goebel, and William F. Pollard, eds. Vox Mystica: Essays on Medieval Mysticism in Honor of Professor Valerie M. Lagorio (Rochester, N.Y.; and Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1995), pp. 99-105.
Traces a strain of Marian mysticism in Chaucer's works, including ABC and several aspects of SNT and PrT.

Li, Xingzhong.   Anne Curzan and Kimberly Emmons, eds. Studies in the History of the English Language II: Unfolding Conversations (Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004), pp. 315-41.
Statistical evidence--including stress patterns, line divisions, pauses, missing and extrametrical syllables, and syntactical inversion--from Chaucer's octosyllabic lines corroborates a proposed prototype of iambic tetrameter and encourages us to…

Wiggins, Alison.   Anne Lawrence-Mathers and Phillipa Hardman, eds. Women and Writing, c.1340-c.1650: The Domestication of Print Culture ([York]: York Medieval Press, 2010), pp. 77-89.
Examines the readers' marks in an annotated copy of the 1550 Thynne edition of Chaucer's Workes (Folger STC 5074 Copy 2), identifying its century-long provenance (1578-1677) of female ownership and commenting on how notes, bracketed passages, and…

Edwards, A. S. G.   Anne Marie D'Arcy and Alan J. Fletcher, eds. Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood (Dublin: Four Courts, 2005), pp. 121-28.
Transcribes a version of CkT from Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 45, previously unnoticed or ignored. Accompanied by the apocryphal Tale of Gamelyn, the text was copied by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), probably from a manuscript now lost.

Lucas, Angela M.   Anne Marie D'Arcy and Alan J. Fletcher, eds. Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood (Dublin: Four Courts, 2005), pp. 181-200.
Surveys approaches to FranT and discusses it as "an exemplum on a young man's learning of gentillesse, by way of serving an apprenticeship in love." Set against actions in other Breton lays, Aurelius's behavior reflects the gentillesse that the…

Pearsall, Derek.   Anne Marie D'Arcy and Alan J. Fletcher, eds. Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood (Dublin: Four Courts, 2005), pp. 259-69.
Reads the two title poems in the context of contemporary court activities and conventions as "attempts to present a moralized version of love within an allegorical framework."

Allen, Valerie.   Anne Marie D'Arcy and Alan J. Fletcher, eds. Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood (Dublin: Four Courts, 2005), pp. 35-52.
Allen explores the showiness and ideology of tournaments in late medieval England, not only for knights but also for archers, focusing on Roger Ascham's "Toxophilus" for information about the latter. Allen comments on Chaucer's GP Yeoman as an absent…

Thompson, John J.   Anne Marie D'Arcy and Alan J. Fletcher, eds. Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood (Dublin: Four Courts, 2005), pp. 353-61.
Considers the omission of ABC from Chaucer's canon and what it reflects about the editorial habits of John Stow and Thomas Speght; religious-political pressures on editors of the time; and the reception of the Marian devotion of ABC in Protestant…

Walker, Greg.   Anne Marie D'Arcy and Alan J. Fletcher, eds. Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood (Dublin: Four Courts, 2005), pp. 375-401.
Argues that The Plowman's Tale was composed in a complex process of interpolations and revisions (evident in various metrical schemes) that reflect various political and doctrinal agendas. Walker suggests a five-stage process of composition that…

Boffey, Julia.   Anne Marie D'Arcy and Alan J. Fletcher, eds. Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood (Dublin: Four Courts, 2005), pp. 53-64.
Discusses William Calverley's "Dyalogue Bitwene the Playntife and the Defendaunt" (ca. 1530-35?) in light of the "Boethian motif of the prisoner of fortune," discussing Chaucer's influence, especially among printers interested in religious or…

Burrow, J. A.   Anne Marie D'Arcy and Alan J. Fletcher, eds. Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood (Dublin: Four Courts, 2005), pp. 65-75.
Explores the concept of "civil inattention" ("a desire not to intrude on privacy") as it helps to explain the behavior of the dreamer toward the Black Knight in BD. The concept is described in modern sociology and occurs in several medieval romances…

Rooney, Anne.   Anne Rooney. Hunting in Middle English Literature (Woodbridge, Suffolk;
Surveys critical assessments of the hunting episode in BD, explicates details of the episode, and reads it as a representation of worldly bliss. The episode and the allusion to the hunt near the end of the poem frame the Black Knight's account of…

Houwen, L. A. J. R.   Anne Scott and Cynthia Kosso, eds. Fear and Its Representations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2002), pp. 17-30.
Chauntecleer's responses to the fox in his dream and in his initial sighting of the beast are rooted in Aristotelian traditions of psychology and natural antipathy, here traced from their classical roots through their medieval adaptations. The…

Spearing, A. C.   Anne-Katrin Federow and Kay Malcher, eds. Troja Bauen: Vormodernes Erzählen von der Antike in Comparatistischer Sicht (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter,
2021), pp. 187-202.
Identifies internal "traces of uncertainty and changes of mind" in the composition process of TC, aligning them with the poem's theme of the unreliability of Boethian Fortune and challenging ideas about the supposed "planned wholeness" of TC and its…

Rouse, Margitta.   Anne-Katrin Federow and Kay Malcher, eds. Troja Bauen: Vormodernes Erzählen von der Antike in Comparatistischer Sicht (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter,
2021), pp. 203-26.
Explores ellipsis, ekphrasis, lists, allusions, and their combinations as techniques and thematic devices in HF. Focuses on "elliptical ekphrasis" of source material as axiological choice, and as a method of literary generation and renewal, with…

Galloway, Andrew.   Annette Harder, Alasdair A. MacDonald, and Gerrit J. Reinink, eds. Calliope's Classroom: Studies in Didactic Poetry from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Dudley, Mass.: Peeters, 2007), pp. 245-67.
Chaucer and Gower compete in seeking to articulate political and moral ideals. Whereas Gower endorses "communal governance of the ideology of self-interest," Chaucer explores a less certain "ideal union" among political, moral, and personal forms of…

Saunders, Corinne.   Annette Kern-Stähler and Elizabeth Robertson, eds. Literature and the Senses (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 107-24.
Comments on medieval and modern understandings of hearing voices, then assesses the phenomenon in Middle English romances and mystical accounts. Demonstrates how in TC and BD Chaucer "extends romance motifs" to explore "the processes of the…

Flannery, Mary C.   Annette Kern-Stähler and Elizabeth Robertson, eds. Literature and the Senses (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 271-88.
Explores connections between the physiological sense of taste (especially sweetness) and the aesthetic sense of good (or bad) taste, emphasizing their ambivalence in medieval understanding and the need for discernment that such ambivalence entails.…

Trigg, Stephanie.   Annette Kern-Stähler and Elizabeth Robertson, eds. Literature and the Senses (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 31-48.
Outlines various "cognitive and sensual contexts" that frame "face-gazing in literature" and analyzes the descriptions of male gaze at female faces in TC and BD, both "mediated by the complex ideology of courtly love," comparing them with discussion…

Newhauser, Richard G.   Annette Kern-Stahler, Beatrix Busse, and Wietse de Boer, eds. The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern England (Boston: Brill, 2016), pp. 199-218.
Explores the "full sensory expression" in Chaucer's "construction of space," emphasizing the interconnectedness of the five senses in medieval understanding and their ethical dimensions that require proper training to engage volition correctly.…

Capener, Norman.   Annual of the Royal College of Surgeons 50.5 (1972): 283-300.
Summarizes the life and medical expertise of John of Gaddesden, rejecting the notion that Chaucer caricatured Gaddesden in the GP description of the Physician, suggesting that it is instead an "impersonal description." Also comments on Chaucer's…

David, Alfrd.   Annuale Mediaevale 06 (1965)
Argues that the Franklin's gentility is a "watered-down version" of traditional gentility, aligning FranT with eighteenth-century bourgeois "sentimental comedy." Contrasts KnT and FranT, maintaining that "virtue releases man from the bonds of…

Sadler, Lynn Veach.   Annuale Mediaevale 11 (1970): 51-64.
Discusses the concerns with suffering and pity in BD as aspects of universal nature that binds together everything and thereby makes possible the consolation in the poem for the Black Knight (John of Gaunt), the Dreamer (Chaucer), and the audience.…

Masi, Michael.   Annuale Mediaevale 11 (1970): 81-88.
Examines Troilus's love malady in TC in terms of medieval psychology, arguing that his fixation with Criseyde produces melancholy, a "lack of contact between mind and reality," and a loss of the desire to live. Focuses on Troilus's dream of Criseyde…

Burbridge, Roger T.   Annuale Mediaevale 12 (1971): 30-36.
Compares and contrasts aspects of RvT with two analogues, the A and B versions of "Le Meunier et les .II. Clers," arguing that Chaucer's version achieves greater vitality, clearer characterizations and motivations, and a great deal of comic irony.
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