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An introduction to Chaucer. his life and times, and the CT, designed for young readers, with color reproductions and photographs drawn from a variety of sources. Emphasizes basic information and vocabulary, with a glossary of modern terms and an…

Announces Linne R. Mooney's identification of Adam Pinkhurst as the scribe of the Ellesmere manuscript of CT, held at the Huntington library.

Clarifies references to St. Neot, St. Frideswide, and St. Thomas in MilT; provides historical and topographical information about Oseney Abbey and Oxford as setting for the tale; and explores Absolon's habit of not wearing a tonsure, despite the…

The Knight and the pilgrims in his group represent the physical world and its transformation, the Clerk and his group reflect the changes in the intellectual sphere of society, and the Plowman and the Parson are the ideal representatives of the…

Wyatt, at his most allusive in this poem, used Petrarchan strategies that Chaucer had used effectively. Wyatt's audience would have recognized and appreciated the vocabulary as intensely and specifically Chaucerian, reminiscent of the world of TC.

A double reception was given Th in the eighteenth century. Dane agrees with Warton that Th is not a "grave heroic narrative" but a humorous tale. The burlesque Th is an eighteenth-century creation. Treats genre of Th and SqT and twentieth-century…

Hoccleve's hopes for preferment depended upon his claim to personal acquaintance with Chaucer and to his "consail and reed." Hoccleve's patrons had known Chaucer by sight and could verify the image of Chaucer that accompanies Hoccleve's poems. …

Reviews John H. Fisher's "The Importance of Chaucer" (Studies in the Age of Chaucer 16 (1994), no. 35); Elaine Tuttle Hansen's "Chaucer and the FIctions of Gender" (Studies in the Age of Chaucer 16 (1994), no. 90); and the "Cluster on Chaucer" in…

Discusses variants in editorial and antiquarian reports of the Latin inscription engraved on Chaucer's tomb and the verses "about the ledge" of the tomb. Suggests that the "snowy tablet" supposedly fixed by Surigone to a pillar near the tomb on…

Although Ellesmere ownership in the fifteenth century cannot be proved, a preponderance of evidence indicates association with Bury St. Edmunds and a family circle that included the Pastons, Drurys, and De Veres, suggesting a context within which the…

Discusses the disbinding, preservation, and rebinding of Huntington Library MS El 26C9. Provides new information regarding earlier bindings, inks, pigments, the relationship of text and decoration, repairs, etc.

Unique Scottish attribution of "Walton's Prosperity" (a copy of "Index" 2820) to Chaucer in British Library MS Cotton Vitellius E. xi suggests fifteenth-century reception of Chaucer as "fount of proverbial wisdom."

In addition to large formal sections, the "ordinatio" of fifteenth-century TC manuscripts marks categories of text and genre shifts (songs, letters, lyrics). Such practice, resembling that in manuscripts of Machaut and Froissart, suggests that TC…

The unique ending of CkT in MS Bodley 686 (ca. 1420-1440) reaffirms the preservation of traditional social systems and the obedience that they entail in the face of rising violence and the fear of political and social instability.

Explores de Worde's multiple uses of the same woodcut (a depiction of an exchange of rings) in various books he produced. Found twice in de Worde's TC, the woodcut may reflect his reception of TC via the summary of it in John Skelton's "Phyllyp…

"The Isle of Ladies" --first published as "Chaucer's Dreame" with the "Fairest of the Fair" as "Additions" in Speght's 1598 edition--has been confused by both scribes and early editors with BD and Lydgate's "Temple of Glass." This confused…

Analyzes the lexicon of Henry Daniel's medical treatise on urine, "Liber uricrisiarum," as it is found in Huntington, MS HM 505. Shows that often "Daniel and Chaucer share a precise vocabulary," detailing their similar uses of "piss," and tabulating…

Examines the manuscript portrait of Chaucer in the Ellesmere manuscript (El) and its scribal rubrics as they reflect the poet's status in his own age. Reviews historical study of the manuscript, its provenance, tale order, and text, accepting Chaucer…

Compares the contents of manuscripts of Chaucer's works and those of early printed editions, especially William Thynne's 1532 edition of "Works." Focuses on the heterogeneous mixture of Chaucerian materials, apocrypha, and works by other authors in…

Carlin documents the development of public dining in London and Westminster, drawing evidence from, among other sources, GP, "Piers Plowman," and the prologue to Lydgate's "The Siege of Thebes."

A reading of GP in modern adaptation by Shirley A. Dye, accompanied by color drawings of scenes and characters. Illustrated by Dye and Angela Parotti. Released in 2004 on DVD.

Reads the Knight's interruption of the Monk (7.2767ff.) as evidence of his "anxiety" about the view of Fortune implicit in the fall of princes tradition. The GP description of the Knight indicates his "preference for worldly wealth and fame that…

Explores the complex workings of an allusion to the Wife of Bath in Joyce's "Ulysses " that resonates with Irish mythology, Yeats, and Irish political power.

The distinctive form of literary criticism in the medieval canon of classics in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries is evidenced by an examination of one of the characteristic types of treatise that resulted from the association of poetry with…

Suggests that both TC and CT conclude in accord with the medieval rhetorical principle of "digression." Identifies the device in medieval rhetoric tradition, particularly the "Poetria Nova" of Geoffrey of Vinsauf, and applies it briefly to the…