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Horobin, Simon.   Studies in the Age of Chaucer 31 (2009): 109-24.
Paleographical analysis of the text of Astr in Bodley MS 19 reveals that it was produced not by a professional astronomer, but by Stephen Dodesham, a professional scribe who became a Carthusian monk. Other features of the manuscript encourage…

Horobin, Simon.   Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches (University Park: PennsylvaniaState University, 2010), pp. 67-82.
Horobin describes recent advances in understanding "late medieval textual culture"--reading habits, book ownership, institutional affiliations, etc.--focusing on the œuvres of several Chaucerian scribes, discussions of locale and provenance,…

Horobin, Simon.   ChauR 44 (2010): 351-67.
A petition in the hand of Pinkhurst requesting that a permanent deputy be appointed to relieve Chaucer of his duties as controller of the wool custom establishes their connection in 1385. However, codicological evidence suggests that the poet "was no…

Horobin, Simon.   Yearbook of Langland Studies 23 (2009): 61-83.
Palaeographical differences between the hands of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts of CT and of Additional 35287 are more compelling than are the similarities. Horobin suggests that Pinkhurst "was not Chaucer's personal copyist" and focuses on…

Horobin, Simon.   Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker, with the assistance of William Green, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 57-67.
Horobin surveys "complex and contradictory" evidence for the professionalization of writing in England in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, with comments on Chaucer's scribes (including Adam Pinkhurst), Thomas Hoccleve, and others.

Horobin, Simon.   Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 110 (2009): 141-57.
Horobin exemplifies how Chaucer used traditional methods of word formation to expand English vocabulary, creating new words and meaning by adding prefixes and suffixes, shifting grammatical function, and compounding words.

Horobin, Simon.   Corinne Saunders, ed. A Companion to Medieval Poetry (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010), pp. 181-95.
Comments on various aspects of dialect, diction, prestige, etc. in Middle English poetry, with many examples drawn from Chaucer's works.

Horobin, Simon.   Journal of the Early Book Society 12 (2009): 195-203.
Paleographical evidence and similarities of decoration establish that the Edmund-Fremund scribe, known for his work on manuscripts of John Lydgate, also worked on a CT manuscript which survives in two fragments: John Rylands Manuscript English 63…

Horobin, Simon.   Literature Compass 8 (2011): 258-65.
"Reviews work on Chaucer's language and its importance for the development of English literary language." Also suggests directions for future language studies.

Horobin, Simon.   Ana Laura Rodríguez Redondo and Eugenio Contreras Domingo, eds. Focus on Old and Middle English Studies (Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2011), pp. 11-23.
Studies the treatment of manuscripts in the MED, especially those containing Chaucer's works. Detects potential for confusion in the use of the double-dating system (manuscript and composition dates, not always consistently cited), and in the…

Horobin, Simon.   Chaucer Review 47.4 (2013): 372-89.
Focusing on the MerE-SqH, argues that what has been seen as evidence of authorial revision in the manuscripts may simply be reflecting problem areas encountered by the scribes, including problems in accessing exemplars and linking passages, which…

Horobin, Simon.   Carol M. Meale and Derek Pearsall, eds. Makers and Users of Medieval Books: Essays in Honour of A. S. G. Edwards (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2014), pp. 214-23.
Beaupré Bell (1704-45), member of a noble Norfolk family, was known as a careful, if not exhaustive, annotator of Chaucer manuscripts (Cambridge,Trinity College, MSS R.3.19 and R.3.15). Now it is clear that two printed editions of Chaucer in the…

Horobin, Simon.   Wendy Scase, ed. The Making of the Vernon Manuscript: The Production and Contents of the Bodleian Library (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013), pp. 27- 47.
IIncludes brief mention of research linking Chaucer's scribe, Adam Pinkhurst, to Scribe B of the Vernon manuscript.

Horobin, Simon.   Chaucer Review 50.3-4 (2015): 228-50.
Revisits the question of who edited the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts because the supervisory editorial hand of Hoccleve is found in both.

Horobin, Simon.   Tim William Machan, ed. Imagining Medieval English: Language Structures and Theories, 500–1500 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), pp. 147-65.
Considers how manuscript evidence informs our understanding of Middle English, addressing the value of autograph manuscripts and personal letters, the process of standardization, and the importance of sociolinguistics. Includes analysis of the habits…

Horobin, Simon.   In Laurel J. Brinton and Alexander Bergs, eds. Middle English. The History of English, no. 3. (Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter, 2017), pp. 293-305.
Addresses the status of Chaucer's language in the development of a standard written English, explores grammatical differences between his dialect and "present-day" English, and clarifies the difficulties of understanding the innovativeness of his…

Horobin, Simon.   In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017. Relocated 2025 at https://opencanterburytales.lsusites.org/
Introduces Chaucer's language as a dialect and a stage in the development of English. Designed for classroom use, includes sections on vocabulary, grammar, style and register, and the opening eighteen lines of the GP.

Horobin, Simon.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 21-44
Surveys extant manuscripts of CT, including collections that include standalone tales. Discusses the difference in manuscript presentation and frequency of the tales, arguing that earlier manuscript production and circulation often privileged those…

Horobin, Simon.   Margaret Connolly, Holly James-Maddocks, and Derek Pearsall, eds. Scribal Cultures in Late Medieval England: Essays in Honour of Linne R. Mooney (York: York Medieval Press), pp. 312-28.
Describes the role of Stephan Batman (c. 1542–84) in producing Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.3.15 (which includes CT), observes how the manuscript aligns with contemporaneous printed editions of Chaucer by Thynne and Stow, and explores how…

Horobin, Simon.   Helen Cooper and Robert R. Edwards, eds. Oxford History of Poetry in English. Volume 2, Medieval Poetry, 1100–1400 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 54-68.
Considers the specifics of the material form and transmission of Middle English poetry, touching on the idea of the anthology, along with examples. Concludes by tracing the dearth of evidence for pre-1400 transmission of Chaucer's works (along with…

Horowitz, Deborah.   Chaucer Review 39 (2005): 259-79.
Horowitz assesses the aesthetic value of BD by focusing on three "transcapes" (through visions): that of the narrator as a literary medium; that of the work's interwoven sources and time spans; and that of the gendered landscape, which is both…

Horrox, Rosemary.   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. 443-59.
Surveys current and past scholarship on Chaucer's Pardoner. Provides historical background on the office and practices of pardoners in the late medieval Church and reviews debate over Pardoner's "sexual ambiguity."

Horsley, Katharine Frances.   Dissertation Absracts International 65 (2005): 3796A.
As part of a larger consideration of dream poems and medieval ritual, Horsley argues that Chaucer intended liturgical elements of LGWP to evoke saints' day ceremonies recorded in the Sarum Missal.

Horvath, Richard P.   English Language Notes 24:1 (1986): 8-12.
The Host's comment to the Monk about his tale, "For therinne is no desport ne game," has a significant variant that should be recorded in editions: "Youre tales don us no desport ne game," attested to in several manuscripts, including Hengwrt.

Horvath, Richard P.   Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 3287A.
Late-medieval English poets asserted their authorial identity in a commercial environment in various ways, including producing fascicles or pamphlets. Chaucer asserted his authorship through letters (Scog, Buk, and the letters in TC). Horvath also…
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