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The Canterbury Tales
Cawley, A. C., ed., with an Introduction by Derek Pearsall.
New York: Knopf, 1992.
Reprints the 1958 Everyman edition of the complete CT, with bottom-of-page glosses. Includes a new introduction (pp. vii-xxiii) and bibliography by Derek Pearsall. The introduction considers the "unfinished and improvisatory state" of CT, its…
Medieval Hunting: Fact and Fancy.
Orme, Nicholas.
Barbara A. Hanawalt, ed. Chaucer's England: Literature in Historical Context (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992), pp. 133-53.
Surveys the attitudes toward and conditions of hunting in late-medieval society, describing practices, laws, criminal offense, social variety, and artistic representations in literature and visual art. Includes brief comments on KnT, BD, and the GP…
The Medieval Consolation of Philosophy: An Annotated Bibliography.
Kaylor, Harold Noel Jr.
New York: Garland, 1992. Freely available in e-reprint (New York: Routledge, 2020) at https://www-taylorfrancis-com.libweb.lib.utsa.edu/books/e/9780429057083; accessed November 1, 2021.
An annotated bibliography, listing materials that pertain to the "Consolation of Philosophy" in French, German, Old English and Middle English, with sections on Chaucer's translation and to its influence, with seventy-six and forty-three items…
The "Cattes Tale:" A Chaucer Apocryphon.
Newman, Barbara.
Chaucer Review 26.4 (1992): 411-23.
Offers perspective on affiliations of Elizabeth and Alice Chaucer with Barking Abbey; comments on cats in late-medieval literature (CT, "Piers Plowman," and more); identifies "Gyb" as a conventional name for a cat; and explores international versions…
Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages: A Research Guide
Davidson, Linda Kay, and Maryjane Dunn-Wood.
New York and London: Garland Press, 1993.
This annotated bibliography of 1,062 entries is analyzed in seven categories: history of pilgrimage, introduction to the study of pilgrimage, Jerusalem, Rome, Santiago de Compostela, other sites, and pilgriamge in the arts. Each category includes…
An Annotated Chaucer Bibliography, 1991
Allen, Mark,and Bege K. Bowers.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 15 (1993): 309-89.
Continuation of SAC annual bibliography (since 1975); based on 1991 "MLA Bibliography" listings, contributions from an international bibliographic team, and independent research. A total of 382 items, including reviews.
A Glossarial Concordance to the "Riverside Chaucer"
Benson, Larry D.
Hamden, Conn.: Garland Press, 1993.
A complete concordance to Benson's "Riverside Chaucer," excluding only titles, glosses, implicits, and explicits. Includes brief definitions of words and references to definitions in the OED and MED.
A Lemmatized Concordance of Chaucer
Benson, Larry D.
Ian Lancashire, ed. Computer-Based Chaucer Studies (Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, 1993), pp. 141-60.
Describes the production of a computer-generated "glossarial concordance" to Chaucer in which meanings, variant spellings, and occurrences are presented; see Benson's "Glossarial Concordance." Describes the uses of such a concordance and the…
Chaucer Research, 1992: Report No. 53
Bowers, Bege K.
Chaucer Review 28 (1993): 187-203.
The 1992 report of the Committee on Chaucer Bibliography and Research; lists 367 Chaucer studies.
Middle English : Chaucer
Rumsey, Lucinda.
Year's Work in English Studies 71 (1993): 235-51.
Discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1990.
Handmade, Computer-Assisted, and Electronic Concordances of Chaucer
McCarty, Willard.
Ian Lancashire, ed. Computer-Based Chaucer Studies (Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, 1993), pp. 49-65.
Briefly surveys the practice of concordance making and assesses the limitations of Tatlock and Kennedy's concordance to Chaucer (1927) and Oizumi's computer-assisted but conventionally printed one (1991). Some of the limitations of traditional…
Middle English: Chaucer
Rumsey, Lucinda.
Year's Work in English Studies 72 (1993): 123-40.
A discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1991.
'Raptus' in the Chaumpaigne Release and a Newly Discovered Document Concerning the Life of Geoffrey Chaucer
Cannon, Christopher.
Speculum 68 (1993): 74-94.
Examines the word "raptus" in late-fourteenth-century English law and concludes that it meant "forced coitus." Also prints a newly discovered document relating to Cecily Chaumpaigne's case against Chaucer and suggests that the phrase "de raptu meo,"…
Geoffrey Chaucer, Cecilia Chaumpaigne, and Alice Perrers: A Closer Look
Harley, Marta Powell.
Chaucer Review 28 (1993): 78-82.
Challenges Haldeen Braddy's assertion that Cecilia Chaumpaigne was the stepdaughter of Alice Perrers, since, in fact, Chaumpaigne was not one of Alice's surnames. Elsewhere, Braddy's reading and citing of sources on this issue are suspect.
The General Prologue
Andrew, Malcolm,Charles Moorman, and Daniel J. Ransom, eds.; with the assistance of Lynne Hunt Levy.
Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.
Part 1A includes a new, variorum text and set of collations for GP, based on the Hengwrt manuscript and edited by Charles Moorman; textual notes by Daniel J. Ransom and Charles Moorman; textual commentary by Daniel J. Ransom, assisted by Lynne Hunt…
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Ecker, Ronald L., and Eugene J. Crook, trans.
Palatka, Fla.: Hodges & Braddock, 1993.
Translates the full text of CT, based on Robinson's edition (1957), presenting the poetry in close imitation of Chaucer's verse forms and approximating Chaucer's syntax in the prose. Includes brief glossary of people, places, and terms.
The Marketing of Printed Books in Late Medieval England
Edwards, A. S. G.,and Carol M. Meale.
Library, 6th ser., 15 (1993): 95-120.
Traces the careers of Caxton, de Worde, and others to show (amid much else) that their interest in publishing Chaucer and other vernacular writers can be correlated with a "movement from opportunistic diversification...to forms of consolidation and…
Voices of Translation: Poet's Voice and Woman's Voice
Morsberger, Katharine M.
Pacific Coast Philology 28 (1993): 3-19.
Through readings of Dryden's translation of WBT and Pope's translation of WBP, Morsberger details how "translation" serves as an attempt to understand the Other, to redefine language, and to discover other voices.
Electronic Representation of Chaucer Manuscripts: Possibilities and Limitations
McGillivray, Murray.
Ian Lancashire, ed. Computer-Based Chaucer Studies (Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, 1993), pp. 1-15.
Explores the possibilities of representing medieval manuscripts within the present limits of technology and the normal scholar's finances, using TEI-SGML (Text Encoding Initiative-Standard Generalized Markup Language) and some graphic representation.…
An Electronic Reading-Text of Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'
Remley, Paul G.
AEstel 1 (1993): 77-110.
Electronic "hypertext" versions of medieval texts often depend on the mediation of an expert reader. As an alternative, Remley outlines a system for producing electronic "reading texts" by prelemmatization, taking his electronic edition of CT as a…
Prologue to 'The Canterbury Tales' and the Morrison Version
Salzberg, Albert C.
Translation Review 42-43 (1993): 19-23.
Critiques Theodore Morrison's translation of GP for its inaccuracies, losses of irony, and poor poetry, supplying instances of each. The Morrison translation appears in the "Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces" and the Macmillan "Literature of…
El libro de la Duquesa
Serrano Reyes, Jesus L.,trans.
Cordoba: Grupo de Investigacion no 5.075 de la Junta de Andalucia, 1993.
A Middle English/Spanish bilingual edition of BD with notes and introduction by the translator.
Studies in "Troilus": Chaucer's Text, Meter, and Diction
Barney, Stephen A.
East Lansing, Mich.: Colleagues Press, 1993.
Addresses problems in producing editions of medieval poems, focusing on TC and the editions and textual commentaries by Windeatt and Root as well as on Barney's own contribution to "The Riverside Chaucer." Considers such issues as Chaucer's…
Editing the 'Canterbury Tales': An Overview
Blake, N. F.
Norman Blake and Peter Robinson, eds. The 'Canterbury Tales' Project Occasional Papers, Volume I (Oxford: Office for Humanities Communication Publications, 1993), pp. 5-18.
Surveys textual issues that confront editors of CT, presenting the issues as background to the "Canterbury Tales" Project. Considers problems of lineation, the incompleteness of the text, the role of the links, questions of early circulation,glosses,…
The "Canterbury Tales" Project Occasional Papers, Volume I
Blake, N. F., and Peter Robinson, eds.
Oxford: Office for the Humanities Communication Publications, 1993.
A preface and five essays describe the goals and methods of the "Canterbury Tales" Project, an endeavor to replace Manly and Rickert's textual analysis of CT (Chicago, 1940). Long-range goals include facsimile reproduction of portions of the…
