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Friar Hubert practices false-seeming by faking a Francophone lisp, replacing dentals with sibilants in order to increase his social prestige and his seductiveness. Kendrick also explores why Parision French was considered "sweet".

Explores various "developments in the image of writing in the Middle Ages and the different ways in which images empower writing from approximately the sixth through the sixteenth centuries," concentrating on early manuscripts and religious rather…

Suggests that collected "vidas," or "lives," of the troubadours may have served as Chaucer's model for the "portraits" of the pilgrims in GP. Individual "vidas" open anthologies of troubadour verse in some fourteenth-century manuscripts, and Chaucer…

Kendrick considers a portion of PardP (lines 352-88) in light of two thirteenth-century charlatans' spiels invented for performance by jongleurs: Rutebeuf's "Dit de l'herberie" and Peire Cardenal's "Dit de l'onguent."

Kendrick compares the jocular action and imagery of the links in CT to the marginal imagery of Gothic psalters and Books of Hours.

Kendrick explores the transgressive use of the balade for non-courtly discourse on sex and women in the period just before Chaucer and Deschamps.

Examines the origins of the "nouvelle: in "news" and Chaucer's interest in tydynges.

Includes references to Chaucer's fabliaux.

Kendrick compares GP to the vernacular compilations of lives of the troubadours in fourteenth-century songbooks. A revised version of "Chaucer's General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales and the 'Lives' of the Troubadours," published in 2001.

Contrasts Chaucer's Wife of Bath with Belle, who is constructed from the tradition of masculine discourse on feminine attractiveness.

Kendrick considers secular and religious contexts in which the smile of the Prioress may be understood.

Explores testing in Chaucer's narratives, focusing on uses of the word "assay."

Commenting on the paucity of studies that directly address humor in Chaucer, Kendrick explores modern theories and medieval attitudes toward humor, especially as related to notions of tolerance. She examines instances in Chaucer, Deschamps, and…

Examines how Deschamps's balade 285 is a surprisingly generous recognition and glorification of Chaucer as a pioneering translator from Latin and French into English, and as an "illuminator" or enlightener of his native England. Reveals how this…

Investigates the performative nature of Deschamps's "relatively faithful French translation," "Geta et Amphitrion," and proposes an occasion when it might have been performed. Contrasts Deschamps's treatment of Plautus's Latin original with those of…

Explores Deschamps's Ballade 285 in praise of Chaucer in the "context of late fourteenth-and early fifteenth-century humanist epistolary exchanges . . . including the polemic over 'The Romance of the Rose," and particularly . . . the exchange that…

Documents the manuscript evidence of the authenticity of six passages in WBP (44a-f, 575-84, 605-08, 609-12, 619-26, 717-20) and surveys justifications for their inclusion in various editions.

Cambridge MS Dd.4.24 contains a unique version of WBP: it adds five antifeminist passages and renumbers the Wife's husbands, making that section more organized and coherent. It is not possible to determine whether these changes were the work of…

Argues that two distinct scribal attitudes toward the Wife of Bath can be perceived: a misogynous scholarly response typical of one manuscript family, and a more sympathetic popular response typical of another. Considers evidence from WBP,…

Argues that the five "additional" passages of WBP (44a-f, 575-84, 609-12, 619-26, and 717-20) and the renumbering of the Wife's five husbands are scribal changes marked by "clerical misogyny and misogamy." These attitudes are elsewhere evident in the…

Descriptions of the Wife of Bath in GP and in WBP are consciously ambiguous, a means of reminding us to suspend moral judgment because language is inherently ambiguous. Through glosses and textual choices, modern editions oversimplify the Wife by…

Anthologizes poetry for a juvenile audience, arranged topically. Includes the first eighteen lines of GP in Middle English (pp. 168–69) in a section entitled "Extra Credit."

Compares a horoscope and its accompanying Latin text found in Equat with two analogous versions, showing that it has closest relations with the Nürnberg version printed in 1659.

Contains twenty-one articles and notes on Old and Middle English literature and language (including seven on "Piers Plowman," three on Chaucer), reflecting Kane's interests: source study related to literary analysis, textual criticism, paleography,…

Both Gower and Chaucer limit their use of Arthurian material to brief allusions, although Gower's allusions are more numerous, specific, and morally serious than are Chaucer's. Chaucer's allusions in WBT, PF, HF, LGW, SqT, Th, NPT, and Ros suggest…