Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn, and Steven Justice.
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton and Maidie Hilmo, eds. The Medieval Professional Reader at Work: Evidence from Manuscripts of Chaucer, Langland, Kempe, and Gower (Victoria, British Columbia: U of Victoria, 2001), pp. 217-37.
Codicological analysis of the "Taylor Gower," produced by scribe D, who also produced two manuscripts of CT. This scribe and his "shadow" scribe (Scribe Delta) indicate possible entrepreneurial activity among English vernacular copyists.
Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn, John T. Thompson, and Sarah Baechle, eds.
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014.
Collection of interdisciplinary manuscript studies and critical essays presented at the "New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Derek Pearsall" conference on October 21-22, 2011. Includes…
Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn, Maidie Hilmo, and Linda Olson, eds.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2012.
Richly illustrated text highlights issues that affected literary production, and focuses on how illustrations and glosses expand understanding of medieval English book culture. Introduction discusses different strategies of scribes in two versions of…
Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn, Melissa Mayus, and Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis.
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 494-526.
Reassesses "anti-clericalism," reframing what has been "a concept useful within very real limits" as a kind of inter-clerical polemic, as most of these examples of so-called anti-clericalism are clerically authored. Treats MkT and PardT as examples…
Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn,and Steven Justice.
New Medieval Literatures 01 (1997): 59-83.
Argues that William Langland's readership may have been more like Chaucer's (and John Gower's) than has been assumed in the past, presenting evidence that readers of these authors included scribes and bureaucratic clerks such as Thomas Usk, Thomas…
Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn.
Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006.
Studies the cultural, literary, and codicological contexts for English late medieval works of revealed writing - apocalyptic, visionary, mystical, prophetic, etc. - considering the reception of Continental works in England and works composed in…
Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn.
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. 413-33.
Kerby-Fulton looks at autobiography and "writing the self" in medieval literature, with particular focus on how and to what extent political constraint prompts expression of self. Draws examples from Chaucer, Langland, Christine de Pizan, Thomas Usk,…
Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn.
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Maidie Hilmo, and Linda Olson, eds. Opening up Middle English Manuscripts: Literary and Visual Approaches (Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 2012), pp. 39-94.
Section 5, "Some of the Earliest Attempts to Assemble the Canterbury Tales," analyzes structural and scribal differences in CT manuscripts.
Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn.
Europe: A Literary History, 1348-1418 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 20168), 1:208-26.
Describes late medieval literary production in the city of Oxford, characterizing it as a "crossroads for intellectual work of all kinds," summarizing its library holdings, and surveying affiliated literature. Comments on Oxfordian influences on…
Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.
Demonstrates the importance and central role of the "clerical proletariat"--i.e., clerics who worked "in liminal spaces between the ecclesiastical and lay worlds"--in the proliferation of late medieval books and literature in English, with primary…
Originally published in 1966, here revised, corrected, and expanded. Describes Chaucer's grammar and usage, anatomized according to parts of speech, with extensive examples. Topics include verbs (in their various tenses, aspects, and moods), nouns,…
A study of Middle English, specifically Chaucer's English; lexicography; and obsolete words. Includes bibliography and indexes, as well as an appendix, "Chaucer, 'The Plowman's Tale', and Henry VIII."
Kern-Stähler, Annette, and Elizabeth Robertson, eds.
Contains twenty-six essays by various authors on topics relating to the "wonder and mystery" of the five senses (and "Multisensoriality") in English literature, medieval to the present. The introduction by the editors describe the field of study, the…
Kern-Stahler, Annette, Beatrix Busse, and Wietse de Boer, eds.
Boston, Mass.: Brill, 2016.
Collection of essays presenting perspectives on interrelations between sense perception and secular and Christian cultures in England from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern period. For essay on Chaucer, search for The Five Senses in Medieval and…
Kern-Stahler, Annette.
Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, 2002.
Examines interior space in late medieval English architecture, manuscript illumination, and literature, focusing on homes, churches, and their imagery as they helped to shape feminine identity.
Assesses the location and implications of one stanza from TC (1.400-406) as quoted in the "Disce mori," a fifteenth-century manual of religious instruction addressed to "Dame Alice." The quotation indicates that some may have read TC as a warning…
Kern-Stähler, Annette.
In Sibylle Baumbach, Birgit Neumann, and Ansgar Nünning, eds. A History of British Poetry: Genre--Developments--Interpretations (Trier: WVT, 2015), pp. 29–40.
Introduces Chaucer as a poet and explores reasons for his canonical status, describing his use of English, his lexicon, and his verse forms. Focuses on CT as "arguably one of the most innovative narrative poems in English," commenting on the opening…
Kern, Edith.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980.
Mikhail Bakhtin's study of the grotesquerie of medieval folk festivals encourages us to view certain Chaucerian characters in the carnivalesque spirit of absolute comedy: moral offenders such as Alysoun of MilT escape unscathed; Nicholas is punished…
The Pardoner's interruption of the WBP causes shifts in her tone and subject, but also alerts us to parallels between the two characters: wide travels, sermon-like autobiographical prologues, and tales which feature central characters who are…
Kerr, John M.
Dissertation Abstracts International 62: 163A, 2001.
Dante and Chaucer elaborate on the three aspects of the classical goddess who appears as "Proserpina in hell, Diana on earth, and Luna" in heaven. Medieval commentary associates her with memory. Chaucer treats her recurrently, sometimes parodically,…
Kerr, John.
Stephen Gersh and Bert Roest, eds. Medieval and Renaissance Humanism: Rhetoric, Representation, and Reform (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2003), 185-202.
In HF, Chaucer poses "epistemological instability" as a condition of the sublunar realm, which he characterizes as hellish through associations with Proserpina in her triple manifestation, references to Claudian, and allusions to Virgil and Dante.
Kerr, John.
Bruce E. Brandt and Michael S. Nagy, eds. Proceedings of the 14th Northern Plains Conference on Earlier British Literature, April 7-8, 2006 (Brookings, S.Dak.: English Department, South Dakota State University, 2006), pp. 77-93.
Kerr argues that the sixth canto of Dante's Inferno was the model for Chaucer's use of gluttony and alimentary metaphors in PF, particularly the latter's concern with literary transmission and the birds' debate.
Kertz, Lydia Yaitsky.
Dissertation Abstracts International A78.06 (2016): n.p.
In the course of a discussion of a medieval aesthetic associating romance's luxury with aristocracy, finds examples in HF and TC, among other period works.
Kertz, Lydia Yaitsky.
Medievalia et Humanistica 45 (2020): 75-99.
Clarifies "two distinct modes of ekphrasis, the literal and the literary," exploring how and where they are deployed in HF (storm at sea and wall paintings of Dido and Aeneas) and in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" (castle description and Gawain's…
Kessel-Brown, Deidre.
Medium Aevum 59 (1990): 228-45.
Medieval literature utilizes landscape symbolism for both positive and negative emotional effects. The article touches on KnT, FranT, BD, and medieval lyrics.
