Stanbury, Sarah.
Valerie B. Johnson and Kara L. McShane, eds. Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Literature and Culture: Essays on Marginality, Difference, and Reading Practices in Honor of Thomas Hahn (Boston: De Gruyter; Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, 2022), pp. 265-88.
Explicates the "cukkow"/cuckoo/cuckold pun in ManT by identifying the role of the cuckoo (versus the nightingale) in bird-debate poems, analyzed here, particularly in Sir John Clanvowe's "Boke of Cupide." Argues that, by engaging themes of…
Pitard, Derrick.
Valerie B. Johnson and Kara L. McShane, eds. Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Literature and Culture: Essays on Marginality, Difference, and Reading Practices in Honor of Thomas Hahn (Boston: De Gruyter; Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, 2022), pp. 323-45.
Argues that the "modes of religious expression" in PrT are "vernacular" insofar as they are simultaneously canny and naïve. Using romance discourse to express religious orthodoxy, the Prioress challenges patriarchal "Latinate institutions," evident…
Price, Merrall Llewelyn.
Valerie B. Johnson and Kara L. McShane, eds. Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Literature and Culture: Essays on Marginality, Difference, and Reading Practices in Honor of Thomas Hahn (Boston: De Gruyter; Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, 2022), pp. 99-118.
Explores how the Pardoner resonates with Thomas Becket's miraculous healing of a castrated man, Eilward, depicted in stained glass in Canterbury Cathedral. Considers issues of wholeness, healing, sanctity, and their antitheses reflected in details of…
Norako, Leila K.
Valerie B. Johnson and Kara L. McShane, eds. Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Literature and Culture: Essays on Marginality, Difference, and Reading Practices in Honor of Thomas Hahn (Boston: De Gruyter; Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, 2022), pp. 49-76.
Explores how SqT and "The Book of John Mandeville" "traffic in fantasies of cultural, religious, and racial annihilation . . . in a quieter, more subtextual way than that seen in other works of crusades-inspired literature" Argues that the Squire…
Rogers, Cynthia A.
Valerie B. Johnson and Kara L. McShane, eds. Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Literature and Culture: Essays on Marginality, Difference, and Reading Practices in Honor of Thomas Hahn (Boston: De Gruyter; Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, 2022), pp. 183-202.
Focuses on the "outcast" lyrics of the Findern manuscript (Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.1.6), i.e., those ""overlooked" poems as they appear among works by Chaucer and others. Analyzes how the lyrics "respond" to the works they accompany…
Johnson, Valerie B. and Kara L. McShane, eds.
Boston: De Gruyter; Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, 2022.
Includes fifteen essays on early English, Irish, Scottish, and Robin Hood studies, with an Introduction by the editors, an appreciation of Thomas Hahn's career by Theresa Coletti, and a comprehensive Index. For five essays that pertain to Chaucer,…
Ellison, Katherine E., and Susan M. Kim, eds
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Collects twelve essays that provide context and background to the work of Manly, Rickert, and their collaborators as cryptologists, writers, and scholars, including recurrent mention of their work in Chaucer studies. For an essay that pertains to…
Nolcken, Christina von.
Katherine E. Ellison, and Susan M. Kim, eds. Collaborative Humanities Research and Pedagogy: The Networks of John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), pp. 303-42.
Examines archival records that pertain to the Chaucer Project (which produced "The Text of the Canterbury Tales" [1940]) to explore the history of the project, focusing on the work, working conditions, and attitudes of several scholars who assisted…
Krummel, Miriamne Ara.
The Medieval Postcolonial Jew, in and out of Time (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2022), pp. 185-229; illus.
Interprets four manuscript versions of ClT (here retitled "The Legend of the Litel Clergeon and the Jews") that occur outside the context of CT, "excise" Chaucer's authorship, and adjust their temporalities, addressing "their own distinct identities,…
Kennedy, Kathleen E.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 44 (2022): 133-63.
Argues from "codicological and paleographical evidence" that the copy of TC found in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 61, was commissioned by a "high-level clerical, Lancastrian patron." Examines the "ornate textura" ("textualis") script ofth e…
Haruta, Setsuko.
The Society for Chaucer Studies and Koichi Kano, eds. To the Days of Studying Medieval English Literature: Essays in Memory of Professor Tadahiro Ikegami (Tokyo: Eihosha, 2021), pp. 18-39.
Considers the characterizations of Helen and Criseyde in TC through multiple contexts, including estates of medieval women and the ways Helen is depicted in Greek literature.
Sasamoto, Hisayuki.
The Society for Chaucer Studies and Koichi Kano, eds. To the Days of Studying Medieval English Literature: Essays in Memory of Professor Tadahiro Ikegami (Tokyo: Eihosha, 2021), pp. 57-68
Examines passages in The Legend of Thisbe of LGW that differ from the source, Ovid's "Metamorphoses." In Japanese.
Tagaya, Yuko.
The Society for Chaucer Studies and Koichi Kano, eds. To the Days of Studying Medieval English Literature: Essays in Memory of Professor Tadahiro Ikegami (Tokyo: Eihosha, 2021), pp. 40-56.
Considers the evil of indulgences through comparisons between PardT and its East Asian analogues. In Japanese.
Kano, Koichi.
The Society for Chaucer Studies and Koichi Kano, eds. To the Days of Studying Medieval English Literature: Essays in Memory of Professor Tadahiro Ikegami (Tokyo: Eihosha, 2021), pp. 69-86.
Interprets WBT as a story in which the knight finally accepts the absurdity caused by himself, persuaded by the old woman's words citing classical works. In Japanese.
Takano, Hideo.
The Society for Chaucer Studies and Koichi Kano, eds. To the Days of Studying Medieval English Literature: Essays in Memory of Professor Tadahiro Ikegami (Tokyo: Eihosha, 2021), pp. 217-30.
Argues that George Eliot inherits the way of communicating sorrows from KnT. In Japanese.
Society for Chaucer Studies and Koichi Kano, eds.
Tokyo: Eihosha, 2021.
Includes six essays that discuss Chaucer's texts or related topics. In Japanese; some chapters in English. For essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for To the Days of Studying Medieval English Literature under Alternative Title.
Jimura, Akiyuki.
The Society for Chaucer Studies and Koichi Kano, eds. To the Days of Studying Medieval English Literature: Essays in Memory of Professor Tadahiro Ikegami (Tokyo: Eihosha, 2021), pp. 183-203.
Analyzes examples of computer-assisted textual comparison amongst nine versions of CT.
Presents debates surrounding intersection of art and paleography and the transmission of Middle English manuscripts. Focuses on CT manuscripts and research devoted to Gower, Langland, Hoccleve, and Chaucer. Argues that "scholars attend to how scribes…
Combines feminist critical awareness, reception studies, and codicology to explore the construction of Chaucer as "womanis frend" in fifteenth-century manuscript compilations, studying the intertextualities of English and French works, including…
Dase, Kyle, and Nicole Atkings.
Digital Medievalist 14, special issue (2021). 29 pp.
Describes the use of the online text-editing platform Textual Communities in ongoing developments of the Canterbury Tales Project, clarifying advantages and limitations of using such a platform, and offering advice for future changes to the project…
Gilbert, Jane, and Sara Harris.
Orietta Da Rold and Elaine Treharne, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 149-78.
Includes discussion of Astr in showing that "vernacular pride" in late medieval England was "more inclusive than exclusive of other languages and cultures." Stresses the "practical utility" of Astr and how English achieves "dignity" by association…
Da Rold, Orietta, and Elaine Treharne, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Thirteen essays by various writers on the Hows, Whys, and Wheres of studying medieval manuscripts, with an Introduction by the editors, A Guide to Further Reading, an index of manuscripts, and a comprehensive index. For two essays that pertain to…
Crick, Julia, and Daniel Wakelin.
Orietta Da Rold and Elaine Treharne, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 49-75.
Surveys late medieval insular scripts, and discusses evident efforts to imitate anglicana formata in a stanza inserted into the roundel of PF in Cambridge University Library, MS Gg.4.27--added by a scribe who seems to have been "more accustomed to…
Mosser, Daniel W.
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. 285-311.
Anatomizes the contents of CT manuscripts, i.e., "some 240 Middle English verse texts, 65 Middle English prose texts, 16 Latin prose texts, 10 Latin verse texts, and a single French verse text" that accompany some or all of the CT in one or more…
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…
