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Baugh, Albert C.   Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America 37 (1961): 539-43.
Offers evidence that "embosed" in BD 352-53 means that the deer "had well concealed itself in a thicket and was not easy to find" and that the meaning of "double worstede" (Friar's cloak; GP 1.262) is worsted fabric of "considerable width."

Baugh, Albert C.   Wolfgang Iser and Hans Schabram, eds. Britannica: Festschrift für Hermann M. Flasdieck (Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1960), pp. 51-61.
Reviews discussions that consider Nicole de Margival's "La Panthère d'Amous" to be a source of HF, challenging most of them for lack of specificity or because shared details are conventional. Only two brief passages evince Margival's influence and…

Baugh, Albert C., and E. T. Donaldson.   Modern Language Notes 76 (1961): 1-5.
Challenges L. G. Evans' suggestion that TC 4.1585 alludes to Matthew 10.39 (MLN, vol. 74), Baugh arguing that the phrasing is the same as in a common proverb, and Donaldson that the emendation underlying Evans' suggestion ("lyf" for "lief") is…

Baugh, Albert C., comp.   Arlington Heights, Il.: AHM, 1977.
Designed for "graduate and advanced students," this selective bibliography includes 3215 citations (more than 800 added to 1st edition, 1968), arranged in fourteen categories and sub-divided in several subordinate categories, with separate sections…

Baugh, Albert C., ed.   New York: Appleton-Century Crofts, 1963.
A teaching edition that includes BD, HF, PF, TC, LGWP-F and the legend of Cleopatra, CT (without Mel or ParsT), and eight short lyrics (Ros, Adam, Gent, Truth, Sted, Scog, Buk, and Purse), with bottom-of-page notes and glosses, and a glossarial…

Baughn, Gary.   English Journal 93 (Sept): 60-65, 2002.
Pedagogical approach to CT for an eleventh-grade honors survey of British literature, combining popular twentieth-century music with activities related to CT: analysis of GP descriptions, story-telling, and writing assignments.

Baule, Cynthia Anne.   Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 2293A, 2000.
In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the English laity became increasingly literate, in part because readers consumed religious literature to increase their devotion and to achieve personal relationship with God. PrT and SNT, among other…

Baum, Paul F.   Durham, N.J.: Duke University Press, 1961
Describes Chaucer's metrical line as a "series of five iambs" and the beginning of "modern English verse," and provides examples from across Chaucer's corpus of dominant practices, variations in feet and line-lengths, rhyme patterns, and stanzas.…

Baum, Paull F.   Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1958.
[xii], 229 pp.
Appreciative commentary on Chaucer's life and works, considering what can and cannot be determined from his life-records and literature, why he may not have completed several works, why (though a civil servant) he did not comment on political events,…

Baum, Paull F.   PMLA 73.1 (1958): 167-70.
Augments Baum's earlier dictionary of puns (PMLA 71 [1956]), with nearly 30 more examples noticed by Baum and by readers of his earlier listing, exemplifying and explaining each.

Baum, Paull F.   PMLA 71 (1956): 225-46.
Recounts the scholarly tally of puns in Chaucer, locates the device in rhetorical tradition, and clarifies its wide range of stylistic effects. Then provides an alphabetical list of puns in Chaucer's works (more than 100), both previously known…

Baumann, Eric James.   Dissertation Abstracts International 59: 483A, 1998.
Traces the development in English literature of attempts to "establish a poetic language mimetic of God's Logos." Explores writers from Chaucer to Eliot.

Baumeister, David J.   [Jay Ruud, ed.] Papers on the "Canterbury Tales": From the 1989 NEH Chaucer Institute, Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota ([Aberdeen, S.D.: Northern State University, 1989), pp. 227-46.
Instructions, outlines, plot synopses, and handouts for use in teaching English medieval literature (including selections from CT) to high school seniors.

Baumgaertner, Marcia Anne.   Dissertation Abstracts International 38 (1977): 2105A.
Even though Chaucer's characters are defined by the strong theological framework in which they appear, they still achieve an effect of individualized feeling and characterization. Although TC reveals elements of a controlled classical approach to…

Baumgardner, Rachel Ann.   Medieval Forum 5 (2006): n.p.
Read against Foucault's "What Is an Author?" the Wife of Bath of WBP fits the criteria for representation of a "third ego." Thereby, she can be seen as a character who "establishes her own personality." Chaucer serves as a "medium for her determined…

Baumlin, Tita French.   Renascence 41 (1989): 127-49.
PardT, ParsT, and Ret all treat the moral complexities of language. Applying a text from Timothy, quoted by both the Pardoner and the Parson, reveals that the Pardoner's discourse is barrren; the Parson's fruitful. Ret is the fruit of ParsT.

Bauschatz, Paul C.   Assays 2 (1983): 19-43.
Matches Augustine's "("De mendacio") moral distinctions among kinds of utterance with Anselm's logical distinctions among kinds of predication; discovers that Augustine refuses to recognize the possibility of "beneficent lying." Argues that Chaucer…

Bawcutt, Priscilla J.   New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Surveys what is known of the life and context of William Dunbar, and discusses his canon and language, focusing on Dunbar's range of genres and his idea of himself as a poet or "makar." Comments frequently on Dunbar's debt to Chaucer (and others),…

Bawcutt, Priscilla, and Janet Hadley Williams, eds.   Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y. : D. S. Brewer, 2006.
Thirteen essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors. Topics include studies of individual poets and poems (Henryson, Dunbar, Douglas, Lyndsay, Richard Holland's "Buke of Howlat," Gilbert Hay's "Buik of King Alexander the…

Bawcutt, Priscilla.   Caroline Macafee and Iseabail Macleod, eds. The Nuttis Schell: Essays on the Scots Language Presented to A. J. Aitken. (Aberdeen, Scotland: Aberdeen University, 1987), pp. 54-61.
Lexicographical study of Dunbar with occasional reference to Chaucer.

Bawcutt, Priscilla.   Helen Cooney, ed. Writings on Love in the English Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), pp. 179-96.
Bawcutt surveys love poetry of medieval Scotland in various genres, emphasizing the variety of tones and exploring the importance of Chaucer's influence.

Bawcutt, Priscilla.   Shakespeare Quarterly 35 (1984): 426-32.
Suggests that the "cluster of ideas" that conclude Shakespeare's Sonnet 38 are a version of the "topos of supplication" that Bawcutt traces back to Boccaccio's "Filostrato," citing mediating examples in TC (1.15-21), KnT (2405-6), and Gavin Douglas's…

Bawcutt, Priscilla.   Yearbook of English Studies 2 (1972): 5-12.
Discusses various topoi of the lark (including its etymology in Latin) to explore and explain details in a variety of medieval and Renaissance poems, including KnT where the lark is "bisy" and a welcomer of dawn (1.1491-92).

Bawcutt, Priscilla.   Notes and Queries 209 (1964): 332-33.
Observes that William Dunbar ridicules sexual impotence by means of the image of a dog ineffectively lifting its leg and maintains that the image and its implications derive from the "striking (and probably original)" use in ParsT 10.858,

Bawcutt, Priscilla.   Review of English Studies 21, no. 84 (1970): 401-21.
Identifies a number of parallels between Chaucer's works and those of Gavin Douglas, focusing on "Eneados" and demonstrating that "Douglas owes far more to Chaucer than has been generally recognized." Not a "servile imitator," Douglas, "like…
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