The Flemish proverbs in CkP and ManT "trigger a whole series of contradictions and reversals of meaning that mirror the complexity of Chaucer's comedy." They also contribute to a pattern in CT in which Flemings are associated with misused language.
MerT, particularly its marriage encomium, was influenced by exegetical treatments of Eve as "helper," drawn from the Augustinian tradition and from Albertanus of Brescia. Chaucer rewrites these two divergent strands, reverses their interpretations of…
First-time translation of CT into Frisian, following Chaucer's verse forms and omitting Mel and ParsT. Designed for a popular audience rather than a scholarly one. The source text is Albert Baugh's "Chaucer's Major Poetry" (1963), with translation…
Stubbs, Estelle, ed.
Leicester : Scholarly Digital Editions, 2000.
Full-color complete facsimile of the Hengwrt manuscript (Hg) and the Merthyr fragment (Me) of CT. Includes transcriptions of Hg and the Ellesmere manuscript by Michael Pidd and Estelle Stubbs, arranged for comparison; transcription of Me by Paul…
Bordalejo, Barbara.
Leicester: Scholarly Digital Editions-Boydell and Brewer, 2003.
Includes full-color facsimiles of the first and second editions of CT: the Royal copy of the first edition and the Grenville copy of the second, i.e., British Library 167.c.26 and C.21.d.
Robinson, Peter, ed., with Barbara Bordalejo and Orietta Da Rold, and contributions by Lorna Stevenson, Elizabeth Solopova, and Daniel W. Mosser.
Leicester: Scholarly Digital Editions, 2004.
Includes interlinked images and transcriptions of all fifty-eight pre-1500 versions of MilPT, with complete collations (linked to variant maps), commentaries on family relationships of the versions, and stemmatic commentary on key readings.
A defense of Margery Kempe's religious visions, with extended discussions of other medieval devotional and mystical works,including the writings of Julian of Norwich, Richard Rolle,and Margaret Porete as well as devotional prayers recorded in MS…
Frakes, J. C.
Leiden and New York: E. J. Brill, 1988.
Examines Fortune in the Roman tradition, in Boethius, in Latin commentaries on the "Consolatione," in King Alfred's adaptation, and in Notker's exegesis.
Tachau, Katherine H.
Leiden and New York: E. J. Brill, 1988.
Charts the "development of a complex of optical, epistemological, and semantic ideas" in fourteenth-century Oxford, London, and Paris. Cits SqT 225-35.
Hoenen, Maarten J. F. M.,and Lodi Nauta,eds.
Leiden, New York, and Koln: Brill, 1997.
Twelve essays by various authors on the reception of Boethius's Consolatione Philosophiae--its medieval glosses, commentaries, and translations. Four essays pertain to the Middle Dutch tradition. Passim references to Chaucer's Bo. For an essay that…
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,…
Collection of essays on classical Persian literature. Includes an article by F. D. Lewis, "One Chaste Muslim Maiden and a Persian in a Pear Tree: Analogues of Boccaccio and Chaucer in Four Earlier Arabic and Persian Tales" that links linking Arabic…
Saunders, Corinne J., and Richard Lawrie, with Laurie Atkinson, eds.
Leiden: Brill, 2022.
Seventeen essays by various authors on topics in Middle English manuscripts, their legacies, and the career of Ian Doyle, with an introduction by Saunders and Lawrie, an afterword by Linne Mooney and Derek Pearsall, a list of Doyle's publications by…
By studying pre-Chaucerian and fourteenth-century traditions of Saint Valentine, springtime, hagiography, heortology, etc., Kelly tests the hypothesis that Chaucer invented the patron saint of matchmakers.
Boboc, Andreea D., ed.
Leiden: Koninklijke Brill, 2015.
Collection of essays exploring "legal personhood vis-à-vis the jurisdictional conflicts" of late medieval England. For an essay pertaining to Chaucer, search for Theorizing Legal Personhood in Late Medieval England under Alternative Title.
Fleming, John V.
Leigh A. Arrathoon, ed. Chaucer and the Craft of Fiction (Rochester, Mich.: Solaris Press, 1986), pp. 1-21.
TC 3.638 is a "translation" of the Virgilian rainstorm in bk. 4 of the "Aeneid" and of the emanations of Genius's aphrodisiac candle ("Roman de la Rose" 20638-48), and as such is symptomatic of Chaucer's tendency to follow Jean de Meun in providing a…
Hanning, Robert W.
Leigh A. Arrathoon, ed. Chaucer and the Craft of Fiction (Rochester, Mich.: Solaris Press, 1986), pp. 121-63.
In BD, the "Metamorphoses" provides a positive paradigm for exploring the relationships of grief and poetry, whereas Ovid's work yields a negative paradigm for the representation of Fame in HF. Deals with the creative process in dream visions; and…
Burger, Douglas A.
Leigh A. Arrathoon, ed. Chaucer and the Craft of Fiction (Rochester, Mich.: Solaris Press, 1986), pp. 165-78.
Compared with Boccaccio's "Il filocolo," Chaucer's innovations--evident in his treatment of the black rocks, the heroine, magic, and the love of Dorigen and Arveragus--create broader contexts: marital love, courtly love, magic,and the theme of…
Owen, Charles A.,Jr.
Leigh A. Arrathoon, ed. Chaucer and the Craft of Fiction (Rochester, Mich.: Solaris Press, 1986), pp. 179-94.
Portraying himself as a participant in a supposedly actual pilgrimage, Chaucer freed his characters from his control and avoided predetermining the meaning of their tales.
Burnley, J. D.
Leigh A. Arrathoon, ed. Chaucer and the Craft of Fiction (Rochester, Mich.: Solaris Press, 1986), pp. 195-218.
Chaucer's characters are not psychologically consistent but (like the Host, or Pardoner) are illusions based on familiar voices and attitudes to engage the audience in moral concerns, as in MerT, PardT.
Miller, Robert P.
Leigh A. Arrathoon, ed. Chaucer and the Craft of Fiction (Rochester, Mich.: Solaris Press, 1986), pp. 219-40.
Apparent artistic infelicities and a concern with surface style reflect the Squire's immature mind, unformed tastes, and youthful impatience. SqT is not badly written or unfinished.
Otten, Charlotte F.
Leigh A. Arrathoon, ed. Chaucer and the Craft of Fiction (Rochester, Mich.: Solaris Press, 1986), pp. 23-33.
Troilus's disease of erotomania is gluttonously lustful, irredeemably egocentric, and life-denying--an example to be shunned in favor of Christian love.
Pearcy, Roy J.
Leigh A. Arrathoon, ed. Chaucer and the Craft of Fiction (Rochester, Mich.: Solaris Press, 1986), pp. 329-84.
The comic, satiric, and philosophic sophistication in Chaucer's narratives has no precedent in the fabliaux, but there are models in twelfth-century Latin comedy--notably for MilT (Geta) and MerT (Lidia). Also discusses the theories of Northrop…
Wentersdorf, Karl P.
Leigh A. Arrathoon, ed. Chaucer and the Craft of Fiction (Rochester, Mich.: Solaris Press, 1986), pp. 35-62.
The complex meanings of the pear tree are achieved by means of a pervasive ironic technique whereby material with favorable connotations is introduced only to be qualified and undercut at a later stage. Treats biblical and classical sources, lust,…
