Translation of TC into modern Spanish, with facing-page copy text reprint of Barry Windeatt's text of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, MS 61. The translation is arranged in stanzas, but without rhyme or regular meter. The introduction…
Ramsey, Roy Vance, ed., with a foreword by Henry Ansgar Kelly.
Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 2010.
A corrected reprint of Ramsey's 1994 publication (see SAC 18 [1996], no. 31), with Kelly's summary of the importance of the volume and its arguments concerning the relationships of the manuscripts (especially Hg, El, and Dd) and the editing of…
Considers the frontispiece to TC found in Corpus Christi College MS 61 (which depicts Chaucer addressing a court audience, particularly the court of Richard II). The frontispiece shows that literature was delivered orally (by "prelection") and…
Chapter 2, "Civilization and Its Ambivalence," explores how Chaucer's rendering of Cressida has set the stage for all subsequent British and American portrayals of her.
Robinson, Carol L., and Pamela Clements, eds., with Preface by Richard Utz
Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.
Series of essays by members of the Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organization (MEMO) related to differing interpretations of neomedievalism in various forms of media. For an essay related to Chaucer, search for Neomedievalism in the Media under…
Fields, Peter John.
Lewistown, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, 2001.
Chaucer's interest in craft goes far beyond mere technical process. In CT, the word and its derivations emblematize human efforts to control the world through personal expertise and learned tradition. Fields challenges notions of Chaucer's pluralism,…
Studies the distribution of Chaucer's impersonal verb "listen" (to be pleasing), focusing on disparities between distributions in prose and verse, usage in formulaic expressions, and transition from impersonal to personal usage.
Ogura, Mieko.
Lexicon 8 (1979): 1-15. [Iwasaki Linguistic Circle].
In view of Kiparsky's new theory (1977), we can show the differences of the metrical rules in the specific types of mismatches allowed in each of Chaucer's works. We can say that the constraints on mismatches became severer in an orderly way from…
Mitchell, Jerome.
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987.
Catalogues romance and Chaucerian sources (BD, HF, TC, and especially CT) for Scott's work, showing analogues, parallels, and likenesses. Extensively indexed.
Fisher, John H.
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
Prints eight previously published essays with a new introduction, all pertaining to the influence of bureaucratic and literary language on the standardization of English. Chronicling the development of Fisher's idea that standard written English…
Linden, Stanton J[(ay].
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
Assesses literary references and allusions to alchemy as an aspect of the transition from the medieval to the modern age, focusing on works by Chaucer, Bacon, Jonson, Donne, Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Milton, and Samuel Butler, but also considering a…
Roney, Lois.
Liam O. Purdon and Cindy L. Vitto, eds. The Rusted Hauberk: Feudal Ideals of Order and Their Decline (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1994), pp. 268-98.
In Chaucer's three most noble, most feudal tales, the meaning of the characters' oaths is subjectively conditioned by their makers--reflecting a decline from the feudal ideal that oaths could be objectively understood. The subjectivity of oaths is…
Jost, Jean E.
Liam O. Purdon and Cindy L. Vitto, eds. The Rusted Hauberk: Feudal Ideals of Order and Their Decline (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1994), pp. 49-76.
Chaucer's primary representatives of aristocracy, the Knight and the Squire, reveal differing assumptions about acting within their social stations. Both exhibit confidence through linguistic security, but the Knight's epic reality and narrative…
Miliaras, Barbara.
Liana De Girolami Cheney, ed. Pre-Raphaelitism and Medievalism in the Arts (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen, 1992), pp. 193-218.
Surveys the influence of courtly love on Burne-Jones, arguing for the special influence of Chaucer. LGW and love poetry inspired early Burne-Jones; his painting "Laus Veneris" is linked to MercB. The lady in "An Idyl" suggests Emelye of KnT. Like…
Miliaras, Barbara.
Liana De Girolami Cheney, ed. Pre-Raphaelitism and Medievalism in the Arts. (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen, 1992), pp. 127-57.
Burne-Jones's use of the grotesque was influenced by Chaucer, among others. In KnT, Emelye unwittingly inspires destructive passion in Palamon and Arcite, creating disorder in society and leading to a "grotesque denouement."
Ashbrook, Susan.
Liana De Girolami Cheney, ed. Pre-Raphaelitism and Medievalism in the Arts. (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen, 1992), pp. 281-305.
William Morris reissued many of Caxton's medieval texts, and his love for beautiful books led to his Kelmscott Chaucer, described by Edward Burne-Jones as "a pocket cathedral."
Presents the texts of CT, TC, BD, and PF, with brief introductions, a chronology of Chaucer's life and historical events, and links to supporting information and audio files. The texts are accompanied by hypertext glosses, and the works in verse, by…
Blodgett, James E.
Library 6th ser. 1 (1979): 97-113.
Identifies through examination of printer's marks the printer's copy for Thynne's text of Rom, Bo, "The Assembly of Ladies," and the final six stanzas of "La Belle Dame sans Merci." Comments on Hunterian MS 5.3.7 and Longleat MS 258.
Hoffman, Richard L.
Library Chronicle 36 (1970): 105-09.
Describes a copy of University of Pennsylvania MS Latin MS 231 which comprises three major works of Albertano of Brescia, including "Livre de Mellibee et Prudence," the source of Mel.
Mosser, Daniel W.
Library Chronicle, n.s., 41 (1987): 82-111.
Examines the significance of the Cardigan Chaucer MS as a witness to the development of Chaucer's text after his death. Following the example of his predecessors, the Cardigan editor enhanced the appearance of the layout and text to make it seem…
Luttrell, Anthony.
Library of Mediterranean History 1 (1994): 127-60.
The discrepancies in the Knight's military curriculum reflect Chaucer's attempt to represent a desire for peace at home and for the transfer of destructive military activity to distant frontiers in Prussia and the Mediterranean. Luttrell explores…
