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Provides postcolonial reading of history of Jewish communities and anti-Semitic discourses in medieval England. Chapter 5, "Text and Context: Tracing Chaucer's moments of Jewishness," discusses Jews in CT, focusing on Th, and PrT.

Describes the incorporation of works by the English Jewish poet Meir b. Elijah of Norwich into a survey of early English literature, exploring difficulties and achievements. Includes brief comparison of Meir's use of personal acrostics in his poetry…

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,…

Personal reflections on having multiple sclerosis during the COVID-19 pandemic, describing changes that these conditions brought to (re)reading BD.

Contrasts Gower's story of Ceyx and Alcyone with versions by Ovid and Chaucer (in BD). Gower imagined a new dramatic possibility in the character of Alcyone and thereby subverted "monolithic notions of culture and gender" (503).

Ten essays selected from the papers presented at the Third Medieval English Studies Symposium in Poznan, Poland, in November 2004, focusing on Old and Middle English language and literature. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Naked…

Includes three essays on Middle English language (fricative spellings, 'before' as a temporal conjunction, and multiple negation) and four on Middle English literature (an East Anglian miracle play, Malory's "Morte Darthur," TC, and Sheela-na-gig…

Eleven essays on Old and Middle English language and literature. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Comoun Peplis Language under Alternative Title.

Surveys commentary on Chaucer's uses of postmodern techniques in CT, focusing on his experimentation and evasiveness, and his concern with meaning and with the possibilities whereby literature may or may not be considered literal. Discusses…

More critical attention to the codicological contexts, Latin sources, rhetorical devices, and clerical "authorial milieu" of Middle English lyrics would release them from the categories of the "practical or boring," and give their refinement and…

Cobbes's dense annotations of Nicholas of Lynn's "Kalendarium" in University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, MS 522 may reflect this seventeenth-century book collector's familiarity with the British Library, MS Additional 23002 text of Astr.

Studies the influence of the book of Psalms on moral discourse in late-medieval England.

Scriptural injunctions underlie Chaucer's apology in MilP 1.3172-81 and his encouraging the audience to be cautious when judging his poetic enterprise.

Compares Genius of Gower's "Confessio Amantis" with Chaucer's Parson of CT in order to disclose Gower's "views concerning priests," arguing that both characters are idealized models of "proper pastoral care" and, perhaps, the result of conversations…

Reconsiders the social status of franklins in the late medieval period and points out that their gentility is ambiguous. Discusses the value of "gentilesse" in FranT by comparing the tale with Boccaccian analogues, taking into account the…

Contends that in SNT Cecilia's "sense of incongruity between inner self and social definition" is directed to a pious lay audience. Argues that the Second Nun's use of the word "bisynesse obfuscates" what the tale has to convey to her lay audience

Argues that the Reeve's efforts to represent himself as respectable are mirrored in the characterization of Symkin in RvT, and Malyne's "repressed subjectivity" reveals Symkin's over-simplified, patristic notions self-definition.

Reprints forty-one essays by Kuhl, originally published between 1914 and 1960, brought together to celebrate Kuhl's ninetieth birthday. Twenty-one of the essays pertain to Chaucer, many dealing with biographical details, life records, and allusions…

Since the noun "armee" or a variant appears in the "best" and earliest Chaucer manuscripts and was used in Old French and Middle English, "armee" (rather than "aryve") is probably the word Chaucer intended in GP 60.

The four volumes of manuscript variants added to the Manly-Rickert edition of CT have been neglected too long.

Medieval idealizations of motherhood developed alongside the rising emphasis on the suffering of Christ and the saints. Kuhn discusses works by Jacobus de Voragine, Chaucer (LGW, MLT, ClT, and PrT), Osbern Bokenham, and Margery Kempe. The tradition…

Authorial development from pastoral toward epic provides a universal creative basis, analogous to the human life span and close to nature. Assesses works by Plato, Virgil, Chaucer (BD), Milton, and Vladimir Nabokov (as lepidopterist).

Observes what kinds of words in the Roman de la Rose are likely to be borrowed by Chaucer as rhyme words, what alterations are made when they are transferred to Rom, and what sorts of words are added in the rhyme position in translation.

Focuses on the following: (1) the kind of governing verbs; (2) the ratio of bare infinitives and (for) to-infinitives; and (3) the structure of the infinitive clause, supplementing Kenyon (1909) in many respects.I

Kumamoto compares the word classes of rhyme words in Rom with those of the Old French source. There are wide differences when rhymes involve verbs and adverbs; the use of pronouns in rhymes is confined to the English text.