Lambdin, Robert T., and Laura C. Lambdin.
Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales" (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 357-68
Characterizes the Canon's Yeoman as a "personal servant of a religious officer," although details of CYP indicate that he might more accurately be described as an alchemist's fire-tender or "puffer." The essay examines the importance of fire and…
Lambdin, Robert Thomas, and Laura Cooner Lambdin,eds.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000.
An alphabetical one-volume encyclopedia of medieval "literary works, authors, historical figures, events, themes, and genres," with a general emphasis on "early British literature" and individual entries for Continental literatures. Many entries are…
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate this printed musical score includes settings for poetry by Chaucer, Myles Pinkney, St. Teresa of Jesus, and Richard Verstegan (Rowlands), with printed lyrics. An online reprint of page 1 shows the Chaucer…
Lambert, Mark.
Piero Boitani and Jill Mann, eds. The Cambridge Chaucer Companion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. 59-73.
The "texture" of TC--its nuances and suggestive detail--both enriches and "interferes with" the meaning conveyed by theme and structure. Thus, by the end of TC readers may both admire and dislike the "trouthe" of the hero and heroine. Overtly, TC…
Lambert, Mark.
Mary Salu, ed. Essays on Troilus and Criseyde (Cambridge: Brewer, 1979), pp. 105-25.
C. S. Lewis was right to emphasize Criseyde's timorousness. She is unambitious and moderate, and the cosy, unheroic situation in Troy in the first three books suits her well.
Lampe, David E.
Papers on Language and Literature 3, summer supplement (1967): 49-62.
Reads "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale" as a poem about the power of love and its effects on its lovesick narrator, at points comparing it with works by Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate, and others, observing likely derivations.
Deschamps had in mind Chaucer's short lyrics--Truth, Gent, Sted, Wom Nob--when he praised him in the ballads. These poems constitute Chaucer's advisory poetry whose subjects is moral philosophy stated in polished language and in French forms.
Lampert-Weissig, Lisa, Katie Little, Eva von Contzen, and Candace Barrington
New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy & Profession 1.1 (2020): 1-5.
Describes the launch of a new electronic journal related to the study of Chaucer, "New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy & Profession," and summarizes the contents of the inaugural issue.
Treats the Old Man of PardT as a figure of the Wandering Jew, exploring relations between the figure and the transtemporal materiality of relics, and linking it with "other explicit and implicit references to Jews" in the depiction of the Pardoner…
Lampert-Weissig, Lisa.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 43 (2021): 111-49; 3 b& w illus.
Reads PrT and the thirteenth-century Anglo-Norman "Hugo de
Lincolnia" as "conspiracy theory narratives," showing "how they use language and imagery to generate aesthetic emotions, especially fear and disgust," and revealing connections "both to…
Lampert, Lisa Renee.
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1997): 450A
In patriarchal tradition, the Christian is defined as male and spiritual; the female, as Other, Hebrew, and carnal. Lampert traces tensions in the parallel between women and Jews from Bernard de Clairvaux to Shakespeare's Shylock, including medieval…
Lampert, Lisa.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Lampert decenters Christianity and releases the study of Jews and Judaism from a "restricted economy of particularism." She shows how representations of Jews go beyond representations of the "Other" in a range of English texts by revealing…
The dialogue between Virginius and Virginia and other intensely religious elements suggest that Chaucer's PhyT was directly influenced by the account of Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac given in contemporary mystery plays. This dramatic influence is…
Lancashire, Ian, ed.
Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, 1993.
Ten essays from a 1992 conference on the application of computer technology to the study of Chaucer's language, his style, and manuscripts of his works. Includes a summary titled "Afterwords" by Patricia J. Eberle (pp. 189-93), which comments on…
Chaucer employs scriptural allusions in Thomas's gift and its codicil; typological exegesis demonstrates that, if Jankin's division of the fart suggests Pentecost, Thomas's first gift recalls the events in the lives of Moses and Elijah that Pentecost…
Lancashire, Ian.
Ian Lancashire, ed. Computer-Based Chaucer Studies (Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, 1993), pp. 99-122
Defines repetends as either (1) "repeating fixed phrases," or (2) "repeating collocations" in which word order may change and other words may intervene. Computer-assisted tabulation of repetends enables stylistic comparison of ManPT to GP,…
Lancashire, Ian.
Robert Taylor, James F. Burke, Patricia J. Eberle, Ian Lancashire, and Brian S. Merrilees, eds. The Centre and Its Compass: Studies in Medieval Literature in Honor of Professor John Leyerle (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1993), pp. 315-65.
Lancashire uses computer-assisted analysis to tabulate recurring words and phrases in Chaucer's writings. The frequency and patterns of repeated words and their collocations identify Chaucer's preoccupations, distinctive features of his writing and…
Lancashire, Ian.
Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, 2010.
Explores literary composition as "cybertextuality," employing a fusion of cognitive theory, stylistic analysis, computer applications, and attribution studies. The goal is to uncover the compositional processes of writers by examining their verbal…
Shows that double entendre "invests the entire narrative action" of RvT, explicating individual puns and demonstrating the prevalence of the sexual implications of flour, milling, and grinding throughout the tale and in later works by John Heywood…
Uses MLT, among other works, to show that in Middle English romance, with its limited expression of characters' inner lives, identity is expressed and revealed through "external signs," outward behavior, and immutable "key characteristics."
