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Bourgne, Florence.   BAM 71 (2007): 7-20.
Bourgne studies the links between architecture and Chaucer's transposition ("his new ekphrasis") into literary compositions.

Blandeau, Agnès.   BAM 72 (2007): 21-29.
Late fourteenth-century traders' time of profit-making synchronizes with narrative time in Chaucer's tales, enabling the poet to articulate the relationship between time as physically experienced and Christian time, both linear and cyclical.

Schoeck, R[ichard] J.   Bamberg: H. Kaiser-Verlag, 1984.
Defines and anatomizes "intertextuality," and proceeds to examine aspects of Thomas More's "Utopia" in this light. Uses examples from Chaucer to help clarify the varieties of the concept: from NPT, Chauntecleer's Latin misquotation as an example of…

Baragona, Alan.   Baragona's Literary Resources, n.d.
Lists approximately 250 books and articles pertaining to the study of Chaucer published before 2004. Formerly hosted at Virginia Military Institute.

Baragona, Alan.   Baragona's Literary Resources.
Provides links to online samples of Chaucer's works, "read by professors" and intended to "help students improve their pronunciation of Chaucer's Middle English." Includes passages from CT, TC, and other works. Formerly hosted at Virginia Military…

Cannon Christopher.   Barbara A. Hanawalt and David Wallace, eds. Medieval Crime and Social Control (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), pp. 156-85.
Legal records reflect the struggles of medieval women to gain legal (and verbal) representation. A similar struggle is evident in the court case of Lady Meed of Piers Plowman, as well as in Julian of Norwich's Revelation of Love, The Book of Margery…

Hanawalt, Barbara A.   Barbara A. Hanawalt and David Wallace, eds. Medieval Crime and Social Control (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), pp. 204-23.
Explores legal and historical records pertaining to innkeepers and innkeeping in late-medieval London as a backdrop to the character of Chaucer's Host. Harry Bailly is most notable for his shrewd handling of people and his responsible maintaining of…

Fowler, Elizabeth.   Barbara A. Hanawalt and David Wallace, eds. Medieval Crime and Social Control (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), pp.124-42.
Reads KnT as an example of Chaucer's "deliberative mode," whereby the reader is compelled to perceive or decide a choice. KnT deliberates whether conquest or consent is the proper source of monarchical dominion. Through pointed occupatio and the…

Crane, Susan.   Barbara A. Hanawalt, ed. Chaucer's England: Literature in Historical Context (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992), pp. 201-21.
Asserts the importance of assaults on written documents in the so-called Peasants' Revolt of 1381, exploring the hegemony that writing represented to the rebels. Assesses how Langland's revisions of Piers Plowman reflect his concerns with the…

Bennett, Michael J.   Barbara A. Hanawalt, ed. Chaucer's England: Literature in Historical Context (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992), pp. 3-20.
Richard's court was important as a cultural force in England's first "golden age" of literature. Members of his coterie were the first audience of poets such as Chaucer and Gower, and it seems likely that his travels were related to the production…

Saul, Nigel.   Barbara A. Hanawalt, ed. Chaucer's England: Literature in Historical Context (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992), pp. 41-55.
Chaucer views gentility as a matter of virtue rather than of birth or economics, reflecting contemporary shifts in aristocratic lifestyles. Italian influences and decreasing military service made it necessary for the aristocracy to redefine…

Wallace, David.   Barbara A. Hanawalt, ed. Chaucer's England: Literature in Historical Context (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992), pp. 59-90.
Contrasts Chaucer's depiction of London's social tensions in CT with Boccaccio's depiction of Florence's unity in Decameron 6.2, Pampinea's story of Cisti. The duplicities and deceptions of CkT and CYT (at odds with the Host's governance) are like…

Orme, Nicholas.   Barbara A. Hanawalt, ed. Chaucer's England: Literature in Historical Context (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992), pp. 133-53.
Surveys the attitudes toward and conditions of hunting in late-medieval society, describing practices, laws, criminal offense, social variety, and artistic representations in literature and visual art. Includes brief comments on KnT, BD, and the GP…

Leavy, Barbara Fass.   Barbara Fass Leavy, To Blight with Plague: Studies in a Literary Theme (New York and London: New York University Press, 1992), pp. 41-82.
Assesses how and in what ways "disease of both body and soul" is a recurrent concern in CT, especially in fragment 6 which includes PhyT and PardT. Surmises that the fragment may have influenced Daniel Defoe's "A Journal of the Plague Year," and…

King, John N.   Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, ed. Renaissance Genres: Essays on Theory, History, and Interpretation. Harvard English Studies, no. 14 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986), pp. 369-98.
Connects Spenser's "association of pastoral with a Protestant gospel ethos" in "Shepheardes Calendar" with the Renaissance construction of medieval anticlerical satire as proto-Protestant. The spurious attribution of the "Plowman's Tale" to Chaucer…

Sanders, Barry.   Barbara Lounsberry and others, eds. The Tales We Tell: Perspectives on the Short Story (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998), pp. 55-62.
Considers the relations among jokes and short stories, focusing on MilT as a "well-made" short story and regarding the Reeve's response as evidence of the social balance accomplished through jokes and fiction.

Ruszkiewicz, Dominika.   Barbara Marczuk and Iwona Piechnik, eds. Discours religieux: Langages, textes, traductions (Kraków: Biblioteka Jagiellonska, 2020), pp. 305-17.
Argues that Chaucer's alterations to Boccaccio's "Filostrato" in TC, I.22–49, were influenced by liturgical "bidding prayers," and that the God-centered Boethianism of the passage works with the ending of Chaucer's poem to "frame" its recurrent…

Ruud, Jay.   Barbara Olive and David Sprunger, eds. Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Northern Plains Conference on Earlier British Literature (Moorhead, Minn.: Concordia College, 2002), pp. 8-21.
Explicates works by three twentieth-century poets who have made Chaucer the subject of their work: Benjamin Brawley's sonnet "Chaucer" (1922), e. e. cummings's untitled sonnet from his collection "Xaipé" (1950), and Ted Hughes's "Chaucer" (1998).…

Barcelona : Ediciones 29, 1970.
Item not seen; the WorldCat record indicates that the volume includes "La confesión de una viuda. El estudiante, la patrona y el sacrestán. Por G. Chaucer."

Guardia [Massó], Pedro, trans.   Barcelona:
A Middle English text and Spanish translation on facing pages, with bibliograghy, notes, and an 80-page introduction contextualizing and discussing main aspects of the work.

Cantí Bonastre, Juan, trans.   Barcelona: Bruguera, 1969.
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this Spanish translation of CT includes an introduction and bibliography by Maria Teresa Suero Roca and that it is illustrated by Angel Badía Camps; also it was issued with an introduction and…

Sopena, Ramón, trans.   Barcelona: Editorial Optima, 1998.
Spanish prose translation of CT (except Mel and ParsT), with Th and the Envoy to ClT in verse; translated by Ramón Sopena. Twelve color plates reproduce the sequence of the months from "Les Très Riches Heures" of Jean, Duke of Berry.

Luaces, Juan G. de, trans.   Barcelona: Iberia, 1973.
Item not seen.

Ferrer, Josefina, trans.   Barcelona: Marte, 1967.
Spanish prose translation of CT, with illustrations in color and b&w by Aguilar More.

Gual, Victoria, trans.   Barcelona: Quaderns Crema, 1997.
Listed in WorldCat as a Spanish translation of CT. Volume not seen.
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