Boitani, Piero,and Anna Torti, eds.
Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, N.Y. : D. S. Brewer, 1999.
Ten essays by various authors, originally presented at a symposium on "The Body and Soul in Medieval Literature." Most of the essays focus on Middle English literature, including some comparisons with medieval French and Italian works and some later…
Describes how visual aids and a trip to a medieval collection in a museum (in this instance the Kress collection in Birmingham, Alabama) can help students confront medieval literature with greater depth and involvement.
Brown, Peter.
Peter Brown, ed. Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 22-50.
Argues that Middle English dream visions from the second half of the fourteenth century allowed writers to experiment with altered states of consciousness and liminality. Discusses French and Middle English dream visions, including BD, HF, LGW, and…
Brown, Peter.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Six essays by various authors on dreams in medieval and early modern literature. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Reading Dreams under Alternative Title.
Carlson, Cindy L.,and Angela Jane Weisl,eds.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.
Eleven essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors. Topics include depictions of virginity, widowhood, and their intersections in medieval romance, hagiography, and drama, with recurrent references to other literary genres and…
Carruthers, Leo, ed.
Paris : Publications de l'Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 1999.
Nine essays by various authors exploring the theme of justice and injustice in Medieval English literature and society. One essay (Gloria Cigman on the notion of authority in Chaucer and in Shakespeare) pertains to Chaucer in general; two others also…
Carruthers, Mary [J.]
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 21: 3-26, 1999.
Confronts questions of canonicity, the "value" of literature, and the relations between language and literature, encouraging members of the New Chaucer Society to help revitalize the role of language study. Equipped with a historical sense of how no…
Dauby, Hélène.
Le sang au Moyen Âge. Cahiers du CRISIMA, vol. 3, no. 8. (Montpellier: Universit de Montpellier, 1999), pp. 227-35
Although the terms in the title are not the most frequently used in Chaucer's vocabulary, their collocations enable us to explore associations and meanings of colors, the gushing of blood from wounds, the physiology of emotions, devotion to Christ's…
Dor, Juliette.
A. J. Tops, Betty Devriendt, and Steven Geukens, eds. Thinking English Grammar: To Honour Xavier Dekeyser, Professor Emeritus (Leuven: Peeters, 1999), pp. 33-40.
Lexicographical information on sely is inconsistent and often based on the assumption that there was no historical overlap between "pious-good" and "foolish-simple." Chaucer's uses of the term capitalize on uncertainty of tone in LGW, making it…
Greenwood, Maria K.
Colette Stévanovitch, ed. L'Articulation langue-littérature dans les textes médiévaux anglais, II. Actes du colloque des 25 et 26 juin 1999 á l'Université de Nancy II. Collection GRENDEL, no. 3. (Nancy: Publications de l'Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 1999), pp. 143-62.
Explicates Chaucer's uses of grammatical tenses in GP, especially in the descriptions of the Knight, Squire, and Yeoman, distinguishing how various tenses and narrative points of view direct readers' reactions to the pilgrims. Considers indirect…
Assesses graphic representations of selected features of spoken language to show the "dialectical homogeneity" of the Ellesmere manuscript (London), Cambridge Gg 4.27 (East Midland with Northern elements), and British Library Additional 5140 (East…
Koivisto-Alanko, Päivi.
Irma Taavitsainen, Gunnel Melchers, and Pivi Pahta, eds. Writing in Nonstandard English (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, 1999), pp. 205-23
Quantitative analysis of the language of cognition (e.g., "intellect," "knowing," "wit") in Chaucer reveals how such language entered English usage. Borrowings from French and Latin entered with specific, high-prestige philosophical or scientific…
Lainé, Ariane.
Colette Stévanovitch, ed. L'Articulation langue-littérature dans les textes médiévaux anglais, II. Actes du colloque des 25 et 26 juin 1999 á l'Université de Nancy II. Collection GRENDEL, no. 3. (Nancy: Publications de l'Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 1999), pp. 193-208
Explores whether there is a distinctive Lollard vocabulary. While the usual method is to identify words in Lollard writings that would not be used in orthodox literature, the author highlights the absence of some orthodox words and sees what words…
Lozowski, Przemyslaw.
A. Pajdzinska and P. Krzyzanowski, eds. Przeszlosc w jezykowym obrazie swiata (Past in the Linguistic Picture of the World). (Lublin: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej, 1999), pp. 25-50.
Cognitive linguistic analysis of Chaucer's uses of "meten" and "dremen," arguing that the two words are not synonymous as is usually assumed. In Polish.
Marchand, James W.
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 100: 43-49, 1999.
Chaucer's punning use of "quoniam" in WBP was not the first time this word was used as a sexual euphemism. Giraldus Cambriensis, Matheolus, Juan Ruiz, and the author of the "Roman de Flamenca" used this euphemism in their writings.
Taavitsainen, Irma,Gunnel Melchers, and Päivi Pahta,eds.
Amsterdam and Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1999.
Twenty-one essays by various authors, and an introduction by Taavitsainen and Melchers on literary versions of nonstandard English, including literary dialects and linguistic history in literary records. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search…
Calin, William.
R. Barton Palmer, ed. Chaucer's French Contemporaries: The Poetry/Poetics of Self and Tradition (New York: AMS Press, 1999), pp. 29-46
The most important source for Chaucer's BD is not Machaut's Jugement dou Roy de Behaingne but his Dit de la fonteinne; for LGWP, not the French "Marguerite poems" but Machaut's Jugement dou Roy de Navarre. Moreover, the belief that Chaucer drifted…
Crépin, André.
Danielle Buschinger, ed. Autour d'Eustache Deschamps. Médiévales, no. 2. (Amiens: Université de Picardie, 1999), pp. 37-43
The poets had similar careers, and Deschamps's "Ballad to Chaucer" testifies to the supranational circle of knights-cum-poets. Deschamps's garden metaphor, his comparison of Chaucer to Socrates, and other comparisons indicate that the French poet is…
Crépin, André.
Bulletin des Anglicistes Médiévistes 56: 57-72, 1999.
Chaucer and Malory haunted the imagination of Burne-Jones, who illustrated the Kelmscott edition of Chaucer's Works (1896). Burne-Jones ignored the licentious tales, but he expressed the classical/medieval spirit of TC. He was attracted by the scene…
Ives, Carolyn, and David Parkinson.
Thomas A. Prendergast and Barbara Kline, eds. Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400-1602 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999), pp. 186-202.
Political and religious struggles of the late sixteenth century encouraged Scottish misogyny and treatment of Chaucer as a "misogynist authority." As is most clearly evident in the Bannatyne manuscript, Chaucer's works and his apocrypha were used to…
Details the strategy of "obeisant self-authorization " by which Lydgate places himself in Chaucer's debt, simultaneously embracing the older poet's influence and "overthrowing" his "paternal presence." He does this by controlling the Host-figure and…
