Beidler, Peter G.
Seattle: Coffee Town Press, 2011.
Offers instructions for pronunciation and phonetic transcription of passages from Chaucer's works, with an introduction to the history and grammar of his Middle English dialect, and a glossary of his basic vocabulary. Designed for classroom use, with…
Beidler, Peter G.
Chaucer Review 56.3 (2021): 296-308.
References a previous article from thirty-five years ago that discussed various translations of important passages from Chaucer and appraised them. As a companion piece, considers ten verse translations of the opening lines of CT. Concludes with an…
Beidler, Peter G., and Elizabeth M. Biebel, ed.
Toronto, Buffalo, and London : University of Toronto Press, 1998.
A comprehensive annotated bibliography of scholarly and critical discussion of WBPT, subdivided into the following categories: editions and translations (items 1-82), sources and analogues (items 83-206), the "Marriage Group" (items 207-56),…
Beidler, Peter G., and Sierra Gitlin.
John Cartafalsa and Lynne Anderson, eds. The Joy of Teaching: A Chorus of Voices. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2007, pp. 3-17.
An epistolary exchange between teacher and student on the intellectual and emotional challenges of reading Chaucer in a twenty-first century undergraduate classroom.
Beidler, Peter G., ed.
Boston and New York: Bedford-St. Martin's, 1996.
Based on the Hengwrt manuscript, this edition of WBPT and the Wife's sketch from GP is designed for classroom use. It includes notes and glossary, a biographical sketch of Chaucer, a guide to pronunciation and verse, and a summary of historical…
Beidler, Peter G., ed.
Cambridge; and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1998.
An introduction by the editor, plus seventeen essays by various authors. The collection includes one essay on the Host, thirteen on CT, and three on TC. For the individual essays, search for Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness under…
Beidler, Peter G., trans. and ed.
New York : Bantam, 2006.
Facing-page translation of selections from CT, based on the 1964 version by A. Kent Hieatt and Constance Hieatt, augmented with expanded selections and apparatus. Selections include GP, KnT, MilPT, RvPT, WBPT, MerPT, FranT, PardPT, ShT, PrPT, and…
Beidler, Peter G.,Jennifer McNamara Bailey, Christine G. Berg, Sister Elaine Marie Glanz, Anne M. Dickson, Tracey A. Cummings, and Elizabeth M. Biebel.
Chaucer Yearbook 3 (1996): 1-20.
Six brief essays from a graduate seminar explore how select medieval plays of the Flood, Nativity, Annunication and Slaughter of the Innocents and Jean Bodel's "Le jeu de Saint Nicholas" illuminate Chaucer's characters in MilT.
Encourages separation of teller and tale in interpreting CT, reading MerT in light of its sources but not MerP. The narrator of the Tale identifies more with Justinus than with January and shows "a measure of sympathy" for May. In this way the Tale…
Beidler, Peter.
Studies in American Indian Literature 15 (2003): 92-103.
Comments on the possible influence of CT on the frame-tale structure of Erdrich's "Tales of Burning Love" and considers to what extent parallels between the Wife of Bath and Lulu Nanapush ("Love Medicine") indicate that Chaucer's work is a source for…
Bela, Teresa.
Jan Nowakowski, ed. Litterae et Lingua: In Honorem Premislavi Mroczkowski (Wroclaw: Pol. Akad. Nauk, 1984), pp. 51-55.
FrT is a tale warning Chaucer's audience about the stupidity of sin. The Friar tells a story of a foolish summoner who gives in to at least three of the deadly sins. Stupidity, not wickedness, leads the Summoner to hell.
Bell, Adrian R.
John France, ed. Mercenaries and Paid Men: The Mercenary Identity in the Middle Ages. Proceedings of a Conference Held at University of Wales, Swansea, 7th-9th July 2005. Smithsonian History of Warfare, no. 47 (Leiden: Brill, 2008), pp. 301-15.
Bell analyzes the military record of 5,600 soldiers from Chaucer's lifetime to discover how many had records of military service similar to the experience of Chaucer's Knight. It was not uncommon for English soldiers to serve as mercenaries in…
Comments on the GP sketch of the Knight, Gower's "To King Henry the Fourth," and the Wilton Diptych as evidence of English support for Philippe de Mezieres's promotion of the 1396 crusade against the Turks, perhaps evidence of English participation…
Bell, Jack Harding.
Dissertation Abstracts International A77.09 (2016): n.p.
Suggests that Chaucer engages the Boethian tradition in TC and HF, only to challenge (and ultimately reject) that tradition's ideas of self-regulation.
Bell, Kimberly K.
Eileen A. Joy, Myra J. Seaman, Kimberly K. Bell, and Mary K. Ramsey, eds. Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 23-47.
Bell argues that "The Joe Schmo Show" and Th "use metafictional parody to 'refunction' generic forms and critique stereotypes of masculinity."
Bellamy, Dodie.
Dodie Bellamy. Cunt Norton (Los Angeles: Les Figues Press, 2013), pp. 8-9.
An erotic prose poem that combines a pastiche of Chaucerian quotations, faux Middle English, and a narrative of sexual activity that alludes recurrently to NPT.
Bellamy, Elizabeth Jane.
Alan Shephard and Stephen D. Powell, eds. Fantasies of Troy: Classical Tales and the Social Imaginary in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2004), pp. 215-35.
Bellamy considers Paridell's undermining of Britomart's "nostalgia for the fallen Troy" in Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book 3, and argues that the "slippages" between fame and rumor in HF influenced Spenser's presentation.
Bellamy, Elizabeth Jane.
Clio 34.3 (2005): 297-315.
Responding to Greenblatt's essay, Bellamy explores the status of psychoanalytic criticism in medieval studies, with particular focus on Chaucer studies.
Bellhouse, D. R.
Franklin, J.
International Statistical Review 65 (1997): 73-85.
Tallies possible evidence of "early probability calculus" in Middle English literature and its lexicon, including discussion of examples from John Gower, John Lydgate, and PardT. In the latter, line 6.653, chances in dicing are "events which had the…
Bellis, Joanna.
Medium Aevum 83.02 (2014): 210-34.
Intentional scribal adaptations of the "Siege of Rouen" in continuations of the "Brut" demonstrate that manuscript differences are often intentional and not "innocent." Raises anew questions of what it means for Chaucer to insist that Adam write…
