Mooney, Linne R.
Geoffrey Lester, ed. Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays in Honour of Norman Blake (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), pp. 139-60.
Charts "specific astronomical references" that are datable in Chaucer's works against other known events of the poet's life. Although the references may not help us date the poems in which they occur, they do indicate Chaucer's active interest in…
Mooney, Linne R.
Chaucer Review 34 (2000): 344-49, 2000.
A copy of William Caxton's first edition of "Dictes or Sayeingis of the Philosophres" (1477) contains three hand-written poems on the flyleaf. One of these, Chaucer's Wom Unc, has been rewritten, perhaps by a woman, to suggest that men may be just as…
Mooney, Linne R.
A. S. G. Edwards, Vincent Gillespie, and Ralph Hanna, eds. The English Medieval Book: Studies in Memory of Jeremy Griffiths (London: British Library, 2000), pp. 113-34.
Adds to the list of thirteen manuscripts attributed to the "Hammond" scribe another manuscript: BL Add. MS 29901. Long known for his Chaucerian affiliation, the scribe is now also affiliated with the officers of Arms, helping to explain his interest…
Mooney, Linne R.
Derek Pearsall, ed. New Directions in Later Medieval Manuscript Studies: Essays from the 1998 Harvard Conference (York; and Rochester, N.Y.: York Medieval Press, in association with Boydell and Brewer, 2000), pp. 131-41.
Surveys the techniques and functions of identifying manuscripts produced by the same scribe (especially manuscripts relating to Chaucer and Gower) and calls for a digital archive of known hands to help identify related manuscripts.
Mooney, Linne R.
A. J. Minnis, ed. Middle English Poetry: Texts and Traditions. Essays in Honour of Derek Pearsall (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: York Medieval Press, 2001), pp. 241-66.
Codicological analysis of the two manuscripts, which include works by Chaucer and Lydgate, Chaucerian apocrypha, and related works. Assessment of the booklets in the manuscripts and the habits of the two scribes ("scribe A" and the "Hammond scribe")…
Mooney, Linne R.
Journal of the Early Book Society 7 : 131-40, 2004
The scribe of British Library MS Harley 1758 (a copy of CT) also executed London, Society of Antiquaries 134, which includes Gower's "Confessio Amantis" and works by Lydgate, Hoccleve, and John Walton. The two manuscripts were produced in the West…
Mooney surveys the manuscripts and life records of Adam Pinkhurst, identified as the scribe addressed in Chaucer's Adam and as the scribe of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts, among others. Includes a chronology of manuscripts Pinkhurst is known…
Mooney, Linne R., and Daniel W. Mosser.
Takami Matsuda, Richard A. Linenthal, and John Scahill, eds. The Medieval Book and a Modern Collector: Essays in Honour of Toshiyuki Takamiya (Cambridge: Brewer; Tokyo: Yushodo, 2004), pp. 179-96.
Offers a "new listing of the hooked-g group of scribes" and attributes Takamiya MS 24 and two Takamiya fragments (MS 30 and single leaf from Plimpton MS) to the more specific "slanted hooked-g scribe," also responsible for Cambridge, Trinity College…
Mooney, Linne R., and Estelle Stubbs.
Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2013.
Comprehensive study of scribes from the London Guildhall responsible for copying Chaucer's earliest manuscripts, including Adam Pinkhurst, Guildhall scrivener from 1378-1410.
Mooney, Linne R., and Lister M. Matheson.
Library, 7th ser., 4 : 347-70, 2003.
The Northumberland manuscript of CT (Alnwick Castle 455) shows evidence that the scribe had access to a manuscript of CT that included the Prologue and Tale of Beryn and that he worked in a scriptorium that produced multiple copies of popular texts.
Mooney, Linne R., ed. and trans.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998.
Referred to by Chaucer in Astr, Somer's "Kalendarium" may have been a source for a number of the poet's astrological references. This facing-page edition and English translation of the Latin "Kalendarium" includes descriptions of the manuscripts;…
Moore, Arthur K.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 53 (1954): 532-45.
Argues that minstrelsy is the major target of Chaucer's burlesque in Tho--a "penetrating criticism of oral literary art" that is consistent with Chaucer's "position as a man of letters." Maintains that Tho and its juxtaposition with Mel indicate…
Asserts that the Nun's Priest "necessarily represents and embodies patriarchal Christianity" and, using Catherine Belsey's notion of an "interrogative text" (1980), argues that narrative and formal "inconsistencies" and "contradiction" in NPT cause…
Comparison of traditional rites to the feelings and actions of the characters shows that lack of structure does not mean disorder. Moore contends that there is no correlation between ritual and the outcome of KnT; in fact, a ritualistic beginning…
The Pardoner obsessively flaunts his unwholesome nature, manifesting hypnotic control and power. His picture of the Old Man, and his subsequent affronting of the Host augment his disturbing self-characterization and lead the pilgrims and author to…
Moore, Colette.
Dissertation Abstracts International 65 (2005): 3815A
Moore shows that medieval poems (including Chaucer's) "exploit the less-determined systems of medieval speech marking for aesthetic and rhetorical purposes."
Moore, Jeanie Grant.
Laurel Amtower and Dorothea Kehler, eds. The Single Woman in Medieval and Early Modern England: Her Life and Representation (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2003), pp. 133-46.
As an often-married single woman, the Wife of Bath confronts and eludes the "binarisms that contained married women": married/not married, male/female, experience/authority, etc. In the fantasy of WBT, she succeeds partially in creating a "world of…
Moore, Kenneth B.
Dissertation Abstracts International 47 (1987): 3435A.
Moore studies the influence of varied forms of dramatic presentation on Chaucer, Langland, and the "Gawain"-poet; significant use of voice and gesture is implied in their work although the poets were aware of a new audience of readers.
Moore, Marilyn L. Reppa.
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 2644A.
Rejects psychological characterizations of Troilus and Criseyde, arguing that they are better seen in light of rhetorical and devotional traditions. Associates Troilus with the ethos of petition and devotion and Criseyde with the pathos.
Moore, Marilyn L. Reppa.
Chaucer Review 33 (1998): 43-59
Troilus's character should be viewed not in the light of medieval romance but within the context of medieval "devotion," such as that advocated in St. Anselm's "Proslogion." It is more important to realize that Troilus learned to love with constancy…
Moore, Miriam Elizabeth.
Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 3163A, 2001.
Women in TC and Fernando de Rojas's "Celestina" seek to establish themselves and their fates through "control of language," but rhetorical control gives way as men eventually become subjects and women objects of physical desire.
Compares Chaucer's and Boccaccio's treatments of Troilus's looking at Criseyde in the temple. Governed by the laws of medieval optics, Troilus's gaze imprints Criseyde's image in his heart. In the image of the mirror, Chaucer portrays Troilus's…
