Newman, Francis X., ed.
Binghamton, N.Y. : Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1986.
Five essays dealing with the peasants' revolt, peasant resistance, the plague, and social conscience. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Social Unrest in the Middle Ages under Alternative Title.
Laird, Edgar, and Robert Fischer, trans.
Binghamton, N.Y. : Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1995.
Facing-page (French-English) translation of the earliest French treatise on the astrolabe (1362), a work that shares the same source as Astr. The introduction assesses the relations among Pélerin's "Practique," Astr, and their source text, John of…
Williman, Daniel, ed.
Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1982.
Six essays by various hands on the plague and its effects: demographics, millenarianism, iconography of death, the "Decameron," and Middle English literature.
Nicholson, Peter.
Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1989
Line-by-line commentary on the Confessio that synthesizes criticism and scholarship. The introduction surveys critical tradition, and the notes clarify details, patterns,and literary relations of the work.
Machan, Tim William, ed.
Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1991.
In addition to the introduction, this collection contains nine original essays focusing on the interrelations between textual and interpretive studies of late Middle English literature. The authors discuss the effect of editorial decisions on…
Bernardo, Aldo S., and Saul Levin, eds.
Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1990.
Twenty-six essays on the impact of the classics on medieval art, history, philosophy, education, and literature. Topics range widely from Coptic textiles to fourteenth-century England, from neo-Platonism to speculative grammar--all addressing the…
Shoaf, R[ichard] A[llen], ed., with the assistance of Catherine S. Cox.
Binghamton, N.Y.: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1992
Sixteen essays or portions of longer works, all pertaining to metafictive or metatextual aspects of TC as a self-conscious work of literature. Each includes a synoptic introduction. For the nine essays that are here published for the first time,…
The introduction to this critical edition addresses cultural, historical, syntactic, and metrical aspects pertinent to Chaucer's works as well as to those of Charles of Orleans.
Newhauser, Richard G.,and John A. Alford, eds.
Binghamton, N.Y.: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1995.
Includes seventeen essays on Chaucer, "Piers Plowman," pastoral literature, scripture and homilies, and lyric poetry; a dedicatory introduction; and a list of Wenzel's publications. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Literature and…
Nicolaisen, W. F. H., ed.
Binghamton, N.Y.: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1995.
Four plenary papers and eight sectional papers from the Twenty-Second Annual Conference, Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, 21-22 October 1988.
DuVal, John, trans. Intro. and notes by Raymond Eichmann.
Binghamton, N.Y.: Medieval and Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1992.
An anthology of twenty French fabliaux, translated into English verse. Includes historical introduction, brief headnotes to each tale, and a selective bibliography of fabliau materials.
Mosser, Daniel W.
Birmingham, [Eng.]: Scholarly Digital Editions, 2010.
2d edition, revised, updated, and corrected, with David Hill Radcliffe, 2014, available at <http://www.mossercatalogue.net>; accessed 17 February 2024.
Comprehensive description of the eighty-four manuscript witnesses to CT and four pre-1500 editions, each including contents, tale order, progress of copying, materials, page size, collation, format, hands, illumination, binding, date, language,…
Thomas, Paul, ed.
Birmingham, UK : Scholarly Digital Editions, 2006.
Includes interlinked images and transcriptions of all fifty-five pre-1500 versions of NPT, with complete collations (linked to variant maps), commentaries on family relationships of the versions, and stemmatic commentary on key readings. The search…
Whitaker, Cord J.
Black Metaphors: How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-Thinking (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), pp. 68-88.
Explores relations among rhetorical and philosophical principles of contrariety, Alison's "freedom from consequences" in the plot of MilT, blackness and whiteness in physiognomy, and the black and white imagery in the description of Alisoun's…
A novel in poetry that opens with direct reference to CT, and proceeds as a series of tales by various kinds of people: historical tales, migrants' tales, artists' tales, etc. The volume includes a Preface by John Kinsella in which he reports that…
An illustrated guide to raptors in English literature (fourteenth century to seventeenth century), which explains their symbolic value in terms of historical training and hunting practices and rituals. Recurrent references to Chaucer's works,…
Kelly, Henry Ansgar.
Blair Sullivan, ed. The Echo of Music: Essays in Honor of Marie Louise Göllner (Warren, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press, 2004), pp. 3-18.
Kelly traces Cecilia's entry into hagiographic tradition and compares details of various versions of the saint's legend, including the original "passio" and the versions by Jacobus a Voragine, Chaucer (SNT), Osbern Bokenham, and John Dryden. Also…
In his paintings of the Canterbury pilgrims, Blake shows the influence of previous illustrations for and commentary upon CT, but goes beyond the artistic and textual tradition to set the group of pilgrims in his own Blakean cosmos, pairing characters…
Cornelius, Michael G.
Blake Hobby, ed. Human Sexuality (New York: Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2009), pp. 95-104.
Introduces MilT as a fabliau, contrasts it with KnT, and comments on the "punishment" received by each of the major characters, including Alisoun, who is victimized by being a wife and through whom Chaucer critiques marriage.
Swinford, Dean.
Blake Hobby, ed. The Trickster. Bloom's Literary Themes (New York: Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2010), pp. 229-39.
Explores how WBT "ironizes the quest motif at the heart" of the romance genre and assesses the extent to which the loathly lady, the knight, and the Wife of Bath may be considered to be tricksters.
