Questions assumptions about Chaucer's authorial practices and challenges J. L. Lowes's theory that F is the earlier version of LGWP. G may be earlier, a hypothesis that accounts for structural differences in the two versions and for numerous lexical…
Chaucer weaves heraldic allusions into the portraits of Lygurge and Emetreus, the two kings who support Palamon and Arcite in the tournament. These allusions indicate the contemporaneity of KnT.
Finnegan, Robert Emmett.
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 93 (1992): 303-12.
The verb "assoillen" and the noun "bulle," two terms that cluster in the prologue and epilogue to PardT, engage in wordplay with "soilen" and "boles" respectively. The Pardoner, who implicity claims to be God, attempts to "soilen" the pilgrims…
Thomas Becket translated the Decret de Gratien. As chancellor,he (like the Man of Law) must have known "caas and domes all, / That from the tyme of king William were falle" and "every statut . . .pleyn by rote." He must have used this mastery to…
Middle English "ragen" acquires meanings within a defined semantic field of sexual activity and then attracts to itself a limited set of further energetic sexual meanings. Among instances illustrating this usage are GP (1.257), MilT (1.3774), and…
Explains PardT 6.406 to mean "to be damned" in light of the figurative associations of brambles with sins and the picking of fruit with spiritually dangerous activity, corroborated in exegetical commentary and other medieval literature.
Taylor, Paul Beekman.
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 95 (1994): 243-48.
Chaucer's use of the name Geffrey in his poetry contains a humorous and self-reflexive impact, although reference to his ancestral name Malyn does not.
Smith, Jeremy (J.)
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 95 (1994): 433-37.
Some northernisms in RvT have been dismissed as quasi-northern or as scribal misreadings. However, these forms are genuine attempts by post-Shift southern scribes to reflect a pre-Shift northern pronunciation.
The attribution of "Testament of Love" and "The Plowman's Tale" to Chaucer seems to have had no unfavourable effect, though the acceptance of his authorship of "The Plowman's Tale" may have fueled the belief that Ret was a monkish forgery.
An examination of "wit" and its near synonyms provides a control for the study of terms of cognition. Bo discards native words such as "understanding" and "knowing," in favor of Romance words such as "intelligence" and "science." These latter terms…
Mel resembles several other late-fourteenth-century retellings of this story as a proper model for wifely imitation. In using the form of the scholastic arts lecture, however, Prudence co-opts a masculine discursive style and its authoritative…
Gastle, Brian W.
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 99 (1998): 211-16.
The portrait of the five guildsmen in CT is a critique of "petty bourgeois pretensions to political power." Though each was "shaply for to been an alderman," the guildsmen were not members of the professions from which aldermen were elected. Their…
The vivid details of Decameron 7.3 (the story of Friar Rinaldo)-the corrupt clergy, their obesity and sweating faces, their rich foods and wine, together with the simplicity of the widow's life-suggest that Boccaccio's work may have inspired NPT as a…
Horobin, S. C. P.
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 99 (1998): 411-17.
The similar scribal features of three manuscripts of CT (Devonshire; Trinity College, Cambridge R.3.3; and Bodleian Rawlinson Poetry 223) have sometimes been attributed to a group of scribes and supervisors. This attribution has been used to support…
Presents the text of the Middle English poem, "Lyarde," discussing it in light of Goliardic satire and identifying instances where the poem shares themes with parts of CT: the "sexual superiority" of clerics (the Monk in MkP and NPE), wives' control…
Sherwin, Michael S.
New Blackfriars 94 (2013): 456-74.
Compares the depictions and analyses of love in TC, Annie Dillard's "The Maytrees" (2007), Thomas Aquinas, and modern psychologies of love, arguing that their underlying concerns with conflicts between passions and choices indicate that sustained…
Kellogg, Alfred L.
New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press, 1972.
Collects twenty essays by Kellogg (five co-authored), several of them reprinted. Fourteen of the essays pertain to Chaucer, with four of them printed here for the first time. Includes a subject index. For the new essays that pertain to Chaucer,…
Mandel, Jerome, and Bruce A. Rosenberg, eds.
New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1970.
Twenty-five essays, by various authors, on medieval literature and medieval and modern folklore. For five essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval Literature and Folklore Studies under Alternative Title.
Finley, William K., and Joseph Rosenblum, eds.
New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll; London: British Library, 2003.
Includes an introduction by the editors and ten essays and three appendices by various authors, who describe and discuss visual depictions of the Canterbury pilgrims and their tales in books and paintings, from the Ellesmere manuscript into the…
Peterson, William S., and Sylvia Holton Peterson.
New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2011.
Complete census of all known extant copies of the Kelmscott "Chaucer." Explores late nineteenth- and twentieth-century book history, and provides anecdotal and bibliographic details of the "Chaucer."
Klassen, Norman.
New Chaucer Society Newsletter 36.01 (2014): 4-5.
Notes that Liddell's 1901 and Pollard's 1903 editions of GP end line 13 with a full stop. This "aligns with the conclusions of Bernhard ten Brink and Otto Jespersen and solves a difficulty with the syntax that Julius Zupitza noted after 'serve' was…
