Kern-Stahler, Annette, Beatrix Busse, and Wietse de Boer, eds.
Boston, Mass.: Brill, 2016.
Collection of essays presenting perspectives on interrelations between sense perception and secular and Christian cultures in England from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern period. For essay on Chaucer, search for The Five Senses in Medieval and…
Griffin, Conan M., trans.
Boston, Mass.: Brill, 2023.
Translates Bo into modern idiomatic English, with text based on "The Riverside Chaucer," 3rd ed. (1986), and bottom-of-page notes, a glossary of proper names, and a citation glossary of Middle English words in Bo accompanied by Latin equivalents.…
Kempf, Elisabeth.
Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter, 2017.
Examines questions of autobiography, authorship, legacy, and the "Fürstenspiegel" genre in Thomas Hoccleve's "Regiment of Princes," with attention to its manuscript presentations and to its images of Chaucer and of Hoccleve himself, discussing the…
Classen, Albrecht, ed.
Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter, 2017.
Twenty-five essays by various authors on a wide array of topics. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Magic and Magicians in the Middle and the Early Modern Times under Alternative Title.
Chapter 7, "Chaucer: Die 'Canterbury Tales,' " summarizes the individual tales of CT, following the Chaucer Society order, and provides brief explanations of religious backgrounds and details.
Berensmeyer, Ingo.
Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter, 2022.
Historical survey of the relations between literary texts in English and material presentation, from oral and dramatic performance through manuscripts and books, to audio, visual, and digital forms. Includes a section on key terms, a timeline, and an…
Chapter 2 focuses on free volition (as formulated by John Duns Scotus), empathy, and fraternal bonding in "Amis and Amiloun" and in SNT. In the latter, Valerian and Tiburce "forgo political loyalties and prioritize their fraternal bond by cultivating…
Twelve short dramas for oral reading, including a Modern English prose adaptation of CT (pp. 161-83) that retells portions of GP, KnT, WBT, NPT, and PardT, with narrative transitions between them. Designed for juvenile audience; reading time…
A history of laughter in Western literature, focusing on the relation between laughter and literature, and surveying ancient, medieval, and modern traditions. In his Introduction, Sanders credits Chaucer with associating the roles of the feminine…
Despite repressive laws and the misogyny of clerical writers, it appears that wives, widows, religious women, mystics, townswomen, and peasant women had more control, respect, and influence than has been thought. Labarge presents the whole social…
Eight essays by various authors suggest that looking carefully at the ways characters speak in medieval texts gives information about the social networks of medieval society and reveals artistic skills of writers who considered speech significant.…
Social and legal history of violence against women in the medieval family, including discussion of case studies. Comments briefly on MerT and ClT, and discusses at greater length (pp. 230-36) WBP which indicates that "failure to internalise and…
Rigby reads KnT as a mirror for princes, comparing it with Giles of Rome's "De regimine principum" and finding Theseus of KnT to be an ideal ruler by this standard. Theseus's personal ethics, his treatment of his household, his political and military…
Includes eight essays by various authors, an Introduction by the editor, and a comprehensive Index. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Postmodern Poetics and Queer Medievalisms: Time Mechanics under Alternative Title.
Johnson, Valerie B. and Kara L. McShane, eds.
Boston: De Gruyter; Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, 2022.
Includes fifteen essays on early English, Irish, Scottish, and Robin Hood studies, with an Introduction by the editors, an appreciation of Thomas Hahn's career by Theresa Coletti, and a comprehensive Index. For five essays that pertain to Chaucer,…
An alphabetical dictionary that lists people, personifications, and allusions (direct and indirect) in Chaucer's works, providing brief identifications and exhaustive citations of occurrences. Entries for sources, such as the Bible, Boccaccio, Dante,…
The bibliography includes books, articles, dissertations, reviews, reprints, and background studies. Annotations identify general, introductory, or background studies and those designed for undergraduates.
An anthology of criticism, with a brief introduction (pp. vii-ix) that characterizes CT as "unique" because "no other work so fragmentary creates such an illusion of completeness." The volume reprints essays and excerpts by twenty-one writers,…
Pratt, Robert A., ed.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966.
Edits CT (excluding Mel, MkT, SNT, CYT, and Pars), along with Ros, Form Age, Adam, Buk, Purse, and Truth, following the Robinson's edition of 1957, with modification from Manly and Rickert's collations. Marginal glosses and bottom-of-page notes…
Kinney, Arthur F., Kenneth W. Kuiper, and Lynn Z. Bloom, comps.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970.
Item not seen; the WorldCat record indicates that this is a compilation of literary works and extracts from the classical era to the twentieth century, including WBT.
Pratt, Robert A., ed.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974.
Edits CT, with marginal glosses, bottom-of-page notes, and an additional "Basic Glossary." The text is based on Robinson's 1957 edition, with variants explained and listed in a "Comment on the Text" (pp. 561-79). The Introduction (pp. ix-xxxiv)…
