Hill, Thomas D.
T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer, eds. "Seyd in Forme and Reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio Press, 2005), pp. 145-50.
Argues that "fader" in the first line of Gent refers to prelapsarian Adam, evidence of Chaucer's "modest egalitarianism."
Surveys a wide range of occurrences and developments for [kn], a cluster with a number of uncommon properties. Examination of the lexical and phonetic idiosyncrasies demonstrates that observed figural representation in is not at odds with a rational…
Dor, Juliette.
Marie-Francoise Alamichel, ed. La complémentarité: Mélanges offerts á Josseline Bidard et Arlette Sancery á l'occasion de leur départ en retraite (Paris: AMAES, 2005), pp. 165-76.
Analyses Chaucer's polysemous uses of quite(n) in CT in light of late fourteenth-century concerns with contracts and debts, disclosing various tensions among the tellers' origins, professions, and ranks.
Twomey, Michael W.
T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer, eds. "Seyd in Forme and Reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio Press, 2005), pp. 181-90.
Guide to pronouncing the Latin words and phrases in CT, presented in International Phonetic Alphabet; includes a brief introduction on historical phonology.
Eitler, Tamás.
Michael D. Fortescue et al., eds. Historical Linguistics 2003: Selected Papers from the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, 11-15 August 2003 (Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2005), pp. 87-102.
Eitler studies the development of the "incipient standard" syntactic pattern (subject-verb-object), comparing data from Chaucer's prose works with data from other ME prose, characterizing his idiom as the "(relatively) upper class sociolect" of…
Gray, Douglas.
Thomas G. Duncan, ed. A Companion to the Middle English Lyric (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochster, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 2005), pp. 120-49.
Sketches the French backgrounds and courtly functions of late medieval English lyrics, surveying representative samples from Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve, Lydgate, Charles d'Orléans, Skelton, the Findern manuscript, and Humphrey Newton's collection.…
Edwards, A. S. G.
Christa Jansohn and Bodo Plachta, eds. Varianten - Variants - Variantes. (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer, 2005), pp. 79-90.
Edwards comments on the conceptualizations and uses of variants in textual studies of CT and "Piers Plowman," particularly those by Manly and Rickert and by Kane and Donaldson, arguing that some manuscripts are better regarded as separate versions of…
Windram, Heather F., Christopher J. Howe, and Matthew Spencer.
Literary and Linguistic Computuing 20 (2005): 189-204
Uses a statistical technique derived from DNA research to reexamine the possibility of examplar changes in the copying of WBP. Results agree with earlier studies, indicating the usefulness of this method.
Considers the date and provenance of the Longleat 257 manuscript, describes its contents, and offers a full codicological analysis of collation and compilation, hands, and illustrations.
Edwards, A. S. G.
Anne Marie D'Arcy and Alan J. Fletcher, eds. Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood (Dublin: Four Courts, 2005), pp. 121-28.
Transcribes a version of CkT from Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 45, previously unnoticed or ignored. Accompanied by the apocryphal Tale of Gamelyn, the text was copied by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), probably from a manuscript now lost.
Horobin, Simon, and Daniel W. Mosser.
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 106 (2005): 289-305
The authors analyze the spelling and dialect evidence of manuscripts attributed to Scribe D (including CT) and argue that the southwestern dialect features derive from exemplars rather than from the scribe's own dialect. This argument, in turn,…
Wetherbee, Winthrop, III
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 27 (2005): 3-21
The Presidential Address, The New Chaucer Society, Fourteenth International Congress, 15-19 July 2004, University of Glasgow. Explores Chaucer's idea of "serious poetry," derived from French and Italian models. Comments on Chaucer's treatments of…
McTurk, Rory.
Aldershot, Hampshire; and Burlington, Ver. : Ashgate, 2005.
Revives the idea that Chaucer visited Ireland between 1361 and 1366, placing new emphasis on the date of the Statute of Kilkenny. Identifies sources for Chaucer's works in Irish and Norse literatures. Observes parallels for HF in the "Topographia…
Griffiths, Eric, and Matthew Reynolds, eds.
New York : Penguin, 2005.
An anthology of selections from Dante's works adapted or translated into English, including several examples from Chaucer's works (WBT, MkT, SNT, HF, and TC). Focusing on the Commedia and arranged chronologically, the selections range from Chaucer to…
Minnis, Alastair.
Essays in Criticism 55 (2005): 97-116
The Loathly Lady's lecture on "gentilesse" in WBT goes beyond sexual sovereignty to encompass dominium, a concept central to Wyclif's challenge to authority. Without naming his source, Chaucer channels orthodox, Boethian ideas about "gentilesse"…
Williams, Deanne.
Ananya Jahanara Kabir and Deanne Williams, eds. Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating Cultures (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 127-50.
Compares Nebuchadnezzar in Gower's "Confessio Amantis" with his depictions in Chaucer's HF and MkT.
Minnis, Alastair.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 27 (2005): 25-58.
Traces late medieval "vernacular secularity," particularly the influences of Aristotle's "Ethics," "Politics," and "Economics" and Boethius's "Consolation" as transmitted to England by Giles of Rome, Nicole Oresme, Nicholas Trevet, Jean de Meun,…
Correale, Robert M., and Mary Hamel, eds.
Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y. : D. S. Brewer, 2005.
An anthology of the sources and analogues for selections from CT. Each section comments on source-and-analogue relations, edits the materials in a form close to what Chaucer might have known, and provides facing-page translations of non-English…
Murphy, James J.
James Jerome Murphy. Latin Rhetoric and Education in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Variorum Collected Studies Series; Collected Studies, no. 827. Burlington, Ver.: Ashgate, 2005.
First published in 1964, the essay is reprinted here with original pagination, along with a number of other essays by Murphy. Murphy argues that Chaucer was not likely to have been directly influenced by rhetoricians such as Geoffrey of Vinsauf.
Horowitz assesses the aesthetic value of BD by focusing on three "transcapes" (through visions): that of the narrator as a literary medium; that of the work's interwoven sources and time spans; and that of the gendered landscape, which is both…
Long, Rebekah.
Dissertation Abstracts International 66 (2005): 2206A
Considers BD and Pearl as case studies in the search for "an appropriate, adequate language of commemoration," as opposed to prior models of elegiac language.
Examines the manuscript and editorial traditions of BD to argue for a new edition, based on MS Tanner 346, sensitive to the poem's octosyllabic meter and aware of scribal contamination. Suggests a number of emendations.
Foster, Michael.
Janne Skaffari et al., eds. Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past (Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2005), pp. 199-213.
Chaucer constructed a self-deprecating narrator in BD and in HF in response to audience expectations. These constructions, in turn, shaped how people in Chaucer's own society regarded Chaucer and how his personality has been recorded historically.
Yvernault, Martine.
Marie-Francoise Alamichel, ed. La complémentarité: Mélanges offerts à Josseline Bidard et Arlette Sancery à l'occasion de leur départ en retraite (Paris: AMAES, 2005), pp. 187-95.
Considers BD as a partition between the mythical and fictional worlds and reality, as a textual space of transition where poetic experience and real life are intertwined.
