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The overt hermeneutic directives of many animal books are evident in HF, WBP, and, especially, the silencing of the crow in ManT. The latter combines with the Parson's "antiliterary prologue" to undercut the whole of CT.

The archetype of initiation is the structural principle of TC. The archetype produces a number of images and actions illustrating the physical and spiritual development of the hero. The archetype is more revealing of the surface structure than of…

Traces the etymology, usage, and implications of the word "trout" and its derivations in medieval literature and later tradition. Includes comments on "Trotula" (WBP 3.677), "trotte" (WBP 3.838), and "virytrate" (FrT 3.1582).

Considers the validity and applicability of the critical concepts of "reading lesbian" and "reading queer," briefly suggesting the implications of imagining lesbian and queer audiences for readings of MerT.

Comments generally on Chaucer's scientific knowledge, explains his use and understanding of "Aristotelian cosmology," and describes the astronomical and astrological systems that underlie the details and structures of many of his works. Assumes that…

Derived from St. Bonaventure, the Franciscan model of meditation afforded the laity of the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries a "means of participating in an eternal present," as demonstrated in "Piers Plowman," "Pearl," and "The Book of…

Edition of Rom based on Glasgow University Library MS Hunter 409 and the 1532 printed edition of William Thynne, with collated variants from subsequent editions through The Riverside Chaucer and notes variorum through 1990. Emendations are guided by…

Edition of Astr based on Bodley 619 and Digby 72, Bodleian Library, Oxford, with collated variants from all known manuscripts and scholarly editions through The Riverside Chaucer. Contains explanatory notes and critical notes variorum through 1997.…

Part 5a includes a new text and set of collations for WBPT, based on the Hengwrt MS, with variants from landmark manuscripts and scholarly editions; also includes a Critical Commentary (pp. 3-148) that surveys critical tradition topically, a Textual…

Proposing to assess "how our language of parody...acts to manipulate the literature it is intended to describe," Dane explores the relation of genre to politics. Part 4, "The Classification of Medieval Parody," contains a chapter, "The…

Part 1A includes a new, variorum text and set of collations for GP, based on the Hengwrt manuscript and edited by Charles Moorman; textual notes by Daniel J. Ransom and Charles Moorman; textual commentary by Daniel J. Ransom, assisted by Lynne Hunt…

Edition of SumT, based on the Hengwrt manuscript. Collates nine additional manuscripts and the major editions from Caxton to "The Riverside Chaucer." Spelling is lightly modernized and punctuation is introduced. Notes, critical commentary, and…

Proposes a complete descriptive catalog of the manuscripts of CT to be published in electronic form as part of the 'Canterbury Tales' Project, illustrating features of each manuscript through electronic facsimiles.

Articulates the principles of manuscript transcription for the "Canterbury Tales" Project, theorizing about the potential and limitations of transcribing for machine-readable publication and explaining why "graphemic" transcription (rather than…

Surveys textual issues that confront editors of CT, presenting the issues as background to the "Canterbury Tales" Project. Considers problems of lineation, the incompleteness of the text, the role of the links, questions of early circulation,glosses,…

Discusses the application of computer-assisted cladistic analysis to manuscript stemmatics and describes the use of "Collate" software, designed to analyze and refine generalizations produced by cladistics. The essay details how texts of the Old…

Critiques the inaccuracies, inconsistencies, and inconclusiveness of the Manly-Rickert description (Chicago, 1940) of the glosses in manuscripts of CT. Compares glossarial manuscript groups to the textual groups identified by Manly and Rickert,…

Analyzes the manuscript variants of the so-called added passages of WBP, concluding that the passages were composed by Chaucer and that they extend from a single exemplar, probably an unfinished authorial draft.

The metrical and stylistic habits reflected in the variants of WBP manuscripts Hengwrt, Ellesmere, Gg, Ha4, CP, and Dd indicate scribal rather than authorial origins. In comparison with Hengwrt, Ellesmere does not reflect a consistent effort to…

Demonstrates the dangers of over-reliance on Hengwrt, Ellesmere, or any limited number of privileged manuscripts in establishing the text of CT, arguing for attention to all available material.

Argues that two distinct scribal attitudes toward the Wife of Bath can be perceived: a misogynous scholarly response typical of one manuscript family, and a more sympathetic popular response typical of another. Considers evidence from WBP,…

Describes how the difficulties and decisions involved in transcribing manuscripts for the "Canterbury Tales" Project parallel fifteenth-century scribal practice.

Analyzes textual variants of WBP, using the data and computer analysis available on Robinson's "The Wife of Bath's Prologue on CD-ROM". Corroborates Manly and Rickert's A, B, C, and D groupings and their affiliations, suggests two more (E, F) that…

Examines characteristic features of the two similar scribal hands of CT manuscript En1, correcting errors and emphases in Manly and Rickert's analysis (1940). The scribes appear initially to have divided their labors before Scribe 2 completed and…

Describes how the marginal note "Stokes" in the Hengwrt manuscript of CT may have been erased in a conservation project in 1956, arguing that attention must be given to facsimiles and descriptions as well as to manuscripts. Explores the implications…