Medieval Murderers, The. [Bernard, Knight, Ian Morson, Michael Jecks, Philip Gooden, and Susanna Gregory.]
London: Simon & Schuster, 2007.
Historical fiction in a series of five "interlinked mysteries" that pertain to Bermondsey Priory and its curse. The section titled "Act Four," by Philip Gooden, "relates to how the poet Chaucer becomes embroiled in the priory's dark history."
Peters, Harry.
Albrecht Classen, ed. Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Neglected Topic (New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2007), pp. 375-91.
Describes two medieval views of old age, based in the "seasonal model" of the four ages of life and the planetary model of seven ages. Comments on various poets' uses of the age of Jupiter and the age of Saturn, and identifies Chaucer's depictions of…
Includes the Middle English text of GP 1-42, with Lithgow's reading of the passage and his commentary on how it "grabs you" and makes you want to hear more.
Voth, Grant L.
Chantilly, Va.: Teaching Company, 2007.
Includes a thirty-minute audio lecture (Part 2 of 4, disc 9, Lecture 17) on "Chaucer's 'The Canterbury Tales'," with emphasis on the frame narrative (in contrast to Boccaccio's "Decameron"), appropriateness of tales to tellers, dramatic interaction…
Historical fiction and murder mystery, involving Chaucer and his contemporaries, including John of Gaunt, Adam Scriveyn, the murdered Cecily Champagne, and others.
Item not seen; reported in the MLA International Bibliography as a comparative linguistic treatment of dreams in Chaucer, Gower, and Langland. In Japanese.
Item not seen; reported in the MLA International Bibliography as a discussion of syntax, impersonal constructions, and variants in CT manuscripts. In Japanese.
Coleman, Joyce.
María Bullón-Fernández, ed. England and Iberia in the Middle Ages, 12th-15th Century: Cultural, Literary, and Political Exchanges. The New Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 135-65.
Coleman argues that Philippa of Lancaster, oldest legitimate daughter of John of Gaunt and queen of Portugal from 1387, sponsored the Portuguese and Castilian translations of Gower's "Confessio" Amantis. Philippa may also have been responsible for an…
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat, with parallel record for a piano/vocal score. A related website, Criseyde: A New Opera by Alice Shields, is available at http://www.aliceshields.com/criseyde/index.html (accessed March 28, 2014).
Includes links to verse modernizations of CT (Mel and ParsT excerpted in prose) TC, the Dream Poems, and various lyrics, imitating Chaucer's meter and rhyme schemes; translated and uploaded 2007-2008.
NeCastro, Gerard.
Machias, Maine: University of Maine at Machias, 2007.
Electronic texts of Chaucer's works in plain text and html, with a concordance and glossary, translations, and links to images, a chronology, and various web resources.
Oliveira, Maria do Carmo Correia de.
Teresa F. A. Alves and Maria Isabel Barbudo, eds. "And gladly wolde (s)he lerne and gladly teche": Homenagem a Júlia Dias Ferreira (Lisbon: Colibri, 2007), pp. 59-467.
Item not seen; reported in Encomia 32-33 (2010-2011): 206, with an abstract in French by Isabel de Barros Dias.
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…
Evans, Deanna Delmar.
Studies in Scottish Literature 35-36 (2007): 444-54.
Critiques the appropriateness of the label "Scottish Chaucerian" for William Dunbar, focusing on relations between Chaucer's Th and Dunbar's "Sir Thomas Norny," observing that there is "no reason to assume" direct influence and identifying…
Kaylor, Noel Harold, Jr., ed. and Philip Edward Phillips, eds.
Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr., and Philip Edward Phillips, eds. New Directions in Boethian Studies. Studies in Medieval Culture, no. 45 (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007), pp. 223-79.
Transcribes the text of "The Boke of Coumfort of Bois," a Middle English translation of Book 1 of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, found only in MS Auct. F.3.5. Accepts the claim in the Bodleian catalogue that the translation depends upon…
Brown, Peter.
Peter Brown, ed. A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture c. 1350--c.1500 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), pp. 307-21
Explores relations between the late-medieval debate on religious images and imagery in literature, including detailed assessment of the portrait of Chaucer that is included in manuscripts of Thomas Hoccleve's "Regiment of Princes." Assesses the…
Arner, Timothy D.
Ph.D. Dissertation. Pennsylvania State University, 2007. Fully accessible via https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/7586 (accessed April 6, 2023).
Explores "the historiographic importance of Troy . . . in the formation of an English literary tradition as defined by the idea of authorship and negotiated through genre . . . . particularly epic, romance and history." Studies the sources and…
Lehmberg, Stanford E., Samantha Meigs, and Thomas William Heyck.
Chicago: Lyceum, 2008.
Credits Chaucer "[m]ore than any other single person . . . with establishing the position of Middle English," describing him as a "major figure in politics as well as literature," and declaring that CT "achieved instant popularity" and that it is the…
Allen, Mark, and Bege K. Bowers.
SAC 30 (2008): 425-516.
Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 302 items, plus listing of reviews for 90 books. Includes an author…
