Rambuss, Richard.
Lori Hope Lefkovitz, ed. Textual Bodies: Changing Boundaries of Literary Representation (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997), pp. 75-99.
The Prioress's identification with the little clergeon of PrT and her elisions of history indicate a "desire for transcendence" rather than sentimentality. The presence of bodily violence and prurience in PrT accords well with some of the…
Fragment 1 of CT (KnT, MilT, and RvT) "posit[s] contra-factual histories" for Chaucer's source texts while employing imagery of "sodomy, rape and monstrous hybrids" as refutations of those histories' threats to the structure of a salvation comedy.
Ramirez Arlandi, Juan.
Margarita Gimenez Bon and Vickie Olsen, eds. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature. (Vitoria-Gasteiz: Dpto. Filologia Inglesa, 1997): pp. 247-52.
Investigates varying presentations of marriage in the Marriage Group of CT, concluding that the "true idea of marriage is the result of combining the features that different characters exhibit."
Ramirez-Arlandi, Juan.
Salvador Pena and Juan Jesus Zaro, eds. De Homero a Pavese: Hacia un canon iberoamericano de clasicos universales (Kassel: Reichenberger, 2017), pp. 39-64.
Analyzes the translation techniques used in the Spanish version of MilT and RvT made between 1949 and 1956 by Chilean scholar, theater director and translator Jorge Elliott Garcia. Claims that the purpose of this verse translation was to increase the…
Ramírez-Arlandi, Juan.
In Salvador Peña and Juan Jesús Zaro, eds. Traducir a los clásicos: Entornos y transformaciones (Granada: Comares, 2018), pp. 187-204.
Analyzes the Spanish translation of PardT by Patricio Gannon published in 1944 in Argentina, a version that used as a source text John S. P. Tatlock's and Percy MacKaye's modernized version (1912). Studies the degree of rewriting in Gannon's version…
Ramirez, Janina.
London: W. H. Allen, 2022; Toronto: Hanover Square, 2023.
Includes a brief summary of KnT and posits that the petitioning of Theseus by the Theban women may have inspired the "final act" of suffragette Emily Wilding Davison when she reached "towards the king's horse" at the Epsom Derby of 1913. Also notes…
Ramsburgh, John S.
Dissertation Abstracts International 65 (2005): 3797A
Suggests that TC and WBP argue for a diachronic understanding of time-as-phenomenon, as opposed to the religious emphasis on eternity over temporality.
Treats PhyT as an instance of Chaucer's use of "indirection" when applying a moral to an exemplary narrative. Like ManT in this respect (also ClT, NPT, and part of TC), and unlike its analogues in Livy, Gower, and the "Roman de la Rose," PhyT closes…
Ramsey, Nigel.
Stephen H. Rigby, ed., with the assistance of Alastair J. Minnis. Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 386-98.
Reviews the history of medieval manciples, lawyers, and stewards. Reads Chaucer's Manciple as "ironic and allusive" and an "indispensable middleman" in ManT.
Ramsey, Roger.
Journal of Narrative Technique 7 (1977): 104-15.
ClT embodies two levels of meaning, realistic and allegorical. These levels are well represented by the handling of the detail and imagery of Griselda's clothing.
Ramsey, Roy Vance, ed., with a foreword by Henry Ansgar Kelly.
Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 2010.
A corrected reprint of Ramsey's 1994 publication (see SAC 18 [1996], no. 31), with Kelly's summary of the importance of the volume and its arguments concerning the relationships of the manuscripts (especially Hg, El, and Dd) and the editing of…
Ramsey, Roy Vance.
Studies in Bibliography 42 (1989): 134-52.
Robinson's first edition (1933) is founded on unsound editorial practices, most notably an overreliance on Skeat (Robinson's true base text, not Ellesmere as usually claimed). Even in his second edition (1957), Robinson failed to profit from the…
Ramsey, Roy Vance.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 8 (1986): 107-44.
New manuscript data reaffirm Ramsey's earlier argument that different scribes copied the Hengwrt and Ellesmere MSS of CT; M. L. Samuels is wrong in arguing that a single scribe copied these manuscripts and MS Corpus Christi 198. Handwriting alone is…
Ramsey, Roy Vance.
Studies in Bibliography 35 (1982): 133-54.
Statistical analysis shows CT MSS Hengwrt and Ellesmere as the work of two scribes of closely similar hands, who possibly trained under the same master. The Ellesmere scribe himself is probably "the source of much of the editing" in that MS.
Ramsey, Roy Vance.
Ph. D. Dissertation. University of Oklahoma, 1964. Dissertation Abstracts International 25.06 (1964): 3557A. Fully accessible via https://shareok.org/items/dd820005-e444-4489-bfc2-17219d22dffe (accessed April 21, 2026)
Assesses the opposition between idealized women and overt antifeminism in Christianity, Neoplatonism, and western literary tradition, using it as background to argue that Chaucer maintained in CT a successful "tension of opposing viewpoints," even…
Ramson, W. S.
A. P. Treweek, ed. Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association 1969. Proceedings and Papers of the Twelfth Congress Held at the University of Western Australia, 5-11 February 1969 ([Sydney]: AULLA, 1970), pp, 456-76..
Accepts that much fifteenth-century admiration of Chaucer praises his rhetoric and "ornate eloquence," but explores comments that convey wider, more sophisticated appreciation of his stylistic range and philosophical depth, considering comments by…
Rand Schmidt, Kari Anne.
Jacqueline Hamesse and Antonio Zampolli, eds. Computers in Literary and Linguistic Computing: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference/L'Ordinateur et les recherches litteraires et linguistiques: Actes de la XIe Conference internationale, Universite Catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve), 2-6 avril 1984 (Paris: Champion-Slatkine, 1985), pp. 333-43.
Deals with the question of authorship and the style of Equat. Discusses Geir Kjetsaa.
Rand Schmidt, Kari Anne.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993.
Concludes that the case for Chaucer's authorship of Equat remains "not proven"; i.e., Equat "cannot be identified as Chaucer's work." This conclusion is built on examination of handwriting, dialect, and style, showing that Equat is a holograph in…
Rand, George I.
American Notes and Queries 7 (1979): 149-50.
Observes that Chaunticleer's mistaken reference to Macrobius as the author of the "Somnium Scipionis" (7.3124) may suggest that NPT predates PF (i.e., "no later than 1386"), where Macrobius is accurately identified as the author of the "Commentary"…
Rand, Kari Anne.
Studia Neophilologica 87 (2015): 15-35
Presents new evidence that "shows that the author [of Equat] was not Chaucer," connecting the unique manuscript of the treatise (Cambridge, Peterhouse, MS 75.I) with the work and life of John Westwyk, a monk of Tynemouth. Includes paleographical…
Rand, Thomas A.
American Notes and Queries 32 (2019): 75-77.
Identifies several previously unnoticed biblical allusions in SumT: "narratives of divine wrath against false prophets, gift giving in apostolic ministry, and miraculous healing, all of which enrich the tale's comic irony and sharpen the satiric…
Read in the context of Proverbs 21-14 ("a gift in secret pacifieth anger; and a reward in the bosom, strong wrath"), Thomas's gift is comic and condemns Friar John.
