Randall, Jackie.
Rouse Hill, NSW: Schillings, 2016.
Item not seen; WorldCat information indicates this is a children's novel, set in the Middle Ages, about a gifted girl who flees her home in order to protect a Chaucer manuscript.
Ransom, Daniel J.
Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1985.
Ransom demonstrates "the ironic tone of four Harley poems," reveals "the parodic intention (ambiguities, incongruities, exaggerations) that underlies that tone," and discovers irony in other Harley lyrics. Includes various references to and…
Ransom, Daniel J.
David Raybin and Linda Tarte Holley, eds. Closure in The Canterbury Tales: The Role of The Parson's Tale (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2000), pp. 77-93.
Preliminary collations of The Parson's Tale lines 10.75-551 indicate that de Worde's 1498 edition of the Tale derived from a high-quality manuscript rather than from William Caxton's second edition. Such editorial effort reflects high regard for The…
Ransom, Daniel J.
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. 205-15.
Offers adjustments or expansions to explanations of several of Chaucer's allusions: the labors of Hercules, Lucia, Xantippe, Chrysippus, a number of place names, etc.
Ransom, Daniel J.
Chaucer Review 41 (2006): 206-12.
Troilus's reference to Apollo speaking "out of a tree" (TC 3.543) is likely not a reflection of Chaucer's misunderstanding Ovid. Numerous authors Chaucer may have read, including Bartholomaeus Anglicus, provide grounds for the conclusion that the…
Ransom, Daniel J.
Chaucer Review 43 (2009): 376-99.
An examination of Chaucer's use of temporal terminology--from references to "eternity and perpetuity" to references to seconds and moments, including seasons, days, nights, and hours--suggests that he uses such terminology with a modicum of…
Investigates character development, language, and motifs of GP, CT, and TC to establish the extent of Chaucer's influence on the sixteenth-century poem "Debate betweene Pride and Lowlines."
Ransom, Daniel J.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 118 (2019): 517-43.
Observes that the glossary of Speght's 1598 edition of Chaucer's works lists "yape" for "jape"/"iape," meaning "trick," "joke," or sexual activity, but the 1602 edition does not; historical and contemporary word lists do not include "yape" unless…
Raskolnikov, Masha.
Literature Compass 2 (2005): 1-20.
Surveys recent discussions of the role of confession in constructing a vernacular sense of self in late medieval English writing, with recurrent references to Chaucer's works.
Raskolnikov, Masha.
Christopher Vaccaro, ed. Painful Pleasures: Sadomasochism in Medieval Cultures (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022), pp. 235-66.
Investigates queer consolation in ClT, exploring interconnections among consent, Griselda's masochistic suffering, Walter's sadistic testing and desire to know, their "power exchange" (a concept drawn from BDSM), the gameful earnestness of "happiness…
Rasmussen, Mark David.
Dissertation Abstracts International 54 (1993): 171A.
Poets have used the complaint to express their own poetic and social situations. In BD, the nonaristocratic poet must work within a courtly mode; in TC, he expresses the "need for a sympathetic audience."
Rasovic, Tiffany
Year's Work in Medievalism 14: 67-79, 1999.
Explores in BD Chaucer's attitudes toward language and its (in)ability to communicate successfully. The skepticism or nominalism of BD is modified by indications of the power of "extra-linguistic" symbols and signs, providing some "rescue from…
Visual and verbal guide to the "Pilgrims' Way" between London and Canterbury, documenting the remaining evidence of ancient and medieval archeology, architecture, and topography, and exploring possible side routes and byways where remaining evidence…
Rawcliffe, Carole.
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. 297-318.
Analyzes the historical background of late fourteenth-century medical practice in order to understand better Chaucer's portrait of the Physician in GP. Emphasizes how Chaucer reveals his opinions on morality, as well as the medical profession,…
Ray, Maggie Ellen.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Maryland, 2014. Fully accessible via https://drum.lib.umd.edu/items/5db2e04d-1103-476d-9501-4fec84b11acf (accessed April 4, 2026).
Studies "the early modern English controversy about women--the debate about the merits and flaws of womankind--arguing that authors in the controversy took advantage of the malleability of women's voices to address issues beyond the worth of women."…
Raybin, David, and Linda Tarte Holley, eds.
Kalamazoo : Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2000.
Nine essays and an annotated bibliography that focus on ParsT. Includes an introduction by the editors and a comprehensive index. For individual essays, search for Closure in The Canterbury Tales under Alternative Title.
Raybin, David, and Susanna Fein.
New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession 3 (2022): 86-94.
Describes and assesses NEH K-12 Seminars for high school teachers pertaining to CT and held in London, 2008–14; reflects on 2014 legislation that discontinued funding for such programs held outside the USA; and encourages future collaboration…
Raybin, David.
Susanna Freer Fein, David Raybin, and Peter C. Braeger, eds. Rebels and Rivals: The Contestive Spirit in The Canterbury Tales. Studies in Medieval Culture, no. 29 (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1991), pp. 189-212.
CYP offers an earthly perspective that counterbalances the heavenly perspective in SNT. Moreover, the structure of CYP/T affirms artistic striving for "something higher and more beautiful" while suggesting the "tendency to corruption that threatens…
Of the characters in FranT, Dorigen is "most fre" in the senses of independence and generosity. She chooses her own fate (life instead of the suicide characteristic of the scorned woman) and her own lover (her husband instead of the lusty, would-be…
Raybin, David.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 12 (1990): 65-84.
In MLT, Chaucer transforms medieval concepts of divine and human time "to formulate a powerful expression regarding the positive use of time in this world." Harry Bailly's introductory focus on time is significant; "Custance's story illustrates a…
