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Complete text of CT newly edited from the Ellesmere manuscript, with an introduction (pp. 9-38), brief bibliography, and eleven "background documents" that include selections from sources and historical records. Glosses to the Middle English are…

Selections from Boenig and Taylor's 2008 edition of CT (SAC 32 [2010], no. 16), including GP, KnT, MilPT, RvPT, WBPT, SumPT, ClPT, SqE, FranPT, PardPT, PrPT, NPPT, and Ret. Also contains an introduction (pp. ix-lviii), brief bibliography, and fifteen…

Readings in social and cultural history for classroom purposes, arranged in eight sections: politics and ideology, social structures, daily life, religious life and prayer, knighthood and war, reading and education, sciences and medicine, and…

A comprehensive annotated bibliography of scholarly and critical discussion of MkT and NPT, subdivided into the following categories: editions and translations; bibliographies, handbooks, and indices; manuscripts and textual studies; prosody,…

Explores literary composition as "cybertextuality," employing a fusion of cognitive theory, stylistic analysis, computer applications, and attribution studies. The goal is to uncover the compositional processes of writers by examining their verbal…

Nine essays by various authors, an introduction by the editors, a commentary on Fleming's critical legacy by Steven Justice, and a bibliography of Fleming's publications. For five essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Sacred and Profane in…

Addresses the toponymical references to Penmark and Kayrrud in FranT (5.801 and 807), locating them specifically in Brittany, commenting on the local rockiness and military value, and noting an association with the story of Tristan and Iseult.

Argues that the GP portrait of the Monk evokes Jean le Bel, chronicler of Edward III, and suggests that MkT is a poetic chronicle. With the Knight and the Prioress, the Monk is evidence that contemporary personalities and events lie behind CT.

Discusses the function of groups of twelve lines in the NPT.

A summary of the text published in Limoges.

Clarifies the bilingualism through Chaucer's use of French loanwords in CT.

Argues that rhyme in English was rare only by reference to French lyrical poetry. Chaucer felt suspicious of craftsmanship for its own sake. Sophistication in rhyming is better left to those who "make in Fraunce."

Mertens-Fonck returns to the clerk-knight debate tradition, especially to "Hueline et Aiglantine" and the "Concile de Remiremont," finding a source of the portrait of the Prioress.

Briefly describes the books and materials exhibited at the January 11, 1991, Sorbonne conference on Chaucer-French relations.

Compares the functions of the narrators in CT and "Don Juan," especially in relation to the themes of guilt and regeneration.

Examines the rhetoric of pathos and irony in CT, drawing attention to how they clash and overlap in PrT and the GP description of the Prioress.

Investigates the burlesque effects of the -"aille" rhymes in the envoy to ClT. Like Eustache Deschamps, Chaucer plays with the plaintive effect of the sound, but he inverts the tone through male exhortation of a feminist position and through the…

Bakhtinian approach to the sketch of the Clerk: there is an intricate dialogue between the latter and the narrator. The facts behind the story and the way it is told reveal much about Chaucer's complex personality.

Explores wordplay involving French and Anglo-Norman "bords" that may have authorized the use of the borders of medieval illuminated manuscripts for visual jesting, contestation, and derision. Considers the verbal "borders" of CT in relation to this…

The liturgy is omnipresent in the texts of medieval writers, including lay writers, although its influence is often indirect.

Challenges assumptions underlying traditional studies of sources and relative chronology, suggesting that similarities between Deschamps's work and Chaucer's are evidence of late-fourteenth-century literary style and common "mentalites". Compares…

Friar Hubert practices false-seeming by faking a Francophone lisp, replacing dentals with sibilants in order to increase his social prestige and his seductiveness. Kendrick also explores why Parision French was considered "sweet".

Explores the metaphoric and symbolic value of walls and gaps in the Thisbe account in LGW.

Assesses similarities and differences between the two Prologues to LGW and the portrayal of Cupid in the Dido account, examining the power relations between Cupid and Alceste and, beyond this microstructure, the masculine-feminine relations of the…

Chaucer and Malory haunted the imagination of Burne-Jones, who illustrated the Kelmscott edition of Chaucer's Works (1896). Burne-Jones ignored the licentious tales, but he expressed the classical/medieval spirit of TC. He was attracted by the scene…