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Eighty-four brief poems or excerpts from longer ones, including lines 36-56 of SNP in Middle English (pp. 68-69), with indication of Chaucer's debt to Dante, whose version of "St. Bernard's Hymn to the Virgin" is given in Italian and English…

Contrasts Chaucer's Troilus and the title character of "Sir Tristrem," with comments on brutality and violence in "Athelston," exploring the "nobility" or lack of nobility of masculine protagonists in courtly romance. Devotion and affection dominate…

This anthology of international short fiction in Spanish translation is intended for classroom use, with a pedagogical introduction (pp. 9-105) and study questions (pp. 485-524). It includes PardT (pp. 123-31), without PardP, as well as tales by Don…

Historical fiction set in the time of the Black Death in England involving a tale-telling competition, with similarities to CT and Boccaccio's "Decameron."

Facing-page translation of PF into modern French poetry. Includes as an appendix Marteau's poetic tribute to Chaucer, "Hommage au Noble Geffroy Chaucier, Grant Translateur."

Poetic tribute to Chaucer, with recurrent allusions to GP, cast as a commentary on teaching Chaucer.

Describes various kinds of mediation involved in interlingual, intralingual, and intersemiotic translation, and assesses the nature and degree of interpretation and originality in such mediation. Includes extended discussion of Ermanno Barisone's…

Lyric poem about a dream within a dream. An accompanying note mentions that both Langland and Chaucer "often described a dream within a dream."

Popular social history, presented as a travel guide for the "historical traveler," i.e., the modern traveler in medieval England; includes sections on "Where to Stay," "What to Eat and Drink," etc. The index cites numerous references to Chaucer as a…

Item not seen; cited in WorldCat as a collection of science fiction stories. The online descriptions indicate eighteen stories, written by individual authors, set in a futuristic frame narrative involving a delayed nuclear-powered train headed to…

Argues that Chaucer requires readers to actively engage with the text as "active participators in the generation of meaning." Gillespie claims that Chaucer's role is more of a commentator rather than an "auctore," because he is as much a "product of…

Surveys Old English and Middle English works to determine interconnectedness of the language and texts. Brief discussion of Chaucer's GP. Includes glossary and bibliography.

Explores thematic parallels between Odo of Cheriton's "Sermones" and "Fabulae" and PardT. Though not intended to prove any direct influence of the former on the latter, shows how some topics that were widespread in ecclesiastical texts were adopted…

Interrogates features of the reception of Chaucer from Thomas Speght's editions of 1598 and 1602 to twentieth-first century criticism, focusing on the poet's reference to Wade and his boat in MerT 4.1423-26. Discloses the critical legacy of the…

Murder mystery set against the backdrop of political uncertainty over the impending death of Archbishop Thoresby of York and investigated by Owen Archer, aided by his confidante Geoffrey Chaucer, recently appointed chamber squire to Edward III. Other…

Uses comparative and linguistic metrics and statistical analysis to describe the history of English meter from early Germanic verse to modern metrical experiments. Chapter 4, "Versifying in Bilingual England" (pp. 73-95), focuses on the metrical…

Examines Old and Middle English language and literature in light of postcolonial conditions and theories, particularly those of Caribbean studies, considering issues of cultural contact, vernacularity, competing discourses, power, transgression, and…

An encyclopedia of authors, works, genres, trends, terminology, and sources of British poetry from the beginnings to 1600, with entries composed by the editor and many contributors, with cross listings and suggestions for further reading. Includes an…

"This study aims to offer a new literary biography of Thomas Dekker (c. 1572-1632) and demonstrates the ways in which he refashions his principal source, Geoffrey Chaucer." Includes attention to Dekker's uses of ClT, WBT, and ideas of "game" and…

Considers representations of the power of Medea's magic and Helen's sexuality in works by male writers in medieval and early modern literature, clarifying their classical and early-medieval antecedents and assessing their powers in light of…

Crespo-García gauges the "scientific register" of Astro and Equat in contrast with medical handbooks, examining etymology and specificity in the common nouns and nominalized forms in these works. The astrological treatises reflect a specialized…

Biography of Katherine Swynford, emphasizing the love she shared with John of Gaunt. Includes color illustrations, notes, index, bibliography, and several appendices (including a genealogical table of the Chaucer family). Numerous brief references…

Middle English reading of KnT, preceded by lines 1-78 of GP. Recorded by Spearing, with the assistance of Hiroshi Miura.

The authors contemplate the relationship of medievalism to medieval studies, considering several (re)constructions of the Middle Ages, including Brian Helgeland's A Knight's Tale and various critics' efforts to gloss "queynte." Such considerations…

The appearance of naked "Geoff" Chaucer in Brian Helgeland's film, "A Knight's Tale," "challenges the logic of the present . . . assumed by presentism," even while reminding us that historical periods exist, "each one haunted by the moment of its…