Looking at BD, HF, and PF, Robinson examines Chaucer's relations to his masters and his dilemma in connecting books and imagination with actual life, in creating puzzles for the demands he felt "of the poetry of the poem." Chaucer's dreamscapes are…
Robinson, Ian.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972.
Treats Chaucer as a "great" poet and the "father" of English literature, commenting on the "wonderful" range of tones in his poetry, its relations with French and Italian works, its similarities with other late-medieval English works, and the…
Robinson, Ian.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971.
Explores what can and cannot be known about the meter and rhythm of Chaucer's verse and that of his contemporaries and followers, arguing that Chaucer employed a lively "balanced parameter" that is not heavily restricted by regularity and that should…
Comments on the sentimental charm of PrT that conflicts with its narrator's "hatred of the Jews," and upon the combination of "touching sentiment" and "mechanical" rhetoric in MLT. Then considers the "poignant emotion" and pathos of ClT as they help…
Robinson, James.
Terry Gifford, ed. Ted Hughes in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 209-18.
Describes aspects of Hughes's "imaginative encounter with the Middle Ages," particularly his reading of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," Chaucer's works, and those of Dante, exploring how these works influenced his poetry and thoughts on…
Robinson, James.
Neil Roberts, Mark Wormald, and Terry Gifford, eds. Ted Hughes, Nature and Culture (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. 143–59.
Assesses the lifelong development of Ted Hughes's attitudes toward Chaucer in published and archival materials, including comments on Hughes's view of Chaucer as the "perfect model of a public poet" and as a "presiding presence" in his relationship…
Robinson, James.
Helen Fulton, ed. Chaucer and Italian Culture (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2021), pp. 45-90.
Demonstrates "intertexuality" linking Chaucer with Dante's "Inferno," 10, and Boccaccio's "Decameron," 6.9. Argues for Chaucer's rich understanding of his Italian source material, which he uses "purposefully and playfully."
Discusses Christine de Pizan's "isopathic mode of treatment (cure by similarities)" to deal with the melancholy expressed in "Chemin de long estude." Compares Pizan's treatment to the "allopathic mode of treatment (cure by contraries)" Chaucer…
Robinson, Michael.
American Journal of Physics 90 (2022): 745-54.
Explains the practical utilities and operations of astrolabes, reporting on several years' use of a homemade instrument. Includes recurrent references to Astr as a helpful guide, describing it as "apparently the earliest known technical manual…
Robinson, Michele.
Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1989): 1797A.
Inheriting the tradition that women were either saintly or satanic, Chaucer grasped the opposition between rhetorical and mimetic treatment, as shown especially in LGW and ManT. Robinson applies medieval and modern feminist theories.
Robinson, Olivia.
English: The Journal of the English Association 64, no. 244 (2015): 27-41.
Argues that Rom should be recontexualized, viewing the work not as a Chaucerian fragment, which perpetuates a fragmentary approach to the work, but as part of a tradition of translation. Analysis of decorated initials and borders in Hunter 409…
Begins with a discussion of "Chaucerian meanings" to investigate medieval textual production and verse translations from French to English, and considers how the "boundaries of the Chaucer canon have been established and defined by the inclusion and…
Robinson, Olivia.
Daisy Delogu and Anne-Hélène Miller, eds. Approaches to Teaching the "Romance of the Rose" (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2023), pp. 227-36.
Describes goals and methods of teaching the "Roman de la Rose" in undergraduate courses that include Middle English literature. Includes attention to manuscript illustrations and to intertextual relations of MerT to Rom.
Twelve essays by various authors, a celebratory introduction of testimonials, and a bibliography of publications of M. B. Parkes. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer search for Of the Making of Books under Alternative Title.
Robinson, Pamela, intro.
Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 1982.
Written by various hands in the fifteenth century, Bodley 638,the latest of the so-called Oxford Group, contains HF and BD, found in only two other manuscripts, as well as Anel, LGW, PF, Pity, ABC, For, and Compl d'Am. Includes a bibliography.
Written by various hands in the fifteenth century, the Bodleian MS Tanner 346, the earliest of the Oxford Group, is indispensable in establishing the canon of the minor poems, especially Anel, Mars, Ven, and Pity. In addition, it contains BD, PF,…
The Cambridge, Peterhouse MS.75.I, containing Equat, is a Chaucer holograph, perhaps the author's rough draft, since it contains copious revisions, both in content and style. The manuscript's notation, "Radix chaucer," was also written by the poet,…
Robinson, Peter
George P. Landow and Paul Delany, eds. The Digital Word: Text-based Computing in the Humanities (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993), pp. 271-91.
Critiques print-based critical editions of CT and "Piers Plowman," arguing that they are based on spelling- and punctuation-normalized texts that disguise so-called accidentals and may confuse the difference between accidentals and substantive…
Explores the advantages of computerized collation programs such as "CASE," "TUSTEP," and "Collate," commenting on how they can expedite traditional editing. Cites many applications to CT.
Robinson, Peter
Richard J. Finneran, ed. The Literary Text in the Digital Age. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996), pp. 99-115.
Argues that electronic editions are both archival and interpretive, enabling users "to find the one text they seek" and recording data that reflect reception history and provide linguistic information. Cites examples from the electronic WBP (SAC 20…
Robinson, Peter
Pieter van Reenan and Margot van Mulken, eds., with the assistance of Janet Dyk. Studies in Stemmatology (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1996), pp. 71-103.
Describes the value of cladistic analysis in generating multiple, flexible stemmata for texts, arguing that stemmata are useful for indicating what can be used as a best text for editing, not for establishing the text itself. Analyzes variants in…
Robinson, Peter
Vincent P. McCarren and Douglas Moffat, eds. A Guide to Editing Middle English (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998), pp. 249-61.
Argues that computer technology is changing "what scholars do as they edit," drawing examples from the activities of the "Canterbury Tales" Project to describe the new quesions raised about visual reproduction of manuscripts, representation of…
Robinson, Peter M. W. .
Le Médiéviste et l'ordinateur 38 : 19-28, 1999.
Describes the history, goals, and methods of The Canterbury Tales Project, explaining how the electronic data have been organized and how the data can be accessed. Focuses on WBP.
Robinson, Peter, ed., with Barbara Bordalejo and Orietta Da Rold, and contributions by Lorna Stevenson, Elizabeth Solopova, and Daniel W. Mosser.
Leicester: Scholarly Digital Editions, 2004.
Includes interlinked images and transcriptions of all fifty-eight pre-1500 versions of MilPT, with complete collations (linked to variant maps), commentaries on family relationships of the versions, and stemmatic commentary on key readings.
