Series of essays focusing on medieval vernacular literature and "the presence of a text to its own age and the presence of that age within it." Special emphasis on Chaucer in Chapter 6, which examines CT, ABC, and LGW, to "restore the presence of the…
Coley, David K.
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2012.
Discusses nominalism, speech, and power in ManT, along with speech and rhetoric in Gower's "Confessio Amantis," Langland's "Piers Plowman," and works of Hoccleve.
Fisher, Matthew.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2012.
Focuses on the role of authorship within the scribal process, and emphasizes "intertextuality" as an important facet of medieval historiography. Briefly discusses how Chaucer "de-authorizes" Adam Scriveyn's work, yet reveals his own authorship in…
Prescott, Andrew.
English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700 17 (2012): 173-99.
Anayzes scribal activity in medieval English administrative documents, and contends that Adam Pinkhurst, and other English scribes, may have been involved in "both literary and documentary work."
Dinshaw, Carolyn.
Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2012.
Addresses queer readings and the asynchrony of time within medieval tales in relation to "amateur medievalists" and scholars. Study includes discussion of temporality, queer historicism, and autobiographical anecdotes, providing a fresh way of…
Vial, Claire.
Muriel Cunin and Martine Yvernault, eds. Monde(s) en movement. Mutations et innovations en Europe à la fin du Moyen Age et au début de la Renaissance (Limoges: Presses Universitaires de Limoges, 2012), pp. 51-63.
Contains references to the expression of time and mutability in Chaucer.
Dauby, Hélène.
Waël Rabadi and Isabelle Bernard, eds. Médiévales 51 (Amiens: Presses du Centre d'Etudes Médiévales, Université de Picardie--Jules Verne, 2012), pp. 151-62.
Focuses on the narrative systems in The Arabian Nights and CT.
Yvernault, Martine.
Waël Rabadi and Isabelle Bernard, eds. Médiévales 51 (Amiens: Presses du Centre d'Etudes Médiévales, Université de Picardie--Jules Verne, 2012), pp. 368-86.
Focuses on the oriental influences on Chaucer's SqT and on his treatment of the marvelous in light of the medieval controversial approach to mechanisms.
Reconsiders the social status of franklins in the late medieval period and points out that their gentility is ambiguous. Discusses the value of "gentilesse" in FranT by comparing the tale with Boccaccian analogues, taking into account the…
Barrington, Candace, and Jonathan Hsy.
https://globalchaucers.wordpress.com/ (2012; accessed October 14, 2016).
A crowd-sourced online reference work described as an "Online archive and community for post-1945, non-Anglophone Chauceriana." Includes listings of translations, adaptations, and recordings of Chaucer's works (especially CT), along with various…
Delony, Mikee C.
Priscilla Pope-Levison and John R. Levison, eds. Sex, Gender, and Christianity (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2012), pp. 33–57.
Examines connections between women's weaving and preaching by focusing on Alisoun. Uses the metaphor of weaving to establish how Alisoun "wove textiles and words as a mode of female expression and critique of the patriarchal church's interpretation…
Bergs, Alexander, and Laurel J. Brinton, eds.
Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2012.
An encyclopedic handbook with contributions by various authors, with topics ranging from historical periods to modern media studies. Includes an introductory essay by Jeremy J. Smith entitled "Middle English" (pp. 32-47) and a section on various…
Includes a chapter entitled "Chaucer's Westminster" (pp. 83-89) that comments on the effects of the plague in Westminster, Chaucer's knowledge of architect Henry Yevele and carpenter Hugh Herland, and the buildings in Westminster that survive from…
Identifies difficulties in translating Chaucer for American audiences: linguistic difficulties (especially false cognates such as "countrefete" and "lust") and several social changes that make Chaucer the "absent father in the United States."
Lazaro, Alberto.
Luminita Frentiu and Loredana Punga, eds. A Journey through Knowledge: Festschrift in Honour of Hortensia Pârlog (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2012), pp. 120-29.
Describes the availability in Spain before 1975 of translations for children of CT and Arthurian stories, observing the emphasis on pious, submissive women found in adaptations of FranT, KnT, ClT, and MLT, the only tales allowed by censors.
Tokunaga, Satoko.
Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 15 (2012): 59-78.
Examines the various kinds of rubrication in copies of books printed by Caxton, 1476-78, including his first edition of CT and his Bo, suggesting that, after printing, the "additional task of rubrication was carried out in an organized manner before…
Dance, Richard, and Laura Wright, eds.
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2012.
Fourteen essays by various authors, with an introduction by the editors and an index. For two essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for The Use and Development of Middle English under Alternative Title.
Wojtyś, Anna.
Richard Dance and Laura Wright, eds. The Use and Development of Middle English (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2012), pp. 179-96.
Analyzes the occurrences of the preverbal y- prefix in seven manuscripts of CT, attending to grammatical, syntactic, and metrical considerations. Concludes that, although the construction is used to form passive constructions clearly, the data also…
