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Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 229 items, plus listing of reviews for 43 books. Includes an author…

Biography of Chaucer that centers on the events of 1386 when he left London for residence in Kent and, by "virtue of necessity," imagined a new audience for his poetry--the embedded audience of CT, depicted in GP. Explores social, civic, and…

Discusses handcrafted production and aesthetic beauty of the Kelmscott Chaucer and responds to the question "What constitutes 'beauty' in medieval poetry?" Provides historical background on the Kelmscott Press, the relationship between William Morris…

Emphasizes Chaucers skillful and "poetic" use of grammar, with special attention to nouns and pronouns in TC. Also addresses Chaucer's focus on rhetoric and logic in GP and ClT.

Explores metaphors of eating, drinking, hunting, and food preparation, within the framework of the "storytelling performances" of the Wife of Bath in WBT and the unnamed Wife in ShT.

Studies over 15,000 occurences of n-stem and r-stem nouns in the "Corpus of Middle English Verse and Prose," and uses the information to assess "his lady grace" (GP 1.88) and the incoherences in the Squire's performance of "chivalry," "courtliness,"…

Examines plot and language repetition and "doublings" in CT. Focuses on irony and ambiguity in Th-MelL and claims that both tales have an "identical sentence" and are "the same story told twice. Also discusses MkT, NPT, and PrT.

Addresses shared tropes, themes, and language of LGW and TC. Presents LGW not as a "failed text" in its incompleteness, but as a work that is "grounded" in the tragedy of TC and that anticipates the "comedic narratives" of CT.

Discusses TC's "moral allegory and fictional realism" using a Kantian aesthetic lens. Focuses on the aesthetics of desire, as well as the rhythm, imagery, and mode of the poem.

Collection of essays celebrating the teaching and varied scholarship of Howell "Chick" Chickering. For essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for Essays on Aesthetics and Medieval Literature under Alternative Title.

Fulk extols two collaborative editions of Chaucer for their excellent textual editing: The Variorum Chaucer by Ruggiers and Ransom, and Benson's Riverside Chaucer; additionally, praises Peter Robinson's digital Canterbury Tales Project. Warns…

Catalogues Chaucer resources at the Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin and focuses on Aitken as collector.

Uses personal copy for close comparison with 1687 edition, and views book history as evidence of increasing inability to decode Middle English and the beginning of antiquarianism and collectable Chaucer.

Within this larger comprehensive study of 'Piers Plowman' in Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 733B (N), the authors note that Chaucer's scribe, Adam Pinkhurst, may have made scribal corrections to the B-text copy M (London, British…

Compares the first and second editions of Caxton's CT. Using digital tools to collate the first and second editions, finds that Caxton not only added and removed lines, but made over 3,000 changes based on a manuscript source that was closer to the…

Argues that the Frontispiece of the 1420 manuscript of TC (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 61) demonstrates a medieval tradition of textuality that is not only oral and aural but social, and an example of group textuality in which words and…

Examines patterns, trends, and values of private and public collections of Chaucer manuscripts sold in the twentieth century.

Connects Chaucer's possible scribe Adam Pinkhurst to the London Scrivener's Guild. Provides historical background of Pinkhurst's connection with the guild.

Beaupré Bell (1704-45), member of a noble Norfolk family, was known as a careful, if not exhaustive, annotator of Chaucer manuscripts (Cambridge,Trinity College, MSS R.3.19 and R.3.15). Now it is clear that two printed editions of Chaucer in the…

Examines records of medieval book ownership by focusing on inscriptions in manuscripts and early printed books, wills, and other inventories of collections from fifteenth-century merchants and craftsmen. Features two listings of merchants with book…

Collection of essays honoring A. S. G. Edward's career, as well as his scholarly work on the "transitional period between manuscript and print culture." For two essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for Makers and Users of Medieval Books under…

IIncludes brief mention of research linking Chaucer's scribe, Adam Pinkhurst, to Scribe B of the Vernon manuscript.

Reports on the Additional collection of medieval manuscripts from the British Library. Indexed manuscripts include literary works by Gower, Chaucer, Lydgate, and Nicholas Love, as well as historical works, noted for their imagery and illustration.

Extensive survey of scribal correction in manuscripts and genres that focuses on poems by Chaucer, Hoccleve, and Lydgate, as well as a variety of medieval chronicles, and religious and secular works. Includes analysis of CT, Equat, and TC.

Explores the "agency" of scribes and seeks to reconstruct their "thinking" by examining a number of instances where late medieval English vernacular scribes left gaps in manuscripts, focusing on examples where the ostensive goal is to maintain…