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Shuffelton, George.   Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, eds. Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the "Canterbury Tales" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 149-66.
Assesses Hyapatia Lee's "Ribald Tales of Canterbury" as "quasi-medieval erotica" and a conventional example of pornography from the "golden age" of porn films (1970s and early 1980s). Then discusses evidence from the film and from an autobiography…

Stanbury, Sarah.   Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the "Canterbury Tales" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 196-207.
Examines ageism and Chaucerian echoes in the BBC television adaptation of WBPT, commenting on the lack of concern with age in feminist studies, attitudes towards "cougardom" in the TV episode, and affiliations between middle age and the Middle Ages…

Finke, Laurie, and Martin Shichtman.   Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, eds. Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the "Canterbury Tales" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 251-65.
Explores the "ghostly presence" of WBPT in the first three episodes of the television show "Mad Men," updating and remediating the "parody of Western misogynist tropes" in WBP, refashioning from WBT the question of what women want, and reframing…

Forni, Kathleen.   Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, eds. Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the Canterbury Tales (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 56-66.
Posits that Chaucer's box-office appeal is limited in the U.S. by his "relatively low cultural profile," his association with "British linguistic and literary nationalism," and the "paradoxical stigma" of being both too high-brow and too bawdy.…

Wallace, David, ed.   Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Surveys the literatures of late medieval Europe (eastern, western, and peripheral) from the onset of the Black Death to the end of the Great Schism at the Council of Constance, describing historical events, cultural conditions, ideological…

Wallace, David.   David Wallace, ed. Europe: A Literary History, 1348-1418 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), 1:180-90.
Describes the late-medieval literary affiliations of the city of Calais, emphasizing its role in the Hundred Years War and commenting on allusions to the city, noting that Chaucer knew the city personally but "mapped its spaces" (in the GP…

Galloway, Andrew.   Europe: A Literary History, 1348-1418 (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016), 1:322-53.
Treats London, Southwark, and Westminster as a single "conurbation," summarizing its cultural interweaving of mercantile, courtly, political, and linguistic threads, and describing its literary production and legacy. Includes discussion of Chaucer,…

Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn.   Europe: A Literary History, 1348-1418 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 20168), 1:208-26.
Describes late medieval literary production in the city of Oxford, characterizing it as a "crossroads for intellectual work of all kinds," summarizing its library holdings, and surveying affiliated literature. Comments on Oxfordian influences on…

Le Saux, Francoise.   Europe: A Literary History, 1348-1418 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 20168), 1:465-77.
Describes late-medieval Breton political status and summarizes the region's literary production in Breton and in French, commenting on drama, Arthurian materials, and religious literature. Includes discussion of the setting of FranT in Brittany as…

D'Arcens, Louise, ed.   Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Presents essays on the scope and complexity of the study of medievalism that explore how the Middle Ages have been adapted and interpreted. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for The Cambridge Companion to Medievalism under Alternative…

Barrington, Candace.   Louise D'Arcens, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Medievalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), pp. 180-95.
Addresses how spatial, temporal, and linguistic global medievalisms shaped the reception of CT translations. Discusses global translations, including "Wahala Dey O!," an Icelandic translation of MilT, and translations of CT in Turkish, Brazilian, and…

Jones, Mike Rodman.   Louise D'Arcens, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Medievalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), pp. 89-102.
Maintains that "The Plowman's Tale" and "Jack Upland" may have contributed to how Chaucer was received by "anti-Catholic cultures of the sixteenth century."

Fein, Susanna, and David Raybin, eds.   University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016.
Includes twelve essays, an index, ninety-seven b&w and color illustrations, and an introduction by the editors, who argue for a fuller critical reckoning with the "multimodal aesthetic practices of late medieval visual art and literature" aided by…

Collette, Carolyn P.   Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Visual Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016), pp. 244-68.
Examines the British illustrator and sculptor Elisabeth Frink's 1972 illustrated version (with nineteen etchings on copper plates) of Nevill Coghill's 1951 translation of CT. Analyzes several engravings and provides modernist visual interpretation of…

Hilmo, Maidie.   Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Visual Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016), pp. 218-43.
Studies the interplay between textual content and "mise-en-page" in the Ellesmere MS of CT, especially its use of gold, border ornament, decorated letters, and glosses. Such elements shape an integrated experience of the text, duly "sanitized and…

Kinch, Ashby.   Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Visual Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016), pp. 3-22.
Establishes the linked "material, domestic, and spiritual economies" apparent in the Luttrell Psalter as a creative analogue of CT since both texts emphasize "meta-artistic play," hybridity, and multiple frames of reference. Reading images in the…

Kendrick, Laura.
  Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Visual Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016), pp. 116-38.
Compares Chaucer's and Deschamps's poetic critiques of the "comedy of drunkenness," examining passages in GP, MLT, PardP, and ManP as well as Deschamps's chanson royale "Sur l'ordre de la Baboue" (included, with translation, in an appendix). Traces…

Raybin, David.   Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Visual Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016) pp. 154-74.
Emphasizes Chaucer's biographical connections to Kent to support the claim that a "visual source" for the narrative framework of CT exists in pictorial representations of the miracles of Thomas Becket on stained glass in Trinity Chapel at Canterbury…

Brantley, Jessica.   Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Visual Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016), pp. 139-53.
Considers FranT as a commentary on the "sister arts" of poetry and painting, linked in the tale's engagement with rhetoric, to form Chaucer's "theory of the imagetext." Unlike later theorizations that differentiate the visual from the verbal, the…

Fein, Susanna.   Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Visual Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016), pp. 89-114.
Argues that PardT and ShT, juxtaposed but not linked in the Ellesmere manuscript, implicitly embed Crucifixion imagery toward a critique of materialist values. By positioning the "human incapacity to 'see' spiritually against glimmering signs of…

Stanbury, Sarah.   Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Visual Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016), pp. 39-58.
Considers the counting-house in ShT in light of the late medieval concern with "architectural privacy" and "new formations of sociability" in the bourgeois household. Contextualizes gendered space in ShT in relation to mercantile labor, developments…

Vulic, Kathryn.   Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Visual Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016), pp. 59-85.
Posits that the Paternoster diagram in the Vernon manuscript, transcribed in an appendix, as an example of a "supplementary text" that performs devotional work in dialogue with ParsT's call to prayer. Examines the visual and verbal structure of the…

Cook, Alexandra.   Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Visual Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016), pp. 23-38.
Revisits the significance of the image-based mnemonic system known as artificial memory, especially as conceived in John of Garland's "Parisiana poetria," for Chaucer's poetic project in HF. Argues how "visual mnemonics and creative memory" shape…

Rust, Martha.   Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Visual Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016), pp. 195-217.
Interprets red-ink underlining of lovers' and birds' names in the text of PF in Bodley 638 and Fairfax 16 as a "visual appeal to memory" that activates pedagogical frameworks of language acquisition from medieval grammar school curricula. Viewing…

Coleman, Joyce.   Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Visual Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016), pp. 177-94.
Argues that "Roman de la rose" iconography underlies English conceptions of authorship and "literary self-validation" in MSS of Gower's "Confessio Amantis," "Pearl," and TC (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 61). The "recombinant iconography"…
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