Compares a horoscope and its accompanying Latin text found in Equat with two analogous versions, showing that it has closest relations with the Nürnberg version printed in 1659.
Carter, Susan.
S. Elizabeth Passmore and Susan Carter, eds. The English "Loathly Lady" Tales: Boundaries, Traditions, Motifs (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007), pp. 83-99.
Because the loathly lady in WBT is not enchanted but is a shape-shifter under her own power, she likely is not virginal. Carter explores the implications of this likelihood, as well as parallel concerns in WBT and several analogues.
Jimura, Akiyuki, and Hisayuki Sasamoto, trans. and eds.
Bulletin of the Okayama University of Science 55.B (2019): 1-20.
Translates ABC, Pity, Lady, Mars, Ven, Ros, Adam, Purse, Wom Unc, Compl d'Am, and MercB into Japanese, based on the Riverside edition, with an introduction and notes. In Japanese, with English abstract.
Twenty-five tales in modern iambic verse, told by various travelers on a cruise ship headed to St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, but beset by the COVID-19 pandemic. Modeled on CT.
Bennett, J. A. W.
J. A. W. Bennett. The Humane Medievalist (Rome: Edizione di Storia e Letteratura; Wolfeboro, N.H.: Boydell & Brewer, 1982), pp. 67-88.
Like various English poets, James I of Scotland was imprisoned in the Tower, where he read Chaucer and wrote poetry influenced by Chaucer, especially KnT, TC, PF, and BD.
Helgeland, Brian, dir.
Escape Artists and Columbia Pictures, 2001.
Feature-length film that includes a fictionalized version of Geoffrey Chaucer (played by Paul Bettany) who serves as herald to a would-be knight, William Thatcher (Heath Ledger). Released on DVD by Columbia Tristar.
Calabrese, Michael A.
Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales" (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 1-13.
Summarizes the medieval history of knighthood and its status in late-fourteenth-century England, exploring implications of details in the GP sketch of the Knight, especially those that relate to the "Crusading spirit" in its positive and negative…
Yıldız, Nazan.
RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi 28 (2022): 498-507.
Traces "similarities between Boethius's Lady Philosophy and Chaucer''s Prudence" in Mel regarding "the authority of women over men as the source of knowledge and wisdom." Comments on female empowerment and Prudence as a "Wife of Bath in disguise."…
Argues that English became the official language of England in the fifteenth century as the result of "deliberate, official policy." Dissemination of Chaucer's works and those of his followers suggests that the poet was chosen as the "cynosure" of a…
Mooney, Linne R.
Chaucer Review 34 (2000): 344-49, 2000.
A copy of William Caxton's first edition of "Dictes or Sayeingis of the Philosophres" (1477) contains three hand-written poems on the flyleaf. One of these, Chaucer's Wom Unc, has been rewritten, perhaps by a woman, to suggest that men may be just as…
Ovitt, George,Jr.
Proceedings: 28th International Technical Communication Conference, May 20-23, 1981, Pittsburgh, Pa. ((N.p.): Society for Technical Communication, 1981), pp. E78-E81.
The problems Chaucer faced in describing the construction and use of the astrolabe were similar to today's problems in technical communication.
Identifies and transcribes an extended praise of Chaucer as a "pierles poet" (cast as a description of his burial site) found in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce MS 290 (90 (Bodl. SC 21864).
Schoeck, R. J.
University of Toronto Quarterly 23 (1954):185-92.
Develops an allusion to Chaucer building a "house of Fame" in Gerard Legh's "Accedence of Armorie" (1562) and combines it with Chaucer's "connections with" the Inner Temple to suggest that the poet may have written HF "for one of ritualistic…
Benson, Larry D.
Ian Lancashire, ed. Computer-Based Chaucer Studies (Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, 1993), pp. 141-60.
Describes the production of a computer-generated "glossarial concordance" to Chaucer in which meanings, variant spellings, and occurrences are presented; see Benson's "Glossarial Concordance." Describes the uses of such a concordance and the…
Oizumi, Akio.
Hildesheim, Zurich, and New York : Olms-Weidman, 2003.
A lemmatized concordance, arranged alphabetically, based on the text and corpus of The Riverside Chaucer. Each entry includes a headword, part of speech, references to standard dictionaries (MED, OED, and others), definitions, frequency of…
Oizumi, Akio.
Hildesheim, Zürich, New York: Olms-Weidmann, 2008.
A two-volume lemmatized concordance to Bo, arranged alphabetically, based on The Riverside Chaucer. Each entry includes a headword, part of speech, references to standard dictionaries (MED, OED, and others), definitions, frequency of occurrence, a…
