The "Index of Middle English Prose" identifies and locates every prose text in English, 1200-1500. The initial volume in the series, Hanna's "Handlist I" describes 444 texts. Search under title for additional volumes.
Based on the language of Robinson's second edition, treats phonology and morphology of Chaucer's works and examines the differences between Chaucer's language and Modern English.
Lists all pieces of Middle English prose in the Douce collection, giving about fifty words of the beginning of each text and twenty at the end, with an index of incipits and explicits.
Schmidt considers Langland's "attitude to the moral and artistic demands of his poem," his versecraft, his use of medieval Latin quotations and works on the art of poetry, and his diction, puns, and rhetorical art. Contains brief references to…
Complaints--courtly, religious, philosophical, moral--were an integral part of Chaucer's poetry, and different combinations of lyric and narrative led to experiments in literary structures. Davenport contends that Chaucer adapts the complaint…
The "first survey of medieval English plant names to appear in print," Hunt's work covers 1,800 names, 500 not found in the OED, of interest to botanists and lexicologists as well as nonspecialists.
Examines Gower's efforts to establish his reputation as a poet. Frequently using Chaucer for comparison or contrast, Yeager explores Gower's stylistics, his concerns with audience, his relations with French tradition and particular sources, his…
Phillips, Helen, ed.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1990.
Includes nineteen essays, an intoduction, a list of Hussey's publications, and a tabula gratulatoria. Topics of the essays include Langland, various mystics, religious lyrics, religious drama, and handbooks of religious instruction.
For two essays…
Du Boulay, F. R. H.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1991.
Introduction to Piers Plowman as a lively mirror of fourteenth-century English society, directed to a nonspecialist audience. Includes a synopsis, derives Langland's biography from the poem, and reads it in light of contemporary social and religious…
Mills, Malwyn, Jennifer Fellows, and Carol M. Meade, eds.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1991.
Papers read at the first meeting (1988) of the Society for the Study of Medieval Romance, ranging in chronological concern from the twelfth to the fiftennth centuries. Included are general discussions of MS Ashmole 61 and the Percy Folio. …
Torti's introduction explores the Christian and classical precedents for mirror metaphors in late-medieval English literature and surveys medieval tradition. Subsequent chapters discuss mirror imagery in Lydgate's Temple of Glass, Hoccleve's…
Archibald, Elizabeth.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1991.
Documents and discusses the development, influence, and literary relations of the story of Apollonius to 1609, assessing its formal characteristics and reception. Occasional mention of Chaucer, particularly MLT.
Riddy, Felicity, ed.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1991.
Eleven essays on such topics as the theory and techniques of dialect comparison, the texts of Skelton and Dunbar, the N-town manuscript, and specific manuscripts.
For individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Regionalism in Late Medieval…
Takamiya, Toshiyuki, and Richard Beadle, eds.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1992.
A festschrift for the sixtieth birthday of Ando, with six essays on Chaucer, seven on Shakespeare, and other essays on medieval and Renaissance topics. For essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Chaucer to Shakespeare under Alternative Title.
Minnis, A. J., and Charlotte Brewer, eds.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1992.
Eight essays by different authors explore textual issues in light of recent developments in textual theory, thus questioning traditional notions of authors, texts, readers, and kinds of revision. For individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, search…
Boitani, Piero, and Anna Torti,eds.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993.
Ten essays on medieval theories of interpretation and modern approaches to medieval texts. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Interpretation: Medieval and Modern under Alternative Title.
Suzuki, Takashi, and Tsuyoshi Mukai, eds.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993.
Twenty-six essays on linguistics, early publishing, and English literature, especially Malory, other Arthurian materials, and Chaucer. Also includes a few Renaissance and modern topics.For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Arthurian…
Four essays and two appendices place Bo in the "tradition of the academic study and translation of the 'Consolatio,'" clarifying the relative importance of such predecessors as William of Conches, Jean de Meun, anonymous commentators, and especially…
