Bowen, Robert O.
Modern Language Notes 71.3 (1956): 165.
Connects the Clerk's uses of "heigh style/stile" in ClP 4.18 and 41 rather than reading the latter as a mistranslation of Petrarch "stylo alio" as stylo alto."
Bowen, Robert O.
Modern Language Notes 71.3 (1956): 165.
Suggests that Chaucer's dismissive reference to incest in MLP 77ff. alludes not to Gower's "Confessio Amantis" but to his own hesitation in writing a version of the "well known folk tale of the Incestuous Father," hesitating "on grounds of taste to…
Bower, Hannah.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Explores relations between the practical purposes of medieval medical recipes and their imaginative and aesthetic effects, focusing on how the texts of these recipes reflect their broader discursive culture, c. 1375-1500. Cites Chaucer's recurrent…
Alludes to Chaucer in the title of an essay about the poet Barrie Phillip Nichol, "On First Opening Nichol's Chaucer," and briefly characterizes CT as "a long poem that incorporates," playing on the meaning of "corpus" as "body."
The 1987 report of the Committee on Chaucer Bibliography and Research lists 354 Chaucer studies. Listings are devoted primarily to Americian Chaucerians.
Bowers, Bege K., and Mark Allen, eds.
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2002.
More than 3,200 annotated entries, compiled and edited from the annual bibliographies published in Studies in the Age of Chaucer, newly arranged and cross-listed in topical categories. Includes author and subject indexes.
Bowers, John M.
Medieval Perspectives 6 (1991): 135-43.
Thomas Chaucer continued the lease on his father's house in the garden at Westminster Abbey to provide a repository for Geoffrey Chaucer's literary remains. His motive was to help form a Lancastrian poetic canon committed to social stability and…
Medical and psychological insights confirm alcoholism as the Pardoner's root problem. Heavy long-term indulgence has left him unable to function without drink; he is alienated, impotent, resentful, and eloquent in preaching yet mute under attack. …
Bowers, John M.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 7 (1985): 23-50.
Explores the literary nature of these two continuations of CT and their importance as early readings, which assume that the pilgrimage is round trip rather than one way.
