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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…

Argues that Chaucer is a "philosophical poet" who "innovated a radical, anti-teleological poetics of contingency," showing how in CYT, ClT, TC, and HF he "reworks his sources to articulate his vision of contingency, and contest humanist narratives of…

Recounts brief personal history of experience with the Canterbury Tales Project, describes scholarly inattention to the project, and introduces the five essays in this special issue. For the five essays search for Digital Medievalist 14, special…

Surveys critical attention to Adam and reads the poem as an exhortation to "moral and professional penitence." Focuses on “corect,” “rubbe,” and “scrape” as scribal activities and as metaphorical links to penitential erasure in Chaucer…

Examines joy in TC--looking forward to it in Books 1 and 2, experiencing it in Book 3, and remembering it in Books 4 and --as aspects of Troilus's identity and of the poem itself. Anticipated joy shapes the characterization of Troilus as a courtly…

Questions how and to what extent recurrent mention of Hector in TC helps to characterize Troilus as a knight. Instances and collocations of “knight,” “worthy,” related terms, and references to Hector, generally not found in Chaucer's source…

Explicates the rhetorical, conventional, and philosophical aspects of the combination of physical beauty and moral virtue in Chaucer's portrait of Blanche in BD, "a triumph of the poet's art." Clarifies similarities and differences between Chaucer's…

Collects twelve essays from the 2016 conference on memory and identity, with a preface and a cumulative index. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Memory and Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World under Alternative Title.

Historical survey of the relations between literary texts in English and material presentation, from oral and dramatic performance through manuscripts and books, to audio, visual, and digital forms. Includes a section on key terms, a timeline, and an…

Argues that the "Chaucerian narrator could easily and perhaps more readily be called the Chaucerian translator," observing emphasis on translation in LGWP and in Ret, assessing Chaucer's many uses of sources and approaches to translation, including…

Exemplifies how Chaucer "has a great deal of fun with the coalescence of medieval arithmetic, geometry and logic into a single discipline more recognizable today as mathematics," exploring the "proto-probabilistic" dicing and poison-bottle selection…

Accounts for seventeen words found in the glossaries of Speght's 1598 and 1602 editions of Chaucer's works that are labeled "unidentified" in Jürgen Schäfer’s "Early Modern English Lexicography" (1989), tracing them "to manuscript variants and…

Claims that by composing his poetry in English, Chaucer participated in the European movement of promoting the vernacular literatures. Argues that Chaucer's neutral depiction of dialectal features in the two clerks’ speeches in RvT affirms the…

Draws parallels between Chaucer's tense shift and Japanese I-mode, where tense shift occurs from the past to the present. Identifies tense shifts across various units, from a single metrical line to an extended piece of discourse consisting of…

Investigates relations between reflexive pronouns and reflexive verbs in BD and PF. In Japanese.

Clarifies the "nuanced semantic versatility" of "hende" in romances and fabliaux, with particular attention to MilT and "Dame Sirith," showing how various connotations obtain in differing contexts, and suggesting that editors "might apply distinct…

Studies "pragmatics as an important aspect of premodern understanding of language and meaning," exploring "pragmatic ideas and metapragmatic awareness" in various kinds of medieval discourse. Details the contexts, functions, and significations of the…

Focuses on the poetic form made famous by "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and Th, but also considers poetic form in the scorpion passage of BD and alliteration in ParsP. Discusses myths surrounding the "bob and wheel" form that are often…

Treats the scansion of "high" and "sly" in works by Chaucer, Gower, and Hoccleve--all "careful metrists"--as evidence of the demise of "inflection of monosyllabic adjectives (final -e for weak and plural adjectives)." Posits that irregularities in…

Explores the question of what Chaucer "holds to be the nature of reality," focusing on "the metaphysics of beauty" in PF, the "nature of the rocks" in FranT, and the "ontology of narrative itself" in NPT, and showing that "Chaucer’s sensate faith…

Compares Emelye of KnT and Emilia of Shakespeare and Fletcher’s "The Two Noble Kinsmen," arguing that Emelye’s desire for a non-patriarchal subjectivity is developed in her literary descendant--that "monastic connotations in Chaucer's depictions…

Considers how Rudyard Kipling incorporates a Chaucer-centered medievalism in his writings, emphasizing the conservative, imperialist bent of this reception. As a point of departure, draws attention to Kipling's late short story "Dayspring…

A murder mystery in which Geoffrey Chaucer and his friend John Gower try to solve a double murder while barricaded in the Tabard Inn, defended against the rebellious peasants in 1381. Features historical and fictional characters, some of the latter…

A murder mystery in which the investigator--Geoffrey Chaucer, 'Comptroller of His Grace's Woollens and poet to the court of the late king”--seeks the murderer of Lionel, duke of Clarence.

A murder mystery, set in Oxford, in which Geoffrey Chaucer investigates homicide amidst town–gown tensions, rivalries in the colleges, debates, Lollards, and astrolabes. Features historical and fictional characters, including Ralph Strode and a…