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Horobin explores how linguistic issues affect questions of attribution, reception, and manuscript authority, focusing not only on lexicon but also on orthography, phonology, and grammar. The language of the Hengwrt manuscript of CT (perhaps produced…

The four volumes of manuscript variants added to the Manly-Rickert edition of CT have been neglected too long.

Collates variants of all manuscripts of Th, distinguishing the features of Hengwrt. (In Japanese).

Discusses the language of romance in Th, focusing on seven types of "deviation."

Seeks to "ascertain why the diction of poetry from Chaucer to Milton has a distinct character, and one unlikely to be revived." Chapter 2, "Chaucer and His Successors" (pp. 28-38), assesses Chaucer as "the first English poet with a style recognizably…

Examines the indicators of politeness and social categories (class, degree of intimacy, etc.) in the speech of romance characters in CT and TC, with attention to forms of address and second-person pronouns (ye/thou). Also considers politeness…

An annotated bibliography of 1,335 studies, arranged chronologically (1865-1900) within three broad categories: Early Middle English, Later Middle English, and dissertations. Includes studies in which "linguistic description has been used to cast…

Describes and assesses Chaucer's depictions of the expressions and psychology of love in TC, attending to diction, tone, style, and various uses and developments of the conventions of French and Italian love poetry. Focuses on the poet's successful…

Chaucer developed a poetic idiom of ubiquitous equivocal effects and prevarication both in the comments of his persona and in the voices of his speakers. Poems touched on include TC, PardT, NPT, MerT, and LGW.

A sociolinguistic exploration of Criseyde's grammar, literacy, pronunciation, and verbosity, considered in relation to the vocabulary and syntax of fourteenth-century upper-class women.

Jimura compares the vocabulary of Criseyde to that of Troilus and Pandarus, seeking to define characteristics of aristocratic women's language in the fourteenth century.

Jimura compares the vocabulary of Criseyde to that of Troilus and Pandarus, seeking to define characteristics of aristocratic women's language in the fourteenth century.

Examines historical and symbolic features of the costumes of select Ellesmere portraits (Squire, Knight, Merchant, Prioress, Monk, Parson, Cook, and Chaucer), arguing that the sequence is an "informed response" to CT, especially GP. Chaucer is…

Evaluates the "style and structure" of Chaucer's poetry, exploring the interaction of pronunciation and versification and the limitations of medieval and modern rhetorics for describing and gauging Chaucer's techniques. Includes scansion of lines and…

Addresses the status of Chaucer's language in the development of a standard written English, explores grammatical differences between his dialect and "present-day" English, and clarifies the difficulties of understanding the innovativeness of his…

Tallies possible evidence of "early probability calculus" in Middle English literature and its lexicon, including discussion of examples from John Gower, John Lydgate, and PardT. In the latter, line 6.653, chances in dicing are "events which had the…

Social and legal history of violence against women in the medieval family, including discussion of case studies. Comments briefly on MerT and ClT, and discusses at greater length (pp. 230-36) WBP which indicates that "failure to internalise and…

Adduces examples of formulaic phrasing, diction, and rhymes in fragment A of Rom as evidence of Chaucer's familiarity with native English literature; also shows where such evidence appears in his later works.

In their attention to language as "an active part of social life," the FranT, NPT, and ManT constitute a language group whose tales are deeply rhetorical in the sense that they look closely at how language works as "an entity, process or phenomenon,"…

Surveys stylistic characteristics of KnT including abbreviation, parallel expression, repetition of synonyms, alliteratation, catalogs, similes, and archaisms.

The fourteenth-century poem here edited is held to support the view that Chaucer's depiction of the Franklin in GP is straightforward and favorable, not ironic or satiric.

Some medieval readers or hearers would have considered ClT incredible or cruel. The Clerk agrees with the Wife that gentilesse means "trouthe," fidelity and integrity.

Discusses church treatises, didactic works, and books of advice to daughters, or of clerical instruction to women, and mirrors for princesses, to reveal medieval images of women: the virgin, the coquette, the wife and mother, the ruler, the worker.

Defines the late-medieval idea of a "gentilwoman," its evolution, its relation to male gentility, and its representations in medieval art and literature. Briefly considers Chaucer's Prioress as a depiction of the "behavioural traits" of a medieval…

Historical novel set in late-medieval England. Includes a character modeled on the Wife of Bath: Alyson, who owns a bathhouse/brothel in Southwark. Originally published as "The Brewer's Tale," North Sydney: Harlequin, 2014; 584 pp.