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LGW provides an important statement of Chaucer's poetics. It recognizes his genuine debt to his French contemporaries. The poet-dreamer does not reject or parody the tradition of "fin amor," but under its direction he acknowledges the poet's duty…

Reads the two title poems in the context of contemporary court activities and conventions as "attempts to present a moralized version of love within an allegorical framework."

The theme of doubleness in "The Floure and the Leafe" appears to have been especially attractive for Keats,whose attention was always drawn to the relationship between life and art. He found in the medieval poem an interesting "authority" that…

A teaching edition of three works of Chaucerian apocrypha, including individual introductions, notes, marginal glosses,bibliographies, and a brief glossary. The introductions place the poems in the Chaucerian tradition and comment on their genres…

Edits these two examples of Chaucerian apocrypha, with introduction, textual and critical notes, glossary, and bibliography, observing that the "only reason for the attribution" to Chaucer is "their inclusion in the sixteenth-century collected…

The "Clementine Recognitions" and "Apollonius of Tyre" were probably known to Chaucer. He eschews their incest motif but reminds readers of it by his reference to Apollonius in the introduction of MLT.

Seven chapters on topics related to Ovid, Augustine, Hloïse and Abélard, Marie de France, Dante, Roman de la Rose, and Chaucer's relations with Boccaccio and Dante in TC. Grounded in Augustinian, Ovidian, and biblical models, TC (lines 5.540 ff.)…

Compares "contemporary cognitive models of self, that posit an interconnection between body and mind, with Pre-Modern conceptions of an embodied self " as the latter are represented in several late medieval English works including BD, HF, and KnT.

Discusses three different lines in the Middle Dutch "Heile van Beersele," an analogue to MilT.

Troilus's failure to speak up against the exchange of Criseyde underlines his timidity in society and ultimately his moral cowardice.

Places Mel in the context of Richard II and his detractors in the 1380s and 1390s and examines the competing kinds of masculinity in the Tale as argued by Prudence and allegorized in the character of Sophie.

Collection of essays presenting perspectives on interrelations between sense perception and secular and Christian cultures in England from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern period. For essay on Chaucer, search for The Five Senses in Medieval and…

Discusses Chaucer's creation of the five Guildsmen in GP. Stresses the "complex phenomenon," historical background, and proliferation of medieval guilds and fraternities in the fourteenth century.

Summary description of Astr that describes Chaucer's "admirable textbook method" and comments on his "rules of good technical writing," including simple diction and syntax, awareness of audience, repetition for emphasis, and copious illustrations.

By adducing several Middle English prose texts prior to Chaucer's Astr, Hagge refutes claims that Astr represents the first piece of technical writing in English.

Highlights the three-volume edition of Chaucer’s works published in 1879 by Arthur Gilman, emphasizing the achievements of Gilman as an editor and situating his scholarly activities in his then-contemporary context.

Explores the argument that the lack of Chaucerian presentation miniatures suggests that Chaucer did not write for wealthy patrons. Identifies the first presentation miniature in an English-language manuscript as the 1409 incipit image in John…

Explores paradoxes of thematic and structural order in KnT--the "mechanical" ups and downs of Fortune, the narrator's control, the human order of design and progression, accumulative resonances of Boethian material, and the "logic, justice, and order…

In his "Teatro d'huomini letterati" (1647), Gerolamo Ghilini includes a sketch of Chaucer's life and works based on John Pits's "Relationem historicarum de rebus anglicis" (Paris, 1619). Errors and omissions demonstrate that Ghilini depended wholly…

Identifies the earliest mention of Chaucer in Italian criticism, in the preface to Paolo Rolli's translation of Milton's epic, "Del Paradiso Perduto" (1729). Rolli's comments include recognition, perhaps the first, that Chaucer refers to Dante in…

Caroline Spurgeon's (1925) attribution of the first German essay on Chaucer to J. J. Eschenburg (1793) is inaccurate. Karl Friedrich Flogel published a short Chaucerian essay a decade earlier in "Geschichte der komischen Literatur" (1784-87). …

Argues that SqT reflects its teller's unsophisticated "effort to dissociate himself and courtly love from the . . . crude caricature" evident in MerT, and contends that when the Franklin interrupts the Squire he is "'pretending' to think him…

Edits thirty-four poems from Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.1.6—those found in no other manuscript—with texts, notes, glossary, and bibliography. The introduction includes discussion of language and scribes, and commentary on the poems'…

Examines the arrangement and composition of two of the booklets of the Findern manuscript (Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.1.6) for the ways they may be seen as "the record of interactions within the community of readers and scribes who had…

Investigates the dramatic ironies of PardPT (comparing them with those of WBPT), arguing that the Pardoner does not reveal "more than he intends, but rather the converse": that none of the pilgrims "is able to see the full meaning of what he says"…