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Argues that the portrait of Chaucer in Rosenbach MS 1083/30 was most likely copied from Harley MS 4866 in the early eighteenth century for John Murray. Both manuscripts are of Hoccleve's "Regement of Princes."

Report of radiocarbon dating and dendrochronological analysis of the oak panel of the UCLA Chaucer portrait, indicating a date of about 1400. This makes it likely that the portrait "represents a close likeness of the poet" at the end of his life.

Describes a freshman writing course that focuses on late-medieval social history, structured by means of GP and eight of the tales in CT. Includes a complete syllabus, writing exercise, and supplemental information.

Catalogues the Chaucer collection of Raymo and Glazer-Raymo, which includes editions of the complete works of Chaucer, critical and literary histories, recordings of readings, and collections of Chaucer ephemera.

Did Chaucer commission the chest in the London Museum with scenes from PardT? The poet could have supervised its adherence to the literary source and added the hunting fox as a symbol for the Pardoner. He might have chosen the cheaper elm rather than…

Closer attention to external and internal evidence should make scholars more cautious about accepting as canonical such passages as NPE, BD 31-96, Ret, and the lists of Chaucerian works in MLT and LGWP.

George Williams is wrong to claim homosexual implication for Th, in the light of a re-examination of the knight himself, the forest through which he rode, and Chuacer's use of "prike" in the tale. To find sexual connotations in the tale is to read…

A discussion of the characterizations of Troilus and Criseyde by investigating the meanings of adjectives attached to each noun illustrating their natures. Troilus, who languishes for love, is represented as a strong, faithful, idealistic knight and…

The narrator in TC ridicules and condemns courtly love. The difference between TC and "Il Filostrato" is that Chaucer's narrator is unmasked at the end and earthly love must be rejected in favor of love of Christ whereas in IF the young narrator…

Compares the narrator of Boccaccio's "Il Filostrato" with the narrator of TC.

Reconstructs the "biography of Arthur" from major legends, chronicles, and romances.

Absolves the Merchant of the illegal practices, usurious dealings, and insolvency previously inferred by critics, providing historical information and examples that indicate that the GP description portrays a skilled practitioner who "gives a public…

Discusses the character and meaning of Pardoner in relation to a submerged irony expressed in his bodily or spiritual realism.

Historical analysis of the changes in the English world view preceding and following the Black Death of 1349, with particular attention to the art and literature up to 1385 and its "pessimism and macabre realism." Includes recurrent references to…

These essays, which relate to the development of Arthurian prose romance from the early thirteenth century to the end of the medieval period, are arranged chronologically and grouped by theme or text.

Includes various readings by Dunn that illustrate changes in the English language and English literary style, among them, a reading of Book III.m9 of Bo (Side 1, band 9; 41 sec.). Text from F. N. Robinson's edition of Chaucer complete works (1957).

In its evocations of a "locus amoenus," "fin' amors," and Aeneas, the dream chamber in BD serves as a "structural analogue" to the Man in Black's autobiography, which narrates an idyllic youth, describes falling in love, and refers to the duties of…

Fifteen essays by Jackson on classical and medieval subjects, focusing on courtly love, lyric, epic and drama, allegory and romance and covering literary works from Continental Europe. Edited by Joan M. Ferrante and Robert W. Hanning.

Thirteen essays originally presented as lectures at the Center for Literary Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem between September 1991 and January 1993. Each essay re-examines the relation of a major author, genre, or theme to traditional…

The dreamer's experience in BD is an amplification of the Ceyx and Alceone story. The Black Knight and the dreamer may be seen as the same person, the dream providing a means of facing the fact of death.

For five essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Centre and Its Compass under Alternative Title.

Explores "narrative space" as represented in the Bayeux Tapestry, a world map of 1300, two French romances, Dante's "Commedia," and CT to show that the modern anxiety generated by them can be dispelled by understanding built-in signs.

Rejects claims that Criseyde expected to surrender herself to Troilus when she went to Pandarus's house in Book 3 of TC. Examines questions of plot, detail, and emphasis, and argues that her actions were neither fated nor dependent upon prior…

To emphasize the theme of Troilus' misconception of the nature of love and to make his poem reflect the stages of "gradus amoris," Chaucer placed the consummation scene at the numerical center of the "beta" version of TC.

Describes Gower's and Chaucer's "metaphorical and historical connections to Richard II," as reflected in ManT.