Jimura, Akiyuki.
The Society for Chaucer Studies and Koichi Kano, eds. To the Days of Studying Medieval English Literature: Essays in Memory of Professor Tadahiro Ikegami (Tokyo: Eihosha, 2021), pp. 183-203.
Analyzes examples of computer-assisted textual comparison amongst nine versions of CT.
Presents debates surrounding intersection of art and paleography and the transmission of Middle English manuscripts. Focuses on CT manuscripts and research devoted to Gower, Langland, Hoccleve, and Chaucer. Argues that "scholars attend to how scribes…
Combines feminist critical awareness, reception studies, and codicology to explore the construction of Chaucer as "womanis frend" in fifteenth-century manuscript compilations, studying the intertextualities of English and French works, including…
Dase, Kyle, and Nicole Atkings.
Digital Medievalist 14, special issue (2021). 29 pp.
Describes the use of the online text-editing platform Textual Communities in ongoing developments of the Canterbury Tales Project, clarifying advantages and limitations of using such a platform, and offering advice for future changes to the project…
Gilbert, Jane, and Sara Harris.
Orietta Da Rold and Elaine Treharne, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 149-78.
Includes discussion of Astr in showing that "vernacular pride" in late medieval England was "more inclusive than exclusive of other languages and cultures." Stresses the "practical utility" of Astr and how English achieves "dignity" by association…
Da Rold, Orietta, and Elaine Treharne, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Thirteen essays by various writers on the Hows, Whys, and Wheres of studying medieval manuscripts, with an Introduction by the editors, A Guide to Further Reading, an index of manuscripts, and a comprehensive index. For two essays that pertain to…
Crick, Julia, and Daniel Wakelin.
Orietta Da Rold and Elaine Treharne, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 49-75.
Surveys late medieval insular scripts, and discusses evident efforts to imitate anglicana formata in a stanza inserted into the roundel of PF in Cambridge University Library, MS Gg.4.27--added by a scribe who seems to have been "more accustomed to…
Mosser, Daniel W.
Margaret Connolly, Holly James-Maddocks, and Derek Pearsall, eds. Scribal Cultures in Late Medieval England: Essays in Honour of Linne R. Mooney (York: York Medieval Press), pp. 285-311.
Anatomizes the contents of CT manuscripts, i.e., "some 240 Middle English verse texts, 65 Middle English prose texts, 16 Latin prose texts, 10 Latin verse texts, and a single French verse text” that accompany some or all of the CT in one or more…
Horobin, Simon.
Margaret Connolly, Holly James-Maddocks, and Derek Pearsall, eds. Scribal Cultures in Late Medieval England: Essays in Honour of Linne R. Mooney (York: York Medieval Press), pp. 312-28.
Describes the role of Stephan Batman (c. 1542–84) in producing Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.3.15 (which includes CT), observes how the manuscript aligns with contemporaneous printed editions of Chaucer by Thynne and Stow, and explores how…
Connolly, Margaret, Holly James-Maddocks, and Derek Pearsall, eds.
Thirteen essays on paleography, codicology, and manuscript studies in late medieval England, with emphasis on location and scribal identity, accompanied by an introduction (by Connolly), a personal tribute (by Pearsall), a list of Mooney's…
Brantley, Jessica.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.
Offers "a general introduction to manuscript studies for readers whose particular interests lie in medieval literature," commenting on material concerns, paleography, decoration and illustration, codicology, and principles of manuscript description,…
Bordalejo, Barbara, and Adam Alberto Vázquez
Digital Medievalist 14, special issue (2021), 46 pp.
Compares "manual and computer-assisted approaches to collation methods," drawing examples from the texts of TC, CT, Dante’s "Commedia," and the Greek New Testament. Argues for full-text rather than selected-text analysis, the importance of variant…
Bordalejo, Barbara.
Digital Medievalist 14, special issue (2021). 36 pp.
Describes "computer-assisted methods for the analysis of textual variation within large textual traditions," clarifying phylogenetic methods, the goal of maximum parsimony, software decisions and usage, variant management, and the crucial importance…
Bitner, Kendall, and Kyle Dase.
Digital Medievalist 14, special issue (2021). 34 pp.
Explains the "necessary compromises and more efficient practices" that underlie changes to the original transcription principles of the Canterbury Tales Project, offering illustrative examples, and emphasizing the goal of making textual materials…
Adams, Abigail Marie.
Ph.D. Dissertation .The University of Texas at Austin, 2022.
Dissertation Abstracts International A84.06 (E): n.p.
S]urveys manuscripts excerpting Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," Rolle's "Commentary on the Song of Songs," Lydgate's "Fall of Princes," and Gower's
"Confessio amantis' . . . [showing how] [t]hese manuscripts display a fifteenth-century attitude to…
Witcher, Heather Bozant.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Chapter 4--"Typographical Adventures: William Morris, Community, and the Kelmscott Press"--includes discussion of the "sympathetic collaboration" (a concept theorized by William Morris) between Edward Burne-Jones and Robert Catterson-Smith in…
Treharne, Elaine, and Claude Willan.
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2020.
Introduces the study of text technologies, explaining concepts, providing history, and offering case studies. Among the latter is a brief study of the Kelmscott Chaucer as a text that "was created specifically to have a particular aura" in various…
Syme, Alison.
Nancy Rose Marshall, ed. Victorian Science and Imagery: Representation in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), pp. 56-78.
Focuses on Edward Burne-Jones's illustration of HF in the Kelmscott Chaucer (1896) to show "that Burne-Jones was attuned to the scientific discourse of his time," arguing that the book "provided the context and impetus to visualize, in distilled…
Štrmelj, Lidija.
Časopis za Književnost, Kulturu i Književno Prevođenje / A Journal of Literature, Culture and Literary Translation 12 (2021). 27 pp.
Compares conceptual metaphors in MilT and in its Croatian translation by Luko Paljetak (1986) in order to determine which metaphors are "conventional in both languages and cultures." In Croatian, with an English abstract.
Item not seen. WorldCat record notes that "This edition is based on the second edition of The complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer, edited by
the Rev. Walter W. Skeat, 1900 (Oxford)," with a "new introduction."
Meyer-Lee, Robert J.
Chaucer Review 57 (2022): 253-72.
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.
Luo, Yue, trans.
Nanjing: Jiang su feng huang wen yi chu ban she, 2022.
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this is a translation of CT into Chinese; apparently adapted, suggesting that Philippa's illness is Chaucer's motive for undertaking his pilgrimage.
Leahy, Conor.
Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 22 (2021): 217-24.
Describes the annotations made by book-collector Stephan Batman (c. 1542–84) in his copy of John "Stow’s edition of The "Woorkes of Geffrey Chaucer" (1561), explaining how they evince Batman's habits and interests.
Argues that Johnson's perfunctory references to Chaucer reflect the former's view of the latter not as an excellent "English" poet but as one who successfully transmitted literature from the Continent into Britain. Considers possible reasons Johnson…
