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Considers the addition of medical terminology to the lexicons of medieval laypeople, with particular regard to its use in metaphor. Authors under consideration include Chaucer, Henryson, Rolle, and Kempe.

Part 1 includes several chapters on Middle English themes related to Chaucer. Chapter 1 appreciates the sound of the beginning of GP as associated with spring. Chapter 2 includes a brief discussion of the relationship between individualism and the…

Discusses significance of tables and "narrative 'tabulae'" in late-medieval England. Addresses the tabular text in HF.

Provides a "newly broadened context for Chaucer's obsession with Dido," and looks at Chaucer's narrators in HF and LGW.

Includes essays dedicated to Richard Green Firth that explore a variety of medieval topics. Examines issues related to oral and written cultural networks, book and social history, vernacular studies, and media studies. For three essays that pertain…

Examines Chaucer's efforts, in BD, HF, LGW, and PF, to meld two strands of dream poetry: the philosophical and amorous subspecies of the form.

Discusses Chaucer's use of humor in describing the "thieving millers" in GP and RvT. Looks at class and social issues among food providers, including cooks, bakers, and taverners, and civic governing entities responsible for overseeing production of…

After examining weather patterns during the Middle Ages, suggests that the late fourteenth century experienced lower than normal temperatures and increased precipitation that would have affected harvests. Since inclement weather plays a role in BD,…

Considers Chaucer's fascination with contemporary theories of change, both in readily visible physical form and also less visible self-reform. The book is divided into three sections: Physics, Alchemy, and Logic. The Physics section discusses HF as a…

Considers Chaucer as part of a larger discussion of medieval ideas of the physical damage that accrued from travel, both in the sense of a literal pilgrimage and in tropes including the "wandering heart."

This introductory essay comments on the first fifty years of Chaucer Review, and looks ahead to future projects.

Reviews issues of justice in Sted and explores how Chaucer's irony reveals his bias against medieval judicial practices in ABC. Also, questions the relationship among Church/Rome/nation, political vs. religious law(s), and ascending vs. descending…

Commemorates the life and accomplishments of Chaucer scholar and editor, Larry Benson.

Surveys themes and plots in HF, comments on its sources, and discusses its "narrator-character."

Collection of essays that provides various approaches to the study and teaching of the Middle Ages. For an essay that pertains to Chaucer, search for New Medievalisms under Alternative Title.

Argues that while quotations of Austen in the revised OED have increased in number overall, those of female authors are still extraordinarily low when compared to the canonical literary male authors: Shakespeare (c. 33,000), Walter Scott (c. 15,000),…

Creates a literary history of the "night side of literature" in London from the Middle Ages to the mid-nineteenth century. Considers Chaucer's "nightwalkers" in MilT, CkT, WBT, and LGW.

Reflects on the "Global Chaucers" project, which creates a forum for world-wide nonanglophone reworkings of Chaucerian material. Presents challenges and goals for future projects in response to scholars' diverse interests and expanding discoveries.

Begins with attempts to position Chaucer, TC, and the reading subject (the author himself ), and reads the Prologue and Epilogue of TC in literary, historical, and anthropological terms. In Japanese.

Examines the implications of "siege" in TC from cognitive viewpoints. Argues that the siege of Troy as a prototype of "siege" is repeated in metaphorically diversified forms such as Pandarus's enclosure of Troilus and Criseyde, and that this "siege"…

Discusses the various ways in which the treatment of space in TC functions in relation to the characterizations, the development of the plot, and the changing role of the narrator. In Japanese.

Discusses SNT from several perspectives related to saints' legends, including the representation of the saint in SNT, the
etymology of Cecilia, the sources of SNT, the Second Nun as a narrator, SNT's position in CT, and Chaucer's attitude toward…

Argues that the medieval notion of wonder helps to explain the Franklin's interruption of SqT.The Squire presents the marvels in his tale as explainable in scientific terms, in accord with the philosophical notion of wonder. The Franklin similarly…

In Japanese. For seven articles that pertain to Chaucer, search under Alternative Title for Chaucer and English and American Literature: Essays Commemorating the Retirement of Professor Masatoshi Kawasaki.

Collection of essays covers a comprehensive range of medieval-related media, including literature, film, TV, comic-book adaptations, electronic media, performances, and commercial merchandise and tourism. For three essays that pertains to Chaucer,…