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Explores the events of a single day in the first half of Book 2 of TC, particularly changes Chaucer made to Boccaccio "Filostrato," showing how this section helps to characterize Pandarus and Criseyde. Argues that the "muted contrast" between the…

Fourteen essays and an introduction explore "the subject of language in medieval literature" using traditional approaches together with modern critical theory, focusing on "what medieval writers themselves wrote about language," and specifically…

From the perspective of medieval psychology, January's pretensions to youth and sexual vigor are ridiculous and potentially fatal, since his sexual overactivity diminishes vital spirits and causes, among other effects, blindness and eventually death.

Opens with a chapter on Chaucer (pp. 9-35)--followed by ones about William Shakespeare, Henry Fielding, Thomas Sterne, Charles Lamb, Charles Dickens, and Mark Twain--surveying his self-portraits, narrative poses, characterizations, ironies, and the…

Describes the unique copy of portions of "Sidrak and Bokkus" found in Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, Amsterdam, MS M199, an early modern alchemical miscellany. Accompanying the selections, manuscript annotations refer to a wide variety of…

Suggests a possible "echo" of HF and PF in Philip Sidney's "Old Arcadia," where "philosophical reflections by the dreamer are partly burlesqued" in the vision which follows.

Considers Robert Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid" as a tragedy and the role of writing in the demise of the central character. Also explores medieval attitudes toward leprosy, versions of the Criseyde story before Henryson, and Henryson's debt to…

Showing his perception of inadequacies in the practice of medicine through the Physician's portrait in GP and PhyT, Chaucer reveals his belief in the balance of mind, body, and soul and the need for God as physician in BD, GP, WBT, MilT,MerT, KnT,…

The Pardoner is compared to a hare, goat, and horse, and PardT refers to smaller animals usually considered vermin. The three gluttonous rioters are appropriately called shrews, and the poison used to kill them is ostensibly bought for rats and a…

Reconsiders the social status of franklins in the late medieval period and points out that their gentility is ambiguous. Discusses the value of "gentilesse" in FranT by comparing the tale with Boccaccian analogues, taking into account the…

Comments on questions of "prior circulation and authorial revision" that were disclosed by the Manly-Rickert edition of CT and suggests that recent advances in codicology and the history of the book may offer future editors new perspectives from…

Four poems inspired by Chaucer's CT, written and recorded by Bergvall: "The Host's Tale"; "The Summer Tale (deus hic, 1)" [link to text included]; "The Franker Tale (deus hic, 2)" [link to text included]; and "The Not Tale (funeral)."

Discusses whether British Library MS Harley 116 and Cambridge University Library MS Hh 4.12 were meant to be anthologies or whether the quire signatures indicate discrete works that came together by accident.

Fizzard considers Chaucer's GP description of the Monk among other satires and accounts of monastic dress, exploring in particular debates about standards of dress among Augustinian monks.

Item not seen; cited in MLA International Bibliography, where it is described as concerned with the flatulence and St. Thomas in SumT. In Japanese.

Item not seen; cited in MLA International Bibliography, where it is described as concerned with the memory, thought, and the muses in HF and LGW. In Japanese.

Explores the connections between two compilations produced by scribe John Shirley--Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.3.20 and British Library, Additional MS 16165--suggesting that the manuscripts indicate John Lydgate's two different reactions to the…

Item not seen; cited in MLA International Bibliography, where it is described as concerned with Hisashi Shigeo's theories of women and love in Chaucer. In Japanese.

Summarizes differences between oral and literate communication, describes CT as a product of a transitional "manuscript culture," and discusses how WBP lends verisimilitude to the speaking voice of WBT, an example of Chaucer's virtuosity in a "time…

Argues that TC is largely concerned with "certitude and volition as they pertain to human perception and judgment" and as they relate to late medieval philosophical discussions of divine omnipotence and divine self-limitation. Troilus, Pandarus, and…

Seventeen essays by Taylor on the conjoining of Christian with native pagan thought in Norse and English medieval literary contexts.

Assesses the hospitality of female characters in LGW, showing that the betrayal suffered by these women is not the result of their fickleness but of a failure of the courtly code.

Uses the Boethian imagery of Fortune and her wheel in For and Truth to clarify "situated cognition," exemplifying how visual images can enable cultural transmission across time.

Discusses prefaces to CT as marketing and self-promotion that linked the authority of editors and a dedicatee, Henry VIII, to the authority of the author.

Summarizes and extends recent scholarship on Guildhall scribe Richard Osbarn, and assesses his work, focusing on two TC manuscripts to which he contributed: San Marino, Huntington Library, MS HM 114, and London, British Library, MS Harley 3943.…