Tomasch, Sylvia.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 27 (2005)
Characterizes the "scholarly interests" of the more than 150 applicants for a 2003 tenure-track job in medieval studies at Hunter College of the City University of New York.
Suggests that in medieval literature generally the "motif of crossing a body of water was regularly perceived as an epistemological operation of a physical and a spiritual kind," and explores the notion in several narratives, including MLT, examining…
Associates Scudamour of Edmund Spenser's The Fairie Queene IV.x with "Chaucerian" mastery in love, drawing parallels with love in KnT and contrasts with love in FranT, the latter quoted by Spenser in III.i.25, 8-9.
Alford, John A.
David Lyle Jeffrey, ed. Chaucer and Scriptural Tradition (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1984), pp. 197-203.
On "glosing" and scriptural authority in WBP, WBT, FrT, and SumT. The groping motif of SumT is informed by Gen. 24:1-4 and 47:27, requiring an oath on the genitals.
Brown, George H.
James M. Dean and Christian Zacher, eds. The Idea of Medieval Literature: New Essays on Chaucer and Medieval Culture in Honor of Donald R. Howard (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1992), pp. 285-300.
Medieval uses of the Bible include imitation, satire, and parody. Chaucer's biblical quotations and allusions, which number more than seven hundred, are used to prove a proposition, to reinforce a statement, to enhance some personage, to criticize a…
Donavin, Georgiana.
Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2012.
Investigates "constructions of Mary as Lady Rhetorica, 'magistra' for language studies, muse for poetry, and exemplar of perfected speech in a fallen world." Chapter 4, "Chaucer and Dame School," considers how ABC, PrT, and SNT "depict a hierarchy of…
Thaisen, Jacob, and Hanna Rutkowska, eds.
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2011.
Ten essays by various authors on textual concerns of late medieval English manuscripts and early printed books. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Scribes, Printers, and the Accidentals of Their Texts under Alternative Title.
Goldie, Matthew Boyd.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019.
Explores how philosophers, theologians, poets, and other thinkers in late medieval England altered ancient ideas of geographical space. Analyzes medieval science, theology, literature, and maps, and the "relationship between high science and high…
Warner, Lawrence.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 37 (2015): 55-100.
Critiques the methods and conclusions of various analyses of late medieval English vernacular scribes, challenging the arguments that British Library, MS Royal 17 D.XVIII is Thomas Hoccleve's holograph; that Adam Pinkhurst was "Scribe B" of…
Mooney, Linne R., and Estelle Stubbs.
Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2013.
Comprehensive study of scribes from the London Guildhall responsible for copying Chaucer's earliest manuscripts, including Adam Pinkhurst, Guildhall scrivener from 1378-1410.
Samuels, Michael.
Felicity Riddy, ed. Regionalism in Late Medieval Manuscripts and Texts: Essays Celebrating the Publication of A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English. York Manuscripts Conferences: Proceedings Series, no. 2 (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1991), pp. 1-7.
Explores editorial implications of the South-West Midlands features of several London copyings of works by Chaucer, Gower, and Langland, including four manuscripts of the CT (Ha4, La, Cp, Pw).
Burnley, David.
Yearbook of English Studies 25 (1995): 41-62.
Comments on scribal habits reflected in late-medieval English manuscripts and assesses the utility of electronic hypertext to record variations, using examples from Chaucer and other Middle English authors.
Mooney, Linne R.
A. J. Minnis, ed. Middle English Poetry: Texts and Traditions. Essays in Honour of Derek Pearsall (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: York Medieval Press, 2001), pp. 241-66.
Codicological analysis of the two manuscripts, which include works by Chaucer and Lydgate, Chaucerian apocrypha, and related works. Assessment of the booklets in the manuscripts and the habits of the two scribes ("scribe A" and the "Hammond scribe")…
Horobin, Simon, and Daniel W. Mosser.
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 106 (2005): 289-305
The authors analyze the spelling and dialect evidence of manuscripts attributed to Scribe D (including CT) and argue that the southwestern dialect features derive from exemplars rather than from the scribe's own dialect. This argument, in turn,…
Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn, and Steven Justice.
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton and Maidie Hilmo, eds. The Medieval Professional Reader at Work: Evidence from Manuscripts of Chaucer, Langland, Kempe, and Gower (Victoria, British Columbia: U of Victoria, 2001), pp. 217-37.
Codicological analysis of the "Taylor Gower," produced by scribe D, who also produced two manuscripts of CT. This scribe and his "shadow" scribe (Scribe Delta) indicate possible entrepreneurial activity among English vernacular copyists.
Machan, Tim William.
Chaucer Review 24 (1989): 150-62.
That the Bo scribes altered their text in a number of substantive ways suggests that the "Consolatione" was not a fixed text but a living tradition. This tradition became even more diverse whenever the "Consolatione" was translated. The implication…
Hanna, Ralph.
Ralph Hanna, Introducing English Medieval Book History: Manuscripts, Their Producers and Their Readers (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013), pp. 132-65.
Chapter 5 in Hanna's book-length introduction to the study of English medieval books and manuscripts, revisiting and offering new and revised opinions of the nature, value, and relations between the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts of CT. Includes…
Burrow, J. A.
A. J. Minnis, ed. Middle English Poetry: Texts and Traditions. Essays in Honour of Derek Pearsall (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: York Medieval Press, 2001), 169-79.
Compares authorial and scribal versions of passages from Hoccleve's verse, focusing on scribal omission of monosyllabic words, spelling variants, and terminal -e. Assesses what Hoccleve's practice might tell us about Gower's practice, and how the two…
Wakelin, Daniel.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Extensive survey of scribal correction in manuscripts and genres that focuses on poems by Chaucer, Hoccleve, and Lydgate, as well as a variety of medieval chronicles, and religious and secular works. Includes analysis of CT, Equat, and TC.
Fisher, Matthew.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2012.
Focuses on the role of authorship within the scribal process, and emphasizes "intertextuality" as an important facet of medieval historiography. Briefly discusses how Chaucer "de-authorizes" Adam Scriveyn's work, yet reveals his own authorship in…
Kline, Barbara.
Thomas A. Prendergast and Barbara Kline, eds. Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400-1602 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999), pp. 116-44.
Examines scribal interventions in the CT portion of British Library MS Harley 7333 (produced at Leicester Abbey) as examples of "ideological editing." Its corrections, variants, and omissions indicate efforts to suppress Chaucer's criticism of the…
Ives, Carolyn, and David Parkinson.
Thomas A. Prendergast and Barbara Kline, eds. Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400-1602 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999), pp. 186-202.
Political and religious struggles of the late sixteenth century encouraged Scottish misogyny and treatment of Chaucer as a "misogynist authority." As is most clearly evident in the Bannatyne manuscript, Chaucer's works and his apocrypha were used to…
