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Surveys the techniques and functions of identifying manuscripts produced by the same scribe (especially manuscripts relating to Chaucer and Gower) and calls for a digital archive of known hands to help identify related manuscripts.

Explores how Chaucer, Gower, Spenser, Shakespeare, Aemilia Lanyer, and other writers "appropriate conventionally misogynistic figures to rethink radically the ethical and political capacities of personhood, and therefore justice, in society."…

Meyer examines confessional discourse in John Gower's "Confessio Amantis," Chaucer's LGW, "The Book of Margery Kempe," and Robert Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid," assessing how this discourse "produc[es] truth" and conveys "textualized bodies."

Calls for an editing approach that attempts to replicate the contextual and intertextual aspects of manuscripts. Suggests various editions for various purposes, each sensitive to the radical differences of variants, the importance of the manuscript…

Tallies Chaucer's techniques of characterization in TC and explores how and where he "manipulates his characters in the interest of his theme," identifying differences between his major characters (especially Troilus) and their sources in Boccaccio's…

Twenty-three essyas by various authors delivered at the "Northeast Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature" 10-12 October 1996, topics ranging from medieval to modern. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer search for…

For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Proceedings of the VIth International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature under Alternative Title.

Twenty-eight essays by various authors on Scottish language and literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Scottish Language and Literature…

Includes thirty-eight essays. For eight essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature under Alternative Title.

Thirteen papers on topics ranging from Old English to eighteenth-century British literature. For three papers that pertain to Chaucer, search for Proceedings of the 14th Northern Plains Conference on Earlier British Literature under Alternative…

Twenty essays by various authors on topics in British literature before 1800: five essays on Shakespeare; three on medieval uses of Christ's death (in Beowulf, Song of Roland, and El Cid). Other topics include Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe,…

Twenty-six essays by various authors, with eight that pertain to Chaucer. For essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of S.E.L.I.M. under Alternative Title.

In Russian; with English summary (p. 55): "The realistic tendencies of 'The Canterbury Tales,' a result of Chaucer's cultivating the traditions of medieval literature, are considered. According to contemporary scholars, the basis for these tendencies…

Comments on aspects of convention, generic variety, and characterization in BD, PF, HF, LGW, and TC as evidence of Chaucer's status as a "great representative of the mediaeval culture and a pioneer of Renaissance art." In Russian, with Lithuanian and…

Justifies writing a new biography of Chaucer despite objections that it may be impossible, useless, or superfluous. The exceptional nature of Chaucer's life and the richness of his historical context make the undertaking worthwhile.

Describes the interrelationship in HF between oral and written forms of transmission of literature. Only through the poet's journey through space (bk. 2) can limitations imposed by literary conventions of written text be overcome.

The grounds for "best-text" editing are uncertain. In following a "best-text," an editor may seek to "place the modern audience in the position" of the Ur-audience. Hanna questions Hengwrt as basis for "best text" and Manly-Rickert's method of…

Analyzes modern approaches to Chaucer's portrayal of women.

Comments on Chaucer's formal descriptions of women in Rom, BD, RvT, and MilT, focusing on his uses of rhetorical conventions, Continental models, and native English alliterative phrases and vocabulary.

"Chaucer's ME pentameter (if that is what it was) had become lost by the beginning of the 16th century and had to be reinvented."

Addresses inconsistencies in the character of the Pardoner and in the relation between the teller and his tale. Identifies the symbolic possibilities of the Old Man and tallies several ironies in the tale.

Collection of essays that discuss emerging challenges for scholars and editors in textual studies. For essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for Probable Truth under Alternative Title.

Allusions in SumT to the "silent canon" - the clerical practice of offering the Eucharistic consecration prayers silently - open a window on "lay-clerical relations," exposing the politics governing access to the secrets of the Eucharist. Through its…

Considers transformation "both as a theme and as a methodological problem." In SNT, faith is more "real" than experience, while in CYT, the "real" is not accessible to the Canon. Chaucer experiments with the relationship between the material and…

Explores links between privacy and urban spaces in Fragment 1 of CT, especially MilT, in which each of the major male characters fails to control his own "pryvetee." The article follows Pierre Bourdieu in conceptualizing the practices of privacy as a…