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Studies the reception of Dante in England, 1370–1450, focusing on ecclesiastical concerns about the "Divine Comedy" (DC) and literary responses to the poem and its worldview. Includes assessment of possible routes for Chaucer's initial access to DC…

An anthology of translations from Greek and Roman by English writers, including a section on Chaucer (pp. 32-33) with a brief (and erroneous) biography and a selection from Chaucer's Dido legend (LGW 1180-1209), from Virgil's "Aeneid" 4.129-50,…

A collection of essays highlighting "dark," unsettling, and culturally unsavory elements across the Chaucer canon. For individual pieces, search for Dark Chaucer under Alternative Title.

Studies the poem "Chaucer" by Benjamin Brawly, an early twentieth-century African-American poet.

Assesses literary references and allusions to alchemy as an aspect of the transition from the medieval to the modern age, focusing on works by Chaucer, Bacon, Jonson, Donne, Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Milton, and Samuel Butler, but also considering a…

A social history of Dartmouth and the lower Dart river valley; includes the suggestion that William Smale was the model for Chaucer's GP description of the Shipman.

The alternation of "thou" and "ye" forms in TC may be seen as indicating characters psychological development.

Describes the genre of the fabliau and discusses "Dame Sirith," MilT, RvT, SumT, MerT, and ShT as examples in Middle English.

Objective evaluation reveals the "elusive" and contradictory "evidence" on which chronologies of Chaucer's works--and, most notably, constructions of his artistic maturation--are based. These constructions are essentially interpretive activities;…

Mosser uses paper stock to sequence the Hammond Scribe's work. The article includes photographs of watermarks.

Explicates the "Gerveys scene" of MilT, focusing in particular on the meaning of "viritoot," the implications of "seinte Note," the demonic and infernal associations of blacksmithing, and Absolon's transformation of character from lover to wrathful.

For his portrait of the Monk in GP, Chaucer probably recalled Dante "Paradiso" 21.118-20, 127-35, an encomium of Peter Damian, and Damian's own words regarding "unholy hunters, cloisterless monks, and waterless fish." "Palfrey" may be an echo of…

Argues that the "key fact" in Chaucer's satiric GP description of the Monk is that he is an "outrider," allowing leeway for suggestive details about diet, hunting, and other worldly concerns. Fabricates a fictional dialogue between the Monk and the…

Observes the presence of "symmetrical numbers" in the dates mentioned in Chaucer's poetry, e.g., third day of the third month equals May 3 when the annual calendar began in March rather than January. Comments on HF, TC, KnT, MerT, and FranT, as well…

Karnein argues that the "De amore" was written at the court of Philip Augustus, not in Champagne; that it was to condemn "courtly love'; and that it was so interpreted by its earlier, clerical audience and only later taken nonironically by lay…

First-time translation of CT into Frisian, following Chaucer's verse forms and omitting Mel and ParsT. Designed for a popular audience rather than a scholarly one. The source text is Albert Baugh's "Chaucer's Major Poetry" (1963), with translation…

Examines echoes, resemblances, and differences between the evocations of Lucretia in LGW, BD, and CT, and German painter Lucas Cranach's portrait (1513) of the Roman paragon of wifely virtue. References to Chaucer's poems, its ancient sources, and…

There is more to Pier Paolo Pasolini's film version of CT than mere adaptation, for the shift from one semiotic system to another implies some puzzling metamorphoses. Yet, paradoxically, the spirit of the original is cleverly restored on the screen.

Explores the nature and constitutive motifs of obscenity in the twelfth-century "Lidia," Boccaccio's "Decameron" 7.9, MerT, and the fifteenth-century "Cent nouvelles nouvelles."

Facing-page (English/Latin) edition of Innocent's treatise, "De Miseria Condicionis Humane," unemended from British Library Manuscript Lansdowne 358, with extensive critical and textual information. including descriptions of the manuscripts and…

Explores thematic parallels between Odo of Cheriton's "Sermones" and "Fabulae" and PardT. Though not intended to prove any direct influence of the former on the latter, shows how some topics that were widespread in ecclesiastical texts were adopted…

Thirteen essays survey topics in the history of medieval preaching from the Carolingian period to the fifteenth century, two focusing on fourteenth-century lives and Christ and Wycliffism respectively.

Reprint of Dutch verse translation of CT, with introduction and notes, first published 1930-33 and reissued recurrently.

Chaucer is a poet with a highly developed sense of the relative--someone who instinctively shies away from those absolutes necessary for the creation of "auctoritas," who denies experience in love, and who claims to be a mere reporter. This stance…

Analyzes the role of Iberia in Constance narratives by Trivet, Chaucer, Gower, and the Portuguese and Castilian translators of Gower's version. Accepts that the Anglo-Castilian politics of John of Gaunt's marriage to Constance of Castile undergird…