Federico, Sylvia.
Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
Federico combines historicism and psychoanalysis to explore the "fascination with Troy" in late-medieval England as a "symbolic appropriation" and a means of establishing English identity. Examines the gendered representations of Troy in Gower's "Vox…
Beidler, Peter G.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 28 (2006): 225-30.
Beidler proposes a refined taxonomy of terms to designate the relationships between a work and its sources (hard source, soft source, hard analogue, soft analogue, and lost source) and argues that--for lack of evidenc--criticism should dispense with…
Robertson, Michael.
Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 43 (2022): 55-93.
Accounts for seventeen words found in the glossaries of Speght's 1598 and 1602 editions of Chaucer's works that are labeled "unidentified" in Jürgen Schäfer’s "Early Modern English Lexicography" (1989), tracing them "to manuscript variants and…
Stillinger, Thomas C.
Andrew Galloway and R. F. Yeager, eds. Through a Classical Eye: Transcultural and Transhistorical Visions in Medieval English, Italian, and Latin Literature in Honour of Winthrop Wetherbee (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009), pp. 223-38.
Observing that threshold between the Wife of Bath and the Clerk and between their tales, Stillinger explores how Chaucer stands at the "threshold between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance" (224): "If the Clerk imports the new science of the…
Beadle, Richard,and A. J. Piper,eds.
Hants: Scolar Press, 1995
Fifteen essays by various authors on topics in book production from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries, including discussion of Gower manuscripts (M. B. Parkes), a Wyclif manuscript (Anne Hudson), Wynkyn de Worde (Lotte Hellinga), codicological…
Boswell, Jackson Campbel.
Chaucer Review 45 (2011): 435-65.
Adding to the work both of Spurgeon in "Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion" and of the author and Holton in "Chaucer's Fame in England," this annotated bibliography presents forty-five new citations, including one to a hitherto…
Chamberlain, David, ed.
Landon, Md,, New York, and London: University Press of America, 1993.
Seven essays by various authors, plus an introduction by the editor that surveys the tradition of Chaucerian love poetry. One essay is on Lydgate's "Temple of Glas"; one is on "Kingis Quair"; four are on Chaucerian apocrypha; and one is on the…
Benson, Robert G., and Susan J. Ridyard, eds.
Rochester, N.Y., and Cambridge : D. S. Brewer, 2003.
Ten essays by various authors and a descriptive introduction by Derek Brewer. The papers were originally delivered at the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium at the University of the South in April 2000; the colloquium was devoted to Chaucer's work on the…
Kelen, Sarah A.
Heidi Brayman Hackel, Jesse M. Lander, and Zachary Lesser, eds. The Book in History, the Book as History: New Intersections of the Material Text: Essays in Honor of David Scott Kastan (New Haven: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, 2016), pp. 235-55.
Compares and contrasts Immerito's and E. K.'s attitudes toward language and archaism in Edmund Spenser's "Shepheardes Calender," with particular attention to how the "overly generous glossing" of the text presumes a "reader's familiarity with…
Powell, Susan, and Jeremy J. Smith, eds.
Cambridge : D. S. Brewer, 2000.
Thirteen essays by various authors: seven interpretations of alliterative poems and six textual analyses of Middle English works. Includes a memoir by Derek Pearsall. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for New Perspectives on Middle…
Bianco, Sue.
Helen Cooney, ed. Nation, Court and Culture: New Essays on Fifteenth-Century English Poetry (Dublin and Portland, Ore.: Four Courts Press, 2001), pp. 95-115.
Critical reception of Lydgate has been prejudiced by negative comparisons with Chaucer. Fuller appreciation of Lydgate's poetry depends on recognizing that, while moral and political issues in Chaucer are largely exemplary, Lydgate writes to effect…
Vitto, Cindy L., and Marcia Smith Marzec, eds.
Fairview, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2004.
Thirteen essays by various authors assess Criseyde in historical context, consider issues of gender and power, and apply postmodern approaches. Several essays revisit earlier scholarship on Criseyde (including the editors' own) and comment on current…
Trinity College, Dublin, MS 389 (formerly D.2.8) includes three alchemical texts that are Chaucerian apocrypha. Timmerman corrects Gareth W. Dunleavy's 1965 discussion of this manuscript.
Rose, Donald M., ed.
Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1981.
Commissioned originally to be read at the Second International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, these thirteen essays demonstrate the validity of recent critical trends in Chaucer. Several essays on historical approaches to Chaucer suggest new…
Robinson, Peter M. W. .
Le Médiéviste et l'ordinateur 38 : 19-28, 1999.
Describes the history, goals, and methods of The Canterbury Tales Project, explaining how the electronic data have been organized and how the data can be accessed. Focuses on WBP.
Caballero-Torralbo, Juan de Dios, and Javier Martın-Parraga, eds.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2015.
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.
Griffiths, Jeremy.
Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 77 (1995): 25-30.
Notes the existence of a nineteenth-century transcript of the Rylands manuscript made by William James Pynwell, now Schoyn Collection MS 1580, and the implications that the transcript may have for the provenance of the Rylands manuscript.
Bettridge, William Edwin, and Francis Lee Utley,
Texas Studies in Literature and Language13 (1971): 158-208.
Explores the sources of Boccaccio's version of the Griselda story, assessing international oral and literary versions and commenting occasionally on features of ClT. Includes as an appendix summaries of nine Greek and Turkish analogues.
Reisner, M. E.
Chaucer Newsletter 1.2 (1979): 19-20.
Adduces reports that St. Joce's relics were brought to Winchester (Hyde Abbey) in 901. The abbot of Hyde lived next to the real Tabard Inn and Chaucer may have introduced St. Joce into WBP as a bit of local lore.
Prints the inventory of books found in Purvey's residence upon his arrest in 1414, which were assessed at £12-18s-8d, and analyzes what the titles and their value imply.
Miura, Ayumi
Masachiyo Amano, Michiko Ogura, and Masayuki Ohkado, eds. Historical Englishes in Varieties of Texts and Contexts: The Global COE Programme, International Conference 2007 (New York and Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2008), pp. 187-200.
Identifies and tabulates "new" impersonal verbs used by Chaucer, Gower, Langland, and the Gawain-poet, describing factors that affected their usage, especially imitation of Old French forms.
Marshall, Helen, and Peter Buchanan.
Literature Compass 8 (2011): 164-72.
Explores intersections between the "new formalism" and the close study of the formal features of late-medieval manuscripts, surveying recent scholarship and focusing on analyses of Chaucer's Adam and the scribe Adam Pinkhurst. These analyses…
Introduces a special issue of Chaucer Review focused on feminism and Chaucer that surveys the state of the field of current feminist approaches to Chaucer, offering a view of scholarship defined by interdisciplinarity and intersectionality. Articles…
Stevens, Martin, and Daniel Woodward.
Chaucer Newsletter 12:1 (1990): 1-3.
A report on plans to publish a facsimile volume of Huntington MS El 26 C9 and an accompanying volume of essays on the Ellesmere, both volumes to be edited by Daniel Woodward, librarian at the Huntington.
