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Assesses the "formal organising principle" of Hoccleve's "Series" in light of that of CT (and LGW). Argues that CT is "not just incomplete, but incompleteable" (citing the additivity entailed in CYP), explaining it as Chaucer's response to the…

Argues that "because Hoccleve's metre cannot persuasively be reconciled with any known metrical system, it must be allowed its own category." Details Chaucer's metrical "template" and shows how Hoccleve varies it to create his own, although…

Explores Hoccleve's uses of and attitudes toward Christine de Pizan and Chaucer, focusing on Ovidian notions of female readership and how in his"Series" Hoccleve positions Pizan to "speak back to Chaucer" and "asks us to reflect on the Chaucerian…

Shows how the "framed first-person narrative with which [Hoccleve's] "Regiment" begins is a reconfiguration rather than a straightforward rejection of Chaucer's dream poetry." While both authors use dream-vision conventions to engage previous authors…

Collects eleven essays about Hoccleve's literary works, with an Introduction by the editors and a comprehensive Index. References to Chaucer's influences on Hoccleve and Hoccleve's attitudes toward Chaucer recur throughout the volume (see the Index).…

Studies uses in late medieval England of French lyric models (formes fixes) as "reparative" translation of francophone culture, and response to linguistic and political trends and tensions of the Hundred Years War. Includes discussion of Chaucer's…

Assesses how Chaucer's references to Alain de Lille's works in HF, 985–89 and PF, 315–18 distinguish his own poetic project from the Neoplatonic ideals that Alain represents, preferring worldly tidings to the spiritual wisdom of the empyrean, and…

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…

Argues for using "a Bernardine anagogical lens" to assess theological depth in CT and "Piers Plowman," and traces allusions and references to Bernard of Clairvaux in "Piers," ParsT, and the "Prick of Conscience.."

Attends to "evident Scotian implications" of MLT and ClT without arguing that Chaucer read or was directly influenced by the works of John Duns Scotus. Focuses on the nature of God and voluntarism in the tales, arguing that "where Custance had to…

Identifies internal "traces of uncertainty and changes of mind" in the composition process of TC, aligning them with the poem's theme of the unreliability of Boethian Fortune and challenging ideas about the supposed "planned wholeness" of TC and its…

Explores ellipsis, ekphrasis, lists, allusions, and their combinations as techniques and thematic devices in HF. Focuses on "elliptical ekphrasis" of source material as axiological choice, and as a method of literary generation and renewal, with…

Thirteen essays by various authors on representations of Troy and the Trojan War in medieval works, with an introduction by the editors. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Troja Bauen under Alternative Title.

Opens with brief contrasts between the uses of dream vision in NPT, Gower's "Vox clamantis," and Langland's "Piers Plowman" before examining at greater length Langland's use of literary techniques that echo the Bible.

Argues that both Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun--and their "respective 'poetics'"--are "at issue" in BD 321–34 (where the "Roman de la Rose" is named), and in GP 725–46 ("Chaucer's Apology"). These evince Chaucer's deep, sophisticated, and…

Introduces medieval manuscripts, their production, and their legacies, with emphasis on the experiences, surprises, and pleasures of manuscript study. Refers to Chaucer's life, works, and manuscripts recurrently, with a brief section on his…

Investigates how the practices of fifteenth-century scribes of manuscripts of English poetry and prose--particularly CT manuscripts, and works by Lydgate and Hoccleve--reveal "traces of immaterial traditions, intentions, assumptions, activities and…

Examines the manuscript portrait of Chaucer in the Ellesmere manuscript (El) and its scribal rubrics as they reflect the poet's status in his own age. Reviews historical study of the manuscript, its provenance, tale order, and text, accepting Chaucer…

Explicates the "cukkow"/cuckoo/cuckold pun in ManT by identifying the role of the cuckoo (versus the nightingale) in bird-debate poems, analyzed here, particularly in Sir John Clanvowe's "Boke of Cupide." Argues that, by engaging themes of…

Argues that the "modes of religious expression" in PrT are "vernacular" insofar as they are simultaneously canny and naïve. Using romance discourse to express religious orthodoxy, the Prioress challenges patriarchal "Latinate institutions," evident…

Explores how the Pardoner resonates with Thomas Becket's miraculous healing of a castrated man, Eilward, depicted in stained glass in Canterbury Cathedral. Considers issues of wholeness, healing, sanctity, and their antitheses reflected in details of…

Explores how SqT and "The Book of John Mandeville" "traffic in fantasies of cultural, religious, and racial annihilation . . . in a quieter, more subtextual way than that seen in other works of crusades-inspired literature" Argues that the Squire…

Focuses on the "outcast" lyrics of the Findern manuscript (Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.1.6), i.e., those ""overlooked" poems as they appear among works by Chaucer and others. Analyzes how the lyrics "respond" to the works they accompany…

Includes fifteen essays on early English, Irish, Scottish, and Robin Hood studies, with an Introduction by the editors, an appreciation of Thomas Hahn's career by Theresa Coletti, and a comprehensive Index. For five essays that pertain to Chaucer,…

Collects twelve essays that provide context and background to the work of Manly, Rickert, and their collaborators as cryptologists, writers, and scholars, including recurrent mention of their work in Chaucer studies. For an essay that pertains to…