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Examines the differences between Chaucer's poverty prologue to MLT and its source, Innocent III's "De miseria condicionis humane," attributing these differences to the influence of Renaud de Louen's "Livre de Mellibee et Prudence," which Chaucer…

Examines the use of prologues and epilogues in several narratives of the Reynard tradition (13th-15th centuries). NPT indicates Chaucer's preference for the prologue and the ambiguity of his assertions.

Explores the foreign, exotic elements of SqT, commenting on its setting, its inclusion of marvelous objects, and its relations with other literature set in the Orient.

Warlike heroism is never clearly praised in CT. It is always connected with "feeble" characters, such as women and children, whose weapons are their voices (prayers, songs).

Explores Chaucer's adaptation-translation of Jean de Meun's account of the fall of Nero. In MkT, Chaucer capitalizes on Boethian references to Nero and presents Nero as responsible for his fall in fortune.

Includes comments on Chaucer's use of the term "orisante."

To Chaucer's audience, the name "Eglentyne" suggested the lost clerk-knight debate "Hueline and Aiglantine." While Alice of Bath must have been the second lady of the debate, the other pilgrims stand for the qualities and defects of clerks and…

Ten essays by various hands. For essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for L'imagination medievale under Alternative Title.

Experimental juxtapositioning of Virginia's rape in PhyT, Chaucer's interaction with Cecily Chaumpaigne, and "The Story of O" (1954), presented as a text caught in the act of being edited, complete with palimpsests of strikeouts, text additions, and…

Includes introductory comments on displacement in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, specifically the meaning of travel in Chaucer.

Studies Chaucer's engagement with Ovidian sources to consider how LGW is a "narrative of metamorphosis." Argues that the metamorphosis is due to the creative process of “"vernacularization of the classical authority,”"which establishes a shared…

A collection of ten articles by various hands, in Italian, concerning the spread and development of the Griselda tradition in Italy, England, Iceland, Germany, and Bohemia, among other Eruopean countries.

An anthology in Spanish of seventeen pieces of short fiction from international medieval and modern sources, and a prologue by Montero that discusses the motif of the unfaithful woman. Includes WBPT (pp. 89-119).

Includes seven essays that pertain to Chaucer. For individual essays search for La complémentarité under Alternative Title.

Though posed as a continuation of CT, the Prologue to the Tale of Beryn emphasizes a return from Canterbury to London, from the sacred to the profane. Sentence and solaas are reduced to the merely "glad and merry."

Three features characterize the collections of tales of Don Juan Manuel, Boccaccio, and Chaucer, especially as they relate to cultural context: marks of realism or authentication, thematic concern with unity and diversity, and the presence of the…

Morabito attempts to provide the fullest bibliography possible for the diffusion of the Griselda story throughout Europe. Beginning in 1350 with the "Decameron," the bibliography is arranged chronologically for each of twenty-one languages.

A previously unknown Spanish translation of MerT derives not from Chaucer's original but from the English translation by Alexander Pope. Castillo provides biography of Canary Islander Graciliano Alfonso Naranjo, who may have been the author of the…

Item not seen; cited in MLA International Bibliography, which indicates that the essay addresses marital fidelity in CT, Boccaccio's "Decameron," and Juan Manuel's "El Conde Lucanor."

Studies how horse figures function in telling, traveling, and space definition in "Les quatre fils Aymon," "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, GP, SqT, and TC.

Item not seen. Identified in WorldCat record.

Analyzes Pasolini's version of CT in the context of Eco's and Pasolini's debate about semiology and the relation of reality and art. Thus, the Italian filmmaker creates a filmic narrative reflecting Chaucer's historicity of frontier, in the topics,…

A brief description of the works of Chaucer and his contemporaries; the second chapter of a history of English literature designed for Italian undergraduate study.

Studies the function of medieval inscribed or letter-shaped jewels and similar objects, referring to Chaucer's Prioress and to TC.

Analyzes how the "Legend of Dido" differs from Virgil's "Aeneid" and Ovid's "Heroides," VII. Claims that Chaucer's narrator is more self-referential and that the plurality of voices of the narrator, along with the characters' voices, results in a…