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Harvey, E. Ruth.   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 440-55.
Examines the influence of Dominican friar Henry Daniel, and his efforts, along with other English scientists, "to appropriate into their language the scientific learning available in Latin, and to lay the foundations for future development.”…

Ginsberg, Warren.   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 303-24.
Treats Boccaccio's romances, concentrating on "Filostrato" and "Teseida," "as if they were intralingual translations,' by analyzing the collusion and contravention of the narratives' aims by their own prologues. These prologues, apparently unknown or…

Fumo, Jamie C.   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 219-37.
Traces connections between Ovid and Chaucer and asserts that "Chaucer emerges not simply as a conveyor of or apprentice to Ovid, but as a 'collaborator' in an Ovidian poetic, one who necessarily and wilfully transforms Ovid's 'book' into his own." In…

Eisner, Martin.   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 286-302.
Argues "that far from being occasional, accidental, or haphazard, Boccaccio's engagement with Dante structures the authorial interventions in the frame of the "'Decameron/." Traces Boccaccio's use of Dante to demonstrate how Chaucer uses Boccaccio in…

Desmond, Marilyn.   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford Handbook of Chaucer), pp. 238-51.
Surveys some of the sources of and connections among the various texts that predate Chaucer and that describe Troy and its fall. Discusses a range of Chaucerian engagements with Troy, including BD and TC.

Bale, Anthony.   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 580-600.
Examines connections between Chaucer and Lydgate, tracing "some of the ways in which Lydgate received and (re)constructed Chaucer’s poetry." Concentrating on "The Mumming at Bishopswood," the "Siege of Thebes," and the patronage between Lydgate and…

Akbari, Suzanne Conklin.   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 368-85.
Considers Nicholas Trevet’s Anglo-Norman chronicle and discusses "the ways in which Trevet’s larger vision of history is reflected in Chaucer's writing." Catalogues the various models for history available to and used by Chaucer, including Geoffrey…

Rust, Martha.   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 98-125.
Uses the figure of Genius from Alan of Lille's "De planctu Naturae" to flesh out the role of the scribe for Chaucer and his works. Focuses on the role of the scribe not only in Chaucer's work and manuscripts, but also in contemporary scholarship, and…

Hsy, Jonathan   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 43-62. "This chapter also appears in a modified and expanded form in Jonathan Hsy, Trading Tongues: Merchants, Multilingualism, and Medieval Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2013), 27–57," where the title is "Chaucer's Polyglot Dwellings: Home and the Customs House."
Examines the way connections of polyglot London and England trace how "London's polyglot character informs Chaucer's fictive portrayal of urban living" in HF and ShT. Connects Chaucer’s work at the customs house and his house in Aldgate with HF and…

Akbari, Suzanne Conklin, and James Simpson, eds.   Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Offers a comprehensive, “stereoscopic,” and wide-ranging view of Chaucer’s culture and connections in a collection of essays focusing on current work in Middle English studies. For twenty-nine individual essays by various authors, search for Oxford…

Brown, Peter.   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 11-25.
Details the extant evidence for Chaucer's travel, both in England and abroad, noting that all known travel is for the court, if we define it as “the various royal households with which Geoffrey Chaucer was associated.” Explores countries and places…

Briggs, Keith.   Notes and Queries 264 (2019): 201-2
Challenges the traditional "misleading" explanation of a Chaucer life-record, particularly the uses of the name Malin/a, reopening "the question of the Malin branch of Chaucer's ancestry." Observes that the name is used in RvT

Simon-Jones, Lindsey, Derrick Pitard, and Krista Sue-Lo Twu   Year's Work in English Studies 99 (2020): 292-312.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2018, divided into six subcategories: general, CT, TC, LGW, other works, and reputation and reception.

Echard, Siân, and Robert Allen Rouse, eds.   Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2017.
Presents over 600 entries on texts, critical debates, methodologies, cultural and historical contexts, and terminology on British literature from the fifth to the sixteenth century. Represents all medieval literatures, including Chaucer, and presents…

Amsel, Stephanie.   Studies in the Age of Chaucer 42 (2020): 469-540.
Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 232 items, plus a listing of reviews for 34 books. Includes an…

Asay, Timoithy M.   Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Oregon, 2014. Freely accessible at https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/18728; accessed November 22, 2022.
Argues that frame narratives make "language both a represented object and a representing agent" and "thus perfectly mimetic." Following both Dante and Boccaccio in using the device, Chaucer unsettles "easy assignations of identity" for his…

Toswell, M. J.   Year's Work in Medievalism 23 (2009): 62-72.
Includes comments on Earle Birney's use of Chaucerian motifs in his poetry and his writing about Chaucer's irony.

Clements, Pamela.  
Identifies parallels between CT and Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale," found particularly in the fictional "Historical Notes" that follow the main text of the novel. Notes the echo of Chaucer in Atwood's title and a single reference to Chaucer…

Steiner, Emily.   Mary C. Flannery and Katie C. Walter, eds. The Culture of Inquisition in Medieval England (Cambridge: Brewer, 2013), pp. 164-72.
Responds to the nine essays in this volume, exploring relations among inquisition, innovation, creativity, and imagination. Discusses LGWP as a poem that "seeks its inventiveness in law at the same time that it invites its readers to enjoy the…

Baghdikian, Sonia.   In Graham Nixon and John Honey, eds. An Historic Tongue: Studies in English Linguistics in Memory of Barbara Strang (New York: Routledge, 1988), pp. 41-48.
Draws examples from Bo and Elizabeth I’s translation of Boethius ("noght," "nowt," "nothing,” etc.) to show that the ambiguity of morphological negation disappears between Middle and Early Modern English while that of syntactical negation survives.

Figg, Kristen Mossler.   New York and London: Garland, 1994.
Assesses the nature and quality of Froissart's short poems: lays, chansons royales, pastourelles, ballades, virelays, and rondeaux, providing texts and commentary. The Introduction includes a survey of scholarship about Froissart's influence on…

LeFever, Henry Lewis.   Springfield, PA]: Walden Birch, 2011.
Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates that this volume of poetry includes two poems entitled "From Chaucer's The Franklin tale" and "The Franklin's tale told twice."

Strouse, A. W.   Brooklyn, NY: Punctum, 2015.
Autobiographical remembrance/contemplation by a gay medievalist in New York. Includes frequent references and allusions to medieval topics, including Chaucer, here described as "really the most important thing in the world."

Balestrini, María Cristina.   V Jornadas de Estudios Clásicos y Medievales "Diálogos Culturales,"La Plata, 5 - 7 de Octubre de 2011 (Buenos Aires: Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 2012), 13 pp.
Assesses the Troy stories in BD and HF, exploring issues of cultural memory, authorization, and Chaucer's visual depiction of the traditional narrative.

Williams, Deanne.   Kent Cartwright, ed. A Companion to Tudor Literature (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), pp. 213-27.
Describes the "scope and range of Tudor responses to the Middle Ages," tracing the "literary afterlife" of Chaucer, Tudor "editions and redactions" of medieval romances, and "Elizabethan dramatizations of medieval history." Poetic and editorial…
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