Discusses medieval scribal transmission and commercial book production in relation to the surviving copy of "The Tale of Beryn" and the "Beryn-Scribe." Examines the reception and transmission of the "Prick of Conscience" in late medieval England.…
Farrell, Thomas J.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 120.1 (2021): 93–129.
Contends that data from the Canterbury Tales Project have not been widely used in Chaucer studies, partly on account of misunderstanding the project's purpose and function. That function is to produce evidence through analysis of witness groups, not…
Edwards, A. S. G.
Notes and Queries 266, no. 1 (2021): 25.
Contends that Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 215 may be the manuscript referred to as "7574 Boethius's Consolat.of Philosophy, translated by Chaucer, 'imperfect,' 2s 6d" in the 1770 sale catalogue of London bookseller Thomas Payne, since it is…
Boffey, Julia.
Elizabeth A. New and Christian Steer, eds. Medieval Londoners: Essays to Mark the Eightieth Birthday of Caroline M. Barron (London: University of London Press, 2019), pp. 55-70.
Includes discussion of the location and implications for readership of Chaucerian materials found among the fascicles of MS HM 140: ClT, Truth, and a selection from Anel.
Singh, Devani.
Digital Philology 9.2 (2020): 177–98; 4 color illus.
Explains the important place in the tradition of Chaucer portraiture of John Speed's engraving made for Thomas Speght's 1598 edition of Chaucer's "Workes". Comments on relations with the manuscript portrait of Chaucer that accompanies Thomas…
Lynch, Kathryn L.
Chaucer Review 56, no. 2 (2021): 95–118.
Examines background of Katherine Lee Bates, author of "America the Beautiful," who was a medievalist before turning to poetry and American literary studies. Brings together her career as an Americanist and poet with her background as a medievalist,…
Kobayashi, Yoshiko.
Martha Driver, Derek Pearsall, and R. F. Yeager, eds. John Gower in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2020), pp. 231–46.
Considers why Gower's verse-epistle "In Praise of Peace" was included in William Thynne's 1532 edition of Chaucer's works and explores possible motives and collaborations in the process of editing the poem and the volume.
Considers the "temporal hybridity" of the Kelmscott Chaucer and the challenge it poses to classification. Neither strictly functional book nor decorative object, the Kelmscott mirrors the Middle Ages' abjectness and highlights medievalism's purchase…
A comprehensive Japanese translation of CT, collaborated upon by twenty-four scholars. Each tale has an introduction, translation, and supporting notes. In Japanese.
Henk, Antony.
SEDERI: Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies 31 (2021): 31–54.
Compares editorial decisions from a linguistic perspective in Thomas Speght's 1602 edition of Chaucer's works with Andro Hart's Middle Scots 1616 edition of John Barbour's "Brus" to assess the perception of the intelligibility of Middle Scots and its…
Argues that Chaucerian biographers and critics have both been horrified by the rape of Cecily Chaumpaigne and depicted it to reenforce Chaucer's masculinity. Traces how these critics and authors have fashioned Chaumpaigne into a courtly lady, whose…
Kennedy, Teresa A.
Helen Fulton, ed. Chaucer and Italian Culture (Cardiff: Unversity of Wales Press, 2021), pp. 217-40.
Argues that the dream vision aspects of HF and NPT can be read "through their shared preoccupations with writing, reading and problematic quest for 'authority' by vernacular texts." Addresses the importance of textual authority, allegory, and parody,…
Flood, Victoria.
Helen Fulton, ed. Chaucer and Italian Culture (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2021), pp. 169-92.
Examines the significance of the eagle as a "common symbol of empire in medieval political prophecy." Discusses how the "Dantean figure of the Eagle" in the "Inferno" is transformed by Chaucer into a "humorous--and human--personality" in HF.
Fulton, Helen.
Helen Fulton, ed. Chaucer and Italian Culture (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2021), pp. 91-120.
Presents examples from the "classical genres of chorography and topography" in analysis of ClT. Argues that Chaucer's "untypical use of chorography . . . draws attention to Italy's international trade routes" and reinforces the economic transactional…
Johnston, Andrew James.
Helen Fulton, ed. Chaucer and Italian Culture (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2021), pp. 145-68
Explores relationship between "astrology and governance," and Chaucer's ekphrastic descriptions of classical and Italian architectural and visual arts in KnT.
Sturges, Robert S.
Helen Fulton, ed. Chaucer and Italian Culture (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2021), pp. 120-44.
Focuses on TC's connections with Dante's "Convivio" and "Vita nuova." Although there is no "evidence for direct borrowing from the 'Vita nova,'" Sturges claims that Chaucer's and Dante's "sensory aspects of love" are similar in the three works,…
Robinson, James.
Helen Fulton, ed. Chaucer and Italian Culture (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2021), pp. 45-90.
Demonstrates "intertexuality" linking Chaucer with Dante's "Inferno," 10, and Boccaccio's "Decameron," 6.9. Argues for Chaucer's rich understanding of his Italian source material, which he uses "purposefully and playfully."
Fulton, Helen, ed.
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2021.
Collection of essays focusing on Chaucer's engagement with "Italian tradition" and his use and interpretation of Italian sources. For eight individual essays, search for Chaucer and Italian Culture under Alternative Title.
Rossiter, William T.
Helen Fulton, ed. Chaucer and Italian Culture (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2021), pp. 17-44
Emphasizes Chaucer's diplomatic experience in Italy to "show how Chaucer drew on the work of Petrarch and Boccaccio to experiment with fictionalised
forms of the ambassadorial process."
Chaghafi, Elisabeth.
English Literary Afterlives: Greene, Sidney, Donne and the Evolution of Posthumous Fame (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020), pp. 26-48.
Outlines the "origins of early modern traditions of 'lives of the poets' and biographical reading" of their works. Includes analysis of Thomas Speght's "Life of Geoffrey Chaucer" in his 1598 edition of Chaucer's Workes, commenting on revisions made…
Barrington, Candace, Lisa Lampert-Weissig, Katie Little, and Eva von Contzen.
New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy & Profession 2.1 (2021): 1–9.
Reports on contemporary cultural conditions for teaching medieval narratives about rape, and summarizes the contents of this issue of the journal. Includes brief comments on modern responses to "Cecily Chaumpaigne's charges against Geoffrey Chaucer…
Lampert-Weissig, Lisa, Katie Little, Eva von Contzen, and Candace Barrington
New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy & Profession 1.1 (2020): 1-5.
Describes the launch of a new electronic journal related to the study of Chaucer, "New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy & Profession," and summarizes the contents of the inaugural issue.
