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Includes twenty essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors, examining textual, contextual, aesthetic, and cultural issues that relate to a wide variety of English lyrics from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century. For three essays…

Argues that three lyric moments in Book II of TC (Antigone's song, the lay of the nightingale, and the dream of the eagle) "distil the complexity of Criseyde's
inner deliberations," show “how Criseyde's choice to love is inflected by the…

Analyzes the form and presentation of John Lydgate’'s "Fifteen Joys and Sorrows of Mary," reading it as a bridge between the experiences of poetry and devotion, i.e., for the ways it "relishes the devotional and imaginative possibilities offered by…

Transcribes a version of Lydgate's "Thoroughfare of Woe" from London, British Library, Additional MS 60577 (the "Winchester anthology") and discusses it in light of other versions, commenting on it as "an extended meditation on a proverbial…

Surveys evidence for the influence of Chaucer on Tolkien and adds comments on his impact on Tolkien's "“scenes of common life in the inns and in the figures of the innkeeper and the miller."

Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this sequel is written in modern English verse.

Traces elegiac, tragic, and pseudo-historical traditions in late medieval English narratives of Troy, arguing that they are all "anti-Virgilian, and therefore anti-imperialist" and "also somber, monitory, skeptical and intimately sensitive to the…

Examines "how Middle English writers appropriated different forms and figures of friendship in their discussions, critiques, and activations of friendship," describing modifications of classical, biblical, Boethian, and humanist models, with…

Explores Chaucer's depictions of women in LGW and Christine de Pizan's illustration of women in Cité, demonstrating how "recent work in cognitive science, which studies how humans create categories," shows that "both Chaucer and Christine are…

Argues that Ovidian influence on "the literary fantasy of erotic and poetic mastery" draws on a "model established in Ovid's 'Amores'," tracing “a "shared heritage" ranging from Andreas Capellanus, Chrétien de Troyes, Petrarch, Chaucer, and…

Argues that Chaucer’s "literary re-novation" of the Trojan source material, enacted in TC and theorized in HF, "is a matter of the purification and hybridization of foregoing traditions," terms derived from Bruno Latour. Explores the relations…

Considers Chaucer's writings and their Italian influences, arguing for a view of Chaucer's poetry and its form over time, tracing "form as an object of discovery, rather than of recovery, and reading as a way of actively participating in the history…

Explores the "difficulties" Chaucer encountered in translating Latin and continental works into English poetry and various verse forms, surveying complete works such as Bo, Rom, ClT, Mel, Ven, etc., and passages from various sources in larger works…

Studies "ancient Rome as a major theme in the works of late medieval English poets": Chaucer, Gower, Langland, Lydgate, and the anonymous authors of "Stacions of Rome" and the interpolated "Metrical Mirabilia." Chapter 3, "Heroic (Women) in Chaucer's…

Discusses LGW alongside Middle English romance and an "hermeneutic tradition stretching from Jerome and Alan of Lille." Argues through these intersections for a mode of interpretation that centers on female desires, including silenced narratives of…

E-book facsimile of London, British Library, MS Sloane 1098, which includes CYT, 1428–71.

E-book facsimile of London, British Library, MS Sloane 1009, which includes Mel.

E-book facsimile of London, British Library, MS Sloane 320, which includes CYT, 1428–81.

Reviews how, in ten manuscript witnesses, the sixty-eight stanzas of "Letter" are misordered, in four distinct ways, three of which stem from collation errors. Though "unfortunate" for the poem, the errors "provide another few data points" regarding…

E-book facsimile of London, British Library, MS Sloane 1723, which includes CYT, 1428–81.

Confronts as an "orthographic paradox" Scribe B’s uses of "Þt," arguing that the "short form is not specific to the orthography of the exemplar but generic to all variants" of the word "that."

Includes discussion of the version of ParsT in Longleat, MS 29, a compilation of devotional works where Chaucer's name is "cut from the tale and the work presented in an unambiguously religious context."

Surveys the critical history of NPT, including the scant comments focused on the tale between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. Argues that the "tale's interest in direct experience acts as means of liberations from the plethora of discourses…

Discusses the Prioress’s antisemitism in PrT within the context of late medieval religious feeling, in order to "understand it from within so as more effectively to analyze it." Traces "the condensation of a complex set of antisemitic ideas,…

Catalogues the contours of criticism of the Pardoner in PardT, including critical praise of the tale’s alleged “superiority as a tale.” Argues that the pilgrims' revulsion toward the Pardoner is rooted in his homosexual identity, which is…