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Identifies various ways Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" influenced Langland's "Piers Plowman" formally and thematically, and suggests in conclusion that, unlike other late medieval English writers, Langland and Chaucer "are interested in…

Comments on the studies included in a cluster of essays entitled "Chaucer’s Langland" (YLS 32 (2018) and, acknowledging the difficulties of establishing direct influence between Langland and Chaucer, describes a variety of dissimilarities between…

Tallies several differences and similarities between Chaucer's and Langland's works and worlds, comments on the relative prominence of Chaucer studies, and introduces the seven essays in a special section of YLS entitled "Chaucer’s Langland." For…

Explores connections between authority and production/distribution in Bodley 861. Briefly compares the Bodley scribe and scribe B in the Hengwrt CT, discusses Chaucer’s shorter poems and their dependence on external evidence, and discusses John…

Twenty-three essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors, all of which pertain to the study of medieval short narratives as they appear in multi-text manuscripts, addressing concerns such as "miscellaneity," paratexts, genres,…

Assesses the value of John Shirley's attribution of Adam Scriveyn to Chaucer in the only manuscript where it appears, arguing on the grounds of Shirley's “other statements about Chaucer" that the attribution is reliable and, on more general external…

Traces the emphases and manuscript contexts of Latin and vernacular versions of the Pyramus and Thisbe story from Ovidian origins to Chaucer's narrative in LGW, with emphasis on the comic or bathetic elements of Chaucer's account and on its place in…

Summarizes and extends recent scholarship on Guildhall scribe Richard Osbarn, and assesses his work, focusing on two TC manuscripts to which he contributed: San Marino, Huntington Library, MS HM 114, and London, British Library, MS Harley 3943.…

Examines the arrangement and composition of two of the booklets of the Findern manuscript (Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.1.6) for the ways they may be seen as "the record of interactions within the community of readers and scribes who had…

Examines the importance of visual images in late medieval manuscripts, and the significance of manuscript illuminators in the development and spread of English literary culture. Discusses illuminated manuscripts of Chaucer’s CT, and illustrated works…

Wonders how the transgender experience allows a “trans textuality” and offers an example of this proposed theoretical approach to manuscripts via a consideration of the Ellesmere manuscript.

"[R]evisits" the manuscripts of CT "in order to piece together the evidence of women's involvement in the consumption and circulation of this work," using "visualisations to map the social networks of women connected to the manuscripts and explore…

Offers six case studies of multi-text manuscripts to investigate "medieval concepts of authorship and . . . constructions of authority." Shows that Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Arch. Selden B.24 (including TC, PF, Truth, Mars, Venus, LGW, and…

Examines Cambridge University Library, MS Ff. 1.6 (the Findern manuscript), which includes extracts from PF and part of LGW, and considers its "taste for writings relating to female desire." Argues that "expression of female same-sex desires must be…

Examines "the paratextual, literary, historical, and physical ways print books serve as brokers of authority," including discussion of how William Caxton, in his editions of Chaucer, "inaugurates the printer as a necessary intermediary between the…

E-book designed as a classroom anthology, downloadable as a PDF, with Learning Outcomes and introductory backgrounds for each chronological period, and introductions to selected works and authors from "The Dream of the Rood" to Olaudah Equiano. The…

Observes that the glossary of Speght’s 1598 edition of Chaucer’s works lists "yape" for "jape"/"iape," meaning “trick,” “joke,” or sexual activity, but the 1602 edition does not; historical and contemporary word lists do not include "yape" unless…

Describes and reproduces sample illustrations from four Danish translations of selections from CT: those by Flemming Bergsøe (1943), illustrated by Poul Christensen; by Lis Thorbjørnsen (1946), illustrated by Ib Spang Olsen; by Jørgen Sonne (1950),…

Offers a "brief history" of Japanese translations of CT and focuses on the versions--complete and selected--by Kenji Kaneko, first published in 1917, revised and rereleased in 1923 and 1946. Explores the historical cultural conditions of Kaneko’s…

Translates ABC, Pity, Lady, Mars, Ven, Ros, Adam, Purse, Wom Unc, Compl d’Am, and MercB into Japanese, based on the Riverside edition, with an introduction and notes. In Japanese, with English abstract.

Explores cultural, stylistic, and personal aspects of translating CT into Portuguese verse, focused on making the work "readable . . . to the Brazilian readership" in detail and idiom, but also a "bit old-fashioned" and "familiar in a strange way."

Contemplates the pedagogical issues involved in confronting rape in Chaucer’s life and works, with emphasis on the life-records that pertain to Cecily Chaumpaigne--especially their ambiguities--and attention to the experiences of modern students and…

Sketches out timeline and details of Chaucer’s life and his works in a compelling, accessible narrative. The incorporation of Chaucer’s own texts throughout the chapters is especially useful.

Brief, illustrated summaries of the lives and works of writers, mostly from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. The opening chapter covers fifteen “Pre-19th Century” writers from Dante to Voltaire, arranged chronologically, with a section…

Provides a critical biography of Chaucer that tells “the story of his life and his poetry through places and spaces, rather than through strict chronology,” with a “General Prologue,” an “Epilogue,” and twenty chapters pertaining to, for example, the…