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Robertson, Kellie.   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 63-80.
Argues that labor is a controlling characteristic of GP, by first introducing background material about the importance of work and the shortage of labor in the fourteenth century. Demonstrates that "Chaucer's narrative technique in the 'General…

Giancarlo, Matthew.   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 26-42.
Introduces the kinds of courts with which Chaucer would have been acquainted, organized into sections on house and law and one on game that end with readings of FrT and SNT. Discusses the range of courtly depictions, cataloguing "some of the…

Despres, Denise.   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 527-44.
Discusses iconography and pilgrimage, and Chaucer's investments in and depiction of the "power of images" through tales of CT, including GP, PrT, and PardT. Argues that "Chaucer demonstrates that devotional images . . . are inherently polymorphous…

Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome.   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 547-62.
Discusses space and Chaucer's connections to Britain, suggesting first that FranT is central to "Chaucer’s relation to Britain," which "can be discerned in a throwaway
line" from the tale. Surveys the landscape of Chaucer's Britain through…

Yeager, Suzanne M.   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 197-215.
Argues that Chaucer’s critique of "curiositas" as "the prevailing failure and motivation of medieval travel" is "successfully negotiated" by several late medieval travel authors. Concentrates on readings from travel accounts by Simon Simeonis and…

Nisse, Ruth.   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 166-83.
Surveys the extant Anglo-Hebrew authors, lost to Chaucer and his readers, which are, "nevertheless, a productive memory for his current readers." Catalogues a range of authors and genres, showing the flowering of the Jewish literary environment in…

Mallette, Karen.   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James nSimpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 184-96.
Discusses the framed narratives and their progression throughout the Mediterranean, emphasizing framed tales, especially in Italian, that "present narration as a high-stakes wager that may save a population in peril." By examining this Italian…

Kruger, Steven F.   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 147-65.
Questions “to what extent might late medieval Christian intellectual and historical engagements with Judaism be productive for readings of Chaucerian texts not only when Jews are directly represented but also in the absence of such explicit…

Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn, Melissa Mayus, and Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis.   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 494-526.
Reassesses "anti-clericalism," reframing what has been "a concept useful within very real limits" as a kind of inter-clerical polemic, as most of these examples of so-called anti-clericalism are clerically authored. Treats MkT and PardT as examples…

Gillespie, Alexandra.   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 81-97.
Reassesses D. S. Brewer’s claim about the relative paucity of the book in the fourteenth century, suggesting instead that "in Chaucer's time, new technologies and new social circumstances were making it easier, faster, and cheaper to produce and…

Akbari, Suzanne Conklin, and James Simpson.   The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 1-7.
Argues that every handbook or guide to Chaucer is invested in time. Demonstrates how the essays in this volume bring together noted Chaucerians alongside experts in other fields. Provides an overview of previous handbooks and guides to Chaucer, and…

Simpson, James.   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 126-43.
Focuses on Chaucer's rhetoric and presents a chapter targeted at students, with an "aim to persuade the student of the richness and literary fertility of Chaucer's rhetorical culture." Offers background of contemporary scholarship on Chaucer and…

Higgins, Iain Macleod.   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 620-35.
Examines "The Kingis Quair" and "The Testament of Cresseid," the 'two Scottish works that respond most fully' to Chaucer’s corpus, demonstrating how these poems rework Chaucerian verse and its framings for new and possibly subversive ends. Compares…

Sylla, Edith Dudley.   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 456-71.
Traces the work and influence of the "Oxford Calculators" (William Heytesbury, Thomas Bradwardine, Walter Burley, Richard Kilvington, Roger and Richard Swineshead, and John Dumbleton), demonstrating how Chaucer "might have picked up some of their…

Rigby, Stephen H., ed., with Siân Echard   Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2019.
Consists of fourteen essays and a calendar of life records by various authors, clarifying Gower's life and works in relation to the “intellectual culture of the social, religious, and political controversies of his day." No single essay focuses on…

Pike, David L.   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 351-67.
Maps out Dante's depiction of the infernal city and traces the "infernal mode of representation of urban experience," by suggesting that Dante describes the city
with an "urban variation on the vertical cosmos of the Last Judgment." Documents the…

McCabe, T. Matthew N.   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 563-79.
Discusses the "very novelty of Gower's claim to be a nationally significant, elite, literary author by examining specific articulations of this claim." Examining the implications of such a claim, McCabe argues for Gower's influence on English poetry…

Martinez, Ronald L.   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 325-50.
Traces the connections between Petrarch and Dante for Chaucer, while simultaneously showing the depth of Petrarch’s influence on Chaucer's verse. Discusses fame and Petrarch in ClT, MkT, and TC.

Johnson, Eleanor.   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 426-39.
Discusses the "the rise and coalescence of trespass law, both as a theory of legal relationality and a practice of litigation." Traces the effect of trespass law on other forms of English law and demonstrates the effect of this law on poetry.…

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…
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