Robbins, Rossell Hope.
Kibler, William W., ed. Eleanor of Aquitaine: Patron and Politician (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1976), pp. 147-72.
Surveys the density and intensity of French influence on the literature of medieval England, focusing on courtly romance and how its plots and "interest in love's finesse" affected the English tradition separately. Outlines some possible connections…
Although allegorical and historical justifications have been given for Griselda's suffering in ClT, the story is Chaucer's attack on the tyranny and injustice of her situation. In a different way, Webster condemns tyrannical persecution in the…
Barber, Charles,and Nicolas Barber.
Leeds Studies in English 21 (1990): 81-101.
Through a computer count of the syllabic length of 15,294 verses of CT, Barber challenges J. G. Southworth's hypothesis that unstresses final "-e" was not pronounced in Chaucer's verse. The results suggest that syllabic symmetry could have been…
Vulic, Kathryn.
Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Visual Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016), pp. 59-85.
Posits that the Paternoster diagram in the Vernon manuscript, transcribed in an appendix, as an example of a "supplementary text" that performs devotional work in dialogue with ParsT's call to prayer. Examines the visual and verbal structure of the…
Loomis, Dorothy Bethurum,
James L. Rosier, ed. Philological Essays: Studies in Old and Middle English Language and Literature in Honour of Herbert Dean Meritt (The Hague: Mouton, 1970), pp. 182-95.
Argues that Chaucer "was deeply influenced by the Platonism of the School of Chartres," focusing on how he and Alanus "treated the figure of Venus." Alanus presents Venus as "the efficient cause of creation," and while this view is mediated for…
Keyburn, Karen.
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1997): 861A.
"Second Nun and Her Tale" as prepared for the "Variorum Chaucer," based on the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts, with explanatory notes and critical commentary to 1994.
Vercoe, Elizabeth, comp.
New York: American Composers Alliance, 2021.
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this musical score includes "Qui bien aime" by Geoffrey Chaucer, i.e., the title of a French song cited in several manuscripts of PF before the roundel at PF, 680-92, here set to music, along with…
Kennedy, Beverly.
Lesley Smith and Jane H. M. Taylor, eds. Women, the Book and the Worldly: Selected Proceedings of the St. Hilda's Conference, 1993, Volume II (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1995), pp. 85-101.
Documents the manuscript evidence of the authenticity of six passages in WBP (44a-f, 575-84, 605-08, 609-12, 619-26, 717-20) and surveys justifications for their inclusion in various editions.
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…
Morse, Charlotte C.
Derek Pearsall, ed. Manuscripts and Texts (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1987), pp. 122-29.
Reviews the development of CT editing from 1960 onward. The "Variorum is designed to control and reassess secondary literature and to test Manly-Rickert (very reliable). Rejects Manly-Rickert's theory of early versions of CT and ClT. Reviews…
Forni, Kathleen.
Studia Neophilologica 70 (1998): 173-80.
The black-letter editions of Chaucer from 1532 to 1721 are "valuable books with worthless texts." However, their financial value may give some indication of their readers and their readers' socioeconomic status.
The medieval chivalric practice of ransom illuminates the preoccupation with double sense, surrogacy, and substitutions in TC. Working with the poem's depiction of character, its narrative structure, and its insistently metaphoric language, the…
Close analyses of grammar and diction, including shifts in verb tense, show a considerable range of both poetic role playing and distancing between author and speaker--self-mockery and travesty (Buk, For, Lady, Pity, Ros, Scog).
Surveys problems with critical editions that distort readers' ideas of medieval literature and indicates directions for the scholarly study of manuscripts. The article refers repeatedly to manuscripts of Chaucer and of Langland.
Yvernault, Martine.
Claire Vial, ed. 'Gode is the lay, swete is the note': Résonances dans les lais bretons moyen-anglais / Echoes in the Middle English Breton Lays (2014): n.p. (web publication).
Although courtly love, magic, and supernatural situations make up the framework of FranT, the role played by binding agreements, contracts, and consent in the Tale alters the traditional definition of magic. Claims that fourteenth-century society was…
Shimonomoto, Keiko.
Tokyo : Waseda University Enterprise, 2001.
Reprints the author's 1986 University of Sheffield M.A. thesis on second-person pronouns, forms of address, and use of the imperative in CT. Includes eight additional articles: four on Chaucer, three on Nicholas Love, and one on linguistic…
Heffernan, Carol Falvo.
Canadian Journal of Italian Studies 3 (1980): 72-80.
John Speir's claim that both poets use similes to promote "distinct visualization" in the service of allegory and realism is borne out by "The Divine Comedy" but not CT. Dante's similes produce visual accent, serving as ancillary devices within a…
Hafner, Mamie.
Dissertation Abstracts International 26.03 (1965): 1632A.
Studies "Christian phraseology" in troubadour verse, the poetry of Chrétien, the "Roman de la Rose," and TC, focusing on uses by the narrator, Pandarus, and Troilus in Chaucer's poem.
Yoon, Minwoo.
Medieval English Studies (Seoul) 5: 215-41, 1997.
Surveys representative examples of northern English dialect ("Alliterative Morte Arthure," RvT), Scottish Chaucerians (Henryson, Dunbar), and non-Chaucerian Scottish works (Barbour's "Bruce," "The Wallace") to identify common and distinctive…
Shimonomoto, Keiko.
Keiko Shimonomoto. The Use of Ye and Thou in the Canterbury Tales, and Collected Articles (SAC 26 [2004], no. 151), pp. 93-100.
Examines scribal uses of ye versus thou in manuscripts of WBP, excluding the so-called "additional" passages. Variants indicate that second-person pronouns were subject to individual manipulation for "interpersonal goals or creative effects."
