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Akbari, Suzanne Conklin.   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 368-85.
Considers Nicholas Trevet’s Anglo-Norman chronicle and discusses "the ways in which Trevet’s larger vision of history is reflected in Chaucer's writing." Catalogues the various models for history available to and used by Chaucer, including…

Rust, Martha.   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 98-125.
Uses the figure of Genius from Alan of Lille's "De planctu Naturae" to flesh out the role of the scribe for Chaucer and his works. Focuses on the role of the scribe not only in Chaucer's work and manuscripts, but also in contemporary scholarship, and…

Hsy, Jonathan   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 43-62. "This chapter also appears in a modified and expanded form in Jonathan Hsy, Trading Tongues: Merchants, Multilingualism, and Medieval Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2013), 27–57," where the title is "Chaucer's Polyglot Dwellings: Home and the Customs House."
Examines the way connections of polyglot London and England trace how "London's polyglot character informs Chaucer's fictive portrayal of urban living" in HF and ShT. Connects Chaucer’s work at the customs house and his house in Aldgate with HF and…

Akbari, Suzanne Conklin, and James Simpson, eds.   Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Offers a comprehensive, “stereoscopic,” and wide-ranging view of Chaucer’s culture and connections in a collection of essays focusing on current work in Middle English studies. For twenty-nine individual essays by various authors, search for…

Brown, Peter.   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 11-25.
Details the extant evidence for Chaucer's travel, both in England and abroad, noting that all known travel is for the court, if we define it as “the various royal households with which Geoffrey Chaucer was associated.” Explores countries and…

Briggs, Keith.   Notes and Queries 264 (2019): 201-2
Challenges the traditional "misleading" explanation of a Chaucer life-record, particularly the uses of the name Malin/a, reopening "the question of the Malin branch of Chaucer's ancestry." Observes that the name is used in RvT

Simon-Jones, Lindsey, Derrick Pitard, and Krista Sue-Lo Twu   Year's Work in English Studies 99 (2020): 292-312.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2018, divided into six subcategories: general, CT, TC, LGW, other works, and reputation and reception.

Echard, Siân, and Robert Allen Rouse, eds.   Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2017.
Presents over 600 entries on texts, critical debates, methodologies, cultural and historical contexts, and terminology on British literature from the fifth to the sixteenth century. Represents all medieval literatures, including Chaucer, and presents…

Amsel, Stephanie.   Studies in the Age of Chaucer 42 (2020): 469-540.
Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 232 items, plus a listing of reviews for 34 books. Includes an…

Asay, Timoithy M.   Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Oregon, 2014. Freely accessible at https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/18728; accessed November 22, 2022.
Argues that frame narratives make "language both a represented object and a representing agent" and "thus perfectly mimetic." Following both Dante and Boccaccio in using the device, Chaucer unsettles "easy assignations of identity" for his…

Toswell, M. J.   Year's Work in Medievalism 23 (2009): 62-72.
Includes comments on Earle Birney's use of Chaucerian motifs in his poetry and his writing about Chaucer's irony.

Clements, Pamela.  
Identifies parallels between CT and Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale," found particularly in the fictional "Historical Notes" that follow the main text of the novel. Notes the echo of Chaucer in Atwood's title and a single reference to Chaucer…

Steiner, Emily.   Mary C. Flannery and Katie C. Walter, eds. The Culture of Inquisition in Medieval England (Cambridge: Brewer, 2013), pp. 164-72.
Responds to the nine essays in this volume, exploring relations among inquisition, innovation, creativity, and imagination. Discusses LGWP as a poem that "seeks its inventiveness in law at the same time that it invites its readers to enjoy the…

Baghdikian, Sonia.   In Graham Nixon and John Honey, eds. An Historic Tongue: Studies in English Linguistics in Memory of Barbara Strang (New York: Routledge, 1988), pp. 41-48.
Draws examples from Bo and Elizabeth I’s translation of Boethius ("noght," "nowt," "nothing,” etc.) to show that the ambiguity of morphological negation disappears between Middle and Early Modern English while that of syntactical negation…

Figg, Kristen Mossler.   New York and London: Garland, 1994.
Assesses the nature and quality of Froissart's short poems: lays, chansons royales, pastourelles, ballades, virelays, and rondeaux, providing texts and commentary. The Introduction includes a survey of scholarship about Froissart's influence on…

LeFever, Henry Lewis.   Springfield, PA]: Walden Birch, 2011.
Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates that this volume of poetry includes two poems entitled "From Chaucer's The Franklin tale" and "The Franklin's tale told twice."

Strouse, A. W.   Brooklyn, NY: Punctum, 2015.
Autobiographical remembrance/contemplation by a gay medievalist in New York. Includes frequent references and allusions to medieval topics, including Chaucer, here described as "really the most important thing in the world."

Balestrini, María Cristina.   V Jornadas de Estudios Clásicos y Medievales "Diálogos Culturales,"La Plata, 5 - 7 de Octubre de 2011 (Buenos Aires: Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 2012), 13 pp.
Assesses the Troy stories in BD and HF, exploring issues of cultural memory, authorization, and Chaucer's visual depiction of the traditional narrative.

Williams, Deanne.   Kent Cartwright, ed. A Companion to Tudor Literature (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), pp. 213-27.
Describes the "scope and range of Tudor responses to the Middle Ages," tracing the "literary afterlife" of Chaucer, Tudor "editions and redactions" of medieval romances, and "Elizabethan dramatizations of medieval history." Poetic and editorial…

Munsterberg, Marjorie.   British Art Journal 18.1 (2010): 12-25.
Claims that writing about painting in England began with Chaucer's "definition of visual art" in PhyT 6.9ff., sketching classical and medieval background to Chaucer's description, particularly Pliny, Bartholomeus Anglicus, John Trevisa, and the Roman…

Hao, Tianhu   Anglo-American Studies (Korea) 35 (2015): 183-202.
Surveys translations and studies of medieval English literature produced in the People's Republic of China, commenting on the important role of Professor Li Fu-ning and describing translations, theses and dissertations, and critical books and essays.…

North, Richard.   Piero Boitani and Emilia Di Rocco, eds. Boccaccio and the European Literary Tradition (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2014), pp. 123-38.
Compares Chaucer's Pandarus with Boccaccio's Pandaro, arguing that "that Pandarus so loves Troilus that he consummates his passion vicariously on Criseyde, telling lies which kill the affair before the lady leaves Troy." The "cues" for this…

Musgrave, Thea, composer.   London: J. & W. Chester, 1960.
Sets MerB to orchestral music, sung by tenor; text in Middle English. A Special Oder Edition / Study Score was commissioned by the Saltire Music Group, apparently in 2009.

Berndt, Rolf.   Halle: Niemeyer, 1960.
Part 2 (pp. 225-379) prints the entire GP, based on the text of Manly and Rickert (1940), with phonetic transcription of lines 1-78; introductory commentary on its meter, stress patterns, syllabification, and rhyme techniques; and a comprehensive…

Bazire, Joyce.   Year's Work in English Studies 38 (1960): 92-105.
A discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1957.
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