Describes hay as a symbol of ephemerality, materiality, and avarice in FrT and argues that "the summoner's urging his companion (a fiend) to seize a cart of hay . . . draws him closer to the very substance that symbolizes his own sinful propensities…
Differences in prose style, in syntactic and conceptual organization, and in levels of technical expertise between Astr and Equat indicate that Chaucer did not write the latter. Equat shows more skill in calculation, but Astr demonstrates more…
Logan, Harry M., and Barry W. Miller.
Sarah K. Burton and Douglas D. Short, eds. Sixth International Conference on Computers and the Humanities (Rockville, MD.: Computer Science Press, 1983), pp. 384-90.
A KWIC concordance of Chaucer's BD was produced on the IBM 4341 with a statistical analysis of the verbs on PDP 11/34 and VAX 780, using UNIX. Analysis of the subject-verb relationships, according to Case Grammar Theory (identifying participants as…
Serrano Reyes, Jesús L.
Ana María Hornero and María Pilar Navarro, eds. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of S.E.L.I.M. (Zaragoza: Institucion Fernando el Catolico (CSIC), 2000),
Chaucer's sources for HF included not only books but also a visit to Catalonia. Serrano Reyes observes parallels between Chaucer's Lady Fame and the text of a Catalan virelay, which was sung by pilgrims to the Virgin of Montserrat.
Describes eighty-eight manuscripts and fragments that include "all known copies of Chaucer's work," except CT and "a few stray lyrics and short poems." Excludes Equat and apocrypha, although these, along with portraits of Chaucer, are discussed in…
Seymour, M. C.
Aldershot, Hants: Scolar Press, 1997.
Describes fifty-six manuscripts of "The Canterbury Tales," providing detailed contents and collations, plus briefer comments on binding, decoration, glosses, rubrics, scribes, and provenance. Follows Manly and Rickert's classifications of the…
Argues that two of Chaucer's emphases in SqT modify source material from Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" and thereby undo the "binary divide between humankind and animal kinds." The "falcon's species vacillation" and Canace's "cross-species…
Li, Xingzhong.
Anne Curzan and Kimberly Emmons, eds. Studies in the History of the English Language II: Unfolding Conversations (Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004), pp. 315-41.
Statistical evidence--including stress patterns, line divisions, pauses, missing and extrametrical syllables, and syntactical inversion--from Chaucer's octosyllabic lines corroborates a proposed prototype of iambic tetrameter and encourages us to…
Owen, Charles A.,Jr.
Chaucer Review 16 (1981): 60-75.
Chaucer shows keen awareness of children--they are not merely miniature adults--and their relationship to their parents, as is clear in GP, FranT, ManT, PrT, SumT, MkT, WBT, PhyT, ClT, and especially Astr.
As a compilatio, CT is an experiment with a variety of popular narrative genres in which the limitations and possibilities of each genre are illuminated.
Fletcher, Harris.
Notes and Queries 211 (1966): 254.
Identifies a reference to the Wife of Bath's equation of friars and incubi (WBT 3.865-80) in Richard Crakanthorp(e)'s "Introductio in Metaphysicam" (1619).
Bratcher, James T.
Notes and Queries 208 (1963): 210-12.
Quotes and translates an analogue to the window scene of bottom kissing in MilT, recorded by folklorist Juan B. Rael as "La mujer y los tres amantes," collected by oral transmission from Félix Pino in New Mexico in the 1930s.
Reimer, Stephen R.
Edmonton: University of Alberta, 1996.
Lists a variety of items (some annotated) that pertain to the study of Chaucer. Eighteen topical sub-headings address social and literary contexts, as well as critical studies of Chaucer's works.
Middle English version of GP [Skeat edition], accompanied by numerous b&w reproductions of woodcuts from editions of CT by William Caxton (1484), Wynkyn de Worde (1494), and Richard Pynson (1526). Includes a seven-inch phonograph recording (33 1/3…
An alphabetical dictionary that lists people, personifications, and allusions (direct and indirect) in Chaucer's works, providing brief identifications and exhaustive citations of occurrences. Entries for sources, such as the Bible, Boccaccio, Dante,…
Magoun, Francis P. Jr.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.
Identifies and describes geographical names and places used by Chaucer or evidently known to him. Arranged alphabetically, the dictionary lists names, describes the places, and their occurrences in Chaucer's works, offering etymologies for British…
Davis, Norman,and Douglas Gray, Patricia Ingham, and Anne Wallace-Hadrill.
Oxford: Clarendon, 1979.
A glossary based largely on the Tatlock and Kennedy "Concordance." It does not go beyond A of Rom, nor does it cover the "Equatorie." Different meanings are cited by line references; etymologies are provided; there is a useful introductory note on…
Fisher, John H.
Chaucer Newsletter 11:1 (1989): 1, 4.
Presenting evidence set forth by Pamela Robinson, J. D. North, and D. J. Price, Fisher argues that Peterhouse MS 75.1 of "Equat" is a Chaucer holograph and suggests tantalizing biographical implications.
Frost, William.
Notes and Queries 224 (1979): 104-05.
In TC, 5.804, Diomede is said to be "of tonge large," a phrase that perhaps owes a debt to the "Aeneid" (9.338), where Drances is described as "largus opum et lingua melior." Koch's view in "Chaucers Belesenheit in den romischen Klassikern" that…
Howard's "Complaint of a diyng louer refused vpon his ladies iniust mistaking of his writyng," a poem of eighty-two lines first published in "Tottel's Miscellany" (1557) and here reprinted, is a "refreshingly renewed" late example of a courtly love…
In TC 5.543, the use of the participle "queynt" (quenched) may have been meant by Chaucer as a pun on the noun "queynt" (pudendum). Although the pun may have been intentional, it is irrelevant to the passage in which it appears, syntactically…
