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Translates a portion of Astr (through Part 2.7) into Modern English with accompanying illustrations "re-drawn" from the manuscripts. The Introduction summarizes the nature, variety, and uses of astrolabes, describes Chaucer's text, and commends it as…

Surveys depictions of sexual activities and attitudes toward them in the literature of medieval Europe. Includes a brief life of Chaucer and recurrent comments on his works (see the Index), with a summary description of sexuality and scatology in…

Prose adaptation of KnT, abbreviated and simplified for a juvenile audience, with color illustrations by Marcin Piwowarski.

Surveys attention to Chaucer's influence upon Shakespeare, enumerating the references to Chaucer in all recent Arden Shakespeare editions and in various editions of "Troilus and Cressida" and of "The Two Noble Kinsmen." Shows that the attention is…

Comments on the importance of love as a topic in Chaucer's works, with particular attention to TC, SqT, and PF.

Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate this is an historical novel that features Chaucer.

Examines "the creative challenges for memory in a selection of established romances such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Orfeo, Emaré, and King Horn, including those of Chaucer and Malory, along with lesser studied, longer romances such as…

Item not seen. Publisher's information indicates that the volume includes discussions of two sections of HF, comparison of Chaucer's (LGW) and Shakespeare's accounts of the rape of Lucrece, and suggestions for university teaching of Chaucer and…

Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this volume of conference proceedings includes an essay entitled "De la Fée Morgane à la Femme de Bath de Chaucer"; no author indicated.

Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this is a translation into Japanese of the complete CT, based on the text of the Riverside Chaucer.

Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate this is a translation of TC into Japanese, with a translation of Anel, both based on the Riverside Chaucer.

Defines and illustrates the meanings of "limitour" and "limitacioun" as applied to friars in the late Middle Ages, clarifying licensing, territorial jurisdiction, and the authority to beg, preach, and hear confessions. Focuses on documents of the…

Compares Chaucer's heroine in MLT with her predecessor in Trevet, arguing that Custance's passivity, her prayers, and her divinely-aided escape from the "renegade knight" combine with other religious features of the tale to make it "a romantic homily…

Acknowledges the association of "lucre of vileyne" (PrT 7.491) with "turpe lucrum" (filthy lucre) found in the Vulgate 1 Timothy 3.8 and quoted in the Ellemere gloss, but specifies that the phrase, a "technical legal term" of canon law, was a matter…

Edits Jonathan Sidnam's rhyme-royal "paraphrase" of Books 1-3 of TC found in London, British Library, Additional MS 29494, with occasional bottom-of-the-page textual notes and an extensive Introduction (pp. 5-88) that is indexed, although the text is…

Challenges the notion that a documented rental fee paid by Chaucer may be related to the date of his birth.

Studies Chaucer's GP description of the Prioress, focusing on how he uses and adapts conventions of romance, style, and detail to produce humor.

Investigates the "portentous inexplicableness" of the Old Man in PardT, and suggests he is allegorical, even though no specific meaning is clear.

Offers evidence (rhymes and phonetic patterns in English and French) to indicate "Chaucer having pronounced 'iu' in French loanwords, with the stress on the first element of the diphthong." Further this "'iu' coalesced with earlier 'ew', 'iw', and,…

Suggests that the miller's name in RvT, Simkin, puns on Latin "simus," meaning "snub-nosed," offering classical examples of similar wordplay and identifying characters with similar names in classical comedy.

Offers evidence that "goddes boteler" was a "conventional epithet for Ganymede" and that the "most probable source" for Chaucer's of the phrase in HF and for his use of "stellifye" in the same context is Petrus Berchorius's moralization of Ovid.

Considers the eagle of HF "in the light of medieval expositions of the soaring eagle as an image of the flight of thought," focusing on the bird as an "intellectual symbol" and its flight as an "act of contemplation" as seen in Gregory's "Moralia in…

Identifies three references in the correspondence and diary of Reverend Stukeley to a portrait (or portraits) of Chaucer and to a proposed edition of the poet's works.

Locates comic irony in several religious references and allusions in MilT, especially as they help to characterize Alison, Nicholas, and Absolon; the "final irony" is that the Miller is himself unaware of this irony.

Reprints two poems about Chaucer (by e. e. cummings and Henry Wordsworth Longfellow) and fifteen twentieth-century essays or excerpts on CT by various authors, plus one previously unpublished essay: Paul E. Beichner's "Characterization in the…