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Describes two fifteenth-century Czech "responses" to Petrarch's tale of Griselda, one in Latin and its translation into Czech: "Historia infidelis mulieris" and "O Bryzelde rec zla o zle" (An Evil Tale of Evil Briselda). Shows how "the Bohemian text…

Provides context for the link between death and the tapping of a barrel in RvP, 3892-94, and for the relationship between the Pardoner and Kit the Tapster in the prologue to the "Tale of Beryn," mentioning other English analogues and describing…

Describes cultural contact and marital negotiations among Plantagenets, Bohemians, and Viscontis as background to Anne of Bohemia's recurrent presence in Chaucer's works, often as an imperial daughter and/or mediatrix, and often reflecting "Marian…

Twenty-nine essays devoted to the examination of poetry from the end of Old English verse through the Ricardian poets, including an introduction by the editors. For nine essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Oxford History of Poetry in English.…

Traces the writing of saints' legends in poetry in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, highlighting the innovative approaches taken by a number of poets, including Chaucer in SNT.

Emphasizes and traces a poetic method common to the CT that Windeatt explores in terms of the tales and their openings; their emphasis on time, chance, and astrology; and the generic hybridity that defines the Tales.

Catalogues the stylistic choices made by English poets in terms of meter, rhyme, and alliteration, before concluding with examples from Middle English poets, including Chaucer.

Highlights the enduring role of court poet for Chaucer, including his debts to "The Romance of the Rose" and the complicity of the narrator in TC. Discusses the creation of Alcestis in LGW.

Considers the specifics of the material form and transmission of Middle English poetry, touching on the idea of the anthology, along with examples. Concludes by tracing the dearth of evidence for pre-1400 transmission of Chaucer's works (along with…

Focuses on Chaucer, Gower, and Langland, demonstrating how these poets bring together philosophical and theological ideas as they craft their poetry. Considers the innovations of Chaucer and Gower in terms of literary and poetic theory.

Concentrates on the relationship between Old and Middle English poetic forms, especially during the transition from Old to Middle English, focusing on the "Soul's Address to the Body" and "The Ormulum" before concluding with a discussion of Chaucer's…

Offers a history of the fable in Middle English poetry, with examples from several poems, including discussing four extant fables. Concludes by showing the importance of the fable to the idea of the CT as a whole.

Examines the legacy and survival of fourteenth-century poetry and poetic innovations in the fifteenth century, emphasizing the influence of Chaucer and Gower, especially with regard to their shaping of the role of the poet.

Investigates late fifteenth-century English representations of Ottoman Turks and Rhodes, assessing Caxton's first-printed indulgence (and related ones), John Kay's "Siege of Rhodes," a Paston letter, and "The Turke and Sir Gawaine" for the ways they…

Explores the history and utilities of various forms of notebook, emphasizing their commercial roots and widespread uses, claiming in a brief section that Chaucer, on his 1372/73 trip to Florence, "must have seen" there "how plentiful, and cheap,…

Reconstructs "medieval people's experience of time as continuous, discontinuous, linear, and cyclical--from creation through judgment and into eternity," clarifying concepts of aging, eternity, planetary motion, time-keeping, apocalypse, etc.,…

Responds to Ad Putter, "Linguistic Change and Metre: The Demise of Adjectival Inflections and the Scansion of 'High' and 'Sly' in Chaucer, Gower and Hoccleve" (2022). Claims that the dropping of inflectional "-e" in "high" and "sly" in poetry by…

Analyzes the expression "wring one's hands" in TC, HF, MLT, and ClT, and other Middle English romances. Focuses on frequency, associated gestures, and the gender of the person performing the action. Finds that the expression often accompanies other…

Surveys and critiques "wench" as a term and a concept in medieval English texts and explores how "Chaucer's wenches [in CT] embody the term's developing signification of intersectional disadvantage connected to age, gender, labor, reproductive…

Uses the term "narrator" as a technical term to refer to "the contours of the narratorial functions and the textual voice as these are inscribed," focusing on "expansion of narratorial functions" in fifteenth-century English hagiography. Includes…

Considers various conditions of and approaches to pronouncing--or not pronouncing--final "-e" in Chaucer's verse, arguing that "Chaucer's final "-es" are a subjective quality of his verse, a series of phonological events structured not by metrical or…

Eleven tales of macabre fiction by various authors, loosely modeled on CT.

Describes the theory and practice of a course on "Medieval Fanfiction," focusing on an adaptation of WBPT—"The Seconde Tale of the Wyf of Bath" by Beth H [sic]. Includes a sample syllabus and sample handouts. The course readings include Chaucer's…

Offers "an imaginary conversation between myself and the texts that feature on a final-year Undergraduate Module that I teach in a UK university," a course called "ReMix: Chaucer in the Then and Now." The course readings feature TC, CT, Lavinia…

Compares the models of memory presented by the narrators of Chaucer's TC and Lavinia Greenlaw's "A Double Sorrow," her poetic adaptation of TC published in 2014. Argues that while Chaucer's narrator uses classical models of memory that involve the…