Baird, Joseph L.
Chaucer Review 2.3 (1968): 188-90.
Identifies the legal denotations of the word "secte" (suit at law) and argues that the Clerk's use of it when referring to the Wife of Bath (4.1170-71) indicates that his Tale is a reply to hers.
Ikegami, Keiko.
Yuichiro Azuma, Kotaro Kawasaki, and Koichi Kano, eds. Chaucer and English and American Literature: Essays Commemorating the Retirement of Professor Masatoshi Kawasaki (Tokyo: Kinseido, 2015), pp. 30–43.
Discusses SNT from several perspectives related to saints' legends, including the representation of the saint in SNT, the
etymology of Cecilia, the sources of SNT, the Second Nun as a narrator, SNT's position in CT, and Chaucer's attitude toward…
In "Ars Amatoria" and "Remedia Amoris," Ovid provides "habits of thought" that give medieval thinkers a vocabulary to describe "the operations of what we would today call ideology," or the conforming of the self to conceive social institutions as…
Depictions of the seasons in late medieval literature are loci for considerations of good and evil, mutability and human responsibility. The conventional representation of the seasons are reversed in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," The Townley…
Burns, Christopher, ed.
New York: Park Lane, 1996.
Selects a variety of poems by British and American writers, arranged thematically, including examples from GP: 1-18 (original and translation), and 445-76 (Wife of Bath), 165-207 (Monk), and 285-308 (Clerk) in modern English; all translations by the…
Horobin, Simon.
Wendy Scase, ed. The Making of the Vernon Manuscript: The Production and Contents of the Bodleian Library (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013), pp. 27- 47.
IIncludes brief mention of research linking Chaucer's scribe, Adam Pinkhurst, to Scribe B of the Vernon manuscript.
Windeatt, Barry
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 1 (1979): 119-142.
Scribal transcription of Chaucer's work offer line-by-line "active readings" through numerous intentional variations in word choice and syntax. Comparisons of the mss. yield inverse criticism which reflects the scribes' tendency for poetic cliche…
Mosser, Daniel W.
Journal of the Early Book Society 8 (2005): 215-28.
A combination of linguistic and paleographical evidence suggests a single scribe for Egerton 2864 who differs from the scribes of Additional 5140. Mosser documents his article with illustrations.
Samuels, M. L.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 5 (1983): 49-65.
Challenges R. V. Ramsey's argument (Studies in Bibliography 35 (1982):133-54) that Hengwrt and Ellesmere CT MSS are by different scribes. Hg, El, Trinity College Cambridge R.3.2,and the Cecil fragment are all by the same scribe, as changing scribal…
Demonstrates, "on the basis of handwriting and dialect correspondences (and aided in part by the evidence of colophons), that the scribe who wrote the copy of the 'Canterbury Tales' in Rylands English MS 113 also wrote the first 53 folios of Bodleian…
Horobin, Simon.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 31 (2009): 109-24.
Paleographical analysis of the text of Astr in Bodley MS 19 reveals that it was produced not by a professional astronomer, but by Stephen Dodesham, a professional scribe who became a Carthusian monk. Other features of the manuscript encourage…
Describes the presentations of selections from CT in nineteen fifteenth-century manuscripts, and explores what these presentations indicate about understandings of the tales.
Sweet, W. H. E.
Kathleen A. Bishop, ed. Standing in the Shadow of the Master? Chaucerian Influences and Interpretations (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010), pp. 28-45.
Sweet examines works by William Dunbar and Robert Henryson as well as lesser-known texts to argue that, like Chaucer, Lydgate had significant influence on the development of literature in Scotland.
Fox, Denton.
D. S. Brewer, ed. Chaucer and Chaucerians: Critical Studies in Middle English Literature (University: University of Alabama Press; London: Nelson, 1966), pp. 164-200.
Describes the limitations of the label "Scottish Chaucerians," and assesses Chaucer's influence on the works of Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, and Gavin Douglas, maintaining that they are chronologically "central" to the Middle Scots poetry of the…
Fradenburg, Louise O.
Roderick J. Lyall and Felicity Riddy, eds. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Scottish Language and Literature (Medieval and Renaissance). (Stirling/Glasgow: Department of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow, 1981), pp. 177-90.
Questions the nature and extent of Chaucer's influence on the "Scottish Chaucerians," since most medieval literature is simultaneously derivative and innovative. The "Kingis Quair" of James I (viewed here in the context of the Selden manuscript) is…
Pace, George B.
Modern Language Quarterly 26 (1965): 369-74.
Describes the medieval tradition of representing the scorpion as a figure of female sexuality and explains how this underlies the depiction of Fortune as a harlot and a treacherous "woman-visaged scorpion" in MerT 4.2057-62.
The source for SumT 2253-79 can be found in the medieval notion of the "wheel of the twelve winds," where each wind (depicted in manuscript art as a "spoke") ends in the mouth of a human face. Such a motif was associated not only with atmospheric…
Christophersen, Paul.
English Studies 45.1-6 [Supplement] (1964): 146-50.
Scans two lines of GP (49 and 173), "usually felt to be awkward," arguing that in light of comparable Middle English examples the syllable counts and stress patterns of these lines are consistent with the "iambic-decasyllabic theory."
Knox, Norman.
Austin Wright, foreward. Six Satirists (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1965), pp, 17-34.
Explores relations between the literary-critical concepts of satire and irony (both verbal irony and situational or philosophic irony), identifying specific instances in PardT, GP, the juxtapositioning of tales and tellers, and more. Replete with…
