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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 “how late medieval English poets used the properties of trees, from their branching forms to their growth cycles, to negotiate literary influence and construct poetic meaning." Includes a chapter on HF as well as one each on "Piers…

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.,…

Explores how Chaucer uses the "temporality of poetic form to explore the ethics of time" in CT, BD, and TC. Connects Chaucer's poetic techniques to broader philosophical and ethical discourses of Augustine and Boethius.

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…

Addresses shouting in Chaucer's narratives, focusing on "the hue and cry," which, "strikingly frequent," engages "with questions about the reliability of narratives, and also with problems of rape and sexual consent, misogynistic narratives and…

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…

Argues that the widow Ranter of Aphra Behn's "The Widow Ranter; or, The History of Bacon in Virginia" is "a 'reincarnation' of Chaucer's Wife of Bath in the New [W]orld." Behn's play "translates the wife . . . to colonial Virginia to negotiate both…

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…

Explores how Alexander Pope's posing of his "Women ben ful of Ragerie" as a Chaucerian work reflects eighteenth-century concerns about literary history and authenticity and "provides us with new ways of understanding how Chaucer was read,…

Collects twenty-three essays by various authors in linguistic, philological, and/or medieval studies. For two essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for Travelling Texts--Texts Travelling under Alternative Title.

Draws on data derived from "EDD Online"--a digitization of Joseph Wright's "English Dialect Dictionary"--to investigate "the role of Chaucer's language for 18th- and 19th-century dialects: of English, summarizing Chaucer's interests in dialects,…

Describes the political and aesthetic motives that underlie the four volumes of David Herd and Anna Pincus's "Refugee Tales" (2016–21), exploring their modeling on the variety, unity, and thematic concerns of Chaucer's panoramic short fiction in…

Affiliates the success, succession, and monumentalization of Chaucer in fifteenth-century literature with Lancastrian ascendancy and status, quoting and analyzing excerpts from Hoccleve, Lydgate, and Caxton.

Surveys the fiction of Abdulrazak Gurnah as a cross-cultural, internationalist writer. Lists Chaucer among global writers referred to in Gurnah's novels "Memory of Departure" (1987) and "Gravel Heart" (2017), briefly describes CT, observes that…

A children's book about a tale-loving bear named Chaucer.

Surveys the "brilliantly imaginative, formally experimental, and socially self-aware" poetry of early sixteenth-century English, with emphasis on its transitions from Chaucerian tradition and to Shakespearean tradition, the importance of Ovidian…

Locates eighteenth-century modernizations of CT in their history and political context. Points out that these texts are produced during a time when religious debates, the Glorious Revolution, the rise of the Hanoverian line of monarchs, and…