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Search for the title of this volume under Alternative Title for individual essays that pertain to Chaucer.

Argues that TC "gains psychological interest and what may be called a novelistic effect" through adaptation of the "to do and to suffer" topos. Troilus is "a man of passion who suffers," Pandarus is "a man of action who contrives," and Criseyde…

For ten essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Acts of Interpretation under Alternative Title.

Ten essays by Patterson on historical criticism, teaching medieval studies, Clanvowe, Hoccleve, Lydgate, Chaucer, Saint Francis, etc.; nine of the ten essays are reprinted. For the one essay published here for the first time that pertains to Chaucer,…

Palaeographical differences between the hands of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts of CT and of Additional 35287 are more compelling than are the similarities. Horobin suggests that Pinkhurst "was not Chaucer's personal copyist" and focuses on…

A petition in the hand of Pinkhurst requesting that a permanent deputy be appointed to relieve Chaucer of his duties as controller of the wool custom establishes their connection in 1385. However, codicological evidence suggests that the poet "was no…

Presents and discusses tabular data from the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts of CT, copied by Adam Pinkhurst, to show how "codicological and palaeographical context" can affect orthography and abbreviation in late medieval English manuscripts.

The author addresses the question whether Chaucer had Adam Pynkhurst in mind when berating his scribe Adam for his sloppy work and, on the basis of palaeographical evidence, seeks to determine whether Pynkhurst's performance improved afterwards. To…

Exemplifies how metrical phonology ("the linguistic forms that fill out metre") supports A. S. G. Edwards's claim (in "Chaucer and ‘Adam Scriveyn,' " MÆ 81 [2002]) that Chaucer may not have written the lyric Adam. In line 3, "longe" and "lokkes" scan…

Associates Adam with Dante's "counterfeiter," Adam of Brescia. The two characters share a name, the same thematic occupation, and a disease: scale.

Advocates "a book historical approach to digitized texts," seeking "to promote a codicology of the 'digital' medieval book," exposing various problems and inconsistencies in the uses of metadata in digital medieval studies. Refers to Adam and to TC…

Argues that "fader" in the first line of Gent refers to prelapsarian Adam, evidence of Chaucer's "modest egalitarianism."

Adam is a more complex work than generally thought, evoking Adam the "first father" and "the earthly instrument of chaos and capriciousness." The scribe's "long lokkes" link him to Chaucer's other prideful, foppish characters. The threatened…

Explores the juxtaposition of the accounts of Lucifer and Adam in the opening of MkT (7.1999-2014), surveying medieval theological and Old and Middle English literary traditions of Adam's time in hell or, alternatively, limbo, and arguing that…

Contrasts medieval Augustinian views of translation with those of modern translation theory and practice, applying the former to the adaptation/translation of CkT found in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 686. Argues that the Bodley scribe…

Challenges various assumptions about fundamental differences between oral and literate composition, assessing various features of folktale, drama, and narrative in early English culture. Cites MilT as an example where "legend" becomes a short story,…

In determining Chaucer's plan for CT, too much attention has been placed on the Ellesmere and Hengwrt manuscripts at the expense of the other eighty-one manuscripts, where the order of the tales may differ. In Ad3 (British Library MS Additional…

Adds to the group of manuscripts identified by Carl Grindley in 1995 (one of which was a concordance to the works of Chaucer), two more written in the same hand: MSS 621 and 622. The former is on the grammar of Robert of Gloucester, the latter on…

A review article.

Describes the tradition of the rhetorical topos of the abandoned lover's apostrophe to the bed, considering the "gendered" fetishism of Ariadne's address in LGW, the description of Alceste in LGWP, Troilus's address to the empty house in TC, and Dido…

Reviews scholarly treatment of the subject with reference to Chaucer and Gower.

Anayzes scribal activity in medieval English administrative documents, and contends that Adam Pinkhurst, and other English scribes, may have been involved in "both literary and documentary work."

On Chaucer's use in GP of the adversative conjunction "but."

Warner examines affiliations of the London Church of St. Thomas of Acre with mercantile interests that, in turn, help to clarify features of MLT, including its concerns with merchants, with the Crusades, and with legal discourse. MLT also explores…

The article assesses the range of function and the frequency of "thus" in representative samples of English poetry from Old English through the twentieth century. Data derived from electronic searches (1000-line samples) confirm relations between…