Ramson, W. S.
A. P. Treweek, ed. Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association 1969. Proceedings and Papers of the Twelfth Congress Held at the University of Western Australia, 5-11 February 1969 ([Sydney]: AULLA, 1970), pp, 456-76..
Accepts that much fifteenth-century admiration of Chaucer praises his rhetoric and "ornate eloquence," but explores comments that convey wider, more sophisticated appreciation of his stylistic range and philosophical depth, considering comments by…
Lozowski, Przemyslaw.
A. Pajdzinska and P. Krzyzanowski, eds. Przeszlosc w jezykowym obrazie swiata (Past in the Linguistic Picture of the World). (Lublin: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej, 1999), pp. 25-50.
Cognitive linguistic analysis of Chaucer's uses of "meten" and "dremen," arguing that the two words are not synonymous as is usually assumed. In Polish.
Lawler, Traugott.
A. S. G. Edwards, ed. Middle English Prose: A Critical Guide to Major Authors and Genres (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1984), pp. 291-313.
Summarizes the last twenty years' scholarship on Bo, Mel, ParsT, and Astr, with bibliography and desiderata.
Edwards, A. S. G.
A. S. G. Edwards, Vincent Gillespie, and Ralph Hanna, eds. The English Medieval Book: Studies in Memory of Jeremy Griffiths (London: British Library, 2000), 101-12.
Evidence from late-medieval English verse collections indicates that the conception of an individual author's corpus was slow developing, not crystalizing until the 1532 printing of Chaucer's Works. Earlier manuscript collections of Chaucer (and…
Mooney, Linne R.
A. S. G. Edwards, Vincent Gillespie, and Ralph Hanna, eds. The English Medieval Book: Studies in Memory of Jeremy Griffiths (London: British Library, 2000), pp. 113-34.
Adds to the list of thirteen manuscripts attributed to the "Hammond" scribe another manuscript: BL Add. MS 29901. Long known for his Chaucerian affiliation, the scribe is now also affiliated with the officers of Arms, helping to explain his interest…
Blake, N. F.
A. S. G. Edwards, Vincent Gillespie, and Ralph Hanna, eds. The English Medieval Book: Studies in Memory of Jeremy Griffiths (London: British Library, 2000), pp. 135-53.
Critiques Thomas F. Dunn's analysis of Cx2 and extends it, describing the book's composition and comparing Cx2 with Cx1. Suggests a possible scenario for the preparation of Cx2, discussing the role of the unknown manuscript (designated Y by Dunn) and…
Partridge, Stephen.
A. S. G. Edwards, Vincent Gillespie, and Ralph Hanna, eds. The English Medieval Book: Studies in Memory of Jeremy Griffiths (London: British Library, 2000), pp. 51-87.
Summarizes the manuscript information pertinent to The Cook's Tale and The Squire's Tale, focusing on scribal confrontations with their fragmentary state, including continuations and, especially, gaps and notes. Evidence suggests that the notes and…
Rogers, H. L.
A. Stephens, and others, eds. Festschrift for Ralph Farrell (Bern: Lang, 1977), pp. 185-200.
TC opens in "high style" comparable with Virgil's "Aeneid" or Milton's "Paradise Lost." This style creates an epic frame for the poem which is sustained by the correlation of Troilus the lover with Troilus the warrior. Donaldson is wrong in…
Machan, Tim William.
A.N. Doane and Carol Braun Pasternack, eds. Vox Intexta: Orality and Textuality in the Middle Ages. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991), pp. 229-45.
Questions the role of orality in the recording and transmission of Middle English texts, suggesting that various attitudes and techniques of oral improvisation have left residues in these texts and that modern editors should use oral models. Draws…
McIntosh, Angus, M. L. Samuels, and Margaret Laing.
Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1989.
Eighteen essays on dialects, scribes, transmission, word geography, and related topics. Only one essay has not been previously published: Margaret Laing's "Linguistic Profiles and Textual Criticism: The Translations by Richard Misyn of Rolle's…
Clancy, Gertrude and Joseph.
Aberystwyth: Northgate, 1993.
Murder mystery which features Chaucer, pilgrims from CT, and historical figures, cast as a series of narratives told while the pilgrims pause at the Priory of Saint Innocents.
Kelly, Henry Ansgar.
Abigail Firey, ed. A New History of Penance. Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, no. 14 (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008), pp. 239-317.
Describes two late medieval penitential treatises--John Burough's "Pupilla oculi" (late fourteenth century) and William Lyndwood's "Provinciale "(early fifteenth century)--discussing their influence on Chaucer's understanding of the sacrament in…
Barrington, Candace, and Jonathan Hsy.
Accessus: A Journal of Premodern Literature and New Media 2,2(2015): n.p.
Reflects on the "Global Chaucers" project, which creates a forum for world-wide nonanglophone reworkings of Chaucerian material. Presents challenges and goals for future projects in response to scholars' diverse interests and expanding discoveries.
Zarins, Kim.
Accessus: A Journal of Premodern Literature and New Media 4.1 (2017): 1-63.
Interprets the Pardoner as an intersex person, taking his sexuality literally rather than figuratively, a matter of variation rather than lack. Clarifies these concepts in the history of science and the history of Chaucer criticism, and compares the…
Buckmaster, Dale, and Elizabeth Buckmaster.
Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 12.1: 113-28. , 1999.
Reviews criticism of ShT as it relates to the history of accounting, arguing that Chaucer scholars would benefit from deeper familiarity with the subject. In Chaucer scholarship, descriptions of historical accounting practices are less precise and…
Parker, R. H.
Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 12.1: 92-112, 1999.
Documents Chaucer's knowledge of medieval accounting practice, explaining the principal-agent relation of the Reeve and his lord in GP and discussing debt in the description of the Merchant. Examines the role of accounting in ShT and demonstrates…
After a full review of criticism, Savoia explores Chaucer's use of motifs found in other romances. KnT exploits traditional romance only to transcend it, setting the "romance" of Palamon in the perspective provided by the "tragedy" of Arcite and…
Discusses the work of J. B. Severs, the manuscript tradition of Petrarch's Griselda narrative, and the form in which it would have been accessible to Chaucer.
Chaucer scholarship provides an example of the need for the correction and reassessment of texts, authorship, chronology, and influences on Middle English literature.
Although there is little doubt that Chaucer is a medieval poet, his emphasis on the real world in CT and his use of temporal and reality-based allusions point to a Renaissance influence.
Gomez Lara, Manuel J.
Actas del V Congreso de AEDEAN (Oviedo: Alhambra, 1983), pp. 189-201.
Reflecting social contradictions involved in the love relationship in TC, Criseyde's direct speech presents her inner contradictions, transmitted through direct statement and complex "symbology."
Mertens-Fonck, Paule.
Actes du Congres d'Amiens 1982. Societe des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Superieur (Paris: Didier, 1987), pp. 41-51.
In GP, the pilgrims seem to be arranged symmetrically in two groups of ten on both sides of the central group formed by the five guildsmen and their cook. Each group of ten falls into subgroups of two, three, or four, held together by a similarity…
