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Analyzes the metaphors, metonymies, and "metaphors based on metonymies" used in descriptions of love and of heart in CT, exploring the cultural dependence and/or universality of the figures, particularly differences between medieval and modern usage

Collection of essays reflecting contemporary topics in linguistic and literary research on the Middle Ages. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Studies in Middle English: Words, Forms, Senses and Texts under Alternative Title.

Describes the lives and accomplishments of some 100 international writers. The section on Chaucer (pp. 84-92) summarizes his life and career as a public servant, integrating discussion of his major works in chronological order and emphasizing CT,…

Objects to the labeling of the loathly "wyf" in WBT as a "hag," arguing that the latter term is inappropriate and tendentious, especially since the Tale lacks a description of ugliness found in its analogues.

Interrogates Chaucer's diminishment or elimination of Scottish, Irish, and especially Welsh aspects of his narrative materials in WBT, FranT, and MLT, arguing that he associated the Celtic fairy world with death, as it is also associated in "Sir…

Explores textual and lexical ambiguities in the scene of Arcite's mortal fall in KnT (I.2684–91), discussing "furie" (forty manuscripts read some form of fire), "pighte," and "pomel" (neither of which is lexically certain). Suggests that emending…

Contains nineteen essays by various authors, with an introduction by the editors, on literary and historical topics, Arthuriana, and women in the Middle Ages. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for "Magistra doctissima" under…

Explores the "design and regulation of real streets" in late medieval Britain, and "streets as symbolic of capital" in contemporaneous literature, art, and architecture. Includes comments on windows and doors in TC.

Examines the "artistic and ideological purposes" of the notion of a pilgrimage road in the "imaginary of the Middle Ages," focusing on late medieval England and commenting on the attention (or lack of attention) to the road in CT and the Ellesmere…

Uses the methodologies of urban studies and space studies to investigate the "cultural and cognitive aspects of medieval wayfinding," and comments on CT and the illustrations of the Ellesmere manuscript as evidence of how medieval travelers used and…

Twelve essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors explore the material and symbolic status of roads in medieval history and literature. The volume includes a bibliography and index. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search…

Examines works that focus on Queen Anne by Clanvowe, Maidstone, and Chaucer (LGW and PF). Claims that these works function "chronologically, thematically, and politically" as a means to articulate the female power and agency of Anne, giving her a…

Considers BD and the metaphor of chess, particularly the way in which the rules of the game are remediated in the action of the poem. Looks at gender-crossing in relation to BD, but transcends previous arguments focusing on the chess allegory.…

Discusses SNT as Chaucer's only hagiographical work to evaluate the medieval perception of art. Contrasts the medieval devotion to earthly relics in relation to St. Cecilia's desire to shed the physical and enter the spiritual, while paralleling her…

Considers the exchange of objects in the Zenobia/Cenobia story in MkT not as a punitive measure for pushing back on gender constructs or a validation of the Monk's blatant misogyny, but rather as a moment of empowerment.

Focuses on materiality and objects in PrT, specifically the corpse, the antiphon, and the "greyn," and their "transcendence of the miraculous object." Claims that these objects illustrate Carolyn Bynum's notion of material objects involved in…

Discusses Chaucer's thematic thread of accessibility of legal rights to women in FranT and PhyT. Dorigen, in FranT, and Virginia, in PhyT, are women trapped as objects of medieval law, or as properties whose control or outright ownership is the…

Argues that the power of WBT, though it is commonly regarded as a lai," comes from an underlying subversion by the use of fabliau, which makes the tale a "hybrid story." The "question of what women most want" has surprising affinities with the…

Collection of essays that represents multifaceted views of gender and material culture in late medieval France and England. For seven essays that pertain to Chaucer search for Medieval Women and Their Objects under Alternative Title.

Considers several factors (apocope, compounding, etymology, and metrical environment) in the presence or absence of final "-e" in Gower's and Chaucer's monosyllabic adjectives, clarifying Gower's relative regularity by identifying the paucity of…

Conducts a "systematic analysis of the synchronic spatio-temporal systems" in Astr, taking "deixis into consideration," defining terms, and analyzing the interactions of "pronouns, demonstratives, adverbs, tense forms, and modals," along with…

Includes papers from the eighth International Conference on Middle English, University of Murcia, Spain, 2013. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Approaches to Middle English: Variation, Contact and Change under Alternative Title.

Surveys the tradition of English "old word" and "hard word" dictionary- and glossary-making, locating Chaucerian compilations (e.g., Greaves, Speght, Urry, etc.) at the beginning of the tradition and tracing developments in practice into the…

Surveys the hard-word tradition of lexicography in Chaucer and Shakespeare studies, particularly in editions of their works, and suggests that new works are still needed to serve twenty-first-century users.

Examines "the semantics and pragmatics of nouns that denote gender and social status in Chaucer's literature, e.g., "knyght," "lady," "leche," "wyf '," focusing on MerT, FranT, ABC, and TC, but addressing most of Chaucer's works.