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Identifies two echoes of PF 22-25 in John Hardyng's "English Chronicle in Metre," also mentioning the later use of the PF lines in Speght's 1598 edition of Chaucer's works.

Edits Oxford, Trinity College, MS 29, a moralized "compilation of reworked extracts from a wide range of sources, forming a history of the world beginning with the creation of man and breaking off incompletely at the time of Hannibal." The…

Identifies an allusion to the final couplet of CkT in an issue of the "Female Tatler" (12 September 1709) which presents the wife in the Tale a seamstress as well as a prostitute. Observes that several other near-contemporary allusions to the Tale…

Edits GP with rollover, pop-up glosses, pop-up explanatory notes, and links to audio files, images, translation, and background information.

Electronic "hypertext" versions of medieval texts often depend on the mediation of an expert reader. As an alternative, Remley outlines a system for producing electronic "reading texts" by prelemmatization, taking his electronic edition of CT as a…

Several hundred entries cover a wide range of historical and conceptual topics, individual words, important landmarks in the history of swearing, etc. Very few entries are given over to individual writers, although the entry on Chaucer is lengthy…

An Eskimo analogue to NPT is "The Raven and the Marmot" (a woman's tale, from Norton Bay).

Uses TC to show why Boethius "so compelled Chaucer's imagination" and demonstrates that the outcome of Chaucer's plot is "fitting" to the characters as established earlier in the poem. Focuses on Troilus's Boethian soliloquy and on Criseyde's…

Examines the characters of Griselda and Walter in ClT, with particular attention to the diction associated with them: "bountee" and "sadnesse" for Griselda and "shapen" for Walter. Also examines the words the characters do and do not use.

Commends the "harmony" of PardT and "its capacities to elicit responses," discussing it as a tale that is "eloquent," intelligent, significantly expressive, unified, and instructive." Includes contrasts with PhyT.

A novel with recurrent allusions to TC, including a five-book structure, epigraphs derived from Nevill Coghill's translation of TC, and overt references to the poem.

Explores the roots of medieval poetic theory in medieval rhetorical handbooks, and examines MilT, PrT, PhyT, MerT, and ClT) for evidence that Chaucer was influenced by the "received medieval poetic," even though his "narrative procedure . . . may be…

ShT reflects Chaucer's belief that "the dominance of a husband over his wife is too strict" in traditional marriages. Private games threaten to open out into public scandal.

Surveys the development of various fashions in late-medieval England in an attempt to explain the rising importance of haberdashers and why Chaucer may have included one among his GP Guildsmen. Also comments on the history and status of the…

Suggests that details of ShT may reflect historical incidents involving Pedro I ("the Cruel") of Castile, his various marital scandals, and a Spanish-English naval battle near Bruges. Comments on Chaucer's connections with Spain.

Adduces evidence from late-medieval maritime law and practice and from details in the GP description of the Merchant (compared with those of the Friar and the Clerk) to argue that the Merchant "has probably committed every money-crime in the books."

MS Bodleian Library Hatton 4, a combined hours and psalter, contains borders created by two Ellesmere limners.

Establishes that the suggestion of amorousness is implicit in the basting of (tight-fitting) sleeves in the "Roman de la Rose," Rom, and related illustrations.

Examines physiognomical traditions of noses in medieval "descriptio" in rhetoric books, noses of the Miller and Prioress in GP, noses in RvT, and noses in French romances and in later literature.

Reports on the Additional collection of medieval manuscripts from the British Library. Indexed manuscripts include literary works by Gower, Chaucer, Lydgate, and Nicholas Love, as well as historical works, noted for their imagery and illustration.

Discusses several possible influences and prototypes for Chaucer's Chauntecleer in NPT.

Prosodic analysis of the Middle English lyric "Alysoun" that identiies several commonplace parallels with the description of Alisoun in MilT.

Shows how the theme of common profit and the figure of tolerant Nature bridge the opposing views of the love among the high- and low-class birds in PF. Other contrastive pairs in the poem--the two sides of the gate, Priapus and Venus,…

Building on three generally acknowledged biblical motifs in MerT, Fumo suggests "the presence, indeed the dominance, of a fourth": the Crucifixion. Januarie's pain in marriage is associated with "Christ's suffering on the cross"; however, the…

Surveys medieval attitudes toward the women featured as protagonists in Chaucer's LGW and reads Chaucer's characters in light of these attitudes, observing that they vary as "not-so-good" women and "not-so-bad" ones, a reflection of the limits of…