Staley, Lynn.
Jenny Adams and Nancy Mason Bradbury, eds. Medieval Women and Their Objects (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017), pp. 97-122.
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…
Describes the rich Bohemian culture that Anne brought with her to England in 1381 and suggests various ways Chaucer may have been influenced by the connection with Bohemia. In the original version of LGWP, references to Anne indicate the extent to…
Bowers, Bege K., and Mark Allen, eds.
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2002.
More than 3,200 annotated entries, compiled and edited from the annual bibliographies published in Studies in the Age of Chaucer, newly arranged and cross-listed in topical categories. Includes author and subject indexes.
Allen, Mark, and Stephanie Amsel, eds.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016.
Includes 4,632 annotated entries, compiled and edited from the annual bibliography reports published in SAC, newly arranged and cross-referenced in categories that reflect changes in the reception and teaching of Chaucer and Chaucerian scholarship.…
Ransom, Daniel J.
T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer, eds. "Seyd in Forme and Reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio Press, 2005), pp. 205-15.
Offers adjustments or expansions to explanations of several of Chaucer's allusions: the labors of Hercules, Lucia, Xantippe, Chrysippus, a number of place names, etc.
Boffey, Julia.
English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700 05 (1995): 1-17.
Examines the layout and annotation of some of the sixteen surviving manuscripts of TC, focusing on Bodleian MSS Rawlinson Poet 163 and Selden B.24. Repetition of headings and glosses may indicate that some parts of TC existed as discrete fragments…
Nolcken, Christina von.
Andrew Galloway and R. F. Yeager, eds. Through a Classical Eye: Transcultural and Transhistorical Visions in Medieval English, Italian, and Latin Literature in Honour of Winthrop Wetherbee (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009), pp. 239-66.
Assesses the Miller in the historical context of clerical responsibilities and the Wycliffite translation of the Bible. MilT is comic, but its narrator is "deadly serious about furthering the cause of lay intellectualism and the Wycliffites'…
Wenzel, Siegfried.
Notes and Queries 241 (1996): 134-36.
An exemplum in Oxford Bodleian Library MS Bodley 859, from "Distincciones," no. 118--attributed to John Bromyard (ca. 1350)--is the earliest analogue to PardT.
The reference in WBT to the husband who "pissed on a wal" recalls similar phrases in an oath of King David (1 Kings 25:22, 34). The Biblical allusion is ironic, occurring in the context of the story of Abigail, a model of forebearance in dealing…
Cauthen, I. B., Jr.
Notes and Queries 203 (1958): 248-49.
Locates a previously unnoticed allusion to MilT 1.3638-39 in Samuel Harsnet's "A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures" (1603), perhaps recalled from memory.
Grennen, Joseph E.
Romance Notes 8 (1966): 109-12.
Argues that aspects of the beginning of MerT (including January's ill health, the names Placebo and Justinus, etc.) may have been inspired by details and sentiments found in "Livre du Chevalier de la Tour-Landry."
Yamamoto, Toshiki.
Hisao Turu, ed. Reading Chaucer's Book of the Duchess. Medieval English Literature Symposium Series, no. 5 (Tokyo: Gaku Shobo Press, 1991), pp. 244-67 (in Japanese).
Relates the dream vision in BD to the tradition of the religious vision and the speeches of the Knight in Black to the resurrection theme.
Clark, Cecily.
English Studies 62 (1981): 504-505.
The use of regional dialects in RvT and the "Second Shepherd's Play" indicates a sporadic literary exploitation of dialect differences in the fourteenth century and implies an ability, at least among the educated, to classify the different dialects…
Wurtele, Douglas (J).
A. E. Christa Canitz and Gernot R. Wieland, eds. From Arabye to Engelond: Medieval Studies in Honour of Mahmoud Manzalaoui on His 75th Birthday (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1999), pp. 93-111.
Surveys Chaucer's uses of physiognomic detail in descriptions of the Canterbury pilgrims, especially in GP. Chaucer uses these details in various, often ironic ways.
Friedman, John Block.
Studies in Philology 78 (1981): 138-52.
As contrasted to W. C. Curry's "humoral physiognomy," another type, "affective physiognomy," involving such details as movement of eyes or eyebrows and color of cheeks, is restricted in use to aristocratic or courtly characters, not those of the…
Kittredge's argument that Chaucer's reference to "Trophee" (MkT 2117) is due to a misreading of Latin "tropaeum" is indirectly supported by difficulties with the Latin word in a Middle English translation of the Letter of Alexander to Aristotle.
Edwards, A. S. G.
Chaucer Review 55 (2020): 113-16.
Presents evidence from a "description of a manuscript of Chaucer’s 'Treatise on the Astrolabe' that appeared in a sale catalogue in 1843." This description, because it doesn’t correspond to any known, available copies, suggests another manuscript of…
Kuczynski, Michael P
Notes and Queries 257 (2012): 160-3.
Cobbes's dense annotations of Nicholas of Lynn's "Kalendarium" in University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, MS 522 may reflect this seventeenth-century book collector's familiarity with the British Library, MS Additional 23002 text of Astr.
Renoir, Alain.
Notes and Queries 203 (1958): 248-49.
Identifies three "predominant" characteristics shared in the characterizations of Pandarus in TC and of "the slave Spurius, who plays the part of a pander for a young lover in Guillaume de Blois' Latin farce 'Alda,' written somewhat before 1170:…
