Singh, Devani.
Notes and Queries 266.1 (2021): 56-59.
Inscribed in Durham Palace Green Library, Bamburgh Select. 8, a copy of the "c. 1550 Thynne edition of Chaucer's Workes," this epitaph stands apart from the three Latin texts heretofore known. One of its signatories may be identified as the "Edmund…
Argues that "postmodern literary experiments tend to enact, and embody, an unwitting return to medieval modes of textuality," observing how PF, CT as a whole, individual tales, and the multiplicity of variant manuscripts "actively resist a sense of…
Tabulates and analyzes analytic (more/most) and synthetic (-er/-est) forms of comparatives and superlatives in Chaucer's prose works (Bo, Astr, Mel, ParsT), correlating them with Old English and French derivations of the root words.
Nicholson, Peter.
English Language Notes 17.2 (1979-80): 93-98.
Archer Taylor's account, in "Sources and Analogues," of the analogues to FrT is incomplete and misleading. Exempla from two fourteenth-century English manuscript collections show that it is possible to be much more precise about Chaucer's…
Topliff, Delores E.
Journal of English Linguistics 4 (1970): 78-89.
Tabulates and analyzes the "positive, comparative, and superlative adjectives in Chaucer's works," challenging the notions that in Middle English only monosyllabic adjectives that end in a consonant are inflected and comparative and superlative…
Fradenburg, Louise O.
New Medieval Literatures 2 (1998): 249-76.
Questions the claim that psychoanalytical medievalism is insufficiently historical. Surveys a selection of articles that may consciously or unconsciously use psychoanalytical principles, including articles that address TC and portions of CT.
van Gelderen, Elly.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
Classroom textbook of examples for syntactical analysis in English language history, with texts reproduced in color manuscript, original-language transcriptions, and modern translations, plus commentary on significant features of language and…
Spencer, Matthew, Barbara Bordalejo, Li-San Wang, Adrian C. Barbrook, Linne R. Mooney, Peter Robinson, Tandy Warnow, and Christopher J. Howe
Computers and the Humanities 37 (2003): 97-109.
Construction of a stemma for CT based on gene-order analysis supports the idea that there was no established order when the first manuscripts were written. The resulting stemma shows relationships predicted by earlier scholars, reveals new…
Ganim, John M.
Brian Gastle and Erick Kelemen, eds. Later Middle English Literature, Materiality, and Culture: Essays in Honor of James M. Dean (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2018.), pp. 71-89.
Traces attitudes toward and depictions of anarchy and apocalypse in medieval political and penitential traditions, suggesting that they can be associated with communalism as well as with disruption, then and now. Includes comments on Chaucer's (and…
Clements, Robert J., and Joseph Gibaldi.
New York: New York University Press, 1977.
Describes the development of the Renaissance novella, particularly the fourteenth-to-seventeenth century traditions in Italy, France, Spain, and England. Deeply influenced by the model of Boccaccio's "Decameron," the genre is distinct from the later…
Delany, Sheila.
Straus, Barrie Ruth, ed. Skirting the Texts: Feminisms' Re-Readings of Medieval and Renaissance Texts. Special Issue of Exemplaria 4 (1992): 7-34.
Critics' resistence to sexual wordplay in medieval texts such as Chaucer's TC and CT stems not only from a radical difference between medieval and modern standards of good taste, but also from the critics' desire to repress unsettling textual…
Fumo, Jamie C.
Isabel Davis and Catherine Nall, eds. Chaucer and Fame: Reputation and Reception (Cambridge; D. S. Brewer, 2015), pp. 201-20.
Explores the "reciprocal status of antiquity and celebrity" in the reception of Chaucer, his "construction (and self-construction) as a vernacular authority," and the relations of fame and temporality in his works, especially MLP. Recurrent concerns…
Beall, Chandler B.
English Language Notes 13 (1975): 85-86.
The famous descriptive epithet of the Clerk, "And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche" (GP, 308), may have been suggested by a sentence from Seneca's epistle to Lucilius (VI,4): "Ego vero omnia in te cupio transfundere, et in hoc aliquid gaudeo…
Brent, Harry.
Phillip C. Boardman, ed., and Robert Gorrell, pref. The Legacy of Language: A Tribute to Charlton Laird (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1987), pp. 1-19.
At a memorial conference for Charlton Laird, a former student pays tribute to the late medievalist and Chaucer scholar.
Witalisz, Władysław, ed.
Kraków : Wydawnictno Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego, 2001.
Nineteen essays on a variety of subjects, medieval to postmodern, literary and linguistic. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for And Gladly Wolde He Lerne and Gladly Teche (Goller) under Alternative Title.
Iyeiri, Yoko, and Margaret Connolly, eds.
Tokyos : Kaibunsha, 2002.
Fourteen essays by various authors, seven on Old and Middle English linguistics and seven on medieval literature, including romance and Arthurian literature, Chaucer, Malory, Caxton, devotional writing, and manuscript studies. The volume includes an…
Chickering, Howell.
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. 3-18.
Close reading of the GP description of the Monk shows how a "complex interaction of the reader with Chaucer's text" produces a more satisfactory reading than does the positing of a naive narrator.
Th contains a covert similarity to PrT. If, by means of the lily, the elf-queen is identified with the Virgin Mary, the structure of Th may be seen to parody that of PrT. Both protagonists have gemlike chastity, are born "in fer contree," and are…
Explores the "interstitial pattern of errors about things literary" in MLPT that characterize the teller as a "not-quite scholar" and highlight a tension between his "rhetorical excess and religious exhibitionism" and his penchant for legalisms,…
Raybin, David.
Susanna Freer Fein, David Raybin, and Peter C. Braeger, eds. Rebels and Rivals: The Contestive Spirit in The Canterbury Tales. Studies in Medieval Culture, no. 29 (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1991), pp. 189-212.
CYP offers an earthly perspective that counterbalances the heavenly perspective in SNT. Moreover, the structure of CYP/T affirms artistic striving for "something higher and more beautiful" while suggesting the "tendency to corruption that threatens…
Cox, Catherine (S.)
Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales" (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 55-68.
Describes the medieval ecclesiastical hierarchy and places Chaucer's Nun's Priest in the hierarchy, identifying the training and responsibilities of medieval priests and the particular activities of priests who ministered to cloistered nuns and…
