Peden, Helen.
P. J. M. Marks and Stephen Parkin, eds. The Book by Design: The Remarkable Story of the World's Greatest Invention (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023), pp. 204-13; 10 color illus.
Summarizes the development of Morris's Kelmscott Press and describes the achievement of his aesthetic ideals in the Kelmscott Chaucer.
Flannery, Mary.
Review of English Studies 73, no. 310 (2022): 442-58.
Examines Caxton's deletions from his first to his second edition of CT, showing that most of them were "bawdy spurious verse." Argues that the deletions evince Caxton's awareness of Chaucer's own "ribaldry" and that—not concerned with obscenity per…
Interpretive biography and critical exploration of Chaucer's professional, diplomatic, and literary engagements with Italy, Italians, and Italian culture, seeking to "follow in Chaucer's footsteps--to Milan, Genoa, Florence, Pavia, and beyond--and…
Menmuir, Rebecca.
Buchanan, Peter.
Kask, Pamela.
Year's Work in English Studies 102 (2023): 264-94.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2021, divided into four subcategories: general, CT, other works, and reception. See also "Middle English," YWES 102 (2023): 171-263.
Discursive bibliography, divided into twelve subsections: Early Middle English; Theory; Manuscript and Technical Studies; Religious Prose and Verse; Secular Prose; Secular Verse; "Piers Plowman"; Gower; Old Scots; Drama; The "Gawain" Poet; Romance:…
Amsel, Stephanie.
Rogers, Will.
Studies in the Ages of Chaucer 45 (2023): 441–502.
Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 178 items, plus a listing of reviews for 42 books. Includes an…
Sayers, William.
Nordic Journal of English Studies 8, no. 3 (2009): 191-201.
Traces the etymology, usage, and implications of the word "trout" and its derivations in medieval literature and later tradition. Includes comments on "Trotula" (WBP 3.677), "trotte" (WBP 3.838), and "virytrate" (FrT 3.1582).
Flannery, Mary C.
New College Notes (Oxford) 12 (2019): 1-4; 3 illus.
Addresses "scribal playfulness," rather than error or accuracy, focusing on instances of copyists' engagement with Chaucer's "bawdy humour," particularly the diction, imagery, and details of a ribald expansion of the pear-tree episode of MerT (and…
Fletcher, Clare.
Gregory Hulsman and Caoimhe Whelan, eds. Occupying Space in Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Ireland (New York: Lang, 2016), pp. 3-22.
Revisits the implications of the horse-and rider imagery that underlies the description of the Wife of Bath at GP 1.469, focusing on her riding an “amblere," exploring relations with the thirteenth-century French “Lai du Trot," and suggesting…
Everitt, Charles.
D. Phil. Thesis. Oxford University, 1985.
Studies the "ars dictaminis" in late-medieval England, focusing on its influence and uses in administrative circles, ecclesiastical and secular, with particular attention to the career of Gilbert Stone, an "episcopal chancellor." Includes discussion…
Botelho, José Francisco Hillal Tavares de Junqueira.
D.Litt. dissertation. Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul, 2021.
Using "several translation theories," Botelho analyzes selected passages of his own 2013 translation of CT into Portuguese, describing choices made to mediate linguistic and historical distances between Chaucer's poem and Botelho's target audience.…
Item not seen. Description and sample score available at https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/publishers/edition-peters/ (accessed November 22, 2025). Opera in four acts; running time 2 hrs. 15 min.
Warren, Robert Penn, ed.
Erskine, Albert, ed.
New York: Dell, 1955.
Anthologizes selections from the poetry of English writers, arranged chronologically from Chaucer to Wilfred Owen, with an Introduction by the editors that justifies the selections. Includes an alphabetical index of titles and first lines. The…
Knowles, Dom David.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1955.
Part of a three-volume study, this volume addresses the "history of the religious orders [monastic and mendicant] in England from the Pontificate of Benedict XII to the end of the strife between the houses of York and Lancaster," considering a…
