• Lydgate, Disguising at London

Triumphal Entry into London Lydgate, Disguising at London JOHN LYDGATE, DISGUISING AT LONDON: EXPLANATORY NOTES ABBREVIATIONS: BD: Chaucer, Book of the Duchess; CT: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; MP: Minor Poems of John Lydgate, ed. MacCracken; TB: Lydgate, Troy Book. Shirley describes

• Lydgate, The Siege of Thebes: Prima Pars

is between the Summoner and the Friar. 39-57 Marginalia: ¶ Chaucer. Lydgate's praise of Chaucer recalls similar passages in Troy Book 2.4677-719, 3.550-57, 3.4234-63, 5.3519-43. Lydgate does not actually name Chaucer until line 4501. Spearing, "Lydgate's Canterbury Tale," says of

• Item 3, How the Wise Man Taught His Son: Introduction

Taught His Son, text Go To Abbreviations Item 3, HOW THE WISE MAN TAUGHT HIS SON, INTRODUCTION: FOOTNOTES 1 Lerer, Chaucer and His Readers, p. 87. 2 Dronzek, “Gendered Theories,” p. 137. 3 For the various Middle English texts framed

• The Antifeminist Tradition: Introduction

poem (IMEV 1409.3) in both Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland MS Advocates' 1.1.6 (the Bannatyne manuscript, where it is marked "Chaucer") and London, British Library MS Additional 17492 (the Devonshire manuscript). Of Theyre Nature, inspired, no doubt, by the pessimistic

• Codex Ashmole 61: Item 6, The Ten Commandments

ad Mensam, text Codex Ashmole 61: Item 6, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS Item 6, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS: EXPLANATORY NOTES Abbreviations: CT Chaucer, Canterbury Tales Title No title or incipit. 1 Herkyns syrys. This formula (or a similar phrase) is often used

• The Book of Margery Kempe: Introduction

a character called Margery for as many and as varied purposes as Chaucer used Geoffrey throughout his poetry or as Langland used Will in Piers Plowman. Like Chaucer and Langland, Kempe's focus is a broad one. Through Margery and a

• Lydgate, Disguising at Hertford

received two (blows) 2 What the consequence is of offending wives JOHN LYDGATE, DISGUISING AT HERTFORD: EXPLANATORY NOTES Abbreviations: CT: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; FP: Lydgate, Fall of Princes; MED: Middle English Dictionary; PP: Langland, Piers Plowman; PPC: Proceedings and Ordinances

• Lydgate, Pageant of Knowledge

is about Happiness and Good Will JOHN LYDGATE, PAGEANT OF KNOWLEDGE: EXPLANATORY NOTES ABBREVIATIONS: BD: Chaucer, Book of the Duchess; CA: Gower, Confessio Amantis; CT: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; MED: Middle English Dictionary; MP: Minor Poems of John Lydgate, ed. MacCracken;

• John Gower, The Minor Latin Works: Rex celi deus

CT: Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; CVP: Gower, Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia; IPP: Gower, In Praise of Peace; Mac: Macaulay edition; MO: Gower, Mirour de l'Omme; TC: Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde; Thynne: William Thynne, printer, The Works of Geffray Chaucer

• Poems Against Simony and the Abuse of Money: Introduction

as those with the refrain "Gramersy myn owyn purs"). Of this latter kind the wittiest is by Geoffrey Chaucer, The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse. The first poem on Sir Penny printed in this collection is "Above all thing

• Henryson, Complete Works: Introduction

rhetoric (Disticha Catonis; Disciplina clericalis; Aesop, latterly in print; Graecismus); more advanced authors and their commentators (Boethius and Nicholas Trivet); Chaucer and Chaucerians (manuscript transmission of whose works in fifteenth-century Scotland is exemplified by the Kingis Quair manuscript, Bodley Arch.

• The Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament: Introduction

While there are correlations with Chaucer and Gower here, there is also diver­gence. Minnis calls Chaucer “an ‘historial’ poet,” one writing “about events which had long since passed and beliefs which had been rendered obsolete.” Chaucer, he says, “did not

• Pearl: Introduction

1979. Blanch, Robert J. "The Current State of Pearl Criticism." Chaucer Yearbook 3 (1996), 21-33. [Review essay on trends in scholarship.] ---. "Supplement to the Gawain-Poet: An Annotated Bibliography, 1978-85." Chaucer Review 25.4 (1991), 363-86. Eldredge, Laurence. "The State of

• Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love

which all `passage' was necessarily difficult."] Strohm, Paul. Social Chaucer. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989. [Passing remarks on Usk and his attitude towards Chaucer.] ------. "Politics and Poetics: Usk and Chaucer in the 1380s." In Literary Practice and Social Change

• John Gower, Confessio Amantis, Volume 2: Introduction

of the Canterbury Tales," Chaucer Review 10 (1976), 1878-200; Linda Tarte Holley, "Medieval Optics and the Framed Narrative in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde," Chaucer Review 21 (1986), 26-44; and Katharine S. Gittes, Framing the Canterbury Tales: Chaucer and the Medieval

• Quicquid homo scribat (In fine)

CT: Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; CVP: Gower, Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia; IPP: Gower, In Praise of Peace; Mac: Macaulay edition; MO: Gower, Mirour de l'Omme; TC: Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde; Thynne: William Thynne, printer, The Works of Geffray Chaucer

• A Talk of Ten Wives on Their Husbands' Ware

Chaucer uses the lore of the cuckoo bird to fill out his avian hierarchy in The Parliament of Fowles. Toward the bottom of the list is "the cukkow ever unkynde" (line 358). In his use of the term "unkynde"

• Lydgate, Mesure Is Tresour

govern themselves Go To Mumming at Bishopswood Lydgate, Mesure Is Tresour JOHN LYDGATE, MESURE IS TRESOUR: EXPLANATORY NOTES ABBREVIATIONS: CT: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; MP: Minor Poems of John Lydgate, ed. MacCracken. These verses elaborate on the proverbial saying that “measure

• Lydgate, The Siege of Thebes: Tercia Pars

is between the Summoner and the Friar. 39-57 Marginalia: ¶ Chaucer. Lydgate's praise of Chaucer recalls similar passages in Troy Book 2.4677-719, 3.550-57, 3.4234-63, 5.3519-43. Lydgate does not actually name Chaucer until line 4501. Spearing, "Lydgate's Canterbury Tale," says of

• Lydgate, The Siege of Thebes: Secunda Pars

is between the Summoner and the Friar. 39-57 Marginalia: ¶ Chaucer. Lydgate's praise of Chaucer recalls similar passages in Troy Book 2.4677-719, 3.550-57, 3.4234-63, 5.3519-43. Lydgate does not actually name Chaucer until line 4501. Spearing, "Lydgate's Canterbury Tale," says of