we pick up some
worthwhile vocabulary ('allegory', 'intertextuality', 'ars legendi') which
might be worthwhile to follow up
AUTHOR Brown, Peter, 1948-
TITLE The age of Saturn : literature and history in the Canterbury
tales / Peter Brown, Andrew Butcher.
PUBLISHER Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : B. Blackwell, 1991.
DESCRIPT xii, 296 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
BIBLIOG. Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-274) and index.
SUBJECT Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400. Canterbury tales.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 --Political and social views.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 --Knowledge --Occultism.
Literature and society --England --History.
Saturn (Planet) in literature.
Social history in literature.
Zodiac in literature.
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
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TITLE Allegoresis : the craft of allegory in medieval literature /
edited by J. Stephen Russell.
PUBLISHER New York : Garland Pub., 1987.
DESCRIPT xv, 230 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
SERIES Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 664.
ALT SERIES Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 664.
SUBJECT English poetry --Middle English, 1100-1500 --History and
criticism.
Allegory.
Langland, William, 1330?-1400? Piers the Plowman.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 --Symbolism.
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 --Symbolism.
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
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AUTHOR Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910.
TITLE Analogues of Chaucer's Canterbury pilgrimage (April 1386) and his
putting-up joust-scaffolds, etc., in West-Smithfield (May 1390)
being the expenses of the Aragonese ambassadors for 58 days in
England, 21 July to 16 Sept. 1415, including their 4-days'
journey from London to Canterbury and back, 31 July-3 Aug. 1415
, and the cost of erecting scaffolds, etc., in West-Smithfield
for the joust between Don Philip Boyl, knight, of Aragon, and
John Asteley, esq., on Jan. 30, 1442, with Henry VI.'s
allowances of materials for the said joust. Edited by F. J.
Furnivall and R. E. G. Kirk.
PUBLISHER London, Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trubner
& Co., Limited, 1903 (i.e. 1906)
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
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AUTHOR Kern, Alfred Allan, 1879-
TITLE The ancestry of Chaucer. Baltimore, Lord Baltimore Press, 1906.
PUBLISHER Baltimore : Lord Baltimore Press, 1906.
DESCRIPT xv, 163 p. ; 23 cm.
NOTE A dissertation, submitted to the Board of University Studies of
the Johns Hopkins University in conformity with the
requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
BIBLIOG. Includes bibliographical references.
SUBJECT Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 --Biography --Family.
Chaucer family.
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
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AUTHOR Thynne, Francis, 1545?-1608.
TITLE Animaduersions vppon the annotaciones and corrections of some
imperfections of impressiones of Chaucers workes : (sett downe
before tyme, and nowe) reprinted in the yere of oure lorde 1598
/ sett downe by Francis Thynne.
PUBLISHER London : Published for the Chaucer society by N. Trubner & co.,
1876.
DESCRIPT cxlvi (i.e. cxlviii), 171, [1] p. ; 22 cm.
SERIES Chaucer society. [Publications] 2d series, 13.
ALT SERIES Chaucer Society. Publications ; 2d ser., no. 13.
SUBJECT Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Speght, Thomas, fl. 1600.
Thynne, William, 1546.
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
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AUTHOR Frese, Dolores Warwick, 1936-
TITLE An Ars legendi for Chaucer's Canterbury tales : re-constructive
reading / Dolores Warwick Frese.
PUBLISHER Gainesville : University of Florida Press, c1991.
DESCRIPT x, 338 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
NOTE Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-324) and index.
SUBJECT Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400. Canterbury tales --Criticism,
Textual.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 --Manuscripts.
Manuscripts, English (Middle)
Intertextuality.
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
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AUTHOR Lowes, John Livingston, 1867-1945.
TITLE The art of Geoffrey Chaucer / by John Livingston Lowes.
PUBLISHER London : H. Milford, [1931]
DESCRIPT 32 p. ; 26 cm.
SERIES British Academy. Sir Israel Gollancz memorial lecture, 1930.
ALT SERIES Sir Israel Gollancz memorial lecture, 1930.
NOTE "From the Proceedings of the British Academy. Volume XVI."
"Read December 3, 1930."
SUBJECT Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
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A search for 'gentilesse' turns up only two items, but they broaden our
picture of the poem considerably:
You searched for the KEYWORD: gentilesse
2 entries found, entries 1-2 are: LOCATIONS
1 Chaucer songs LEYBURN
2 A parallel-text edition of Chaucer's minor poem LEYBURN
TITLE Chaucer songs / [compiled by] Nigel Wilkins.
PUBLISHER Woodbridge, Eng. : D. S. Brewer ; Totowa, N.J. : Rowman and
Littlefield, 1980.
DESCRIPT 1 score (29 p.) ; 29 cm.
SERIES Chaucer studies ; 4.
ALT SERIES Chaucer studies ; 4.
NOTE Poems of Chaucer set to the music of various composers by Nigel
Wilkins.
For solo voice with acc. of 1 or 2 unspecified instruments.
This wrecched worldes transmutacioun (Le pleintif contre fortune)
with No man is wrecched, but himself hit wene (La respounse de
fortune au pleintif), both from Balades de visage sanz peinture
(F. Andrieu's setting of E. Deschamps : Armes, amours, dames,
chevalerie wth O flour des flours de toute melodie) -- Ther nis
so hy comfort to my plesaunce (Granson, The compleynt of Venus)
(Anon. Cypriot-French : Sous un bel arbre) -- If no love is, O
god, what fele I so? (Cantus Troili ; Troilus & Criseyde) (
Machaut : J'aim mieus languir) |- O love, to whom I have and
shal (Antigone's song ; Troilus & Criseyde) (Machaut : De
desconfort, de martyre amoureus) -- I, which that am the
sorwefulleste man (Machaut : Riches d'amour et mendians d'amie)
-- Now welcom somer, with thy sonne softe (The parlement of
foules) (Machaut : Dame, se vous n'avez aperceu)
CONTENTS Hyd, Absolom, thy gilte tresses clere (The legend of good women)
(Machaut : Nes qu'on porroit) -- Madame, for your newe-
fangelnesse (Machaut : Se pour ce muir) -- To you, my purse,
and to non other wight (Machaut : S'amours ne fait) -- The
The first stok, fader of gentilesse (Machaut : Mes
esperis se combat)
-- Som tyme this world was so stedfast and stable (
Machaut : Gais et jolis) -- Flee fro the prees, and dwelle with
sothfastnesse (Balade de bon conseyl) (Machaut : On ne porroit
penser) -- Madame, ye ben of al beaute shryne (To Rosemounde) (
Senleches : En attendant esperance) -- So hath my herte caught
in remembraunce (Solage : En l'amoureaux vergier)
SUBJECT Songs with instrumental ensemble --Scores.
Songs with unspecified instrument.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 --Musical settings.
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(the above includes a musical setting for the poem's text, using
Guillaume de Machaut's 'Mes espiris se combat' --which fits
because Chaucer used a ballade form: seven lines of 10 syllables
each)
AUTHOR Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
TITLE A parallel-text edition of Chaucer's minor poems. Ed. by
Frederick J. Furnivall.
PUBLISHER London, Pub. for the Chaucer Society by N. Trubner & Co. [1871-79
]
DESCRIPT 4 p. l., 449, [1] p. front. (mounted port.) 26 x 33 cm.
SERIES Chaucer Society. [Publications]. First series ; no. 21,57-58.
ALT SERIES Chaucer Society. Publications ; 1st ser. no. 21,57-58.
NOTE Three or four columns to a page.
The portrait is a mounted photograph of Occleve's portrait of
Chaucer in the Harleian ms.4866, leaf 91.
"Trial-forewords to my 'Parallel-text edition of Chaucer's minor
poems ... by Frederick J. Furnivall' appeared in 1871 as the
society's second series, no. 6 (23 cm.)"
CONTENTS The dethe of Blaunche the duchesse (three texts)--The Compleynte
to Pite (three texts)--Parlement of foules (six texts)--
Compleynt of Mars (six texts)--An A B C, or Alphabetic hymn to
the Virgin (six texts)--The mother of God (three texts)--
Anelida and Arcite (six texts)--The former age (two texts)--
Adam Scrivener (two texts)--The house of Fame (four texts)--The
legend of good women (six texts)--Truth (six texts)--The
compleynt of Venus (six texts)--Enoy to Scogan (three texts)--
Marriage, or Bukton (three texts)--
Gentilesse (six texts)--
Proverbs (three texts)--Lack of sted-fastness (six texts)--
Fortune (six texts)--Purse (six texts)
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(the above is a fascinating discovery, though a bit unsettling if one
expects the text of a poem to be stable: what we have here is
SIX versions of 'Gentilesse', with variant spellings
(gentylesse/gentilnesse/gentelnesse; crowne/corone/coroune) and even some
different words, and a
version incorporated in "a moral balade made by Henry Scogane squyer",
tutor to Henry IV's sons