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Go to: The beginning of this page | The Geoffrey Chaucer Page | Contents of the BibliographyThis publication is based on a bibliography that I have kept up for my own use since 1970. It was kept in handwritten form until 1994, when a graduate student at Harvard, Marie Henson, worked with me to type it up, put it in some sort of shape, and get it on disk. I am enormously grateful to her. I now think I should make it available for the use of others, and the World-Wide Web seems an ideal way of doing so. I don't intend to add to it or keep it up in the future: it is the Thirty-Year Bibliography. I hope it will prove useful.The Bibliography is fairly systematic for what it covers, though there is inevitably an element of idiosyncrasy (especially in the `General' entries), with items included as they caught my interest or attracted my attention. Many items are omitted because I thought them too short or of only marginal interest; many, no doubt, I have simply missed. Editions of standard texts are rarely listed. The Bibliography tends to beome more selective as the years pass (with the vast increase in publication). Long titles of books and essays are sometimes abbreviated or summarised.
The organisation into categories is one that I have found generally successful, though again the passage of time means that some new categories had to be introduced (e.g. gender studies) whilst there was a tailing-off in other kinds of enquiry (style, sources, etc.). Essays in festschrifts and in themed collections of essays (forms of publication that have increased very rapidly over the last thirty years) are located by a brief reference to the volume in which they appear: the full reference will be found in Part XII.
An important use of the Bibliography to me over the years has been in advising students with guidance on reading. I hope undergraduate and graduate students, with a paper to write or a topic to research, will find it useful in the future.
Part I General Part II Chaucer General Part III Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales Part IV Chaucer: Other Works Part V Gower Part VI Alliterative Poetry Part VII Romances Drama Lyrics Part VIII Early ME poetry and prose Part IX Religious and Didactic Literature Part X The 15th century Part XI Manuscripts and Books Part XII Festschrifts & other collections
Part I -- General
Part II -- Chaucer General
Part III -- Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
I. General II. Manuscripts, Texts, Editing III. Language, Style, Metre IV. Audience, Narrator, Reception V. Women/Feminism VI. Sources and literary background VII. Life
Part IV -- Chaucer: Other Works
I. Canterbury Tales--General II. General Prologue III. Knight's Tale (and Fragment I) IV. Miller's Tale (and fabliaux in general) V. Reeve's Tale/Cook's Tale VI. Man of Law's Prologue & Tale VII. Wife of Bath's Prol & Tale (& `marriage group') VIII. Friar's Tale IX. Summoner's Tale X. Clerk's Tale XI. Merchant's Tale XII. Squire's Tale XIII. Franklin's Tale (and 'romances' generally) XIV. Physician's Tale XV. Pardoner's Prologue & Tale XVI. Tale of Sir Thopas XVII. Shipman's Tale (and Frag. VII generally) XVIII. Prioress's Tale XIX. Tale of Melibee XX. Monk's Tale XXI. Nun's Priest's Tale XXII. Second Nun's Tale XXIII. Canon's Yeoman's Prologue & Tale XXIV. Manciple's Tale XXV. Parson's Tale and Retraction
Part V -- Gower
I. Troilus & Criseyde II. Book of the Duchess III. House of Fame IV. Parliament of Fowls V. Legend of Good Women VI. Prose VII. Minor Poems (and `Shorter' Poems generally)
Part VI -- Alliterative Poetry
I. Confessio Amantis II. Other Works
Part VIII -- Early ME poetry and prosePart VII -- Romances Drama Lyrics
| I. | Early ME Poetry and Prose |
| II. | The Owl and the Nightingale |
| III. | Layamon's Brut |
| IV. | Ancrene Wisse, Ancren Riwle and Katherine Group |
| I. | Saints' Lives |
| II. | Religious Prose and Poetry (specific texts) |
| III. | Didactic and Other Non-Religious Prose |
| IV. | Preaching |
| V. | Wyclif and Lollardy |
| VI. | Rolle |
| VII. | Hilton; The Cloud of Unknowing |
| VIII. | Julian |
| IX. | Margery Kempe |
| I. | 15th century - General |
| II. | Lydgate |
| III. | Hoccleve |
| IV. | Charles of Orleans |
| V. | Robin Hood |
| VI. | English Chaucerians |
| VII. | Scots Poets |
| VIII. | Henryson |
| IX. | Dunbar |
| X. | Douglas |
| XI. | Malory |
| XII. | Late Medieval & Early Tudor |
| XIII. | Caxton |
| XIV. | Skelton |
| I. | Book production, publishing, libraries, readers |
| II. | Manuscripts: descriptions and newly discovered texts |
| III. | Education & Universities |
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Return to: Geoffrey Chaucer Page -- or to the beginning of the Bibliography or to the beginning of this ListABBREVIATIONS
AL The Assembly of Ladies (poem) AN Anglo-Norman Ang Anglia (journal) AnnM Annuale Mediaevale (journal) AR Ancrene Riwle (Guide for Anchoresses) Archiv Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen AUP Associated University Presses AW Ancren Wisse (Anchoresses' Rule) BD The Book of the Duchess (poem by Chaucer) BJRL Bulletin of the John Rylands Library BL British Library, London BLJ British Library Journal BN Bibliothhque nationale, Paris CEMERS Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Binghamton) Ch Chaucer ChauR Chaucer Review ChYb Chaucer Yearbook CkT Cook's Tale (Canterbury Tales) CL Comparative Literature (journal) CL The Court of Love (poem) Cl Cleanness (poem) ClkT Clerk's Tale (Canterbury Tales) CA Confessio Amantis (poem by Gower) CT Canterbury Tales CUP Cambridge University Press CYP/T Canon's Yeoman's Prologue/Tale (Canterbury Tales) DUJ Durham University Journal E&S Essays & Studies (by Members of the English Association) EBS Early Book Society EC Essays in Criticism EHR English Historical Review El The Ellesmere MS of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales ELH English Literary History (journal) ELN English Language Notes ELS English Literary Studies (U.of Victoria, B.C.) EMS English Manuscript Studies ES English Studies Et.ang. Etudes anglaises Exemp Exemplaria (journal) FL The Flower and the Leaf (poem) FMLS Forum for Modern Language Studies FQ The Faerie Queene (poem by Spenser) FriT Friar's Tale (Canterbury Tales) FrkT Franklin's Tale (Canterbury Tales) F/S Festschrift GGK Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (poem) GP General Prologue (Canterbury Tales) HF The House of Fame (poem by Chaucer) Hg The Hengwrt MS of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales IMEV Index of Middle English Verse JEBS Journal of the Early Book Society JEGP Journal of English & Germanic Philology JHI Journal of the History of Ideas JMEMS Journal of Medieval & Early Modern Studies JMRS Journal of Medieval & Renaissance Studies KnT Knight's Tale (Canterbury Tales) L Langland LGW The Legend of Good Women (poem by Chaucer) LSE Leeds Studies in English (University of Leeds) M&H Medievalia et Humanistica (journal) MA Morte Arthure (alliterative poem) MA Middle Ages MAE Medium Aevum MancT Manciple's Tale (Canterbury Tales) MART Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching MC Medieval Cultures (series, University of Minnesota Press) ME Middle English med medieval Mel Tale of Melibee (Canterbury Tales) MeT Merchant's Tale (Canterbury Tales) MET Middle English Texts (series) MillT Miller's Tale (Canterbury Tales) MkT Monk's Tale (Canterbury Tales) MLN Modern Language Notes MLP/T Man of Law's Prologue/Tale (Canterbury Tales) MLQ Modern Language Quarterly MLR Modern Language Review Mon Monograph Moyen A Le Moyen Age (journal) MP Modern Philology (journal) MRTS Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Toronto) MRTS Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Binghamton) MS Medieval Studies (Toronto) MSU Michigan State University Neoph Neophilologus (journal) NM Neuphilologische Mitteilungen (journal) NML New Medieval Literatures (journal) NMS Nottingham Medieval Studies (University of Nottingham) NPT Nun's Priest's Tale (Canterbury Tales) NQ Notes & Queries NT New Testament NYUP New York University Press O&N The Owl and the Nightingale (poem) OE Old English OF Old French Orbis Orbis litterarum (journal) OT Old Testament OUP Oxford University Press P3A The Parliament of the Three Ages (poem) PardP/T Pardoner's Prologue/Tale (Canterbury Tales) ParsT Parson's Tale (Canterbury Tales) Pat Patience (poem) PBA Proceedings of the British Academy PBSA Publications of the Bibliographical Society of America PF The Parliament of Fowls (poem by Chaucer) PhyT Physician's Tale (Canterbury Tales) PMLA Publications of the Modern Language Association of America PP, PPl Piers Plowman (poem by Langland) PPC Pierce the Plowman's Crede (poem) PPS Piers Plowman Studies (publ.by Brewer) PQ Philological Quarterly PR The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 PriT Prioress's Tale (Canterbury Tales) RES Review of English Studies Ret Retraction (Canterbury Tales) RKP Routledge & Kegan Paul (publishers) RMS Reading Medieval Studies (University of Reading) Rom Romania (journal) RomPh Romance Philology RPhil Romance Philology RR Romanic Review RR Roman de la Rose (French poem) RvT Reeve's Tale (Canterbury Tales) SAC Studies in the Age of Chaucer SB Studies in Bibliography SEL South English Legendary (verse collection) SEL Studies in English Literature SGGK Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (poem) ShipT Shipman's Tale (Canterbury Tales) SIcon Studies in Iconography SMC Studies in Medieval Culture (series, U.Minnesota) SN Studia Neophilologica (journal) SNT Second Nun's Tale (Canterbury Tales) SP Studies in Philology Spec Speculum (journal) STC Short Title Catalogue (of early printed books) StIcon Studies in Iconography StN Studia Neophilologica (journal) StRen Studies in the Renaissance Stud.med. Studi medievali (journal) SummT Summoner's Tale (Canterbury Tales) SUNY State University of New York TC The Testament of Cresseid (poem by Henryson) TC Troilus and Criseyde (poem by Chaucer) TEAMS Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages, Middle English Texts Series, published by Medieval Institute Publications of Western Michigan University, in association with the University of Rochester TCC Trinity College (Library), Cambridge TEBS Transactions of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society TG The Temple of Glass (poem by Lydgate) UNC University of North Carolina UP University Press UTQ University of Toronto Quarterly UWM University of Western Michigan (Kalamazoo) WBP/T Wife of Bath's Prologue/Tale (Canterbury Tales) WW Winner and Waster (poem) YES Yearbook of English Studies YLS Yearbook of Langland Studies YMT York Medieval Texts ZfFSL Zeitschrift für Französische Sprache und Literatur
Last modified: April, 4, 2000
Copyright © Derek Pearsall
Texts on this page were prepared by Derek Pearsall and are maintained by Larry Benson. The Page is included on the Harvard Geoffrey Chaucer Page with Professor Pearsall's permission.