Manly's Conception of the Early History of the Canterbury Tales

Germaine Dempster

doi:10.2307/459356

Manly's Conception of the Early History of the Canterbury Tales

PMLA ◽

10.1632/459356 ◽

1946 ◽

Vol 61 (2) ◽

pp. 379-415

Author(s):

Germaine Dempster

Keyword(s):

Canterbury Tales ◽

Early History ◽

History Of ◽

The Canterbury Tales ◽

Main Ideas

Scholars have regretted that the enormous work embodied in The Text of the “Canterbury tales” did not leave Professor Manly the time and strength to integrate in a summary his main ideas as to the early history of the work. For that unwritten chapter no one, of course, could hope to offer a substitute. Yet much which would have gone into it and is not clear at the first reading takes form and coherence as one's familiarity grows with Manly's ideas and his material. One comes to see that, on most of the important features of the early history of the text, he had formed very definite opinions, while his silence on a number of others, if in some cases hard to interpret, more often clearly reflects a conviction that no light can be elicited either from the manuscripts or anything else within our ken. Correlating all indications I shall try to present in its main lines Manly's view of the history of the Canterbury tales to c. 1500, indicating as far as possible the basis for his opinions.

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Additions to the Golden Mountain: Four Recent Books on ChaucerSigns and Symbols in Chaucer's Poetry. John P. Hermann , John J. Burke, Jr.Chaucer's Frankin in the Canterbury Tales: The Social and Literary Background of a Chaucerian Character. Henrik SpechtSyntax and Style in Chaucer's Poetry. Gregory RoscowNew Perspectives in Chaucer Criticism. Donald M. RoseA History of the English Language (1958). G. L. Brook

Modern Philology ◽

10.1086/391329 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 81 (4) ◽

pp. 407-414

Author(s):

David C. Fowler

Keyword(s):

English Language ◽

Canterbury Tales ◽

The Social ◽

History Of ◽

The Canterbury Tales

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The Ancestor of Group d; the Origin of Its Texts, Tale-order, and Spurious Links

PMLA ◽

10.2307/459425 ◽

1948 ◽

Vol 63 (2) ◽

pp. 456-484

Author(s):

Germaine Dempster

Keyword(s):

Present Article ◽

Canterbury Tales ◽

Early History ◽

History Of ◽

Group D

While some of the most interesting questions regarding the early history of the Canterbury Tales will undoubtedly never be settled, it seems equally certain that in the full corpus of variants prepared by Professors Manly and Rickert evidence lies embedded which little by little should add to our understanding of the conditions in which the first manuscripts were prepared, hence, possibly, lead to a clearer picture of the situation when Chaucer died. The present article will deal with the lost ancestor of the manuscript family which Dr. Manly and Dr. Rickert have called group d, that ancestor to be designated hereafter as √d. Section I will be devoted to the origin of the material used in the preparation of √d; Section II to the √d editor's handling of that material.

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A victim of prudishness

Babel ◽

10.1075/babel.00088.syd ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 65 (2) ◽

pp. 200-221

Author(s):

Sergiy Sydorenko

Keyword(s):

21St Century ◽

Canterbury Tales ◽

General Reader ◽

Early 21St Century ◽

Literary Achievement ◽

History Of ◽

The Canterbury Tales

Abstract Often excluded from Chaucer’s modernizations or heavily censored, The Miller’s Tale over the centuries has been stigmatized as bawdy, obscene and, as such, unfit for the general reader. The article briefly reviews the history of the modernization of The Miller’s Tale in the 18th–19th centuries and focuses on its four major 20th-early 21st-century translations into modern English to find out how the motives of decency might have determined the translators’ choices where it concerns the tale’s explicit language. The argument of decency appears to be a lame excuse for the failure of many of Chaucer’s modernizers to understand the true purport and place of The Miller’s Tale in the overall composition of The Canterbury Tales, as well as to appreciate Chaucer’s literary achievement in representing through his characters’ narratives the spirit and mindset of his age.

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Some early history of replica techniques for electron microscopy

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100130018 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 50 (2) ◽

pp. 1076-1077

Author(s):

Robert M. Fisher

Keyword(s):

Thin Film ◽

Electron Microscopy ◽

Optical Microscope ◽

Early History ◽

Bulk Materials ◽

Thin Sections ◽

Transmission Electron ◽

Reflected Light ◽

History Of ◽

Electron Microscopes

By 1940, a half dozen or so commercial or home-built transmission electron microscopes were in use for studies of the ultrastructure of matter. These operated at 30-60 kV and most pioneering microscopists were preoccupied with their search for electron transparent substrates to support dispersions of particulates or bacteria for TEM examination and did not contemplate studies of bulk materials. Metallurgist H. Mahl and other physical scientists, accustomed to examining etched, deformed or machined specimens by reflected light in the optical microscope, were also highly motivated to capitalize on the superior resolution of the electron microscope. Mahl originated several methods of preparing thin oxide or lacquer impressions of surfaces that were transparent in his 50 kV TEM. The utility of replication was recognized immediately and many variations on the theme, including two-step negative-positive replicas, soon appeared. Intense development of replica techniques slowed after 1955 but important advances still occur. The availability of 100 kV instruments, advent of thin film methods for metals and ceramics and microtoming of thin sections for biological specimens largely eliminated any need to resort to replicas.

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