THE NEWSLETTER
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Friday, October 30
Saturday, October 31
Monday-Friday, November 2-3
Tuesday, November 3
OCTOBER 30. 1992
IMPORTANT EVENTS
8:00 p.m.
10:31 pm.
8:00 p.m.
Symphonic Wind Ensemble with Jim
Bishop, Saxophone-Elizabeth Hall
HALLOWEEN CONCERT-Elizabeth Hall
Registration for Upperclassmen for Winter
Term and Spring Semester
Student Chamber Recital-Elizabeth Hall
Wednesday, November 4
10:00 a.m.
Chapel--Dr. Pope Duncan
"The Election is Over."
Text: John 1:1-4, Eph: 1:3-9
ANNOUNCEMENTS
FOR THOSE WHO RECEIVE THE NEWSLETTER ON THURSDAYS: The Russian Studies is having a speaker on
Thursday night, October 29, at 7:30 p.m. in Room 100 of the Lynn Business Center. He is Professor John
Armstrong of the University of Wisconsin and the topic is "Ethnicity and Nationalism in East Europe and the
Former Soviet Union." From: Gene Huskey
STETSON UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA will present a fun Halloween Concert Saturday, October 31, at 10:31 p.m.,
in Elizabeth Hall. President Lee will make his conducting debut with music from Cats and Dean Woodward will
conduct music from Phantom of the Opera. Other soloists include Paul Jenkins and Alvaro Gomez. It is
requested that all attending this concert dress in costume. Children are welcome! From: Thorn Sleeper
The Women's Faculty Caucus will meet at 10:00 a.m. Monday, November 2, in 117 Flagler. Dawn Rodak will
speak on new policies in the Career Placement Office. From: Susan Wilson, Coordinator
Collegial Seminar, November 6, noon, in Private Dining Room. Presentation by Dr. Tom Farrell, Chair and
Professor of English, "Editing the Non-Existent Manuscript: Chaucer's Petrarch." Bring your lunch. Dessert and
coffee provided by Dean Maris of the College of Arts & Sciences.
ABSTRACT:
As a contributor to the Chaucer Sources and Analogues Project, I am editing Petrarch's Seniles XVII.3, a
version of the Patient Griselda story, which Chaucer used in composing his Clerk's Tale for the Canterbury
Tales. This job was done fifty years ago, with magnificent scholarship but without one key piece of
evidence-extracts from Chaucer's Petrarch copied into manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales as glosses. As
a result we have a nearly perfect edition of Petrarch which is demonstrably un-Chaucerian in several
passages. Finding variants in the glosses where they are written out for us is easy. But what about the
parts of the tale not glossed? How can we identify the readings of a manuscript that we know existed, and
a few of whose traces are available, but that cannot be transcribed, collated, and printed because it exists
no more?
There are some answers, and I will review them, but new suggestions for answers or methodologies are
welcome too.
From: Paul Steeves, Coordinator, Collegial Seminars
