"Two University of Chicago Humanists and a Landmark Edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales" October 13, 2010
Christina von Nolcken, Associate Professor in English Language and Literature and the College and Chair of the Committee on Medieval Studies.
Edith Ricker and John Manly painstakingly produced an eight-volume edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales meticulously prepared and published in 1940. Both professors worked as code-breakers during World War I, and applied their language abilities to the intensive research required for the Canterbury Tales project.
In light of her work with the extensive Manly-Rickert archive housed in the University of Chicago's Regenstein Library, Professor von Nolcken speaks about the importance of the Manly-Rickert edition and on the considerable financial and personal challenges faced by the editors throughout the sixteen-year process of compiling the edition.
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