Friedman, John B.
Marlene Villalobos Hennessy, ed. Tributes to Kathleen L. Scott. English Medieval Manuscripts: Readers, Makers and Illuminators (London: Harvey Miller), pp. 83-100.
CYPT shares details and concerns found in other late medieval and early modern English alchemical treatises, part of the genre of "alchemical autobiography." Like CYPT in considering the function of organic material (especially excrement) in…
Winstead, Karen A.
Chaucer Review 43 (2009): 239-59.
By assigning his English translation of Raymund of Pennaforte's "orthodox" yet "contritionist" "Summa de poenitentia" to the Parson, Chaucer subtly resists the emphasis on oral confession to priests that characterized the doctrine of penance of his…
Herman, Jason Michael.
Dissertation Abstracts International A70.04 (2009): n.p.
Suggests that Ret should be considered as a rhetorical appeal for the prayers of readers, who are encouraged to reflect on their own readings of CT and to engage in the self-scrutiny that Ret exemplifies.
Patterson, Lee.
Brigitte Cazelles and Charles Méla, eds. Modernité au Moyen Âge: Le défi du passé. Recherches et rencontres, no. 1 (Geneva: Droz, 1990), pp. 113-51.
Chaucer's Anel explores the "dilemma of the modern poet in the late Middle Ages." The "Thebanness" of the text engages its Boethianism as a competing and fatalistic view of memory and history. Allusions to Statius, Corinna, Virgil, Ovid, Dante, and…
Banks, David.
ASp [Anglais de spécialité]: La revue du GERAS 15-18 (1997): 451-60.
Banks gauges the place of Astr in the development of English scientific prose, tabulating grammatical metaphors, verbal nouns (ending with -ing), passive voice, personal pronouns, and instructional syntax (an infinitive clause followed by an…
Horobin, Simon.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 31 (2009): 109-24.
Paleographical analysis of the text of Astr in Bodley MS 19 reveals that it was produced not by a professional astronomer, but by Stephen Dodesham, a professional scribe who became a Carthusian monk. Other features of the manuscript encourage…
Boethius's "prosimetrum" lets readers experience the "consolation of temporality" that Philosophy offers. In Bo, Chaucer demonstrates his understanding of this consolation by highlighting Philosophy's references to time; however, by rendering the…
In its evocations of a "locus amoenus," "fin' amors," and Aeneas, the dream chamber in BD serves as a "structural analogue" to the Man in Black's autobiography, which narrates an idyllic youth, describes falling in love, and refers to the duties of…
Lettau, Lisa.
Dissertation Abstracts International A69.09 (2009): n.p.
As part of an exploration of medieval efforts to understand a physical/spiritual dichotomy, the dissertation sets BD in conversation with Margery Kempe, with an eye toward development of a "unified selfhood."
Treacy, Anne-Marie.
Karl Kügle and Lorenz Welker, eds. Borderline Areas in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Music (Middleton, Wis.: American Institute of Musicology), 2009, pp. 221-29.
Comments on the influence of "Roman de la Rose" and Machaut's "Remede de Fortune" and "Jugement du Roy de Behaigne" on BD, suggesting that Chaucer reinvents the "French fashion for lyric interpolation" to "suit the needs of the grieving Black…
Chaucer's sensitivity to the "cultural survival" of Wales is suggested in three moments in HF: the insinuation that Wales is near the river of forgetfulness through a visual pun on "Cymerie" (73); the citation of an unknown and hence implicitly…
Includes a study that details the bibliographical and physical instability of two variants of the 1542 Chaucer edition--the Reynes imprint and the Bonham imprint--as they exist in the Hoe, the Chew, and the Hagen-Clark copies, paying particular…
Escobedo treats Chaucer as a link between Spenser and Plato and considers choice a crucial value in PF. Also notes that MerT shows that "mastery cannot compel love" (196).
Fradenburg, Aranye.
Elizabeth Scala and Sylvia Federico, eds. The Post-Historical Middle Ages ((New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 87-115.
Fradenburg contemplates similarities between Freud's "Interpretation of Dreams" and medieval dream theory (especially Chaucer's in PF, BD, and NPT) as a way to explore the continuities of history and human psychology.
Fitzmaurice, Susan M., and Donka Minkova, eds.
New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2008.
Nineteen studies, including position papers, responses, and counter responses. A set of exchanges pertains to Chaucer: In "Metrical Evidence: Did Chaucer Translate The Romaunt of the Rose'?" (pp. 155-79), Xingzhong Li affirms on metrical grounds that…
Anastasopoulos, Alexandra.
Meeting of Minds XVII 11 (2009): 199-203.
Anastasopoulos argues for mediated influence of Benoît's "Le Roman de Troie" on characterization, didactic message, and acknowledgement of sources in TC.
Kaylor, Noel Harold Jr.
Marcin Krygier and Liliana Sikorska, eds. Þe Laurer of Oure Englische Tonge. Medieval English Mirror, no. 5 (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang), 2009, pp. 93-105.
The five-book structure of TC is informed both by Dante's "Divine Comedy" and by Boethius's "Consolatio," a combination that adds to the text's ambiguity. Chaucer extends Dante's three-step journey from Inferno to Heaven by adding Troilus's downward…
Mitchell, J. Allan.
Ann W. Astell and J. A. Jackson, eds. Levinas and Medieval Literature: The "Difficult Reading" of English and Rabbinic Texts (Pittsburgh, Penn.: Duquesne University Press, 2009), pp. 185-206.
Reads courtly love in TC through a Levinasian lens: courtly desire is ethical because it is never satisfied. Yet, Criseyde's case disallows a direct application of Levinasian ethical theory. Mitchell comments on the role of fortune in TC, the…
Mitchell, J. Allan
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Mitchell explores the relationships among fortune, ethics, and validity in TC and other late medieval writings: Usk's "Testament of Love," "The Chaunce of the Dyse," Gower's "Confessio Amantis," Lydgate's "Fall of Princes," and Malory's "Morte…
