Jost, Jean E.
Albrecht Classen, ed. The Book and the Magic of Reading in the Middle Ages. (New York and London: Garland, 1998), pp. 171-217.
Chaucer involves his readers in a romancelike quest of introspection. By way of infinite regression, they encounter first the text, then a reading character, and finally themselves. The process encourages both Socratic self-knowledge and pleasurable…
An ornithological guide to the birds mentioned in Chaucer's works, with black-and-white sketches of each bird. Discusses the contexts in which Chaucer cites various birds, arguing that the poet was aware of their iconic values and that he was a keen…
Holsinger, Bruce W.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 21: 99-141, 1999.
Argues that the alliterative "Choristers' Lament" is "a sophisticated but hitherto unrecognized response" to Langland's Piers Plowman. Details of the sketch of the Sergeant at Law in GP and the use of "rote" in PrT may indicate that Chaucer conceived…
Hirose, Sutezo.
Hisayuki Sasamoto et al., eds. Hearts to the English-American Language and Literature: Essays Presented to Emeritus Professor Sutezo Hirose in Honour of His 88th Birthday (Osaka: Osaka Kyoiku Tosho, 1999), pp. iii-vi.
Hanawalt, Barbara A.,and David Wallace, eds.
Minneapolis and London : University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
Ten essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors. The essays focus on intersections between literary and historical texts, especially those concerned with representations of law and transgression of law. For three essays that pertain…
Goodman, Anthony,and James Gillespie, eds.
Oxford ;
Eleven essays by various authors and an introduction by Goodman. Topics include Richard's reign as presented in chronicles, the nature and quality of his rule, and his relations with the following: his councils, the Church, the higher nobility,…
Green, Richard Firth.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
Explores patterns in the meanings and applications of two fundamental concepts in late-medieval English tradition: truth (trouthe), which shifted from "integrity" to "conforming to fact"; and treason, which shifted from "personal betrayal" to a…
Palmer, R. Barton, ed.
New York : AMS Press, 1999.
Fourteen essays by various authors on French poets Machaut, Froissart, Deschamps, Christine de Pizan, Charles d'Orelans, and Villon. The essays emphasize the determining material effects of the courtly mode of production, especially the roles of the…
Olson, Glending.
David Wallace, ed. The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 566-88
Surveys Chaucer's life and art in light of their cultural contexts, commenting on his status as a court poet, the nature of his audience, his self-consciousness and uses of contemporary literary forms, his relations to his contemporaries, and his…
Nugent, Christopher Gerard.
Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 1124A, 1999.
The sense of individual authorship and the acceptance of English as a literary language were eventually accomplished by Chaucer, who, though he sometimes assumed authority through his guise of translator, became the model for subsequent English…
Muscatine, Charles.
Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 1999.
Fourteen previously printed pieces by Muscatine, including articles, sections of books, and reviews. The four essays that pertain to Chaucer are "The Canterbury Tales: Style of the Man and Style of the Work" (1966), "Chaucer's Religion and the…
Thirty-four essays--half in German, half in English--by various authors. Topics range from general discussions of the reception of the Middle Ages in traditional art and literature to medievalism in architecture and modern and postmodern film,…
Mooney, Linne R.
Geoffrey Lester, ed. Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays in Honour of Norman Blake (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), pp. 139-60.
Charts "specific astronomical references" that are datable in Chaucer's works against other known events of the poet's life. Although the references may not help us date the poems in which they occur, they do indicate Chaucer's active interest in…
Twelve essays by various authors on identity as reflected in medieval and early modern literature and history. Topics include bastardry in the work of Geoffrey of Monmouth, linguistic identity and Spanish Jews, identity in the work of Langland, the…
Matthews, David.
Minneapolis and London : University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
Assesses the roots and development of Middle English studies as a reflection of antiquarian and nationalistic impulses. Traces the growth of English medievalism from Bishop Thomas Percy to Frederick Furnivall and focuses on the impact of individual…
Marino, John B.
Essays in Medieval Studies 13: 121-29, 1996.
Explores the imagery of oxen, stalls, and yoking in Boethian and Christian traditions, arguing that they underlie Chaucer's allegorical uses of the imagery in Truth, ClT, NPT, and the CT at large.
Includes two reminiscences and thirty-four essays in Japanese. For the reminiscence and the six essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Hearts to the English-American Language and Literature under Alternative Title.
Medieval encyclopedism, although typically treated as a manifestation of "closed-systems" thinking, has many dimensions that suggest a wider, unresolved view of the universe. Chaucer's works, with other encyclopedic texts, offer examples of open…
Ridyard, Susan J., ed.
Sewanee, Tenn. : University of the South, 1999.
Eleven papers by various authors on the literature and history of knighthood, with topics ranging from ascetic knighthood to knighthood as a trope. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Chivalry, Knighthood, and War in the Middle Ages…
Quinn, William A., ed.
New York and London : Garland, 1999.
Sixteen essays by various authors on BD, HF, PF, LGW, and the short poems. Fifteen are reprints or excerpts from longer works published between 1948 and 1994. Includes a brief introduction to each of the poems (and the section on the short poems), a…
Prendergast, Thomas A.,and Barbara Kline,eds.
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 1999.
Eleven essays by various authors and an introduction (by Prendergast) on the relations between Chaucer's "original" texts and later adaptations of these texts. The book explores the cultural conditions that produced the adaptations, as well as the…
Twelve previously published historicist essays and book chapters by various authors. The volume is a companion to Pearsall's Chaucer to Spenser: An Anthology. Three essays pertain to Chaucer: Mary Carruthers, "The Wife of Bath and the Painting of…
Patterson, Annabel.
Sally McKee, ed. Crossing Boundaries: Issues of Cultural and Individual Identity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1999) pp. 155-87.
Assesses the Chaucer portraits in the Ellesmere manuscript and in Hoccleve's Regement of Princes as evidence in the study of the development of individual identity. Considers literary portraits of John Locke, John Milton, John Donne, and Chaucer,…
Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn, Nicholas Watson, Andrew Taylor, and Ruth Evans, eds.
University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press; Exeter: University of Exeter Press 1999.
Anthologizes fifty-seven excerpts from works written in Middle English, most of them prologues, documenting the nature and history of "Middle English literary theory," i.e., the "sophisticated and still-influential traditions of theorizing . . .…
