Campbell, Bruce.
Edwin Brezette De Windt, ed. The Salt of Common Life: Individuality and Choice in the Medieval Town, Countryside, and Church: Essays Presented to J. Ambrose Raftis. Studies in Medieval Culture, no. 36 (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1995), pp. 271-305.
Extant manorial accounts representing over two hundred different demesnes in Norfolk (from the period 1250-1449) suggest that Oswald the Reeve's dwelling and husbandry were based on a specific landscape and rural economy that would have been…
Campbell, Emma.
Comparative Literature 55: 191-216, 2003.
Campbell applies Judith Butler's theories of performative gender identity and "cultural translation" to ClT and its sources in Petrarch and Boccaccio. In Chaucer's version, authority is translated to the vernacular and to oral discourse, challenging…
Campbell, Ethan.
Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2018.
Makes clear the anti-clericalism, overt and implicit, in the works of the "Gawain"-poet ("Cleanness," "Patience," "Pearl," and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"), examining the theme in light of contemporaneous polemics. Includes several references…
Campbell, Jackson J.
Chaucer Review 17 (1982): 171-81.
Chaucer introduces the new pilgrim so that his confession may form an imperfect paradigm of repentance, as prelude to the more successful portrayal of this concomitant of pilgrimage that we find in ParsT.
Campbell, Jackson J.
Chaucer Review 7.2 (1972): 140-46.
Reads ManT as an example of successful "characterization through narrative technique," assessing its paucity of actual storytelling relative to the amount of moralizing. This tedious moralizing is comic and results from Chaucer's adaptations of his…
Campbell, Jackson J.
Princeton University Library Chronicle 26 (1964): 5-6.
Reports on the acquisition by Princeton University Library of a manuscript of the CT, variously known as the Tollemache Chaucer or the Helmingham MS. Includes comments on contents, paleography, and codicology.
Identifies a cut-down single-page portion of Book 1 of TC ("Cecil" manuscript), found attached to the cover of a rent book in Hatfield House. Provides a facsimile, transcription, table of variants, and commentary.
Examines the ambiguous character of Criseyde in TC 4. Chaucer gives her a point of view only to call her morality into question and he provides a sense of history that he never allows her fully to understand. TC is a "feminist work that fails to…
Historical fiction that follows the life of Alice Perrers an includes Chaucer as a minor character and friend of Alice. First published in 2009 in London (Century), without the subtitle.
Cañadas, Ivan.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 18.1 (2010): 57-79.
Chaucer's depiction of the statues of Virgil and Ovid in HF comments ironically on Virgil's political support of Augustus Caesar and on Augustan notions of authority--evidence of Chaucer's skeptical attitude toward literary and political authority.
Candelaria, Frederick H.
Modern Language Notes. 71.5 (1956): 321-22.
Suggests that the portentous oak of PardT 6.765 (no species mentioned in analogues) gains dimension in light of Chaucer having been robbed at a "fowle oak" in Kent in 1390, and also suggests, therefore, that Chaucer must have been written PardT after…
Candeloro, Antonio.
1616: Anuario de la Sociedad Espanola de Literatura General y Comparada 5 (2015): 163-87.
Analyzes Chaucer and Shakespeare in Javier Marıas's novel, "Ası empieza lo malo." Chaucer's concepts of "fame" and "rumor," as described in HF, are central to Marias's depiction of contemporary men and their incapacity to face rumor and establish…
Canfield, J. Douglas.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989.
Treats selected major figures and works of English literature from "Beowulf" to Congreve, concentrating on the feudalistic idea of the "pledged word," as a shaping "master trope." By elevating the word to sign, Canfield applies theories of Derrida,…
Canitz, A. E. C.
Medievalia et Humanistica 17 (1991): 81-99.
Documents Douglas's theory of literal translation, "with its stress on the integrity and inviolability of the text," and gauges his success in achieving his goal. Douglas's theory is evident in his critiques of Caxton's translation of the "Aeneid"…
Canitz, A. E. Christa, and Gernot R. Wieland, eds.
Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, 1999.
Sixteen essays by various authors on Eastern and Western medieval literature and medievalism, plus a bibliography of Manzalaoui's publications. For six essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for From Arabye to Engelond under Alternative Title.
Canitz, A. E. Christa.
A. E. Christa Canitz and Gernot R. Wieland, eds. From Arabye to Engelond: Medieval Studies in Honour of Mahmoud Manzalaoui on His 75th Birthday (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1999), pp. 131-53.
Argues that LGW critiques the rigidity of highly conventionalized literary genres for failing to represent human experience adequately. Chaucer's conflation of hagiography, courtly romance, and epic myth reveals the "flaws" in each genre, especially…
Cannon Christopher.
Barbara A. Hanawalt and David Wallace, eds. Medieval Crime and Social Control (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), pp. 156-85.
Legal records reflect the struggles of medieval women to gain legal (and verbal) representation. A similar struggle is evident in the court case of Lady Meed of Piers Plowman, as well as in Julian of Norwich's Revelation of Love, The Book of Margery…
Cannon, Christopher David.
Dissertation Abstracts International 54 (1994): 4100A.
Though hailed as an innovator by his successors and subsequent critics, Chaucer adapted existing traditions in innovative ways. "Colloquial" and "aureate" styles had already been developed in English, but he juxtaposed them. He was less the…
Cannon, Christopher, intro.
Larry D. Benson, gen. ed. The Riverside Chaucer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. iva-ivh.
Foreword to the reissue of the paperback version of The Riverside Chaucer, assessing the legacy of the Riverside text in light of editorial theory and modern computers.
Examines the word "raptus" in late-fourteenth-century English law and concludes that it meant "forced coitus." Also prints a newly discovered document relating to Cecily Chaumpaigne's case against Chaucer and suggests that the phrase "de raptu meo,"…
Linguistic claims that Chaucer's English is the origin of English literary language are self-fulfilling, based on the "myth," in the sense of Levi-Strauss, that Chaucer originated English poetic tradition. The OED credits Chaucer with the first…
