Canty, R.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Exeter, 1997. Dissertation Abstracts International C70.20. Abstract accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global; accessed August 24, 2025.
Item not seen. From the abstract: Examines "the treatment of five of the tales about classical women that appear" in LGW and in Gower's "Confessio Amantis." Considers gender, the "socio-political environment of the time," and poetics in the prologues…
Examines all fifteenth-century witnesses of WBP, which are available on CD-Rom (SAC 20 [1998], no.11). Some scribes still had a system for the use of final -e, here studied in strong and weak adjectives in early, mid-, and late-fifteenth-century…
Caon, Luisella.
C. C. Barfoot, ed. "And Never Know the Joy": Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2006), pp. 33-47.
Chaucer's uses of thou and ye pronouns "systematically" indicate the "degree of closeness or distance" between lovers in CT, indicating not only formality and informality but also intensity of emotion and shifts in attitudes. Caon surveys previous…
Caparrós, Marina Asián.
Sara Martin, David Owen, and Elisabet Pladevall-Ballester, eds. Persistence and Resistance in English Studies: New Research (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2018), pp. 109-18.
Exemplifies the "Scandinavian influence" on Middle English, offering morphological, syntactical, and lexical samples of this influence on CT.
Capdevielle, Elizabeth Gibbons.
Dissertation Abstracts International A76.01 (2015): n.p.
Studies "the moral meaning of spiritual and political mediation" in late medieval England, focusing on miracles of the Virgin, TC, Julian of Norwich's "A Revelation of Love," and Thomas Hoccleve's "Regiment of Princes," using aspects of Emmanuel…
Capener, Norman.
Annual of the Royal College of Surgeons 50.5 (1972): 283-300.
Summarizes the life and medical expertise of John of Gaddesden, rejecting the notion that Chaucer caricatured Gaddesden in the GP description of the Physician, suggesting that it is instead an "impersonal description." Also comments on Chaucer's…
In his conduct and dress, the social-climbing Reeve associates himself with the clergy--an association that the Miller recognizes and ridicules unmercifully.
Caretta, Vincent.
Studies in Scottish Literature 16 (1981): 14-28.
"The Kingis Quair" has been interpreted as autobiographical and Boethian. If, however, James I understood Boethius as Chaucer did, both interpretations are incorrect. James discredits his narrator persona by using the Chaucerian Boethius as a…
Carey, John, ed.
New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2021.
Collects selections from western poets, from Homer forward, including WBP, 587–608, translated by Carey, with a brief introduction that characterizes the Wife as having a "good claim to be the first feminist in literature."
Carlin documents the development of public dining in London and Westminster, drawing evidence from, among other sources, GP, "Piers Plowman," and the prologue to Lydgate's "The Siege of Thebes."
Carlin, Martha.
Stephen H. Rigby, ed., with the assistance of Alastair J. Minnis. Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 460-80.
Offers reasons why Chaucer uses a "recognizable contemporary," Henry Bailly, or Bailif (he used both names), as a model for the Host in CT. Provides biographical details on Henry Bailly, or Bailif, of Southwark; historical background of innkeeping…
Thomas Spencer, a scrivener, purportedly owned a copy of TC in 1394. Presents the historical record regarding Spencer's life, since if this claim is true, it represents the only recorded instance of one of Chaucer's works circulating during his…
Carlin, Martha.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 40 (2018): 413–21.
Distinguishes among taverns, alehouses, and public inns, providing historical evidence that the latter were in Chaucer's day a "new institution," and maintaining that his setting of the opening of GP in an inn engages an emergent social culture,…
Carlson, Cindy L.,and Angela Jane Weisl,eds.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.
Eleven essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors. Topics include depictions of virginity, widowhood, and their intersections in medieval romance, hagiography, and drama, with recurrent references to other literary genres and…
Carlson, Cindy.
Cynthia Kuhn and Cindy Carlson, eds. Styling Texts: Dress and Fashion in Literature (Youngstown, N.Y.: Cambria Press, 2007), pp. 33-48.
Carlson examines motifs of shame and covering in the two disrobing scenes in ClT, arguing that Griselda's request for a smock to cover herself before she leaves Walter indicates that she has "shown a self that cannot be shamed by Walter, by poverty…
Carlson, David R.
Huntington Library Quarterly 54 (1991): 283-300.
Hoccleve's hopes for preferment depended upon his claim to personal acquaintance with Chaucer and to his "consail and reed." Hoccleve's patrons had known Chaucer by sight and could verify the image of Chaucer that accompanies Hoccleve's poems. …
Carlson, David R.
Robert Taylor, James F. Burke, Patricia J. Eberle, Ian Lancashire, and Brian S. Merrilees, eds. The Centre and Its Compass: Studies in Medieval Literature in Honor of Professor John Leyerle (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1993), pp. 29-70.
Usk's "Testament of Love" relies on Chaucer's translation of Bo and his literary reworking of philosophy in TC, but it reflects even more significantly Chaucer's innovations in writing nondevotional, apolitical, self-consciously literary prose texts.
Carlson, David R.
University of Toronto Quarterly 64:2 (1995): 274-88.
Inferences about Chaucer's court life and patronage provided literary successors with a model for the profitabliity of writing poetry, which--along with the increase in the number of Italian humanists and the advent of printing--fostered the…
Carlson, David R.
Library, ser. 6, 19 (1997): 25-67.
Traces the history of two related series of woodcuts. The first, cut for Caxton's 1483 edition, apparently derives from miniatures in the manuscript now known as the Oxford Fragments (Ox1 and Ox2). The second series was copied from Caxton for…
Carlson, David R.
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Chaucer's occupations--domestic servant, customs agent, justice of the peace, and clerk of the King's Works--shaped his literature, and his "servility" enabled him to become the "father" of English poetry. His biography and his works alike reveal…
Legal proceedings following the 1390 roadside theft from Chaucer while he was on the King's business demonstrate the folly of any medieval challenge to hierarchical prerogative by a gang representing antihierarchical attitudes. Theoretically…
Carlson, David R.
Modern Language Review 109 (2014): 931-52.
Argues that Gower was "emulous and rivalrous," and eager to better the work of Ovid, Chaucer, and even his own early poetry. Compares Chaucer's use of the Ovidian tale of Ceyx and Alcyone, in BD and HF, with Gower's use of the same material in the…
