Carrillo Linares, María José.
SELIM 17 (2010): 91-110.
Analysis of PhyT and its connection with the storyteller through the notions of authority, sovereignty and power. In the post-plague context, when doctors had become broadly distrusted, a story that stresses these aspects would help to restore the…
Carroll, Virginia Schaefer.
Medieval Perspectives 3 (1988): 76-88.
MilT and RvT raise the issue of "maistrie" in relation to the economic stability of the family. Women are defined as passive, in terms that equate sexual loyalty and commercial value. Wives "quyte" (repay) their husbands through financial loss and…
Carruthers, Leo, and Adrian Papahagi, eds.
Paris : Harmattan, 2005.
Eleven articles in French and English by various authors exploring the themes of youth and age in Old and Middle English literature. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Jeunesse et vieillesse under Alternative Title.
Carruthers, Leo, and Adrian Papahagi, eds.
Paris : Association des Médiviéstes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 2001.
Eleven articles by various authors on the functions of prologues and epilogues. For fives essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Prologues et épilogues dans la littérature anglaise under Alternative Title.
Carruthers, Leo, ed.
Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1994.
Fourteen essays on heroism and anti-heroes in "Beowulf" and other Old English poetry, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," and the works of Dunbar, Malory, and others. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Heroes and Heroines in Medieval…
Carruthers, Leo, ed.
Paris: Publications de l'Association de Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 1998.
Eight essays by various authors examining medieval dreams and prophecies in literature and society. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer search for Reves et propheties au Moyen Age under Alternative Title.
Carruthers, Leo, ed.
Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris-Sorbonne, 1998.
Ten essays by various authors exploring the four seasons in medieval English literature and society. Includes an essay by Sandra Gorgiewski about David Fincher's movie "Seven" in relation to ParsT and Dante. For an essay that pertains to…
Carruthers, Leo, ed.
Paris : Publications de l'Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 1999.
Nine essays by various authors exploring the theme of justice and injustice in Medieval English literature and society. One essay (Gloria Cigman on the notion of authority in Chaucer and in Shakespeare) pertains to Chaucer in general; two others also…
Carruthers, Leo, ed.
Paris: Société des anglicistes de l'enseignement supérieur, 2011.
Eleven articles on medieval women and/or literature for them, especially works that are written by women authors. For one essay that pertains to Chaucer, see Piero Boitani, "Marie de France and the Breton Lay in England," (pp. 211-26).
Carruthers, Leo, Raeleen Chai-Elsholz, and Tatjana Silec, eds.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
This collection dedicated to André Crépin contains an introduction and eleven essays on different aspects of palimpsests, both in the technical and literary senses of the word. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Palimpsests and…
Carruthers, Leo.
Jacqueline Hamesse et al., eds. Medieval Sermons and Society: Cloister, City, University: Proceedings of International Symposia at Kalamazoo and New York. Textes et etudes du Moyen Age, no. 9 (Louvain-la-Neuve: Fłdłration Internationale des Instituts d'₁tudes Młdiłvales, 1998), pp. 219-40.
Shows how the Middle English sermon series :Jacob's Well" reflects many aspects of contemporary society. Carruthers likens its audience to that of CT.
Comments on literary framing structures in manuals of religious instruction and confession, from the "Somme le Roi" to ParsT. Briefly compares ParsT to "Jacob's Well."
Examines the English educational system in Chaucer's time, tracing the paths from parish schools to the universities indicated in the GP portraits of the Clerk and the Parson.
Carruthers, Leo.
Wendy Harding, ed. Drama, Narrative and Poetry in The Canterbury Tales (Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2003), pp. 51-67.
Carruthers examines the framing structure and links of CT, with particular attention to the Host's role. Harry Bailey is both a unifying instrument in the poet's hands and an extension of Chaucer's identity, an alter ego who will ultimately be…
Discusses the genre of "lay" as a subset of romance, and places individual lays in their historical and literary contexts, reexamining the meaning of "Breton" in relation to medieval Celtic literature more generally. Compares Chaucer's lays to…
Carruthers, Leo.
Claire Vial, ed. 'Gode is the lay, swete is the note': Résonances dans les lais bretons moyen-anglais / Echoes in the Middle English Breton Lays (2014): n.p. (web publication).
Explores the semantic and cultural fields underlying the terms 'Breton' and 'Celtic'. Posits that Chaucer willingly betrays his knowledge of the traditional geography and culture connected with Breton lays in FranT.
Carruthers, Mary (J.)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
In an interdisciplinary study drawing upon "modern hermeneutical theory; art history and codicology; psychology and anthropology; the histories of medicine, education, and of meditation and spirituality," Carruthers posits that "medieval culture was…
Carruthers, Mary (J.)
English Language Notes 23 (1985): 11-20
"At hom" referred to "one's native dwelling," while "bord" signified "meals." "Gossib" referred to the baptismal sponsor and suggests that the Wife may well have had children. Jankyn's being "At hom to bord / With my gossib" implies that he lived…
Carruthers, Mary (J.)
Ruth Evans and Lesley Johnson, eds. Feminist Readings in Middle English Literature: The Wife of Bath and All Her Sect (London and New York: Routledge, 1994), pp. 39-44.
Comments on the rhetorical ontology of the Wife of Bath. The character is a figure of power who "continues to bother" because she is not silenced in the text, compelling readers to wish to respond.
Carruthers, Mary (J.)
New Literary History 24 (1993): 881-904
Dante and Chaucer use "buildings of the imagination" to organize lists of names, lists less informational than "inventional"--sets of associated plots or ideas that may reverberate in the work in which they appear. Examples from HF and BD as well as…
