Chiappelli, Carolyn.
Proceedings of the International Patristic, Mediaeval, & Renaissance Conference 4 (1979): 1107-14.
The motif of "fals apparences" is a unifying factor of HF. The eagle as sophist or false philosopher, in seizing the narrator as prey, is reminiscent of Satan as fowler, or Dante's Gerione, emblem of fraud.
Chickering, Howell D.
Nicolay Yakovlev, ed. Lecture Series (St. Petersburg: Linguistic Society of St. Petersburg, 2003), pp. 20-37. Rpt. from Yazyk i rechevaya deyatet'nost' (Language and Language Behavior) 4 (2001): Supplement.
Close reading of several GP descriptions (including the Knight, Monk, Clerk, Sergeant at Law, and Summoner) shows how Chaucer's shifting tones produce ironic implications.
Chickering, Howell.
David Sofield and Herbert F. Tucker, eds. Under Criticism: Essays for William H. Pritchard. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1998), pp. 91-108.
Considers the pedagogical value of memorizing verse and comments on exercises in retention for students of Chaucer's poetry. Includes close reading of several stanzas of PF.
Close reading of three passages on Troilus's suffering (5.218-38, 540-53, 1674-1722) reveals an intensification of emotion through "rhetorical figures of compression and repetition and by cascades of rhyme sounds within the rhyme royal forms." The…
Chickering, Howell.
T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer, eds. "Seyd in Forme and Reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio Press, 2005), pp. 3-18.
Close reading of the GP description of the Monk shows how a "complex interaction of the reader with Chaucer's text" produces a more satisfactory reading than does the positing of a naive narrator.
Chickering, Howell.
Susan Yager and Elise E. Morse-Gagné, eds. Interpretation and Performance: Essays for Alan Gaylord (Provo, UT: Chaucer Studio Press, 2013), pp. 49-63.
Chaucer's poetry should be declaimed or at least heard with the "mind's ear." His decasyllabic couplets, once dismissed by critics as "riding rhyme" and even confused with the doggerel of Th, are "eminently playable," offering a variety of…
Chickering, Howell.
Jenny Adams and Nancy Mason Bradbury, eds. Medieval Women and Their Objects (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017), pp. 56-68.
Focuses on materiality and objects in PrT, specifically the corpse, the antiphon, and the "greyn," and their "transcendence of the miraculous object." Claims that these objects illustrate Carolyn Bynum's notion of material objects involved in…
Chicote, Gloria B.
Lillian von der Walde Moheno, ed. Propuestas teórico-metodológicas para el estudio de la literatura hispnica medieva. (Mexico: Universidaad Nacional AutÑnoma de Mxico, 2003), pp. 165-89.
Three features characterize the collections of tales of Don Juan Manuel, Boccaccio, and Chaucer, especially as they relate to cultural context: marks of realism or authentication, thematic concern with unity and diversity, and the presence of the…
Childress, Diana.
North Haven, Conn. : Linnet, 2000.
An introduction to the social, political, and intellectual history of Chaucer's age, aimed at a general audience. Individual chapters pertain to fourteenth-century England and its relations with the Continent, social hierarchy, "cracks" in the social…
Childs, Wendy R.
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. 277-96.
Discusses the ambiguity of Chaucer's Shipman, connecting ShT to estates satire and contending that Chaucer combined an "ideal craftsman and the flawed individual" in the character of the Shipman.
Chism, Christine N.
Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales" (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 340-56
Describes the office of canon and the science of alchemy as background to the Canon, who chooses not to join the Canterbury pilgrimage. The history of corruption and reform among canons is a "touchstone" for understanding the character Chaucer…
Chism, Christine.
Faith Wallis and Robert Wisnovsky, eds. Medieval Textual Cultures: Agents of Transmission, Translation and Transformation (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016), pp. 85-120.
Describes the variety of cultural uses to which the astrolabe was put historically, and argues that the "complex back-histories of multicultural compilation," the "multifocal transmission," and the "imaginative pedagogy" of Astr assert a "reluctance…
Chism, Christine.
In Robert DeMaria Jr., Heesok Chang, and Samantha Zacher, eds. A Companion to British Literature. Vol. I, Medieval Literature 700–1450 (Chichester: Wiley, 2014), pp. 130-45.
Surveys the meanings, origins, and theories of courtly love, asking how it "works" in medieval texts, what light it can "cast upon medieval cultural practices, and why it comes to matter." Includes discussion of secrecy in TC, a text that animates…
Chism, Christine.
In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017. Relocated 2025 at https://opencanterburytales.lsusites.org/
Treats the breaking of sisterhood (Emelye and Hippolyta) and brotherhood (Palamon and Arcite) in KnT as Chaucer's adaptations of Ciceronian ideals in order to "intensify questions of desire agency and social justice" in the face of worldly…
Chisnell, Robert E.
Patricia W. Cummins, Patrick W. Conner, and Charles W. Connell, eds. Literary and Historical Perspectives of the Middle Ages (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 1982), pp. 156-73.
Neglected through modern predilections that ignore the intellectual milieu of the fourteenth century, Chaucer's prose works deserve more enlightened attention.
Chmaitelli, Nancy Adelyne.
Dissertation Abstracts International 47 (1986): 1722A-1723A.
On the bases of manuscript illuminations, ivory and stone carvings, and typological windows, Chmaitelli examines Dante's pageant at the end of "Purgatorio" and Chaucer's WBPT. The former shows the degeneration of the Church, while the latter reveals…
Chocano Díaz, Gema, Noelia Hernando Real, and Ana Ardid Gumiel, eds.
Madrid: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2020.
Includes a selection of passages from Chaucer, with word-by-word English translations and an introduction to Chaucer's linguistic and literary context. Intended for use as a manual for Middle and early modern English literature survey courses.
Choi, Jiyeon.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 23.2 (2015): 145-59.
Focuses on the clothing of Alisoun of MilT and the Wife of Bath, with attention to color, stereotyping, and economic conditions. In Korean, with an abstract in English (pp. 158-59).
