Phillips, Helen.
Roger Ellis and Ruth Evans, eds. The Medieval Translator, 4. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, no. 123. (Binghamton, N.Y.: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1994), pp. 86-103.
Compares the diction of Chaucer's Ven with that of its sources (three of Otto de Graunson's ballades) to explore how Chaucer reconceived "what de Graunson had written for a male speaker as an expression of a woman's feelings." The speaker of the…
Koff, Leonard Michael.
Roger Ellis and Rene Tixier, eds. The Medieval Translator/Traduire au Moyen Age, 5. ([Turnhout, Belgium]: Brepols, 1996), pp. 390-418.
Briefly sketches a medieval philosophy of animal language in relation to medieval notions of translation as a communal ideal. In ClT, Chaucer presents translation as a form of revelation; in SumT, it is transgressive; in KnT, a kind of disguise. In…
Dor, Juliette.
Roger Ellis and Rene Tixier, eds. The Medieval Translator/Traduire au Moyen Age, 5 ([Turnhout, Belgium]: Brepols, 1996), pp. 376-89.
Examines the differences between Chaucer's poverty prologue to MLT and its source, Innocent III's "De miseria condicionis humane," attributing these differences to the influence of Renaud de Louen's "Livre de Mellibee et Prudence," which Chaucer…
Nakamura, Tetsuko.
Roger Ellis and Rene Tixier, eds. The Medieval Translator/Traduire au Moyen Age, 5 ([Turnhout, Belgium] : Brepols, 1996), pp. 322-33.
Surveys eighteenth-century translations of portions of Chaucer's CT, examining Ogle's translation of ClT as an example in which the translator adapted the original to contemporary taste. Ogle's Walter and Griselda are a couple with human feelings…
Fradenburg, Louise O.
Roderick J. Lyall and Felicity Riddy, eds. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Scottish Language and Literature (Medieval and Renaissance). (Stirling/Glasgow: Department of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow, 1981), pp. 177-90.
Questions the nature and extent of Chaucer's influence on the "Scottish Chaucerians," since most medieval literature is simultaneously derivative and innovative. The "Kingis Quair" of James I (viewed here in the context of the Selden manuscript) is…
Kohl, Stephan.
Roderick J. Lyall and Felicity Riddy, eds. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Scottish Language and Literature (Medieval and Renaissance) (Stirling/Glasgow: Department of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow, 1981), pp. 285-98.
Aruges that in its depiction of love Henryson's "Cresseid" is more a Renaissance poem than a medieval one. Though its subject matter and verse form follow Chaucer, the poem gives license "to love a human being for his or her own sake--not for God's…
Comments on various aspects of KnT and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" (sources, dates, verse forms, etc.), discussing most extensively their uses of rhetorical devices. Finds KnT to be inferior because in it "form dictates to matter" and because…
Hanna, Ralph, III, intro.
Rochester: Boydell & Brewer, 1989.
A reproduction of the rare 1911 facsimile. Hanna's critical introduction treats manuscript preparation, accuracy, scribal practice, and the value of the Ellesmere in textual matters.
Mooney, Linne R., and Estelle Stubbs.
Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2013.
Comprehensive study of scribes from the London Guildhall responsible for copying Chaucer's earliest manuscripts, including Adam Pinkhurst, Guildhall scrivener from 1378-1410.
Bellis, Joanna.
Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 2016.
Examines the narrative and linguistic effects of the Hundred Years War, and claims that the war functions similarly to the Conquest of 1066 as an event that shapes a relationship between word and war and emphasizes the mimetic relationship between…
Hopkins, Amanda, Robert Allen Rouse, and Cory James Rushton, eds.
Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 2014.
Collection of essays explores British medieval sexuality and sexual expression in literature. Examines fabliaux and romances of Chaucer, Gower, and Malory; alchemical texts; and satirical poetry of William Dunbar. The Introduction (pp. 1-11)…
Surveys medieval and early modern study of alchemy and writing about alchemy, with particular attention to its obscurities of language and limited potential for progress. A section called "Playing with Obscurity: Chaucer's Manipulation of the 'Tabula…
Reads CT, TC, and LGW in the context of late medieval courtesy books, advice literature, and epistolary collections. Considers public and private marital honor in the Paston letters and FranT, and wifely obedience in ClT, "Menagier de Paris," and…
Dearnley, Elizabeth.
Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell and Brewer, 2016.
Explores "the practice of translation from French into English in medieval England, and how the translators themselves viewed their task," including discussion of LGWP as Chaucer's "self-aware, playful" analysis of the factors complicating…
Salih, Sarah, ed.
Rochester, N.Y.; and Woodbridge, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 2006.
Seven essays by various authors and an introduction by the editor. The book discusses late medieval English saints from a number of perspectives (readership, shrines and festivals, gender, historiography), with recurrent references to Chaucer,…
Hodges, Laura [F.]
Rochester, N.Y.; and Woodbridge, Suffolk : D. S.Brewer, 2005.
Assesses the details and implications of the clothing and accoutrements of the clerical and academic pilgrims in GP, discussing the Prioress, Monk, Friar, Clerk, Physician, Parson, Pardoner, and Summoner. More richly symbolic than secular dress,…
Bliss, Jane.
Rochester, N.Y.; and Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2008.
Bliss surveys the variety of ways that names, naming, and namelessness in romance "contribute to our understanding" of the genre, focusing on Middle English narratives but also discussing French and Anglo-Norman analogues. She identifies a number…
Hopkins, Amanda, and Cory James Rushton, eds.
Rochester, N.Y.; and Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2007.
Thirteen essays by various authors, most focusing on depictions or deferrals of the erotic in Middle English romances, with other topics such as a branch of the "Mabinogi," female Jewish libido, fifteenth-century letters, and more. The editors'…
Greentree, Rosemary.
Rochester, N.Y.; and Cambridge : D. S. Brewer, 2001.
Descriptive, annotated bibliography of editions and criticism of Middle English lyrics and short poems, focusing on 1900-1995 but including several editions and studies outside this range. Excludes works dedicated exclusively to Chaucer and other…
Benson, Robert G., and Susan J. Ridyard, eds.
Rochester, N.Y., and Cambridge : D. S. Brewer, 2003.
Ten essays by various authors and a descriptive introduction by Derek Brewer. The papers were originally delivered at the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium at the University of the South in April 2000; the colloquium was devoted to Chaucer's work on the…
Cowgill, Kent.
Rochester, Minn.: Lone Oak Press, 1995.
A comic novel that derives its characters from GP and most of its sub-plots from CT, cast as the thirty-year reunion of a hapless college baseball team, the Tabelard Bees, with first-person narration by the team's utility player, Jeffrey Shoemaker,…
Whitesides, Nigel, and Adrian G. Packer.
Rochester, Kent: P.S. Publishers, 1998.
Lesson plans and activities for teaching CT, centered on adaptations of WBT, FranT, and PardT for staging, and including abridged versions of KnT, RvT, NPT, and FrT. Also includes a short play about the death of Thomas Becket. The volume includes…
Sharpless, F. Parvin, ed.
Rochelle Park, N.J.: Hayden, 1974.
An anthology of short works and excerpts from the Bible to modern poetry pertaining to the Fall and Redemption, with brief introductions and discussion questions designed for classroom use. Includes an excerpt from ParsT (10.316-57; pp. 33-36) in…
Arduini, Roberto.
Roberto Arduini, Giampaolo Canzonieri, and Claudio A. Testi, eds. Tolkien and the Classics (Zurich: Walking Tree, 2019), pp. 105-20.
Surveys evidence for the influence of Chaucer on Tolkien and adds comments on his impact on Tolkien's ""scenes of common life in the inns and in the figures of the innkeeper and the miller."
