TC reflects heterodox or heretical outlooks and religious division in its depiction of love as religion, its prescribing a morality based on love, its metaphors of preaching, its celebration of love's power, and its notion of false felicity.
Depictions of the seasons in late medieval literature are loci for considerations of good and evil, mutability and human responsibility. The conventional representation of the seasons are reversed in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," The Townley…
MLT is animated by ambivalence toward and ignorance of Islam. Chaucer's adaptation of Trevet's "Cronicles" shifts emphasis and perspective. Whereas the source never mentions Mohammed or the Koran and considers Muslims to be idol-worshippers, MLT…
Cigman, Gloria.
Leo Carruthers and Adrian Papahagi, eds. Jeunesse et vieillesse: Images médiévales de l'age en littérature anglaise (Paris: Harmatten, 2005), pp. 93-101.
Imaginative re-creation of the Wife of Bath's life and times from childhood onward, expanding on hints in WBP.
Cigman, Gloria.
Danielle Buschinger and Arlette Sancery, eds. Mélanges de langue, littérature et civilisation offerts à André Crépin à l'occasion de son quatre-vingtième anniversaire (Amiens: Presses du Centre d'Études Médiévales, Université de Picardie-Jules Verne, 2008), pp. 111-17.
Explores ambiguities of wealth and poverty in CT in light of contemporaneous reality.
Cioffi, Caron Ann.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 87 (1988): 522-34.
Susan Schibanoff (JEGP, 1977) is in error when she argues that the "impossibilia" testifying to Criseyde's love (TC 3.1492-98) suggests the medieval genre of the antifeminist lying-song. Rather, such "impossibilia" belong in a courtly context, and…
In his "Teatro d'huomini letterati" (1647), Gerolamo Ghilini includes a sketch of Chaucer's life and works based on John Pits's "Relationem historicarum de rebus anglicis" (Paris, 1619). Errors and omissions demonstrate that Ghilini depended wholly…
Clancy, Gertrude and Joseph.
Aberystwyth: Northgate, 1993.
Murder mystery which features Chaucer, pilgrims from CT, and historical figures, cast as a series of narratives told while the pilgrims pause at the Priory of Saint Innocents.
Reports on the author's completing a Ph.D. in medieval English and pursuing a career during the COVID-19 pandemic; includes comments on the "clear parallel" between teaching Chaucer's works and teaching online courses generally.
Claridge, Alexandra.
Notes and Queries 265 (2020): 338-40.
Presents connections between the "epithet 'of bath'" in relation to the Wife of Bath and a character in the fifteenth-century play "Lucidus and Dubius," who also refers to himself as "a childe of bathe." Suggests that this understanding "has the…
Claridge, Claudia.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Uses CT as a source of data for a linguistic study of hyperbole, particularly for diachronic case studies in Chapter Six. Charts Chaucer's hyperbolic use of a few, selected words. In Chapter Seven, suggests that Chaucer uses hyperbole in GP to…
Historical murder mystery set in 1400, in the months after Henry IV's usurpation of Richard II's throne. "Master" Chaucer and Adam are involved with copying Lollard treatises; Matilda, Chaucer's house-maid, is involved with friar-cum-sleuth Brother…
Historical novel in which friar-detective Rodric Chandler investigates murder as he seeks to hide Adam Pinkhurst's copy of CT from Lancastrian censors.
Clark, Cecily.
English Studies 62 (1981): 504-505.
The use of regional dialects in RvT and the "Second Shepherd's Play" indicates a sporadic literary exploitation of dialect differences in the fourteenth century and implies an ability, at least among the educated, to classify the different dialects…
Clark, George.
Revue de l'Universite d'Ottawa 52 (1982): 257-65.
Whereas Chauntecleer was caught by the fox on the third of May,Arcite's escape from prison and Pandarus's first visit to Criseyde took place on the fourth. These differences in date have different meanings according to medieval "lunaria,"…
Clark, John Frank.
Dissertation Abstracts International 43 (1983): 3490A.
Three other ME poems--"The Parlement of the Thre Ages," "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," "The Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyn"--and BD associate hunting with death. In Chaucer's dream vision the hunt draws the narrator to the bereaved so…
Argues that Chaucer intended to complete SqT, evident in the fact that the Franklin's interruption is unjustified or inconsistent with the characterization of the Franklin in several ways.
Comments on the meanings and referents of "tretys" in MelP and in Ret, suggesting that the first usage is not particularly doctrinal and that the second refers to ParsT rather than CT as a whole.
