Ambrisco, Alan S.
Chaucer Review 38 (2004): 205-28.
The Squire's "bad use of occupatio and his self-conscious admissions of rhetorical inadequacy" preserve the foreign, "acknowledging Mongol cultural differences but failing to clarify the terms on which such differences rest." Through "this rhetoric…
Ambrisco, Alan Scott.
Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 1569A, 1999.
In medieval thinking, cannibalism became a marker setting off the Christian West from the barbarian East. Gradually, cannibalism came to be perceived sometimes figuratively, involving both the self and the other and a sense of identity. Ambrisco…
Summarizes the Augustinian psychology of memory and its relationship to language, arguing that these concepts underlie the narrator's "'educational' pilgrimage" in HF. The end of the poem reflects the transformation of fiction into reality.
Applies notions of links between tale and teller to apocryphal tales, an approach suggested by the medieval notion of "auctoritee." Concludes that post-medieval editions of CT do not "accurately" reflect the medieval understanding of the work as "a…
Ames, Ruth M.
Julian N. Wasserman and Robert J. Blanch, eds. Chaucer in the Eighties (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1986), pp. 57-74.
Chaucer responds to the God of Love's charges against TC and the translation of Rom by avoiding confrontation. This response is not noncommittal but carries the message that one should be evenhanded, not extremist, when dealing with feminism.
Ames, Ruth M.
Peter Cocozzella, ed. The Late Middle Ages (Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1984 (for 1981)), pp. 71-88.
Treats themes of predestination, Lollardy, and priestly celibacy in CT and TC.
Ames, Ruth M.
Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1984.
Written without footnotes for the nonspecialist, the book deals with Chaucer's Catholic-catholic Christian humanism, treating Chaucer as a Christian courtier whose comments on the church and the laity; sex, love, and marriage; the Old Testament and…
Ames, Ruth M.
Paul E. Szarmach and Bernard S. Levy, eds. The Fourteenth Century. Acta 4. (Binghampton: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, SUNY Binghampton, 1977), pp. 87-105.
Drawing on exegetical tradition, Chaucer effectively combines piety and irreverence in his handling of biblical themes and characters. In Mel and MLT he presents Old Testament platitudes and stereotypes as practical moral guides, while in MilT and…
Amodio, Mark C., ed.
New York and London: Garland, 1994.
Eleven essays by different hands define and explore the complex relationship between the emerging Middle English literate tradition and its receding oral ancestor in the centuries following the Norman Conquest. For three essays that pertain to…
Amoils, E. R.
English Studies in Africa 17 (1974): 17-37.
Explores the complementary thematic interconnections of PhyT and PardPT (integrity and fraudulence, spiritual fertility and sterility, virtue and vice, defeat of death), reading their interdependence in light of ParsT and the section of the "Roman de…
Amos, Thomas L.; Eugene A. Green; and Beverly Mayne Kienzle.
Kalamazoo. Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1989.
Thirteen essays survey topics in the history of medieval preaching from the Carolingian period to the fifteenth century, two focusing on fourteenth-century lives and Christ and Wycliffism respectively.
Amsel, Stephanie
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 39 (2017): 393-60.
Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 237 items, plus listing of reviews for 33 books. Includes an author…
Considers WBPT and SNPT, along with woman writers of the 13th-15th centuries, as part of the development of a female "subject consciousness." Also examines Grisilde in ClT.
Amsel, Stephanie A.
William Morris Society in the United States Newsletter n.v. (2012): 8-9.
Describes Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library's 1896 William Morris paper copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer. Includes details about letters, manuscript notes, drafts of illustrations and borders by Edward Burne-Jones, photographs, and other…
Amsel, Stephanie, and Mark Allen.
SAC 36 (2014): 359-421.
Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 229 items, plus listing of reviews for 43 books. Includes an author…
Amsel, Stephanie, and Will Rogers.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 44 (2022): 439-532
Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 326 items, plus a listing of reviews for 47 books. Includes an…
Amsel, Stephanie.
Rogers, Will.
Studies in the Ages of Chaucer 45 (2023): 441–502.
Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 178 items, plus a listing of reviews for 42 books. Includes an…
Amsel, Stephanie.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 37 (2015): 347–400.
Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 172 items, plus listing of reviews for 28 books. Includes an author…
Amsel, Stephanie.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 38 (2016): 387–450.
Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings.234 items, plus listing of reviews for 40 books. Includes an author…
Amsel, Stephanie.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 40 (2018): 527-619.
Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 335 items, plus a listing of reviews for 47 books. Includes an…
Amsel, Stephanie.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 41 (2019): 447–535
Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 336 items, plus listing of reviews for 40 books. Includes an author…
Amsel, Stephanie.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 42 (2020): 469-540.
Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 232 items, plus a listing of reviews for 34 books. Includes an…
Amsel, Stephanie.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 43 (2021): 385–453.
Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 273 items, plus a listing of reviews for 41 books. Includes an…
Mars is placed within Christian moral interpretation when Mars refers to lovers as fish caught on a hook. Asking why God made human love enticing, Mars inverts the "hierarchy of human and divine lovers." For him the love bait on the hook is not…
