Collette, Carolyn.
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne and others, eds. Language and Culture in Medieval Britain: The French of England c.1100-c.1500 (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: York Medieval Press, 2009), pp. 373-85.
Collette explores interest in "mediation and moderation" in vernacular texts, commenting on the vernacular as a way to make learning more broadly available, on "the mean" in such texts as Nicole Oresme's translations of Aristotle, and on Chaucer's…
Collette, Carolyn. P.
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2001.
Medieval ideas of psychology and cognition underlie the concern with sight, imagination, and "fantasye" in select tales of Canterbury, wherein Chaucer demonstrates that the only certainty in human relations is uncertainty. The male characters of KnT…
Maintains that the silence of the pilgrims at the end of PrT signifies the Prioress's effectiveness in delivering a story of pathos that stuns the audience into silence. Explores how Chaucer uses PrT "to promote cautious, critical analysis" as a…
Colley, John.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 43 (2021): 45-73.
Investigates the reference to the "Judeo-Roman historian Josephus" in HF, 1429–36, exploring how his authority varies in the Middle Ages "depending on the extent to which he is understood as a Christian or a Jew," and showing how, in Chaucer's…
Collins, Arthur.
Literature in North Queensland 8.1 (1980): 7-13.
Verse dialogue in iambic pentameter couplets in which the Wife of Bath recommends to a convalescent Chaucer the idea of writing CT and offers to tend him while he writes.
Collins, Billy, ed., with illustrations by David Allen Sibley.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.
Comprises an anthology of English-language poetry about birds and bird species, with accompanying color plates. In the section concerning hawks, includes a stanza from PF (lines 330-36).
Collins, David G.
Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association 7 (1981): 9-30.
As the figure of Briseida, Criseyd, Cressida moved from Benoit de Saint-Maure (ca. 1160) and Guido della Colonne (1287), through Boccaccio (1336) and Chaucer (ca. 1385), to Shakespeare (1601-1602) and Dryden (1679), her portrait becomes increasingly…
Collins, Marie.
Essays and Studies 38 (1985): 12-28.
Examines depictions of masculine attractiveness in medieval romances, including TC. Influenced by rhetorical and courtly traditions, such depictions (and parallel cautions against seduction) emphasize moral and social qualities rather than personal…
Assesses astrological imagery in works by Chaucer, Lydgate, Henryson, Lyly, Greene, and Spenser, including discussion of how the zodiacal signs of Aries, Taurus, and Gemini suggest "symbolic re-enactment of sin" and provide "ironic commentary" in…
Collins, Shane Maurice.
Ph.D. Dissertation. Durham University, 2012. Fully accessible via https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/5902/ (accessed March 16, 2026).
Explores how "multiple modes of discourse" about the body--medical, philosophical, religious, and courtly--underlie works by Chaucer, Dunbar, and Henryson, arguing that CT, through its multiplicity of voices, "demonstrates fundamental medieval…
Collins, Timothy.
This Rough Magic (December 2012): n.p.
Explores the functions and implications of the black rocks in FranT both as a symbol of universal evil and as a narrative device, arguing that the rocks have particularly rich and pervasive significations, anticipating the postmodern device of a…
Colmer, Dorothy.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 72 (1973): 329-39.
Argues that the WBT is appropriate to the "Marcien" Wife, who represents a rising social class that challenges the "old courtly privilege." This class challenge parallels the Wife's sexual challenge, and her speech on "gentilesse"--a "complaint…
Colmer, Dorothy.
Essays in Criticism 20 (1970): 375-80.
Argues that the Franklin as narrator presents the characters in FranT as both "living people and as standard types from courtly romance," not worrying excessively about consistency of characterization and revealing more wisdom than we expect from…
Colombi, Giulio, and Elena Armida Olivari, ed. and trans.
Brescia: Morcelliana, 2018.
Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates that this is a translation of Astro into Italian, with an introduction. The publisher's information indicates that the volume includes an essay by Paolo Rossi on the place of the astrolabe in the history of…
Colquitt, Betsy Feagan, ed.
Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1971.
Includes three essays that pertain to Chaucer, one previously printed. For the two new essays, search for Studies in Medieval Renaissance American Literature under Alternative Title.
Colwell, C. Carter.
New York: Putnam's Sons, 1971.
Surveys English literature in Britain from Chaucer to ca. 1970, with the opening section (pp. 13-72) covering Chaucer's life, works, audience and reception, and his cultural environment--both historical and literary. Pays particular attention to CT,…
Comber, Abigail Elizabeth.
DAI A74.05 (2013): n.p.
Suggests that texts like PrT might be taught by examining their presentation of non-followers of Christianity as monsters, an alternative to post-colonial approaches.
Conde Silvestre, Juan Camilo, and Javier Calle Martın, eds.
New York: Peter Lang, 2015.
Includes papers from the eighth International Conference on Middle English, University of Murcia, Spain, 2013. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Approaches to Middle English: Variation, Contact and Change under Alternative Title.
Conde Silvestre, Juan Camilo, and M. Vila Vázquez González, eds.
Murcia: Universidad de Murcia, 2004.
Includes five essays that pertain to Chaucer; for the individual essays search for Medieval English Literary and Cultural Studies under Alternative Title.
Places HF in the intellectual and philosophical contexts of its era, particularly the tradition of Boethius and Wyclif, arguing that Chaucer supports the existence of universals.
