Lewis, Robert E., ed.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1978.
Facing-page (English/Latin) edition of Innocent's treatise, "De Miseria Condicionis Humane," unemended from British Library Manuscript Lansdowne 358, with extensive critical and textual information. including descriptions of the manuscripts and…
Tallies various instances from GP where Chaucer "shows in his deployment of nonce-words, key-words, status-terms and moral terms, that character and language are inseparable, that words and values change as societies change, that the only true value…
Erzgräber, Willi.
Erzgräber, Willi, and others. Europäisches Spätmittelalter (Wiesbaden: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, 1978), pp. 221-74.
Characterizes "Ricardian Literature" and discusses the major works of William Langland, John Gower, and Chaucer (pp. 246-69), focusing on social criticism and genre.
Lepley, Douglas Lee
Dissertation Abstracts International 38 (1978): 1539A.
Neither tedious nor ignorant, MkT teaches a "sound Boethian lesson" and can be seen as "artistically refined" in its evocation of tragic pathos. The Knight, the Host, and the critics err in castigating the Monk and his Tale.
Doherty, Mary Jane Margaret.
Dissertation Abstracts International 39 (1978): 1539A.
Equates "mistress-knowledge" of Sir Philip Sidney's "Defence of Poesy" with the "concept of an architectonic . . . usually related to self-knowledge as an ideal," traces the concept from classical to Renaissance treatments, and applies the critical…
Faulkner, Peter
Peter Lewis, ed. William Morris: Aspects of The Man and His Work (Loughborough, Leicestershire: Loughborough University of Technology, 1978), pp. 28-49.
Gauges the originality and success of William Morris's poetry, commenting in passing that "The Lovers of Gudrun" is written "in the rather casual couplet form which Morris derived from Chaucer" (37), even though he fails to exploit the "variety" of…
Gugelberger, Georg M.
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1978
Surveys the influence of Provençal and Italian poets on the works of Ezra Pound, and examines Pound's critical commentary about Chaucer (in his "ABC of Reading"), comparing passages from the two poets and exploring the extent to which the "three…
Oram, William A.
David A. Richardson, and A Kent Hieatt, eds. Spenser at Kalamazoo: Proceedings from a Special Session at the Thirteenth Conference on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, 5-6 May 1978 (Cleveland: Cleveland State University, 1978), pp. 238-53.
Comparative analysis evinces how Spenser adapts Chaucer's BD in creating his "Daphnaida." The impact changes, however, as Chaucer's "Man in Black presents Gaunt with an idealized version of himself," while Spenser's poem presents his friend, Arthur…
Duțescu, Dan, trans.
Bucharest: Editura Univers, 1978.
Translation of TC in Romanian rhyme royal stanzas, based on the text of Albert C. Baugh (1963), with preface and end-of-text notes and commentary by Duțescu. Includes b&w illustrations from ancient Mediterranean art, medieval manuscripts, and…
Translation of CT (except PrT, Mel, and ParsT) in Romanian poetry, based on the text of W. W. Skeat, with b&w illustrations of the pilgrims and the tales by Val Munteanu. The volume reprints with new pagination the 1964 version (Bucharest: Editura…
Defines and describes the social and rhetorical emphases that characterize the persona and poetic "common voice" of late-medieval English "public poetry," exemplified here most extensively in analyses of Langland's "Piers Plowman" and Gower's…
Hira, Toshinori.
Bulletin of the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Nagasaki University, Humanities 18 (1978): 59-78.
Considers the techniques of characterization in CT, with particular attention to the range of social classes and the assigning of fabliaux to particular tellers. Comments on the gender of individual tellers and on the likelihood of class and gender…
Handyside, I. G., ed.
Houndsmill, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1978.
School edition of MilPT and the description of the Miller in GP. Facing-page (modern prose opposite Chaucer's poem), accompanied by explanatory notes, a glossary, appreciative criticism of the Miller's characterization, commentary on the setting and…
Treilhard, John B.
Ph.D. Dissertation. McMaster University, 1978. Fully accessible via https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/items/4962989b-1a92-4c64-b55a-fc8485c90890 (accessed April 14, 2026).
Separates medieval ideas of love (primarily Ovidian and Augustianian) from Romantic and post-Romantic ideas, and argues that Chaucer "was unquestionably a man of his time--an orthodox member of the Church and a firm follower of the teachings of St.…
Luengo, Anthony Eamon.
Ph.D. Dissertation. McMaster University, 1978. Fully accessible via https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/items/79d2b698-ba8b-4e86-b138-5d64e2c84c34 (accessed April 14, 2026).
Offers "close analysis of the use of 'sententiae' and narrative 'exempla'," exploring NPT, WBT, PardT, SumT, and ParsT in light of "traditional and late medieval sermon theory and practice" evident in the "artes praedicandi" and in medieval…
Donohue, James J., trans.
Dubuque, Iowa: Loras College Press, 1979.
Complete translation, with portions previously published: GP (1954 and 1966); KnT (1958 and 1966); MkT (1961 and 1966); and PardT, NPT, and SNT (1956 and 1966).
Barney, Stephen A.
Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press, 1979.
Derives theory and definition from close readings of Prudentius's "Psychomachis," "Piers Plowman," "The Romance of the Rose," and "The Faerie Queene" as well as four more modern allegories.
