The Wife of Bath's performance constitutes a bourgeois, female countercommentary by a literate property owner to the dominant male aristocratic and ecclesiastical conceptions of marriage, sex, learning, and economic power in the later Middle Ages.
Amsler, Mark.
Elizabeth Robertson and Christine M. Rose, eds. Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 61-96.
Although "mythographers allegorized Ovid's rape narratives as stories of cosmological creation or spiritual desire," Christine de Pizan presents Apollo's assault on Daphne (Épîstre d'Otha) as a disfigurement of the female body; in his tale of…
Amsler, Mark.
Brian Gastle and Erick Kelemen, eds. Later Middle English Literature, Materiality, and Culture: Essays in Honor of James M. Dean (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2018.), pp. 3-24.
Explores the semantic field of "affectus"/"affeccioun" in medieval Latin grammar, Chaucer (MilT and TC), Margery Kempe, and several devotional texts, clarifying its wide "range of meanings and connotations . . . as a feeling category term," positive…
Amsler, Mark.
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021.
Studies "pragmatics as an important aspect of premodern understanding of language and meaning," exploring "pragmatic ideas and metapragmatic awareness" in various kinds of medieval discourse. Details the contexts, functions, and significations of the…
Amtower, Laurel, and Dorothea Kehler, eds.
Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2003.
Eleven essays by various authors on topics ranging from Anglo-Norman literature to early modern portraiture and drama. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, of this volume.
Readings in social and cultural history for classroom purposes, arranged in eight sections: politics and ideology, social structures, daily life, religious life and prayer, knighthood and war, reading and education, sciences and medicine, and…
In KnT, Chaucer presents three conceptions of knighthood, each arising from individual desires that displace social responsibility. Arcite and Palamon's rivalry is based in mimetic desire for ontological being. Theseus arbitrates their rivalry by…
Amtower, Laurel.
New York and Houndsmill, Basingstoke : Palgrave, 2000.
Analyzes depictions of reading in books of hours and assesses the theme of reading in Dante, Petrarch, Chaucer, and Christine de Pizan, examining a new "reflexive relationship" between "reading habits and the shaping of identity" in the late Middle…
HF advocates an "ethics of reading" as the narrator struggles to accommodate contradictions found in literary texts. Book 1 ponders the legend and textual transmission of the Dido and Aeneas story. Book 2 learns about the suspect nature of language…
Amtower, Laurel.
Laurel Amtower and Dorothea Kehler, eds. The Single Woman in Medieval and Early Modern England: Her Life and Representation (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2003), pp. 119-32.
Surveys Chaucer's treatments of widows, which reveal an "awareness of their excluded social status and how it affects their assertions as individuals." Focuses on Dido and Cleopatra of LGW, the Wife of Bath, and, especially, Criseyde.
An, Li.
Forum for World Literature Studies 5.3 (2013): 503-11.
Assesses the combination of Christian marital ideals and secular courtly love in BD, arguing that the two are compatible in the poem. In Chinese, with English summary.
An, Sonjae (Brother Anthony).
Seoul: Sogang University Press, 1997.
A traditional literary history of Britain from the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons until 1500, introducing major writers (including Chaucer) and works, with summaries and brief quotations.
An, Sonjae (Brother Anthony).
Medieval English Studies 7: 63-92, 1999.
Chaucer's use of worthy and the many ways CT plays with questions of value lead to a reading of CT in which SNT exemplifies the highest value in human living-holiness-and joins ParsT to challenge all other values and narratives.
An, Sonjae (Brother Anthony).
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 12 (2004): 393-418.
Shows how allusions to Dante in TC combine with Boethian elements to offer an ironic commentary on Troilus's notion of happiness. Also comments on allusions to Statius.
An, Sonjae (Brother Anthony).
Jacek Fisiak and Hye-Kyung Kang, eds. Recent Trends in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Young-Bae Park (Seoul, South Korea: Thaehaksa, 2005), vol. 1, pp. 283-308.
The compassion for human failure and potential failure in Chaucer's GP reflects Christian awareness of sin and grace. Like later poets Christopher Hill, Seamus Heaney, and Ko Un (Korea), Chaucer is a "prophet-poet" whose recognition of human…
An, Sonjae (Brother Anthony).
Noel Harold Kaylor Jr. and Richard Scott Nokes, eds. Global Perspectives on Medieval English Literature, Language, and Culture (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute, 2007), pp. 117-32.
Allusions to and echoes of Boethius and Dante reinforce Chaucer's concern with the inevitability of sorrow and its relationship to joy in TC. The structure of the poem collaborates with these devices to convey the transitory nature of worldly joy…
An, Sonjae.
Medieval English Studies 10.2 : 153-68, 2002.
The influences of Boethius, Dante, and Petrarch ("Canzoniere") on TC are not fully evident to readers unfamiliar with these sources because Chaucer nowhere indicates what he is doing. Such secrecy renders interpretations of his text complex.
Twenty-six essays and thirteen appendices explore how Christianity underlies Western attitudes. The section "Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400)" (pp. 67-75) reads Ret in light of ParsT and Mel as a mild account of misconduct in which Chaucer is guided more…
Anastasas, Florence H., trans.
Hicksville, N. Y.: Exposition Press, 1976.
Part I (pp. 3-84) is a modern verse translation of LGWP (F version) and LGW in rhyming iambic pentameter couplets; Part II includes an additional eleven poems written by Anastasas to complement Chaucer's work, with additional "legends" dedicated to…
Anastasopoulos, Alexandra.
Meeting of Minds XVII 11 (2009): 199-203.
Anastasopoulos argues for mediated influence of Benoît's "Le Roman de Troie" on characterization, didactic message, and acknowledgement of sources in TC.
Andersen, Jennifer Lotte.
Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 4747A.
Though the printing press and the Reformation have long been assumed to have altered radically the concepts of reader and writing, the persistence of the architectural trope in literature indicates that technology was less important than…
Andersen, Jens Kr.
Orbis Litterarum 27 (1972): 179-201.
Investigates how the frame of the Canterbury pilgrimage is reflected in individual tales, gauging their degrees of authenticity, the quarrels among the pilgrims, the relations between social rank and taste, the interdependence of solace and sentence,…
