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.
Although the prevailing code of honor was belligerent, Chaucer's dissatisfaction with this aggressive style is subtly indicated in Truth, Mars, Th, and KnT by presentation of "heroic" actions and martial "worshippe" as slightly ridiculous. In Mel,…
The medieval tyrant "topos," with its lexicon and its various transformations, provides the means of studying Chaucer's moral vocabulary. The tyrant figure embodies passion, cruelty, injustice, and the heartlessness. Its antitype is first that of…
McCall, John P.
University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1979.
Discusses the ways in which Chaucer uses classical materials in comedy, tragedy, and allegory; in theme, action, and character, to make available the world of Virgil, Ovid, and Lucan--sometimes through Dante, Graunson, Boccaccio, and Froissart.
Olson, Glending.
Comparative Literature 31 (1979): 272-90.
Chaucer's distinction between "makere" and "poete" is found elsewhere in medieval writings. Serving both to separate classical from contemporary and to distinguish artistic quality from moral seriousness, the distinction suggests the relationship…
A general guide to fourteenth-century music in France, Italy, and Britain. The main composers, musical forms, and centers of musical activity are surveyed and illustrated in facsimiles, pictures, and music examples. Musical references in Chaucer's…
The fifteenth-century MS Fairfax 16, considered the finest of the Oxford Group of Chaucer manuscripts, contains BD, HF, Anel, Mars, and PF. Regarding the frontispiece, a mythological illumination for Mars, Norton-Smith advances a new theory of…
Ruggiers, Paul G., ed. with introductions by Donald C. Baker, A. I. Doyle, and M. B. Parkes.
Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979.
Designed as the basic text of CT for the "Variorum Chaucer," a facsimile of the Hengwrt, which may have been produced in Chaucer's lifetime, one of the earliest and most reliable of the manuscripts of the CT.
In KnT, Chaucer presents Arcite's love sickness in scientific terms. Boccaccio reveals Arcite to be changed into a savage-looking creature, whereas Chaucer's description recreates the ideal world of chivalry.
