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Catalogue of the exhibition at the eleventh international congress of the New Chaucer Society, held at the Sorbonne. Lists books and objects that illustrate the "boundless influence of French-speaking cultures on Chaucer" and the "scholarly…

The poets had similar careers, and Deschamps's "Ballad to Chaucer" testifies to the supranational circle of knights-cum-poets. Deschamps's garden metaphor, his comparison of Chaucer to Socrates, and other comparisons indicate that the French poet is…

Chaucer and Malory haunted the imagination of Burne-Jones, who illustrated the Kelmscott edition of Chaucer's Works (1896). Burne-Jones ignored the licentious tales, but he expressed the classical/medieval spirit of TC. He was attracted by the scene…

In NPT, the Nuns' Priest (Nonnes is plural) confesses his own temptations of lust and pride, under the guise of Chauntecleer. The priest is another persona of Chaucer the poet, interested in the same topics (dreams, astronomy, free will, the biter…

Crespo-García gauges the "scientific register" of Astro and Equat in contrast with medical handbooks, examining etymology and specificity in the common nouns and nominalized forms in these works. The astrological treatises reflect a specialized…

Assesses Theseus of LGW as a "superlative of falseness," arguing that the figure, more so than the Theseus of KnT or its classical precedents, influenced Marlowe and Nash''s "Dido, Queen of Carthage" and, subsequently, Shakespeare's "A Midsummer…

Locates a quotation from PardT in Cormac McCarthy's notes for his novel "Blood Meridian"; links McCarthy's penchant for "the stories-within-stories motif" to Chaucer; and identifies echoes of PardT in the old Mennonite episode of "Blood Meridian" and…

Surveys late medieval insular scripts, and discusses evident efforts to imitate anglicana formata in a stanza inserted into the roundel of PF in Cambridge University Library, MS Gg.4.27--added by a scribe who seems to have been "more accustomed to…

Presents a soup recipe, posed as a conversation in modern iambic pentameter between Chaucer's Host and the "Exciseman of London," who describes the preparation of the soup. Includes a color plate of a faux stained glass medallion of Chaucer as a…

Chauntecleer's citation of Daniel (NPT 7.3128-29), frequently taken to refer to Daniel 7, more pertinently refers to Daniel 4 where Nebuchadnezzar relates a dream similar to Chauntecleer's and to the dreams Chauntecleer cites. This dream and its…

Though CT was neither orally prepared nor heavily alliterative, traces of both traditions are present in the work. The oral tradition almost certainly influenced Chaucer's work more predominantly. The evidence of formulaic diction in CT is strong;…

Contends that the poet's self-presentation in English, which bears a resemblance to Chaucer's self-deprecating persona, may have been intended to quell anxieties about his release from prison.

Focuses on fifteenth-century writers such as Audelay, Hoccleve, Kempe, and Charles d'Orléans, and shows how these authors fashioned themselves as self-publishing and scribes in their own right. Argues that this modeling was influenced by Chaucer,…

The comedy in MerT is produced by May herself, whose "conduct demonstrates that the feminine passivity upon which the masculine performance of agency depends is of course an act." May exposes the ridiculous nature of all claims to masculine…

Seen in light of external texts that establish the medieval rhetoric of feminine virtue, Criseyde's betrayal reflects betrayal of the patriarchal culture that sets up expectations for feminine conduct and that uses a woman such as Criseyde for its…

The proverbs signed "Impingham" in Harley 7333 derive from Chaucer, but the emphases and arrangement of the proverbs present a more reductive view of women than is found in Chaucer's works.

The wife in ShT refuses to submit to the "comprehensive masculine dominance" of the competitive world of her husband and the monk. The two men understand their manliness in terms of the "image of potency"; like commerce, manliness is based on…

The characterization of Chaucer in Helgeland's film reinforces the film's concerns with authority and masculinity, ultimately revealing that "canonical authority" is "anachronistic."

Crocker investigates how the visibility and invisibility of gender in Chaucer are linked to performativity and cultural privilege, especially for men. Discusses the figurative tradition of engendering sight as background to how Prudence in Mel is the…

By "acknowledging and exploiting the affections of [its] female characters," RvT "fashions a masculine collective." By excluding Symkyn from this collective, the Tale demonstrates that "cherl" identity after the uprising of 1381 was ethically and…

Looks at Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida" in the context of its medieval legacy, including works by Chaucer, Lydgate, and Henryson, to argue that Shakespeare "continues an important late medieval poetic tradition, which highlights the problematic…

Advocates for a continued emphasis in KnT on the subjectivity of Emelye, whose endurance and forbearance are key to a kind of personhood that is open and connected, rather than the individual subjectivity connected to the masculinist order presented…

Argues that John Foxe's chronological techniques, "expressive affinities," and "affective connections" in "Actes and Monuments" (a.k.a. the "Book of Martyrs") are "relevant to what is increasingly called 'post-historicist' criticism in medieval…

Argues that ClT offers a view of what it means to be human, and that Chaucer's view differs significantly from Petrarch's presentation, in his translation of Boccaccio's Griselda story in the "Decameron," of Walter's cruelty and Griselda's patience…

Investigates "premodern 'vertue,' or the embodied excellence that enables women's ethical action in vernacular English poetry between 1343 and 1623." Focuses on "material virtue"--the "natural potencies of physical bodies"--rather than on habit-,…