Crosson, Chad G.
Studies in Philology 115 (2018): 242-66
Explores the recursive demands of grammatical emendation ("emendatio") and penitential reform--the accumulative and ongoing need for correction of error that creates or prompts more need for correction--as the aesthetic that underlies Mel, and CT…
Crow, Martin M., and Clair C. Olson, eds.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1966.
Documentary source book of 493 archival records that pertain to Chaucer's "career as a courtier, diplomat, and civil servant," arranged topically in thirty-one categories from Chaucer's ancestors to his death; includes a "Chronological Table" of the…
Crowley, Duane.
Manchaca, Texas: Blue Boar Press, 1986.
Murder mystery in which the medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer and his fellow squire at law, Hugh le Hunt, seek to protect John of Gaunt and others from the implications of the death of Lady Mary de Clairmont. The fiction incorporates details from…
Crowley, James Patrick.
Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 602A, 1999.
Although many editors and critics of medieval literature assume a single authoritative text, literary authority may be diffuse. Crowley examines in detail the B and C versions of "Piers Plowman." Also treats the frame of Gower's "Confessio Amantis"…
Crowther, J. D. W.
English Studies in Canada 8 (1982): 125-37.
In spite of many similarities to saints' legends, PhyT does not entirely conform to the genre. Instead of being a tale of faith affirmed, it is one of faith betrayed. Virginius's lack of faith leads him to slay Virginia rather than allow her faith…
Crowther, J. D. W.
Chaucer Newsletter 2.1 (1980): 12-13.
The Friar, who does not want Thomas to divide his money among several confessors, argues that likewise an ill man should not divide his among several physicians. He thus materializes the penitential injuction not to divide one's confession among…
Crowther, Joan Dorothy Whitehead.
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.10 (1968): 4122A.
Explores the relations between style and Christian morality in MilT, RvT, FranT, MLT, MerT, ClT, and NPT, gauging the moral outlooks of the narrators of the Tales.
Crowther, Joan Dorothy Whitehead.
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.10 (1968): 4122A.
Explores the relations between style and Christian morality in MilT, RvT, FranT, MLT, MerT, ClT, and NPT, gauging the moral outlooks of the narrators of the Tales.
Crozier, Andrew, Roy Fisher, Keith Please, and Kevin Power.
Guildford: Circle Press, 1982.
Twenty lyric poems inspired by descriptions in GP: "Knight," "Dyere," "Cook," "Tapicer," and "Webbe," by Roy Fisher; "The Reeve, " "The Manciple," "The Merchant," 'The Doctor of Physic," by Keith Please; "Some Instructions of the Horses," by Andrew…
Cruz Cabanillas, Isabel de la.
María Dolores Fernández de la Torre Madueño, Antonia Mara Medina Guerra, and Lidia Taillefer de Haya, eds. El Sexismo en el lenguaje. 2 vols. (Málaga: Disputacíon Provincial de Málaga, 1999), vol. 1, pp. 261-70.
Describes female sexual stereotyping in Chaucer's depictions of the Wife of Bath, Griselda (ClT), Custance (MLT), Dorigen (FranT), and the Prioress (GP).
Crystal, David.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Examines the heritage of English from locations throughout Britain. Chapter 20, "Talbot Yard, London SE1: Chaucer and Middle English," comments on Chaucer's influence on the English language.
Cuddington, Richard, trans.
Brighton: Book Guild, 2008.
Verse retelling of selections from CT (all but Mel, SNPT, CYPT, ManPT, and ParsPT) with reduced plots, simplified rhetoric, and modernized English in ballad stanzas. Cuddington adapts the links to unify the selections, which are arranged in the…
Cullen, Dolores (L.)
Santa Barbara, Calif. : Fithian, 2000.
Cullen's third volume on CT claims the work is an allegory reflecting Chaucer's preoccupation with astronomy/astrology. The Pilgrims, who congregate at sunset, correspond to the constellations and planets-celestial "pilgrims" traveling across the…
Following the contention that the name "Pertelote" means "one who confuses someone's lot or fate" (R. A. Pratt, "Three Old French Sources of NPT," Speculum 47 (1972): 655), the author suggests that Pertelote tries to effect a change in Chauntecleer's…
Cullen, Dolores L.
Santa Barbara, Calif.: Fithian Press, 1998.
Allegorical reading of the CT Host as an image of Christ, a figure of the Eucharist associated with joy, heroism, and omnipotence. The Host is a guide of others and the only pilgrim not in need of penance. His name, his language, and his leadership…
Cullen, Dolores L.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : Fithian Press, 1999.
Reads CT as a drama-with Chaucer as "director/producer" (158) and leading player-focusing on Th and Mel as psychological and moral extensions of Chaucer. Thopas and the father are one, with Thopas representing the phallus. Melibee is "the elevated…
Cullen, Dolores L.
McKinleyville, Calif.: Fithian, 2008.
Narrative autobiography of the author's fascination with Chaucer, recounting the writing and publishing of three books on allegory in CT. Includes Cullen's thoughts about the reception of Chaucer among academic and popular audiences.
Cullen, Mairi Ann.
Studies in Scottish Literature 20 (1985): 137-59.
Henryson's preface to the "Testament of Cresseid" is to be taken seriously. Having read Chaucer, he picked up "an euther quair" that portrays Cresseid as a whore. His poem therefore accurately reflects a contemporary apologia for his heroine.
Cullum, P. H.
D. M. Hadley, ed. Masculinity in Medieval Europe (London and New York: Longman, 1999), pp. 178-96.
Uses several case studies to assess medieval male clerical behavior and its transgressions. Briefly discusses Nicholas and Absolon of MilT as an illumination of the dilemma of young medieval clerics, caught between their vows of celibacy and their…
