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Coletes Blanco, Agustin.   Cuadernos de Filologia Inglesa 2 (1986): 63-81.
MilT is a typical fabliau in form and content, but it goes beyond the conventions of the genre in its links with the rest of CT, its metafictive deep structure, and its riches of lexicon parody.

Sanchez Escribano, F. Javier.   Cuadernos de Investigacion Filologica 5 (1979): 129-44.
Summarizes the literary and social position of women in Chaucer's time and discusses the various marital relationships in CT.

Martínez López, Miguel.   Cuadernos del CEMYR (Centro de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas) 27 (2019): 109-44.
Examines "exceptional crimes" in CT in the context of the main English legal texts that regulated, prosecuted, and punished medieval criminals. The procedural singularities of this type of prosecution are explored first through the analysis of the…

Sánchez-Martí, Jordi.   Cuadernos del CEMYR 20 (2012): 93-102.
Analysis of literary patronage from the Anglo-Saxon times until the end of the fourteenth century, when royal patronage was essential for authors such as Chaucer.

Gómez Lara, Manuel José.   Cuadnernos del CEMYR (Centro de Medievales y Renacentistas) 16 (2008): 117-44.
Studies the relationship between sex and laughter in CT both as a way of conveying a didactic purpose and as a manner of representing society and social relations--mostly across gender lines.

Cheney, Patrick.   Curtis Perry and John Watkins, eds. Shakespeare and the Middle Ages (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 103-25.
Cheney examines how Shakespeare's "The Phoenix and Turtle" echoes PF, particularly as "a poem about the politics of authorship." As a "great poet of self-crowning," Spenser responds to Chaucer's self-effacing pursuit of fame. Shakespeare sets these…

Boenig, Robert.   Curtis Perry, ed. Material Culture and Cultural Materialisms in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, no. 5 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2001), pp. 1-15.
For medieval poets, the "hyperreality of musical instruments" was "more significant" than was their reality. In "Beowulf," the harp signifies Hrothgar's agenda of political conquest and order; in Machaut's "Remedy of Fortune," the "instruments…

Runstedler, Curtis.   Curtis Runstedler. Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), pp. 89-129.
Explores the "moral value for Chaucer's audience" of CYPT and articulates "alchemical connections" elsewhere in CT, especially SNT. Focuses on the diction and imagery of CYP, on CYT as a negative exemplum, and on the Yeoman's final rejection of…

Dedieu, Fabienne.   Cycnos 23.1 (2006): 247-59, 308-09.
Traces the development of "all" and "quite" in English usage, focusing on Spenser's uses of them as adverbs and adjectives, and investigating Chaucer's usage as precedent. Tabulates the usage of both poets. In French, with an English summary.

Newman, Florence.   Cygne 2 (1996): 19-22.
An abstract of a paper that considers ClT and Petrarch's version of the Griselda tale in comparison with "Laxdaela Saga" and Marie de France's "Le Fresne". In all, the central female figure "possesses a greater value than may at first appear."

Scott, Anne.   Cynthia Kosso and Anne Scott, eds. The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity Through the Renaissance (Boston: Brill, 2009), pp. 407-26.
Scott addresses use of water imagery in medieval narratives. In MilT, flood imagery affects all classes of society and provides a common experience through which the satire of each individual class can occur.

Carlson, Cindy.   Cynthia Kuhn and Cindy Carlson, eds. Styling Texts: Dress and Fashion in Literature (Youngstown, N.Y.: Cambria Press, 2007), pp. 33-48.
Carlson examines motifs of shame and covering in the two disrobing scenes in ClT, arguing that Griselda's request for a smock to cover herself before she leaves Walter indicates that she has "shown a self that cannot be shamed by Walter, by poverty…

Russell, G. A.   D. A. Pearsall and R. A. Waldron, eds. Medieval Literature and Civilization: Studies in Memory of G. N. Garmonsway (London: Athlone, 1969), pp. 211-27.
Considers PrPT in light of the GP description of the Prioress and ShT, arguing that the tone, style, verse form, and liturgical echoes of PrPT are appropriate to the vocation of the Prioress and create a powerful impression of strength, humility, and…

Rothwell, William.   D. A. Trotter, ed. Multilingualism in Later Medieval Britain (Cambridge; and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 2000), pp. 213-32.
Studies the "York Memorandum Book" for examples of the ways Latin, French, and English "intertwined" in medieval England. Rothwell opens with commentary on the vocabulary of a passage from MLP in which Chaucer "Englishes" several French words and…

Burnley, J. D.   D. Alan Cruse et al., eds. Lexikologie: Ein Internationales Handbuch zur Natur und Struktur von Wortern und Wortschatzen/Lexicology: An International Handbook on the Nature and Structure of Words and Vocabularies. 2 vols. . Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2002, 2: pp. 1468-71.
Describes the historical and regional characteristics of Chaucer's vocabulary, his particular uses of various registers, and how he adapts them to circumstances and contexts.

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…

Everitt, Charles.   D. Phil. Thesis. Oxford University, 1985. Copyright 1986. Fully accessible via http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:69a69618-50df-4f27-8291-98546df046eb (last accessed January 22, 2026)
Studies the "ars dictaminis" in late-medieval England, focusing on its influence and uses in administrative circles, ecclesiastical and secular, with particular attention to the career of Gilbert Stone, an "episcopal chancellor." Includes discussion…

Brewer, D. S.   D. S. Brewer, ed. Chaucer and Chaucerians: Critical Studies in Middle English Literature (University: University of Alabama Press; London: Nelson, 1966), pp. 1-38.
Describes the conditions under which Chaucer developed his verse and prose styles, focusing on the former. Argues that English verse romances are the foundation of Chaucer's poetic style to which he "grafted" the continental traditions of "fin…

Coghill, Nevill.   D. S. Brewer, ed. Chaucer and Chaucerians: Critical Studies in Middle English Literature (University: University of Alabama Press; London: Nelson, 1966), pp. 114-39.
Describes Chaucer's rhetoric and style in CT, exploring his orchestration of narrative economy, climax, pace (especially in relation to rhyme and meter), and verisimilitude, Identifies "flaws" in SumT and PhyT, and admires the symbolic…

Schlauch, Margaret.   D. S. Brewer, ed. Chaucer and Chaucerians: Critical Studies in Middle English Literature (University: University of Alabama Press; London: Nelson, 1966), pp. 140-63.
Describes and comments on the range and subtleties of Chaucer's prose styles, with recurrent comments on his stylistic adaptation of sources. Treats the "plain" style of Astr, the "heightened" homiletic style of ParsT, the "eloquent" style of Mel,…

Fox, Denton.
  D. S. Brewer, ed. Chaucer and Chaucerians: Critical Studies in Middle English Literature (University: University of Alabama Press; London: Nelson, 1966), pp. 164-200.
Describes the limitations of the label "Scottish Chaucerians," and assesses Chaucer's influence on the works of Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, and Gavin Douglas, maintaining that they are chronologically "central" to the Middle Scots poetry of the…

Pearsall, Derek.   D. S. Brewer, ed. Chaucer and Chaucerians: Critical Studies in Middle English Literature (University: University of Alabama Press; London: Nelson, 1966), pp. 201-39.
Surveys the achievements, excellences, and limitations of English fifteenth-century "secular non-popular poetry," concentrating on works by Thomas Hoccleve, Stephen Hawes, John Skelton, and, especially, John Lydgate, along with other love allegories…

Brewer, D. S.   D. S. Brewer, ed. Chaucer and Chaucerians: Critical Studies in Middle English Literature (University: University of Alabama Press; London: Nelson, 1966), pp. 240-70.
Surveys the reception of Chaucer as a poet, century by century, commenting recurrently on the understanding and appreciation of his rhetoric and meter, humor and moral seriousness, linguistic obscurity, relations with sources, characterization, and…

Lawlor, John.   D. S. Brewer, ed. Chaucer and Chaucerians: Critical Studies in Middle English Literature (University: University of Alabama Press; London: Nelson, 1966), pp. 39-64.
Addresses Chaucer's "narrative art" in BD, HF, PF, Anel, and Mars, exploring how a coterie audience may have responded to oral performance of the emphases, shifts, and turns in these poems. Also attends to prosodic features, and to the poet's…

Shepherd, G. T.   D. S. Brewer, ed. Chaucer and Chaucerians: Critical Studies in Middle English Literature (University: University of Alabama Press; London: Nelson, 1966), pp. 65-87.
Reads TC as a "romance in the tragic mode" that reflects the "mood of many Englishmen in the late fourteenth century." Focuses on the role of the narrator and the rhetorical strategies (with reference to the "Ad Herennium") that Chaucer uses to…
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