Lorenz, Lee.
Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1981.
Bowdlerized version of MilT, adapted and illustrated by Lorenz for children. Carpenter John is Alison's grandfather in this version, and Nicholas connives to steal money. Absolon is eliminated.
Surveys the presence of Arabic culture in CT, focusing on the plots and sources of SqT and PardT, the frame-tale structure of CT, allusions to Arabic personages, and uses of words that derive from Arabic.
Prose adaptations of GP, WBT, PardT, and CYT, designed for children, accompanied by brief Introduction, a biographical note, and illustrations by Dan Hubrich.
Medcalf, Stephen.
Stephen Medcalf, ed. The Later Middle Ages (London: Methuen; New York: Holmes & Meier, 1981), pp. 1-55.
Seeks to bridge the intellectual and emotion distance between modern readers and medieval literature, addressing the nature of semantic change and changing ideas about human personality. Includes commentary on a range of medieval works, with extended…
Steiner, Wendy.
Wendy Steiner. The Colors of Rhetoric: Problems in the Relation Between Modern Literature and Painting (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), pp. 221-26.
Congeries of word and image in FranT relate to truth, figuration, and creativity, foregrounding the polysemy of artistic language.
Bennett, J. A. W.
J. A. W. Bennett. The Humane Medievalist (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura; Wolfeboro, N.H.: Boydell & Brewer, 1982), pp. 89-103.
Bennett, J. A. W.
J. A. W. Bennett. The Humane Medievalist (Rome: Edizione di Storia e Letteratura; Wolfeboro, N.H.: Boydell & Brewer, 1982), pp. 67-88.
Like various English poets, James I of Scotland was imprisoned in the Tower, where he read Chaucer and wrote poetry influenced by Chaucer, especially KnT, TC, PF, and BD.
Bennett, J. A. W.
J. A. W. Bennett. The Humane Medievalist (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura; Wolfeboro, N.H.: Boydell & Brewer, 1982), pp. 13-29.
Diffident comparisons point out the "Englishness" of both Chaucer and Langland (though Chaucer gives us little of London city life, his limits being Dartmouth, Strother, Oxford, and Cambridge). Bennett discusses the down-to-earth tones, association…
Bennett, J. A. W.
J. A. W. Bennett. The Humane Medievalist (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura; Wolfeboro, N.H.: Boydell & Brewer, 1982), pp. 49-66.
Defends Gower's "Confessio Amantis," with brief allusions to Chaucer's BD, ParsT, GP, and TC.
Bennett, J. A. W.
Boitani, Piero, ed.
Wolfeboro, N.H.: Boydell & Brewer; Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1982.
Fifteen essays, some reprinted from earlier publications, including essays on Langland, Chaucer (one reprinted essay on PF), Gower, James I of Scotland, Henryson, the vernacular, liturgy, and the "nosce te ipsum" theme. For five essays that pertain…
Bennett, J. A. W.
J. A. W. Bennett. The Humane Medievalist (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura; Wolfeboro, N.H.: Boydell & Brewer, 1982), pp. 135-72.
Part 1 traces the classical and medieval tradition of the "know thyself" motif and Chaucer's uses in MkT, ClT, TC, and Rom.
Fischer, Steven R.
Berne and Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1982.
Collates dream interpretations from twenty-three manuscripts in Latin, Old English, Middle English, Old French, German. Sourcebook for medieval imagery, literature, and psychology.
Hellstrom, Par.
Samlaren: Tidskrift for Svensk Litteraturvetenskaplig Forskning 103 (1982): 90-111.
Reviews criticism and scholarship on Chaucer in Sweden and England, treating backgrounds (social, religious and philosophical, and literary), general works, and new directions in scholarship.
Wetherbee, Winthrop.
Lawrence D. Roberts, ed. Approaches to Nature in the Middle Ages: Papers of the Tenth Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 16. (Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1982), pp. 47-62.
Discussion of nature and woman in twelfth-century latin works of Bernardus Silvestris ("Cosmographia") and Alain de Lisle ("De planctu naturae")l, with comments on PR and the Wife of Bath.
Phillips, Helen, ed.
Scotland: Universities of Durham and Saint Andrews, 1982.
Critical edition of BD with introduction, text and notes, and an appendix which includes selections from analogous French works by Machaut and Froissart.
