Toner, Anne.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Studies various kinds of narrative suspension and ellipsis in English literature, and includes comments on a reference to SqT in the expository essay that accompanies the Gothic tale "Sir Bertram, a Fragment" (1773). Connects the essay with Thomas…
Thomas, Alfred.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Explores the influence of Anne of Bohemia, wife and consort of King Richard II, on Chaucer and his contemporaries. Proposes that Anne of Bohemia was a "possible female patron and reader" of Chaucer's texts. Focuses on PrT, SNT, KnT, WBT, and LGW.
Somerset, Fiona.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2014.
Comprehensive study of over 500 manuscripts containing Lollard writings from 1375 to 1530. Analyzes textual culture associated with Lollard movement. Brief references to MLT, PardT, PhyT, and TC.
Schmidt, A. V. C.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
Collection of published and previously unpublished studies of Chaucer and other writers, including the "Pearl"-poet, Hopkins, Yeats, Eliot, Jones, and Auden. Part 1, "Medieval: Chaucer and the Gawain-Poet," includes essays on Bo, Form Age, KnT, and…
Summarizes the discussions of Chaucer in Lynn
Staley's "The Island Garden" (2012), Jamie K. Taylor's
"Fictions of Evidence" (2013), and Jonathan Hsy's "Trading
Tongues" (2013).
Destabilizes the notion of a progression of "identifiable movements" in English vernacular writing culminating in Chaucer in the fourteenth century, arguing that "The Owl and the Nightingale" (c. 1200) should be taught as an early foundational…
Niebrzydowski, Sue.
English: The Journal of the English Association 64, no. 244 (2015): 1–4.
A general introduction to the "Chaucer Reconsidered" special issue of the journal that focuses on the many genres in which Chaucer worked, as well as his primary topics.
Surveys depictions of "good" and "bad" women in medieval art and literature, concentrating on how their hair characterizes them and directs viewers' attention. Includes a brief discussion of the implications of Emelye's yellow/golden hair in KnT…
Meyer-Lee, Robert J.
New Literary History 46.2 (2015): 335–55.
In an analysis of the question of literary value, argues for a pragmatic approach to understanding the value of literature, especially at present when that value is on the decline. References GP as general example of medieval literary valuing.
Reads the Miller (whose mouth is compared to "a greet forneys" in GP) in the context of representations of rebel peasants in the chronicles of Thomas Walsingham, Henry Knighton, Jean Froissart, and the Anonimalle chronicler, as well as in Gower's…
Marenbon, John.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.
Examines the influence of paganism on Christian writers from the fifth century to the eighteenth century. Includes a chapter on entitled "Langland and Chaucer: The Continuity of the Problem of Paganism" (pp. 214–34).
Leahy, Michael.
Dissertation Abstracts International C74.10 (2015): n.p.
Considers the addition of medical terminology to the lexicons of medieval laypeople, with particular regard to its use in metaphor. Authors under consideration include Chaucer, Henryson, Rolle, and Kempe.
Part 1 includes several chapters on Middle English themes related to Chaucer. Chapter 1 appreciates the sound of the beginning of GP as associated with spring. Chapter 2 includes a brief discussion of the relationship between individualism and the…
Van Dussen, Michael.
Fiona Somerset and Nicholas Watson, eds. Truth and Tales: Cultural Mobility and Medieval Media (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2015), pp. 238-56.
Discusses significance of tables and "narrative 'tabulae'" in late-medieval England. Addresses the tabular text in HF.
Hahn, Thomas.
Fiona Somerset and Nicholas Watson, eds. Truth and Tales: Cultural Mobility and Medieval Media (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2015), pp. 41-59.
Provides a "newly broadened context for Chaucer's obsession with Dido," and looks at Chaucer's narrators in HF and LGW.
Somerset, Fiona, and Nicholas Watson, eds.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2015.
Includes essays dedicated to Richard Green Firth that explore a variety of medieval topics. Examines issues related to oral and written cultural networks, book and social history, vernacular studies, and media studies. For three essays that pertain…
Hanawalt, Barbara A.
Fiona Somerset and Nicholas Watson, eds. Truth and Tales: Cultural Mobility and Medieval Media (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2015), pp. 168–86.
Discusses Chaucer's use of humor in describing the "thieving millers" in GP and RvT. Looks at class and social issues among food providers, including cooks, bakers, and taverners, and civic governing entities responsible for overseeing production of…
George, Michael W.
Essays in Medieval Studies 30 (2014): 67–81.
After examining weather patterns during the Middle Ages, suggests that the late fourteenth century experienced lower than normal temperatures and increased precipitation that would have affected harvests. Since inclement weather plays a role in BD,…
Gabrovsky, Alexander N.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Considers Chaucer's fascination with contemporary theories of change, both in readily visible physical form and also less visible self-reform. The book is divided into three sections: Physics, Alchemy, and Logic. The Physics section discusses HF as a…
Friedrich, Jennie Rebecca.
Dissertation Abstracts International DAI A77.01 (2015): n.p.
Considers Chaucer as part of a larger discussion of medieval ideas of the physical damage that accrued from travel, both in the sense of a literal pilgrimage and in tropes including the "wandering heart."
Dor, Juliette.
Bruno Meniel, ed. Ecrivains juristes etjuristes ecrivains, du Moyen Age au siecle des Lumieres. Esprits des lois, Esprit des lettres, no. 8 (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015), pp. 522-26.
Reviews issues of justice in Sted and explores how Chaucer's irony reveals his bias against medieval judicial practices in ABC. Also, questions the relationship among Church/Rome/nation, political vs. religious law(s), and ascending vs. descending…
Caballero-Torralbo, Juan de Dios.
Juan de Dios Caballero-Torralbo and Javier Martın-Parraga, eds. New Medievalisms (Newcastle upon Tyne: 2015), pp. 149–76.
Surveys themes and plots in HF, comments on its sources, and discusses its "narrator-character."
