Rigby, Stephen H.
Stephen H. Rigby, ed., with the assistance of Alastair J. Minnis. Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 42-62.
Presents a historical perspective on crusading in the Middle Ages and provides historical details about the Knight's battle locations in GP.
Rosser, Gervase.
Stephen H. Rigby, ed., with the assistance of Alastair J. Minnis. Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 247-61.
Discusses Chaucer's creation of the five Guildsmen in GP. Stresses the "complex phenomenon," historical background, and proliferation of medieval guilds and fraternities in the fourteenth century.
Rigby, Stephen H.
Stephen H. Rigby, ed., with the assistance of Alastair J. Minnis. Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 1-23.
Introduces a collection of essays and emphasizes how different social, historical, and ethical "interpretative frameworks" can deepen an understanding of Chaucer's pilgrims in GP.
Pollard, Anthony J.
Stephen H. Rigby, ed., with the assistance of Alastair J. Minnis. Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 77-93.
Explains the role of the "yeoman in medieval society," providing different interpretations for understanding the social significance of Chaucer's Yeoman.
Barron, Caroline L.
Stephen H. Rigby, ed., with the assistance of Alastair J. Minnis. Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 24-41.
Discusses the character of Chaucer the pilgrim in GP. Includes history of Chaucer's life at Aldgate, his work as controller of customs, and later years when he moved away from London.
Bailey, Mark.
Stephen H. Rigby, ed., with the assistance of Alastair J. Minnis. Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 352-67.
Reviews the history of rural society in late fourteenth-century England, as well as stereotypes of medieval ploughmen. Reinforces how the plagues affected labor issues and "social relations within the third estate." Argues that Chaucer's Ploughman…
Carlin, Martha.
Stephen H. Rigby, ed., with the assistance of Alastair J. Minnis. Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 460-80.
Offers reasons why Chaucer uses a "recognizable contemporary," Henry Bailly, or Bailif (he used both names), as a model for the Host in CT. Provides biographical details on Henry Bailly, or Bailif, of Southwark; historical background of innkeeping…
Rigby, Stephen H., ed., with the assistance of Alastair J. Minnis.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Interdisciplinary collection of essays by medieval historians showcasing how application of social, economic, political, religious, and historical frameworks illuminates interpretation of CT. Surveys current debates over social meaning of Chaucer's…
Travis, Peter W., and Frank Grady, eds.
New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2014.
Second edition of 1980 volume, "Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales,'" providing articles on pedagogical approaches to teaching CT and including updated section, "The Canterbury Tales in the Digital Age." Sections offer strategies for…
Explores Chaucer's familiarity with conventional costume description and fabric reference in medieval genres, especially romances and fabliaux, and argues that Chaucer often reverses traditional patterns of audience expectation in which romances are…
Argues that as he grew older, Chaucer became disenchanted with the affectations of court life and with the mercantile life of his own father and developed an interest in his paternal ancestors who had been provincial taverners in Ipswich in the…
Archer, Jayne Elisabeth, Richard Marggraf Turley, and Howard Thomas.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Examines production and reception of food in canonical literary works, including writings by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Keats, and George Eliot. Chapter 3, "Chaucer's Pilgrims and a Medieval Game of Food," focuses on how issues of "food security and…
Vial, Claire.
Muriel Cunin and Martine Yvernault, eds. Monde(s) en movement. Mutations et innovations en Europe à la fin du Moyen Age et au début de la Renaissance (Limoges: Presses Universitaires de Limoges, 2012), pp. 51-63.
Contains references to the expression of time and mutability in Chaucer.
In an analysis of Gower's legal associations, examines how Chaucer uses "jurisprudential topoi" in CT, particularly in SumT. Also discusses law in FrT, PardT, and Mel.
Spencer, H. L.
Review of English Studies 65, no. 272 (2014): 790 -811.
F. J. Furnivall founded seven literary and publishing societies (including the Chaucer and New Shakespeare Societies). Furnivall describes Wyclif "as the first translator of our Bible and THE FATHER OF ENGLISH PROSE" in an attempt "to foist prose…
Pugh, Tison.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2014.
Investigates the collision between eroticisms and anti-eroticisms in Chaucer's works in which the queer appears. When these two concepts circulate in Chaucer's stories, the characters must confront both their identity-formation and their…
Minnis, Alastair.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Wide-ranging introduction to Chaucer's life and works for students and scholars. Includes philosophical, theoretical, and literary connections that celebrate the canonical importance of Chaucer's authority.
Mann, Jill.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.
A collection of Jill Mann's previously published essays, edited with an introduction by Mark David Rasmussen. The Preface explains that the essays are organized around exploring the implications of key words as ways to understand human experience in…
Highlights prominent connections among dreams, medicine, and literature in Chaucer's poetry. Argues that dreams and medicine are integral aspects of Chaucer's works and that the poet shows how they can be experienced through literature to bring…
Rather than consider the forests and woods in Chaucer's work symbolically, offers an eco-materialist reading of Chaucer's work as Clerk of the King and as forester of North Petherton. Argues that these positions inform Chaucer's settings and…
Dinshaw, Carolyn.
Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2012.
Addresses queer readings and the asynchrony of time within medieval tales in relation to "amateur medievalists" and scholars. Study includes discussion of temporality, queer historicism, and autobiographical anecdotes, providing a fresh way of…
Examines the titular writings as early examples of English prison writing, with an eye toward political implications of the texts and the establishment of a relationship between social status and "carceral experience" in these works. Includes…
Rosenfeld, Jessica.
Holly A. Crocker and D. Vance Smith, eds. Medieval Literature: Criticism and Debates (New York; Routledge, 2014), pp. 97-113.
Emphasizes an ironic view of Parson's "exploration of 'lawful pleasure'" and contends that ParsT can be viewed as a "psychological experience of delight."
