Sanyal, Jharna.
Journal of the Department of English (University of Calcutta) 22 (1986-87): 72-89.
Chaucer's portrayal of Criseyde had to remain true to Boccaccio's account of her as a betrayer of Troilus, both underlining and undercutting her traditional character and conveying Boethius's idea of the nature of "human felicite."
King, John N.
Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, ed. Renaissance Genres: Essays on Theory, History, and Interpretation. Harvard English Studies, no. 14 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986), pp. 369-98.
Connects Spenser's "association of pastoral with a Protestant gospel ethos" in "Shepheardes Calendar" with the Renaissance construction of medieval anticlerical satire as proto-Protestant. The spurious attribution of the "Plowman's Tale" to Chaucer…
Russell, J. Stephen.
Medieval Perspectives 1 (1988, for 1986): 65-74.
Chaucer's Dido, Emelye, and Custance differ from their respective literary ancestors. In each case, Chaucer gives to his heroine a significant speech or set of speeches that subverts the narrative in which she appears, counterpointing the dominant…
Brown, Peter, Stuart Hutchinson, and Michael Irwin.
Canterbury: Yorick Books, 1990.
Contains sixteen short, illustrated chapters, thematically arranged and based on upwards of fifty authors from Bede to Virginia Woolf who wrote about Canterbury. "'The Holy Blisful Martyr'" covers Erasmus, Stanley, Tennyson, and T. S. Elliot, while…
North, J. D.
London: Warburg Institute, University of London, 1986.
Studies development (up to the 1500s) of seven modes of "domification"--i.e., the construction by mathematics of mundane houses used in horoscopes. Includes applications through the seventeenth century.
Lee, B. S.
UNISA English Studies 24:1 (1986): 1-6.
Augustine and Jerome influenced the medieval Church's use of hierarchy to evaluate a woman's spiritual standing. Chaucer, however, refuses to be bound by the limitations of theological stereotypes. He shows that women often neither choose nor get…
Stocker, David.
T. A. Heslop and V. A. Sekules, eds. Medieval Art and Architecture at Lincoln Cathedral (London: British Archaeological Association, 1986 (for 1982)).
Stocker's is the first full publication on and attempted reconstruction of the shrine of the child invoked at the end of PrT. The shrine is associated with Edward I's royal propaganda.
Cook, Mary Joan,RSM.
Florilegium 8 (1986): 187-98.
"By developing an inner and outer Criseyde, by occasionally indicating a disparity between the two, by raising questions about her behaviour and usually acknowledging that he, the narrator, does not have the answers, (Chaucer) convinces the reader…
Binkley, Peter.
Scintilla: A Student Journal for Medievalists 2-3 (1985-1986): 66-100.
Cotton Titus A. XX, an anthology of fourteenth-century Latin poems, contains no. 19, "Proprietaties multorum animalium et aliarorum," some antimedical satires and bestiary poems. One of the latter, a poem on the sparrowhawk, may be the source of the…
Despite repressive laws and the misogyny of clerical writers, it appears that wives, widows, religious women, mystics, townswomen, and peasant women had more control, respect, and influence than has been thought. Labarge presents the whole social…
Rowe, Elizabeth Ashman.
Florilegium 8 (1986): 169-86.
The form of KnT not only is characterized by "layers of order and disorder" but also is "circular, interlocking, and repeating." Structurally, the tale can be divided into five parts: a prologue (lines 1-1032), the conflict between Palamon and…
Travis, Peter W.
Roland Hagenbuchle and Laura Skandera, eds. Poetry and Epistemology: Turning Points in the History of Poetic Knowledge (Regensburg: Pustet, 1986), pp. 30-45.
Chaucer's only beast fable, through the catalyst of parody, transforms a "literary primer" to achieve artistic freedom from past determinants. NPT "is an epitome of what Foucault calls the archaeological text," containing every major concern and…
Matsumoto, Hiroyuki.
Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature 31 (1986): 17-25.
Chaucer makes the best of recurring rhyme pairs such as 'joye'/'Troye', 'gladnesse'/'destresse', and 'pleasaunce'/'remembraunce' to describe the mutability of worldly happiness in TC.
Each of the five names Chaucer uses for the moon goddess denotes a particular aspect of the goddess. A study of these names in TC, FranT, KnT, and MerT and of the functions they denote helps us understand the personalities of the women who invoke…
Adams, Alison,Armel H. Diverres, Karen Stern, and Kenneth Varty,eds.
Woodbridge and Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 1986.
These essays, which relate to the development of Arthurian prose romance from the early thirteenth century to the end of the medieval period, are arranged chronologically and grouped by theme or text.
Anderson, David, ed.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee, [1986]
A catalogue of and guide to the 1986 exhibition of manuscripts and printed books of Chaucer's works and sources, held at the Arthur Ross Gallery and the Rosenbach Museum for the Fifth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, in…
