Fleming, Martha (H.)
Julian N. Wasserman and Robert J. Blanch, eds. Chaucer in the Eighties (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1986), pp. 151-61.
Prologues are simply framing devices. WBT is not a device to explicate the Wife's character; it amplifies and creates variations on a theme in KnT.
Fleming, Martha H.
Peter Cocozzella, ed. The Late Middle Ages (Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1984 (for 1981)), pp. 89-101.
The carpenter's comments on his knave's report of Nicholas's condition must be seen in terms of the vigorous promotion of the connection between the working class and a severely circumscribed knowledge of the rudiments of faith.
Fletcher, Alan J.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 11 (1989): 15-35.
PardT is not organized according to modern sermon form; rather, it follows a homiletic genre exemplified by the sermons in John Mirk's "Festial," in "Jacob's Well," and in "Speculum sacerdotale," among others. Often "themeless," with an "associative…
Fletcher, Alan J.
English Language Notes 24:2 (1986): 15-20.
The many appearances of the name Malkyn in medieval English texts do not support the common assumption that the name suggested a woman of loose morals but rather indicate that it evoked a woman of the lower classes.
Fletcher, Alan J.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 18 (1996): 91-117.
Attests two early-fifteenth-century analogues of SumP and describes several echoes of Wycliffite antifraternal sentiment in SumT: concern with letters of fraternity and trentals (i.e., commissioned masses for the dead), venal preaching, fraternal…
Fletcher, Alan J.
Portland, Ore., and Dublin : Four Courts Press, 1998.
A series of stand-alone studies, most reprinted in revised form from earlier publications. Includes a newly edited and translated Cistercian sermon and a new essay, "Langland and Preaching." Also includes, among other revisions, "Chaucer's Norfolk…
Fletcher, Alan J.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 25: 53-121, 2003.
Chaucer deploys his "appropriations of the culture of heresy with versatility" in ABC, LGWP, and CT (Pardoner, Friar, Summoner, Monk, and Parson). Fletcher measures these appropriations against the shifting political fortunes of Lollardy in Chaucer's…
Fletcher, Alan J.
Review of English Studies 58 (2007): 597-632.
Evidence suggests that Chaucer's careless scribe in Adam is Adam Pynkhurst. The Trinity College manuscript, containing prose tracts evincing Wyclif's influence, may be in Pynkhurst's hand. Chaucer's connection with this scribe could account for…
Argues that the context and argument of Horobin's refutation of Fletcher's earlier essay are deficient (see "The Criteria for Scribal Attribution: Dublin, Trinity College, MS 244, Some Early Copies of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, and the Canon of…
Series of essays focusing on medieval vernacular literature and "the presence of a text to its own age and the presence of that age within it." Special emphasis on Chaucer in Chapter 6, which examines CT, ABC, and LGW, to "restore the presence of the…
PhyT is concerned with texts, whether "historical" or the "fable." Virginia is compared to a text--a "book"--and the concerns with governance and authority in the Tale pertain to interpretation.
Fletcher, Bradford Y.
Studies in Bibliography 31 (1978): 184-201.
Though only three of the twenty-four poems attributed to the poet in John Stowe's "Chaucer" of 1561 are now accepted as genuine, comparative study of the mss used reveals remarkable substantive accuracy in the text of this early edition.
Fletcher, Chris, and others.
London: British Library, 2003.
An anthology of reproductions of selections from English literary manuscripts and books held at the British Library, including portraits of Chaucer ("one of the earliest English writers to have been accurately represented in portraits") from…
Fletcher, Clare.
Gregory Hulsman and Caoimhe Whelan, eds. Occupying Space in Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Ireland (New York: Lang, 2016), pp. 3-22.
Revisits the implications of the horse-and rider imagery that underlies the description of the Wife of Bath at GP 1.469, focusing on her riding an "amblere," exploring relations with the thirteenth-century French "Lai du Trot," and suggesting that,…
Fletcher, Harris.
Notes and Queries 211 (1966): 254.
Identifies a reference to the Wife of Bath's equation of friars and incubi (WBT 3.865-80) in Richard Crakanthorp(e)'s "Introductio in Metaphysicam" (1619).
Fletcher, P. C. B.
Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory 26 (June 1966): 43-50.
Compares the characterizations of Palamon and Arcite in KnT, focusing on the relative intensity of their responses to love and arguing that, rather than fortune, their actions and passions determine their outcomes. Arcite"s fall from his horse is the…
Flinn, John.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1963.
Chapter 15, "Le Roman de Renart en Angleterre" (pp. 672-88), summarizes NPT and treats Pierre de Saint-Cloud's "Roman de Renart" (branch 2) as its major source, focusing on tone and spirit, and attributing differences to Chaucer's art, originality,…
Flinthart, Dirk, ed.
[Wollongong, N. S. W.]: Agog! Press, 2008.
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat as a collection of science fiction stories. The online descriptions indicate eighteen stories, written by individual authors, set in a futuristic frame narrative involving a delayed nuclear-powered train headed to…
Traces background of how Eve was understood by Christians in Antiquity and the Middle Ages in England. Explores portrayals of Eve by Augustine, Aquinas, Dante, and Chaucer, and other lesser-known authors. See Chapter 6, "Middle English Literature,"…
Flood, Victoria.
Helen Fulton, ed. Chaucer and Italian Culture (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2021), pp. 169-92.
Examines the significance of the eagle as a "common symbol of empire in medieval political prophecy." Discusses how the "Dantean figure of the Eagle" in the "Inferno" is transformed by Chaucer into a "humorous--and human--personality" in HF.
