Utley, Francis Lee.
Dorothy Bethurum, ed. Critical Approaches to Medieval Literature: Selected Papers from the English Institute, 1958-59 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1960), pp. 83-109.
Examines critical opinions about the presence of mythic, folkloric, and ritualistic images and allusions in medieval English literature, commenting on various works and critical views of them: "Beowulf," "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," accounts of…
Boenig, Robert.
Dorsey Armstrong, Alexander L. Kaufman, and Shaun F. D. Hughes, eds. Telling Tales and Crafting Books: Essays in Honor of Thomas H. Ohlgren (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, 2016), pp. 323-44. 2 b&w illus.
Contrasts the unequivocal hermeneutics of "eating a book"--i.e., internalizing the text of the Bible and its "one true meaning"--as depicted in the illustration of the Cloisters Apocalypse (Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cloisters Collection, MS 68.174)…
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome.
Dorsey Armstrong, Ann W. Astell, and Howell Chickering, eds. Magistra doctissima: Essays in Honor of Bonnie Wheeler (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2013), pp. 25-33.
Interrogates Chaucer's diminishment or elimination of Scottish, Irish, and especially Welsh aspects of his narrative materials in WBT, FranT, and MLT, arguing that he associated the Celtic fairy world with death, as it is also associated in "Sir…
Stallcup, Stephen.
Dorsey Armstrong, Ann W. Astell, and Howell Chickering, eds. Magistra doctissima: Essays in Honor of Bonnie Wheeler (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2016), pp. 43-58.
Explores textual and lexical ambiguities in the scene of Arcite's mortal fall in KnT (I.2684–91), discussing "furie" (forty manuscripts read some form of fire), "pighte," and "pomel" (neither of which is lexically certain). Suggests that emending…
Stock, Lorraine Kochanske.
Dorsey Armstrong, Ann W. Astell, and Howell Chickering, eds. Magistra doctissima: Essays in Honor of Bonnie Wheeler (Kalmazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2013), pp.33-42.
Objects to the labeling of the loathly "wyf" in WBT as a "hag," arguing that the latter term is inappropriate and tendentious, especially since the Tale lacks a description of ugliness found in its analogues.
Ida, Hideho.
Doshisha Global and Regional Studies Review 4 (2015): 45-65.
Points out lines of ClT not included in either of the Latin and French sources and considers the meanings of these additions by Chaucer. Argues that Walter is characterized as stricter in ClT, and discusses the narrator Clerk's position in relation…
Hamaguchi, Keiko.
Doshisha Literature 33 (1988): 1-24.
Examines the women in Chaucer's fabliaux in connection with the antifeminist tradition. Hamaguchi argues that Chaucer's view of women was complex, partly affected by the antifeminist tradition yet partly sympathetic to the feminist position.
Hamaguchi, Keiko.
Doshisha Literature 46: 1-17, 2003.
Postcolonial analysis of the Dido account in LGW reveals that when Dido accuses Aeneas of ruining her reputation, Chaucer simultaneously accuses Virgil of "epistemic imperialism," a function of the "unreliability of representation." Hamaguchi…
Saito, Isamu.
Doshisha Studies in English 52-53 (1991): 8-29.
Discusses whether the dubious Eglentyne of GP is the right person to tell the pious tale. Chaucer's genius makes her succeed in putting deep human and feminine emotion into the tale.
Kane, George.
Douglas Gray and E. G. Stanley, eds. Middle English Studies Presented to Norman Davis in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 39-58.
The text of LGW in the G manuscript is different from that of other manuscripts; it is much corrupted, containing 200 unoriginal variant readings. The pattern of scribal variations makes it unlikely that this version is the result of authorial…
Donaldson, E. Talbot.
Douglas Gray and E. G. Stanley, eds. Middle English Studies Presented to Norman Davis in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 65-67.
The traditional reading is that Arcite's horse pitches him to the ground so that Arcite, falling on his head, has his chest shattered by the saddlebow. The words "pomel" and "pighte," however, show that Arcite is not thrown from his horse but is…
Mahoney, Dhira B.
Douglas Kelly, ed. The Medieval "Opus": Imitation, Rewriting, and Transmission in the French Tradition. (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1996), pp. 405-27.
Discusses medieval English translation of Christine's works, focusing on Hoccleve's translation of "L'Epistre au Dieu d'Amours." Also considers the influence of LGW on Hoccleve's translation.
Palmer, Barbara D.
Douglas Radcliffe-Umstead, ed. Human Sexuality in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (University of Pittsburgh: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1978), pp. 3-14.
Evidence about medieval marital relationships appears in "auctoritee"--Church and civil records--and in "experience" reflected in literature. Legal and penitential documents depict an astounding range of sources of marital conflict, especially…
Chaucer's work contains an "astonishing range of interest in every aspect of the Christian religion," including mystical contemplation. Examples of Chaucer's knowledge of this type of religion are found in HF, MilT, and SumT.
Kurtz, Heidi.
DPhil Dissertation. University of Oxford, 2013.
Item not seen. Abstract available at https://ethos.bl.uk. Examines stress in Middle English verse, exploring "how tension is created through the matching or mis-matching of lexical stress with the expected metrical template" in the Hengwrt version of…
Orton, Daniel.
DPhil. Dissertation. University of Oxford, 2019. v, 282 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International C83.06(E). Fully accessible at https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:dfc9eb17-71d5-425f-a7b1-2e835310e322; abstract available via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.
Surveys interrelated attitudes toward the "status and function of poetry" in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Europe, limning poetry's exalted status in the Parisian schools and in the writings of Roger Bacon and Alberto Mussato, and exemplifying…
Masson, Cynthea.
Dr. Faustroll and Cal Clements, eds. Pataphysica: 2. Pataphysica e Alcimia (New York: iUniverse, 2004), pp. 102-16.
Describes the concept of "the alchemical hermaphrodite" and its sexual associations; then traces the concept and its figurative implications in CYPT, arguing that the relationships between the Canon and the Yeoman and between the canon and the priest…
The fact that Chauntecleer defies his dream and still escapes harm "raises serious questions about the validity of dream interpretation, leaving the reader with a sense that dreams mean whatever we want them to."
Bayilmus Ogutcu, Oya.
DTCF Dergisi (Ankara University Journal of the Faculty of Languages and History-Geography) 56.2 (2016): 365-388
Uses Victor Turner's idea of "social drama" and medieval notions of the status of food, cooks, and kitchen work to argue that, in GP, the Franklin's cook and the Cook of the Guildsmen effectively reflect and/or reinforce the social aspirations of…
Sweeney, Michelle.
Dublin : Four Courts Press, 2000.
Magic enables discussion of contemporary political and social issues and timeless questions of faith, love, loyalty, fate, and destiny. The concluding chapter shows how magic in FranT enables discussion of free will and challenges the Franklin's…
D'Arcy, Anne Marie, and Alan J Fletcher, eds.
Dublin : Four Courts, 2005.
Twenty-four essays by various authors and a bibliography of Scattergood's publications. For eight essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts under Alternative Title.
