Cadden, Joan.
Medievalia et Humanistica 14 (1986): 157-71.
Medical and scientific authors discussed sexual matters with clinical frankness. Chaucer's Merchant sees Constantinus Africanus as "a pander, a peddler of love potions."
Williams, Michael E.
Chaucer Review 20 (1985): 144-57.
The three metaphors are the machine, the organism, and opposite poles of attraction. Applied to WBT, each reveals a truth about the narrative--the third of them resulting in a challenge to our assumptions and a reminder that "our 'truth' about a…
Haas, Renate.
Joerg O. Fichte, Karl Heinz Goller, and Bernhard Schimmelpfennig, eds. Zusammenhange, Einflusse, Wirkungen (Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 1986), pp. 451-65.
Shows Chaucer's congruences with early humanist conceptions of tragedy (including Petrarch's and Boccaccio's) and sketches the consequences for a new interpretation of MkT.
Minnis, A. J.
Proceedings of the British Academy 72 (1986): 205-46.
Discusses whether Chaucer is a medieval or a Renaissance poet, examining Chaucer's attitudes toward his world and the process by which Chaucer was inspired.
Coletes Blanco, Agustin.
Cuadernos de Filologia Inglesa 2 (1986): 63-81.
MilT is a typical fabliau in form and content, but it goes beyond the conventions of the genre in its links with the rest of CT, its metafictive deep structure, and its riches of lexicon parody.
Lundberg, Patricia Lorimer.
Essays in Medieval Studies 3: 34-59, 1986.
Argues that Chaucer depicts an idealized earthly love in books 1-3 of TC, an expedient pseudolove in Criseyde's relationship with Diomede, and a transcendent love in Troilus's continuing love for Criseyde.
Schleicher, Frank N.
Essays in Medieval Studies 3: 60-77, 1986.
Assesses CYPT as an example of confession and contrasts it with SNT, demonstrating their different kinds of "bisynesse." By placing CYPT near the end of CT, Chaucer invites comparison between alchemy and poetry.
Hicks, James E.
Essays in Medieval Studies 3: 78-98, 1986.
In PardPT, Chaucer inverts three major precepts of Augustinian sermon rhetoric ("De Doctrina Christiana"): the preacher must pray before preaching, the preacher must maintain a grave and appropriate demeanor, and the preacher must maintain Christian…
Graybill, Robert V.
Essays in Medieval Studies 3: 99-113, 1986.
Explains Chaucer's humor as the "healthy expression of a spiritually sound man" faced with a decadent world and surmises that Chaucer was publicly cuckolded by Philippa and John of Gaunt.
Bevis, Richard.
Eighteenth-Century Life 10 (1986): 44-58.
Reevaluates Pope's adaptation of HF, "The Temple of Fame," focusing on how radically he reworks Chaucer's narrative, shifting it to a more "scenic" poem by introducing elements from "An Account of Several Late Voyages and Discoveries," a piece of…
Owen, Charles A., Jr., and James Dean.
PMLA 101 (1986): 251-53.
Exchange of letters in the Forum section of PMLA, disagreeing about the validity of the Ellesmere order of the CT and about the speaker of Chaucer's Ret.
Crowley, Duane.
Manchaca, Texas: Blue Boar Press, 1986.
Murder mystery in which the medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer and his fellow squire at law, Hugh le Hunt, seek to protect John of Gaunt and others from the implications of the death of Lady Mary de Clairmont. The fiction incorporates details from…
Sabine, Maureen.
Jonathan Hall and Ackbar Abbas, ed. Literature and Anthropology (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1986), pp. 52-95.
Reads PardT as evidence of the "darker undercurrents" of Chaucer's worries about his worldly success, especially as reflected in the night-time setting of the tale, its demonic imagery, and the Old Man's associations with avarice, death, and the…
Study guide that includes text and facing-page prose translation of NPPT, with end-of-text notes and glosses, and commentary on the characters, humor and irony, and on dreams and predestination. Includes comments on Chaucer's biography and verse and…
Study guide that includes text and facing-page prose translation of the GP description of the Pardoner and of PardPT, with same-page notes, end-of-text glosses, a "structural summary," and shaping the Pardoner's materials.
Woods, Marjorie Curry.
I. D. McFarlane, ed. Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Sanctandreani: Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies, St. Andrews 24 August to 1 September 1982 (Binghamton, N.Y.: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1986), pp. 617-26.
Suggests that both TC and CT conclude in accord with the medieval rhetorical principle of "digression." Identifies the device in medieval rhetoric tradition, particularly the "Poetria Nova" of Geoffrey of Vinsauf, and applies it briefly to the…
Explores historicity and fictionality in medieval narratives of early. mythic Thebes. Includes brief commentary on the sources of Chaucer's knowledge of Oedipus and his conflation of Egyptian and Boeotian Thebes in KnT 1.1470ff.
