Yıldız, Nazan.
[Yildiz, Nazan]
Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi (Hacettepe University) 32.2 (2015): 299-312.
Explores the social status of the Prioress as someone caught between "her former and present estates, the nobility and the clergy respectively," exploring her "hybrid identity" at this interface Includes an abstract in Turkish and in English.
The setting and select characters of SqT have historical basis in the reigns of Ozbeg Khan of the Golden Horde at Sarai (ruled 1313-41) and Mamluk sultan el-Melik en-Nasir at Cairo (ruled variously 1291-1340). Their failed alliance influenced the…
Harvey, Elizabeth D.
Edelgard E. DuBruck, ed. New Images of Women (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1989), pp. 47-60.
Harvey examines "tongue" as metonymy for voice: women were often victims of the wagging tongue. To be "rolled" on "many a tongue" describes both erotic and discursive powerlessness in LGW and TC. Descended from the Ovidian ironic palinode in…
Describes the characteristic foods and methods of public and private food service in London during eight historical periods, deriving much of the information from literary sources and presenting the information in association with literary figures…
Gaskell, Philip.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998.
Includes the GP description of the Prioress in Middle English and in Nevill Coghill's translation; also comments on issues of readability, subtlety, and meter.
King, Pamela M.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
Provides close readings of canonical medieval texts, including "Piers Plowman," Malory's "Morte Darthur," and CT. Emphasizes KnT, GP, MilT, PrT, SumT, PardT, and FrT.
Walker, Greg.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
Explores the "potential value and pitfalls of reading the literature and drama of this period 'historically.'" Chapter 6 addresses Chaucer and argues that Absolon "defies categorization," but seems to have origins in popular religion and medieval…
Minkova, Donka.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
A textbook history of the "phonological structure" of English, i.e., "the history of individual sounds and their representation, the history of syllable structure and word stress." The comprehensive Subject Index lists numerous references to Chaucer…
van Gelderen, Elly.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
Classroom textbook of examples for syntactical analysis in English language history, with texts reproduced in color manuscript, original-language transcriptions, and modern translations, plus commentary on significant features of language and…
Beck, Richard K., ed.
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1964.
Edits the GP portrait of the Wife of Bath, WBP (with excisions and interspersed summaries), WBT, and a portion of FrP, with bottom-of-page textual notes, and end-of-text explanatory notes and glossary. The Introduction addresses the base-text…
Historical murder mystery set in 1400, in the months after Henry IV's usurpation of Richard II's throne. "Master" Chaucer and Adam are involved with copying Lollard treatises; Matilda, Chaucer's house-maid, is involved with friar-cum-sleuth Brother…
A murder mystery in which the investigator--Geoffrey Chaucer, 'Comptroller of His Grace's Woollens and poet to the court of the late king"--seeks the murderer of Lionel, duke of Clarence.
A murder mystery in which Geoffrey Chaucer and his friend John Gower try to solve a double murder while barricaded in the Tabard Inn, defended against the rebellious peasants in 1381. Features historical and fictional characters, some of the latter…
Historical novel in which friar-detective Rodric Chandler investigates murder as he seeks to hide Adam Pinkhurst's copy of CT from Lancastrian censors.
Haigh, Ken.
Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2021.
Contemplative memoir of walking the Pilgrims' Way from Winchester to Canterbury, highlighted with literary and historical references and commentary. Chaucerian references include, for example, lines translated from GP (1–2, 12–18), a surmise that…
Reimer, Stephen R.
Edmonton: University of Alberta, 1996.
Lists a variety of items (some annotated) that pertain to the study of Chaucer. Eighteen topical sub-headings address social and literary contexts, as well as critical studies of Chaucer's works.
Yvernault, Martine.
Eduardo Ramos-Izquierdo, ed. Seminaria 1--Les Espaces du Corps 1: Littérature (Mexico and Paris: RILMA2/ADEHL [Association pour le Développement des Études Hispaniques en Limousin]), 2007, pp. 9-26.
Focuses on the rich meanings and implications of fragment in PardPT.
Barrington, Candace.
Educational Theory 64.05 (2014): 463-77.
Recognizes the difficulties surrounding modern translations of Chaucer's work and its relation to humanism. Using Nazmi Ǎgıl's Turkish translation of SqT as a test case, argues that studying non-anglophone translations of CT activates both Emily…
Cowen, J. A.
Edward Donald Kennedy, Ronald Waldron, and Joseph S. Wittig, eds. Medieval Studies Presented to George Kane (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Wolfeboro, N.H.: D. S. Brewer, 1988), pp. 147-52.
Examines the lexicographical records of "child" in Middle English and suggests that like Thopas, Absolon may be a Narcissistic figure, influenced by the "Roman de la Rose."
Davenport, W. A.
Edward Donald Kennedy, Ronald Waldron, and Joseph S. Wittig, eds. Medieval Studies Presented to George Kane (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Wolfeboro, N.H.: D.S. Brewer, 1988), pp. 127-45.
Discusses Middle English debate poems but touches on dialogue in CT, TC, and PF.
