Petrarch's account of a gemstone ring that, under the tongue of a beautiful corpse, drove Charlemagne mad with passion ("Familiares" 1.1.4) may have been known to Chaucer. The legend provides a suggestive analogue for the motif of the "grain" in the…
Gabrovsky, Alexander N.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Considers Chaucer's fascination with contemporary theories of change, both in readily visible physical form and also less visible self-reform. The book is divided into three sections: Physics, Alchemy, and Logic. The Physics section discusses HF as a…
Gadd, Ian, and Alexandra Gillespie, eds.
London: British Library, 2004.
Fifteen essays explore the life and legacy of John Stow, the sixteenth-century author of Survey of London (1598) and the editor of the 1561 edition of Chaucer. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for John Stow (1525-1605) under…
Contrasts WBT to popular romance narratives of the period, arguing that notions of "sentence"--i.e., of "meaning that is inscribed into a narrative by its author"--force high cultural glossing onto popular texts that may not be best suited to such…
Gaffney, Paul.
S. Elizabeth Passmore and Susan Carter, eds. The English "Loathly Lady" Tales: Boundaries, Traditions, Motifs (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007), pp. 146-62.
As an example of popular folk narrative, "The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle" is flexibly open to multiple interpretations. Addressed to an elite audience, Gower's "Tale of Florent" and WBT lay claim to authority and function as exempla.
Gafford, Charlotte K.
Howard Creed, ed. Essays in Honor of Richebourg Galliard McWilliams (Birmingham, Ala.: Birmingham Southern College, 1970), pp. 9-12.
Suggests that Haze Motes of Flannery O'Connor's "Wise Blood" is "not unlike Chaucer's Pardoner" and the Old Man of PardT, who is "perhaps the Pardoner's alter-ego'."
Attends closely to the syntax of three stanzas of PrT, describing their intricacies and "strong effects," by commenting on predication, modification, rhyme, grammar, and related prosodic concerns.
Gothic fantasy graphic novel in which Chaucer makes a cameo appearance, discussing poetry in a tavern in 1389. One of the characters in the tavern seeks to avoid death, an echo of PardT. Originally published in magazine form as The Sandman 9.16…
Galantic, Elizabeth Joyce.
Dissertation Abstracts International 43 (1983):2996-2997A.
Chaucer's dream visions reveal him as immersed in a literary quarrel of ancients and moderns. His iconoclasm is restrained in BD and HF, but he mocks the artificiality and decadence of contemporary love poetry in PF and LGWP.
Galbraith, Steven K.
Spenser Studies 21 (2006): 21-49.
Contrasts the absence of Spenser's portrait in the first folio edition of The Faerie Queen with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Chaucer folios, which were printed throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
A doctoral dissertation that explores "simple and direct communication" in CT, focusing on Chaucer's acceptance of human generosity and humility rather than his criticism or satire of human foibles. Individual chapters include discussion of Chaucer's…
Gallacher, Patrick (J.)
Speculum 51 (1976): 49-68.
Many medieval sources describe food and purgation as having moral, theological, and metaphysical meanings. In NPT the interrelationships between food, humors, emotions, free will, and divine foreknowledge point to a model of continuous…
Gallacher, Patrick J.
Chaucer Review 21 (1986): 200-12.
From Greek medicine, the concept of the six "non-naturals" intensifies and clarifies the relationship between the friar and Thomas and throws light on the summoner in FrT. The "non-naturals" are circumstances that affect health: air, sleep and…
The idea that virtue is perfect only when it is enjoyable is corrected in WBT with the discourse on gentilesse. The three main concepts regarding pleasure discussed in WBT are the equation of pleasure with perfection, the coexistence of pleasure and…
Gallacher, Patrick J.
Chaucer Review 28 (1994): 216-36.
Chaucer's system of corporeal signs and gestures suggests a continual praise and blame of the flesh. Movement (or lack thereof) in CT is associated with sickness and health; the body is treated as subject and object, as an "affective medium of…
Gallacher, Patrick J.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 5:1 (1997): 55-62.
Considers relations among fairness, generosity, and justice as depicted in MilT, ClT, and PardT, discussing them as they might be presented to an audience of high school students.
Gallacher, Patrick J.
Robert Myles and David Williams, eds. Chaucer and Language: Essays in Honour of Douglas Wurtele (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001), pp. 126-42 and 209-18.
Reads MerT for the ways it confronts and rejects skeptical nominalism. The Merchant considers the possibility that language "has sense but no reference"--that it is only games--but the absurdity of January's decision to marry undercuts this notion,…
Gallacher, Patrick J., and Helen Damico, eds.
Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989.
Essays began as papers read at the sixty-first annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, April 1986. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search under Alternative Title.
Gallagher, Joe, dir.
Princeton, N.J.: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1993.
The MilT read in Middle English by Joe Gallagher (with modern subtitles) before an audience in medieval costume. Audience reactions emphasize meaning and humor.
Gallagher, Joseph E.
Modern Language Quarterly 36 (1975): 115-32.
Foreshadowing submission to Troilus and Diomede, Criseyde's erotic dream of the eagle symbolizes her fear of man's aggressive nature and her belief in love's ennobling influence. Throughout the poem love modifies the worst in Troilus, the warrior,…
Gallagher, Joseph E.
Princeton, N.J.: Films for the Humanities, 1999.
On location in England, Gallagher recites passages from Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, comparing and contrasting their phonologies, morphologies, and vocabularies. The emphasis is on "Beowulf," but includes a passage from FranT…
Gallagher, Joseph E.
Chaucer Review 7.1 (1972): 44-66.
Reads TC as a sinful poetic act, acknowledged as such by Chaucer in Ret (CT 10.1086). Passionate love and Christian love are "irreconcilable" in the poem, and from the Proem of Book 3 forward, Chaucer employs an "intensifying program of disguise" of…
