Kobayashi, Ayako.
Kinshiro Oshitari et al., eds. Philologia Anglica (Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1988), pp. 162-75.
Chaucer's expanded forms are mostly adjectival, as in Old English, though many of them are used appositively with intervening modifiers. He also uses them with verbs denoting durability or knowledge and with the point-action verbs, probably for…
Allmand, Christopher.
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
This distillation of modern scholarship traces not only the causes and conduct of the Hundred Years' War but also its effects and reflections, including literature, in both societies, England and France.
Brundage, James A.
Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
An exhaustive study of sexual practices and attitudes (both "official" and "popular") and the attempted regulation of sex and marriage under canon law. Chapter 10 deals with the period from 1348 to the Reformation.
Duby, Georges, ed.
Cambridge and London: Belknap-Harvard University Press, 1988.
English version of of Phillipe Aries and Georges Duby, gen. eds. De l'Europe feodale a la Renaissance, vol. 2 of Histoire de la vie privee. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1985, translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
Erler, Mary, and Maryanne Kowaleski, eds.
Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1988.
A collection of essays by various hands. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Women and Power in the Middle Ages under Alternative Title.
Erzgräber, Willi.
Gerd Wolfgang Weber, ed. Idee, Gestalt, Geschichte: Festschrift Klaus von See. Studien zur Europaischen Kulturtradition (Odense, Denmark: Odense University Press, 1988.), pp. 117-35.
Discusses Chaucer's use of the concepts "kynde" and "nature." Although Chaucer uses the two interchangeably at times, "kynde" represents absolute moral standards, indicating power and reason. The "lex naturalis" of antiquity also includes these…
Presents the 68 Sanctorale sermons, based on British Library Additional 40672 in collation with 25 other manuscripts, with modern punctuation and capitalization, as the second of four volumes on the 294 English Wycliffite sermons.
Shigeo, Hisashi.
Kinshiro Oshitari et al., eds. Philologia Anglica (Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1988), pp. 285-98.
From ABC through dream poems to LGW, Chaucer attempts to oppose cupidity to charity by ennobling the latter. However, he amalgamates various types of love in CT.
Emmerson, Richard Kenneth,and Ronald B. Herzman.
Werner Verbeke, Daniel Verhelst, and Andries Welkenhuysen, eds. The Use and Abuse of Eschatology in the Middle Ages. Mediaevalia Lovaniensia, Ser. 1, no. 15 (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1988), pp. 404-24.
After advocating eschatological explication of medieval poems not explicitly apocalyptic in nature and concluding that Thomas Wimbledon's "Sermon" (1388) exhibits personal and universal eschatological elements, Emmerson and Herzman examine such…
Fuller, David.
Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 9 (1988): 17-28.
A wide variety of interpretations and levels of meaning make MilT both oblique and clear. Chaucer yokes contradictory elements and obscures an underlying morality "to catch off guard his sophisticated readers--the 'clerical and courtly elite'--who…
Hansen reaffirms the importance of the Wife of Bath to feminist criticism but also argues that her character is the creation of a male poet: the reader must not readily take the Wife as an authority, "as a female speaker or subject or as a…
Morabito, Raffaele.
Studi sul Boccaccio 17 (1988): 237-85.
Morabito attempts to provide the fullest bibliography possible for the diffusion of the Griselda story throughout Europe. Beginning in 1350 with the "Decameron," the bibliography is arranged chronologically for each of twenty-one languages.
Tuttle, Elaine.
Mary Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski, eds. Women and Power in the Middle Ages (Athens and London : University of Georgia Press, 1988), pp. 230-49.
In ClT, Griselda paradoxically is able to achieve power only by submissiveness to Walter. As in LGW, Chaucer is equivocal about the power of women.
Gillmeister, Heiner.
Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic Literary Studies 29-30 (1988): 58-79.
Compares Chaucer's PardT with contemporary sermons by Honorius de Augustoduno and Giles of Rome using the theme of "radix malorum est cupiditas." Despite similarities among the three, only Chaucer's exemplum contains highly sophisticated linguistic…
Saito, Isamu.
Kinshiro Oshitari et al., eds. Philologia Anglica (Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1988), pp. 346-55.
The Nun's Priest's pronouncement, "Taketh fruyt, and lat the chaf be stille," has been interpreted exegetically. Scriptural exegesis, however, is invalid for explicating NPT, which is Menippean--dialogic and polyphonic.
Suhamy, Henri.
Mythes, Croyances et Religions dans le Monde Anglo-Saxon 6 (1988): 119-23.
Examines whether NPT manifests a superficial or an intrinsic religiosity and treats NPT--a tale appropriate to the teller--as a religious allegory with Chauntecler as Man or Adam, Pertelote as Eve, and the fox as Devil.
Hoagwood, Terence Allan.
Studia Monastica 11:2 (1988): 57-68.
BD contains analogies within analogies and poems within poems. The poem's subject is the mental movement from figure to embedded figure. The redemption offered in the poem is "the salvation that is opened within the mind as it recedes into…
Tsuru, Hisao.
Kinshiro Oshitari et al., eds. Philologia Anglica (Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1988), pp. 336-45.
Jean de Meun's view of love and nature in the "Roman de la Rose" had a deep influence on Chaucer when, under the pretense of writing pitiful stories of good women who sacrificed themselves to Love, he wrote about impudent women who were foresaken by…
The absence of holographs and of other early manuscripts, along with other evidence, suggests that Chaucer left only "foul papers" or copies of his works, especially CT and TC, in a state of more or less continual revision, from which different…
Two CT manuscripts reveal simplifications of Chaucerian narrative as part of the fifteenth-century reader response valuing sententiousness and formal coherence. Huntington Library MS 140 includes ClT without its framing references, followed…
Owen, Charles A.,Jr.
Chaucer Review 23 (1988): 1-29, 95-116.
The record of surviving manuscripts shows three patterns in the production of collections of CT: the gathering in of examplars for the specific occasion; the use as exemplar of an already written manuscript of CT; and the use of a collection of…
