Griffith, John Lance.
Fu Jen Studies: Literature and Linguistics 41 (2008): 13-45.
Reads KnT as a "tale of anger rather than (as is often the case) a tale of pity" which reveals Chaucer's ambivalence about anger as both "necessary and destructive" in human affairs. Explores Thomistic and Stoic notions of anger and assesses the…
Griffith, John Lance.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 24 (2016): 75-95.
Examines Chaucer's concepts of wild and wilderness in MkT and argues that the Monk's inclusion of Cenobia is in response to the Host's comments about his own wife. This exchange is a mediation on "reccheless-ness," a wildness of character that can…
Griffith, John Lance.
New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy & Profession 2.2 (2021): 28-38.
Offers pedagogical justification for using Brian Helgeland's movie "A Knight's Tale" in multicultural teaching, with attention to the movie's brief mention of BD and discussion of the poem's usefulness in broadening student awareness.
Griffith, Kelley.
New York: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1994.
Pedagogical anthology designed to demonstrate the range of narrative fiction: ancient and modern; eastern and western; short stories, novels, and their predecessors in myth, epic, romance, tales, and narrative poetry. Includes Theodore Morrison's…
Griffith, Philip Mahone.
Explicator 16 (1957): item 13.
Assesses Chaucer's use of the name "Damian" in MerT as an allusion to St. Damian who, with his brother St. Cosmos, was associated with medical healing. Attends to a pun on "leech" (healer) in the tale.
Griffiths, Eric, and Matthew Reynolds, eds.
New York : Penguin, 2005.
An anthology of selections from Dante's works adapted or translated into English, including several examples from Chaucer's works (WBT, MkT, SNT, HF, and TC). Focusing on the Commedia and arranged chronologically, the selections range from Chaucer to…
Griffiths, Gwen.
Papers on Language and Literature 25 (1989): 242-63.
The divergence of critical opinion about MerT attests to Chaucer's success in prompting multiple responses to his text and in allowing no definitive reading. In the tale, "the narrator/narratee relationships are reflected in a multiplicity of…
Using evidence of paleography, orthography, watermarks, and indications of provenance, dates booklet 1 of Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson C.86, as the second quarter of the fifteenth century; dates booklets 2-4 as early sixteenth century.
Griffiths, Jane.
Philip Knox, Jonathan Morton, and Daniel Reeve, eds. Medieval Thought Experiments: Poetry, Hypothesis, and Experience in the European Middle Ages (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018), pp. 121-39.
Interprets HF as 'an experiment in the exercise of poetic memory and poetic composition" that "suggests that memory's anarchic associations cannot fully be controlled," in part because of differences between "the memory of things and the memory of…
Griffiths, Jeremy, and Derek Pearsall, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Fifteen original essays on such topics as early book design, book purchasing and ownership, Caxton, and production of various kinds of books. Includes C. Paul Christianson on "Evidence for the Study of London's Late Medieval Manuscript-Book Trade,"…
Griffiths, Jeremy.
Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 77 (1995): 25-30.
Notes the existence of a nineteenth-century transcript of the Rylands manuscript made by William James Pynwell, now Schoyn Collection MS 1580, and the implications that the transcript may have for the provenance of the Rylands manuscript.
Grigsby, Bryon Lee.
Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 4419A, 2000.
In the Christian Middle Ages, epidemics were perceived as punishment for spiritual sin, though bubonic plague became so widespread as to seem apocalyptic. Grigsby treats "Pricke of Conscience," "Amis and Amiloun," the York Cycle "Moses and Pharaoh,"…
Grigsby, Bryon Lee.
New York and London: Routledge, 2004.
Grigsby considers leprosy, bubonic plague, and syphilis, focusing on how they were constructed as moral phenomena and how literary depictions contributed to historical developments in our (mis)understandings of them.
An anthology of "subversive," parodic, or satiric poetry, arranged in several categories pertaining to religion, authority, war, justice, etc., mostly English or translated from French. Includes RvT (pp. 104-20) in Middle English (with glosses) in…
Grimes, Jodi.
Carmina Philosophiae 19 (2010): 49-68.
MkT reflects Boethian epistemology and demonstrates the limits of human reason. The Monk presents Fortune as in Books 1 and 2 of the "Consolation," but he lacks the faith necessary to understand the divine, while the mocking Knight and Host…
Examines the grove in KnT in the context of hunting and forest laws; reveals how Chaucer alters Boccaccio's "Teseida" to turn the grove first into a politicized space of human discord and then into a space of destruction, evoking warfare among men…
Grindley, Carl.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 18.2 (2011): 79-91.
Offers a series of undergraduate classroom exercises to teach differences in kinds of edited texts and to introduce concepts crucial to editorial practice, using samples from Middle English literature: MerT IV.2069–76 most extensively.
Introduces to a non-scholarly audience Chaucer's life and works, cast against a background of social, scientific, and intellectual history, with frequent comparisons and contrasts with the modern world. Includes sections on Chaucer's Life, his…
Gross, Charlotte.
David Raybin and Linda Tarte Holley, eds. Closure in The Canterbury Tales: The Role of The Parson's Tale (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2000), pp. 177-97.
ParsT ends CT but does not bring transcendent closure to the work. In various ways--including several verb forms and other variations from Pennaforte's "Summa"--ParsPT reaffirm temporality rather than asserting eternality; they focus attention not on…
Gross, Gregory W.
Modern Language Studies 25:4 (1995): 1-36.
Characterizing the critics as essentialist, Gross traces views of the Pardoner's sexuality, beginning with Kittredge's and Curry's interests in secrecy and moral scapegoating.
Gross, Gregory Walter.
Dissertation Abstracts International 55 (1995): 1945A.
Secrecy about sex cuts across genres and develops its own forms of rhetoric, as seen in works from Petrarch's "Secretum" through the "Roman de Silence," Margery Kempe, and PardPT.
