Samuels, Michael.
Felicity Riddy, ed. Regionalism in Late Medieval Manuscripts and Texts: Essays Celebrating the Publication of A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English. York Manuscripts Conferences: Proceedings Series, no. 2 (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1991), pp. 1-7.
Explores editorial implications of the South-West Midlands features of several London copyings of works by Chaucer, Gower, and Langland, including four manuscripts of the CT (Ha4, La, Cp, Pw).
Boffey, Julia, and Carol Meale.
Felicity Riddy, ed. Regionalism in Late Medieval Manuscripts and Texts: Essays Celebrating the Publication of A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English. York Manuscripts Conferences: Proceedings Series, no. 2 (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1991), pp. 143-69.
Rawlinson C.86 contains ClT and portions of PrT and LGW. Analysis of the manuscript reveals interests of the contemporary London audience and suggests that several booklets in the manuscript may have been produced on speculation.
Scott, Kathleen L.
Felicity Riddy, ed. Prestige, Authority, and Power in Late Medieval Manuscripts and Texts (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: York Medieval Press, 2000), pp. 55-75.
Discusses the artist of the Troilus frontispiece of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 61, identifying other manuscripts by the same artist. The associations of these manuscripts with important and influential patrons indicate that the artist…
Choi, Yejung.
Feminist Studies in English Literature 10 (2002): 223-44
Choi explores the relationship between body and text in medieval hermeneutics. arguing that MLT represents the uncontrollable signification of the text and reveals how textual transmission becomes a process of textual transgression.
Choi, Yejung.
Feminist Studies in English Literature 12.1 (2004): 249-78.
Assesses the overt or implied gender of the narrator in ABC, in PrPT, and in SNPT, exploring how each correlates with the depiction of the Virgin Mary in these works. Suggests that these depictions indicate that Chaucer was a "keen observer of the…
Lee, Sun Young.
Feminist Studies in English Literature 25.3 (2017): 35-66.
Considers how PhyT prompts attention to "issues of female victimization and women's agency in litigation process," exploring Chaucer's alterations of his source material in Livy and the "Roman de la Rose," and examining how his tale evokes late…
Economou, George D.
Ferrante, Joan M., and George D. Economou, eds. In Pursuit of Perfection: Courtly Love in Medieval Literature (Port Washington, NY, Kennikat, 1975), pp. 17-50.
Distinguishes two kinds of love associated with Venus in the Middle Ages, both of them subsets of earthly love: one "legitimate, sacramental, natural, and in harmony with natural law; the other, illegitimate, perverted, selfish, and sinful." Traces…
Brody, Saul N[athaniel].
Ferrante, Joan M., and George D. Economou, eds. In Pursuit of Perfection: Courtly Love in Medieval Literature (Port Washington, NY, Kennikat, 1975), pp. 221-61.
Compares Chaucer's satire of courtly love with similar depictions in "Frauendienst" by Ulrich von Lichtenstein, "De Guillaume au Faucon," and "Flamenca," all of which reflect awareness of the fading of the courtly ideal and the dissolution of noble…
Wilhelm, James J.
Fifteenth Century Studies 17 (1990): 457-74.
CT contains risings and fallings, which occur naturally within the text in a variety of genres, tones and modes. They show Chaucer's shift toward Italian-based humanism and away from the Christian tradition. Wilhelm examines KnT, MilT, MLT, ClT,…
Nineteen of the tales are concerned with poetry, style, genre. In KnT the Knight uses four rhetorical conventions--"occupatio," "brevitas" formula, "digressio," and "descriptio"--but the Knight is a flawed rhetorician-storyteller.
Taggie, Benjamin F.
Fifteenth-Century Studies 10 (1984): 195-228.
Treats Chaucer's use of the story of Pedro of Castile in MkT and BD; argues that Chaucer was unique in showing Pedro favorably--which suggests Gaunt was Chaucer's patron.
Baird-Lange, Lorrayne Y.
Fifteenth-Century Studies 11 (1985): 1-5.
Trede-fowl, the controlling image of a Middle English lyric (Sloane MS 2593), often cited as an analogue to images in NPT and MkT, suggests pagan, early Christian, priestly, and bawdy meanings.
Surveys the reception of Hoccleve's poetry and argues that its "autobiographical self-presentation" underlines its differences from Chaucer's influential precedent. Hoccleve also introduces innovative themes and topics: madness, alienation, and…
Jonassen, Frederick B.
Fifteenth-Century Studies 18 (1991): 109-32.
The "Beryn" poet defuses the moral menace of Chaucer's Pardoner. The Pardoner in "Beryn" is more of a fool than a threat to either the Inn or the Cathedral, the symbolic "poles" of the pilgrimage.
Wurtele, Douglas J.
Fifteenth-Century Studies 18 (1991): 315-43.
Argues that a "climate" of social and political treachery prevailed in Chaucer's England, considers its effects on Chaucer's work, and surveys the poet's incorporation of the theme of treachery in his major poems.
Jost, Jean E.
Fifteenth-Century Studies 21 (1994): 133-48.
"Beryn" lacks several typical Chaucerian characteristics: a "courtly demeanor and value system," idealism, verbal wit, and sophisticated characterization. Neither prologue nor tale rises above slapstick or the "mundane reality of life."
Cornelius, Michael G.
Fifteenth-Century Studies 28 (2003): 80-96.
Reads Henryson's pastoral "Robene and Makyne" as a burlesque, attributing its generic variety to the poet's attempt to emulate Chaucer's "virtuosity," and exploring several instances where Henryson follows Chaucer's steps more closely, treating most…
Troilus ultimately travels to the ninth--not the eighth--sphere at the end of TC, a place ripe with "symbolic valence," reinforcing Chaucer's narrative focus on constant change and the ambiguity that comes with it.
Ortego, James N., II.
Fifteenth-Century Studies 35 (2010): 80-104.
Reviews several late medieval texts to demonstrate the "devolution of knighthood" before Shakespeare's time. Comments on the GP description of the Knight, on MerT, and on Th.
Pigott, Margaret B.
Fifteenth-Century Studies 5 (1982): 167-89.
BD and PF shift from "belief to skepticism in Chaucer's attitude toward the three principal ways of arriving at truth--religious experience, written authorities, and revelations of dreams."
