Examines PrT and the Prioress's sketch in GP as reflexes of gender performance and the historical conditions that shaped such performances. The anti-Semitism of her tale results from her suppression of her "bodiliness," represented in a fetishizing…
Chaucer studies are often considered neutral and unpoliticized, whether they are subjective, personalized readings, or objective and "professionalized." The construction of the Middle Ages as unalterably "Other," combined with the lack of a…
Hahn, Thomas.
Julian N. Wasserman and Robert J. Blanch, eds. Chaucer in the Eighties (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1986), pp. 235-49.
Textual evidence and historical information suggest that the Merchant of ShT is a money changer involved in usury. Usury was a sin equivalent to adultery. Love of money was more than simple "cupiditas"; because of his usury, the Merchant's wife…
"Panne" in Chaucer's day sometimes designated a piece of clothing, sometimes a cooking utensil--and popular tradition associated the devil in hell with "pannes" (cooking utensils) and cauldrons. Chaucer's early audiences would have recognized in FrT…
The prologue of LGW is a kind of "ars poetica" that contrasts seasonal renewal with eternal regeneration in order to show that poetry can mediate between them and serve as a true guide to love.
Hahn, Thomas.
Thomas Hahn and Alan Lupack, eds. Retelling Tales: Essays in Honor of Russell Peck (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1997.), pp. 91-108.
In drafting learned sources (Ovid, Boethius, Dante) onto the core of a popular story, WBT generates a form of romance with appeal for "serious" readers; the appeal of this genre rests not on marvels and adventure but on individual fulfillment through…
Hahn, Thomas.
Fiona Somerset and Nicholas Watson, eds. Truth and Tales: Cultural Mobility and Medieval Media (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2015), pp. 41-59.
Provides a "newly broadened context for Chaucer's obsession with Dido," and looks at Chaucer's narrators in HF and LGW.
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Contemplative memoir of walking the Pilgrims' Way from Winchester to Canterbury, highlighted with literary and historical references and commentary.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…
Haigney, Catherine Reisky.
Dissertation Abstracts International 50 (1990): 2046A-2047A.
Although earlier dream visions aimed at revelation of universal truths, Chaucer's poems in this mode present individuals who achieve no direct answers to their questions. William of Ockham, not necessarily a direct influence, provides methods for…
Haines, R. Michael.
Chaucer Review 10 (1976): 220-35.
That the Fortune-Nature-Grace topos is the unifying theme of Fragment C is supported by Chaucer's additions to its sources and by his probable revision of the link. PhyT shows the gifts of Grace overcoming Fortune and Nature; PardT shows the abuse…
Surveys the literary and philosophical backgrounds of fortune, nature, and grace, and assesses their roles in CT, with particular attention to PhyT, PardT and the unity of Part 6. Includes an appendix that explores nineteen analogues to PardT
Haines, Simon.
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Haines surveys interactions between realist and romantic thought in Western literary and philosophical discourse, commenting on a range of writers but focusing on Homer, Sophocles, Plato and Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Dante, Shakespeare, and…
Haines, Victor Yelverton.
Florilegium 10 (1991, for 1988): 127-49.
A close reading of Ret, with attention to medieval meanings of such words as "revoke" and "guilt," suggests that Chaucer takes responsibility not for writing works of vanity but for wrong readings of his poetry made possible by his habits of ironic…
Haines, Victor Yelverton.
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. 83-106 and 203-05.
Examines several medieval notions of testing and promise-making, arguing that in ClT the Clerk makes fun of naive "essentialist" allegory. Haines reads wit and sarcasm in Griselda's tone at the "portentous" line 666 and suggests that this tone helps…
Hakman, Ekmel Emrah.
Meral Hakman, ed. Prehistoryadan günümüze kadın (Ankara: Bilgin Kültür Sanat Yayınları, 2020), pp. 391-437.
Briefly summarizes LGWP and assesses in detail each of the legends, arguing that, generally, Chaucer's anti-misogynistic effort fails. Although his "primary goal is to speak of good women as examples for the society and equal to men," his selection…
Describes how Arabic writing "bridged" Hellenic tradition and medieval philosophy, how Arabic science influenced Western civilization, how Arabic literature influenced portion of CT, and how courtly love in TC may reflect the influence of Ibn Hazan's…
Halacsy, Katalin.
Veronika Ruttkay, Balint Gardos, and Andrea Timar, eds. Ritka Müvészet: Írások Péter Ágnes Tiszteletére [Rare Device: Writings in Honor of Agnes Peter] (Budapest: ELTE BTK, 2011), pp. 363-70.
Provides historical, literary, and religious backgrounds to PrT, intended for classroom teaching of the tale and focusing on ethical values. In Hungarian.
Halbrooks, John.
Essays in Medieval Studies 33 (2018): 1-9.
Argues that the birdsong of GP, line 9, and the silencing of the crow in ManT indicate "the permeable animal/human boundary" in CT, evidence of a mutual "soundscape" or a shared "acoustic community." Includes comments on avian and human communication…
Hale, David G.
Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 9 (1988): 47-61.
In Chaucer and other fourteenth-century writers, dreams often prompt the dreamers to try to assert intellectual control over their mysterious experience by classifying the possible causes or truth values of dreams. Earlier classifications of this…
Hale, David G.
Shakespeare Quarterly 36 (1985): 219-20.
Documents an additional Chaucerian allusion in "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Like the dreamer in BD, Shakespeare's Bottom says his dream cannot be interpreted; it can only be written down.
Discusses the eremitical image of Chaucer promulgated by Shirley and Lydgate in the context of efforts to promote solitary, contemplative modes of life.
Haley, Gabriel Michael.
Dissertation Abstracts International A73.12 (2013): n.p.
Argues that the monastic ideal of "contemplative solitude" was an innovative resource in English literature between Richard Rolle and Robert Henryson. Maintains that Chaucer deployed it comically in HF and that, along with notions of Chaucer's…
Halfim, Miriam.
Rio de Janeiro : Civilização Brasileira, 1984.
Halfim summarizes social conditions of Jews in early English society and assesses the depiction of Jews in PrT (pp. 22-34), Marlowe's "The Jew of Malta," and Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice." The authors of all three works reiterate Christian…
Halford, Donna Allard.
Dissertation Abstracts International 52 (1991): 547A.
Of the five parts of classical rhetoric, "memoria" (including semiotics) has been insufficiently recognized. Chaucer's dream visions reveal interaction of memory and invention; "memoria" is also significant in Renaissance and Romantic poetry.
