Contrasts Chaucer's version of Custance in MLT with that of Gower and Trevet in order to show how Chaucer emphasizes the foreignness of Custance in England and the negative reaction to her, comparing them with documentary instances of xenophobia…
Hamaguchi, Keiko.
Studies in Medieval Language and Literature 37 (2022): 27-45.
Investigates TC's portrayal of Criseyde as a representation of English widows facing threats and deceit. Utilizing legal records of the time, considers how Poliphete's false suit mirrors real cases of widows unjustly targeted for their property and…
Haman, Mark Stefan.
Dissertation Abstracts International 42 (1982): 4444A.
Certain fourteenth-century works (the York plays, "Confessio Amantis," "Piers Plowman," CYT) function by placing inadequate characters in crisis situations. The audience learns from their limited reactions. Most complex is MerT: the narrator's…
Th contains a covert similarity to PrT. If, by means of the lily, the elf-queen is identified with the Virgin Mary, the structure of Th may be seen to parody that of PrT. Both protagonists have gemlike chastity, are born "in fer contree," and are…
Recent proposals that Alisoun and Jankyn may have murdered her fourth husband are analyzed and rejected. Their quarrel arises not from mutual guilt but from Jankyn's suspicions about Alisoun, and from his association of murder and female lust. Such…
Hamel, Mary.
Robert R. Edwards, ed. Art and Context in Late Medieval English Narrative: Essays in Honor of Robert Worth Frank, Jr. (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1994), pp. 149-62
Critics have attributed Chaucer's description of naval warfare in the Legend of Cleopatra to his knowledge of contemporary battles. Hamel argues instead that Chaucer, like other medieval writers and even historians, drew the elements of his…
Hamer, Douglas
Notes and Queries 214 (1969): 335-36.
Identifies a French prose version (1882) of a West-African tale that is analogous to PardT and perhaps translated first from Arabic into Fula (Peuls) when Moslems entered the area.
Hamilton, A. C.
English Literary Renaissance 25 (1995): 372-87.
In arguing that a genuine study of Renaissance works is impossible without examining their literary and historical context, Hamilton briefly cites Chaucer's importance in the formation of the English canon that initiated the English literary…
Assesses the likelihood of Chaucer's familiarity with Peter Abelard's "Historia Calamitatum" and his knowledge of the story of Heloise and Abelard via Jean de Meun, arguing that the "Historia" has parallels with Chaucer's treatment of virginity…
Hamilton, Christopher T.
Christian Scholar's Review 23 (1993): 145-58.
Chaucer's and Langland's depictions of clergy are rooted in the "biblical topos of contrastive portraits for emulation and rejection," reflecting the medieval belief that church reform depended on the renewal of the clergy. Chaucer's Parson and…
Hamilton, Donna B.
Shakespeare Quarterly 24 (1973): 245-51.
Assesses Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" in the same tradition as Chaucer's account of Cleopatra in LGW, a tradition in which the protagonists along with "other famous lovers of antiquity" are "exemplars of truth and faithfulness."
Hamilton, Edward Patrick, Jr.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Tennessee Knoxville, 1997. Fully accessible via https://trace.tennessee.edu/entities/publication/c41f444d-cfb0-4602-bf9d-5862c1bf404e (accessed April 6, 2026).
Clarifies the interdependence of romantic love and the ascent of the mind to God in medieval theology, philosophy, and Chaucer's works, especially HF, PF, LGW, and portions of CT. Argues that many of Chaucer's characters "with specious critical…
Includes selections from GP, RvT, and FranT, along with selections from BD, HF, PF, TC, LGWP, and the complete Pity. Texts in Middle English, with occasional end-of-text glosses.
Hamilton, Marie P.
Mieczyslaw Brahmer, Stanislaw Helsztynski, and Julian Krzyzanowski, eds. Studies in Language and Literature in Honour of Margaret Schlauch (Warsaw: PWN--Polish Scientific Publishers, 1966), pp. 153-63.
Studies the "fitness" of MLT to Chaucer's teller, surveying critical commentary, considering sources and analogues, assessing the historicity of legal details in the Tale, and suggesting that the trial scene evinces Chaucer's knowledge of…
Hamilton, Theresa.
Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars, 2013.
Tests several theories of humor--especially Victor Raskin and Salvatore Attardo's "General Theory of Verbal Humor" (1985) and Thomas D. Cooke's "Comic Climax" (1978)--for their value in analyzing Elizabethan jests and medieval fabliaux, parodies,…
Studies the astrological references in WBP and casts her horoscope, interpreting it to show that Chaucer illumines "the entire character of the Wife with a configuration of planets unique in the fourteenth century," a configuration that occurred in…
Hammil, Carrie E.
Ph. D. Dissertation. Texas Christian University, 1972. DAI 33.05 (1972): 2326A.
Recurrently linked with the neo-Platonic notion of the harmony of the spheres, the dream-vision motif of the celestial journey recurs in works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and Dryden.
Hammond, Paul.
Seventeenth Century 23 (2008): 142-59.
Hammond compares and contrasts Dryden's "Palamon and Arcite" from his "Fables Ancient and Modern" with its source, Chaucer's KnT, finding that Dryden reworked religious and political concerns to create a "macaronic fabric" that combines classical, …
Hanawalt, Barbara A.
New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Explores the biological and sociological understanding of childhood and adolescence in late-medieval London, demonstrating that the late Middle Ages "did recognize stages of life that corresponded to childhood and adolescence."
Hanawalt, Barbara A.
Essays in Medieval Studies 12 (1995): 1-21.
Examines various fourteenth- and fifteenth-century historical and literary texts to demonstrate that law and tradition encouraged parental and communal responsibility for the proper raising of children. Mentions PrT and the hagiography of Hugh of…
Hanawalt, Barbara A.
Barbara A. Hanawalt and David Wallace, eds. Medieval Crime and Social Control (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), pp. 204-23.
Explores legal and historical records pertaining to innkeepers and innkeeping in late-medieval London as a backdrop to the character of Chaucer's Host. Harry Bailly is most notable for his shrewd handling of people and his responsible maintaining of…
Hanawalt, Barbara A.
New York and Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Eleven essays by the author on establishing social control in late-medieval England, especially in London, considering topics such as class crime, rape, poaching, and family relations. The two essays that relate to Chaucer are printed elsewhere:…
