Pelen, Marc M.
Forum for Modern Language Studies 27 (1991): 1-22.
Just as the themes of liberality and magnificence are treated ironically in Decameron 10, particularly in the tale of Griselda (10.10), so ClT is as "poetically and morally suspect" as are WBT and FranT. Both poets use multiple narrators and…
Pelen, Marc M.
Forum for Modern Language Studies 31 (1995): 193-214.
Chaucer's mode of composition of SNT and CYT owes much to the structure of "Roman de la Rose," in which the theme of contradictions and contraries plays a major role.
Flannery, Mary C.
Forum for Modern Language Studies 50.2 (2014): 168-81.
Explores Chaucer's idea of "gossip" in TC (and elsewhere), especially as it relates to literature and Criseyde's reputation, examining more extensively Henryson's emphasis on malice rather than idle speech and its relationship with "literary…
Furrow, Melissa [M.]
Forum for Modern Language Study 33 (1997): 244-57.
Uses extracts from the Middle English "Mirrur," the fourteenth-century translation of Robert de Gretham's thirteenth-century sermon collection, to explore the context and significance of Ret.
An, Li.
Forum for World Literature Studies 5.3 (2013): 503-11.
Assesses the combination of Christian marital ideals and secular courtly love in BD, arguing that the two are compatible in the poem. In Chinese, with English summary.
Brook suggests that Sir Paon de Ruet may have been "a cadet of the family of the Lords of Roeulx" and part of the entourage of Philippa of Hainaut. He was probably born about 1309.
Perry, Judy.
Foundations: Newsletter of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy 1.2-3 (2003-2004): 122-31 and 164-74.
Perry documents the complex relationships among the Roets, Swynfords, Lancastrians, and Chaucer's family, rejecting speculation that Thomas Chaucer was the illegitimate son of John of Gaunt and commenting on the dowering of Elizabeth Chaucer at…
Saul, Nigel.
Fourteenth Century England 2: 131-45, 2002.
Criticism of warfare at the end of the fourteenth century focused on greed and pride as "evils of the times," rather than on burdens of taxation, an earlier preoccupation. In Sted, Form Age, Mel, and Th, Chaucer's dislike of war is evident, and his…
Taylor, Andrew.
Fran De Bruyn, ed. Eighteenth-Century British Literary Scholars and Criticism. Dictionary of Literary Biography, no. 356 (Detroit, Mich.: Gale, 2010), pp. 334-47.
Biography of Tyrwhitt, with emphasis on his scholarly accomplishments, especially his 1775 edition of CT.
Yildiz, Nazan.
Frances Davies and Laura González, Madness, Women and the Power of Art (Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2013), pp. 117-35.
Argues that in "attempting the pen" by telling her own story, the Wife of Bath rebels against patriarchal strictures and escapes suggestions of madness that beset such rebellious women in late medieval England.
Fulton, Helen.
Francesca Kaminski-Jones and Rhys Kaminski-Jones, eds. Celts, Romans, Britons: Classical and Celtic Influence in the Construction of British Identities (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 51-78.
Compares "English, Welsh, and Irish refabrications of the Trojan legend as national origin myths," focusing on the ambivalences of the legend, describing the "translatio imperii studiique," and commenting on medieval (including Chaucerian) meanings…
Paravano, Cristina.
Francesca Orestano and Michael Vickers, eds. Not Just Porridge: English Literati at Table (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2017), pp. 1-11; 4 illus
Assesses the characterization and culinary skills of the Cook, commenting on details of GP, CkP, and ManP, and commending his variety of cooking techniques. Includes recipes for "Chicken with the Marrowbones" and "Mortreux" (GP, 380, 384).
Boitani, Piero.
Francesco Bruni, ed. "Le Donne, i Cavalier, l'Arme, gli Amori": Poema e Romanzo, la Narrativa Lunga in Italia (Venice: Marsilio, 2001), pp. 71-83.
Describes the impact of Boccaccio's "Teseida" on Chaucer's works in Anel, PF, TC, and, especially, KnT, exploring Chaucer's adaptations, the later English adaptations of the story, and critical responses to Chaucer's uses of his source.
Boardman, Phillip C.
Francis X. Hartigan, ed. Essays in Honor of Wilbur S. Shepperson (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1989), pp. 239-51.
Boardman traces Chaucer's humanism in BD, HF, and PF, "where he evolved a language capable of serving both tradition and experience while reserving a critical, even skeptical, attitude toward them.... Chaucer is 'involved yet objective, detached yet…
Peck, Russell A.
Francis X. Newman, ed. Social Unrest in the Middle Ages (Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1986), pp. 113-48.
Chaucer's work and alliterative poetry such as "Jack Upland" and the "Plowman's Tale" "shared a common audience." John Ball's letters, like Wycliffe's writings, invoked the mythic simplicity of the early Christian church, appealing urgently to…
Friedman, John B.
Francis X. Newman, ed. Social Unrest in the Middle Ages (Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1986), pp. 75-112.
Treats iconography, history of medicine, and history of science.
Robertson, D. W.,Jr.
Francis X. Newman, ed. Social Unrest in the Middle Ages, (Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1986), pp. 49-74.
Robertson discusses hardships such as war, crime, extortion, maintenance and procurement, legal abuses, and the ordinances of Edward III and Richard II that serve to illuminate BD, FrT, PardT, and the GP Wife of Bath, Prioress, Monk, Merchant,…
De la Cruz, Juan Manuel.
Francisco Fernandez, Miguel Fuster, and Juan Jose Calvo, eds. English Historical Linguistics, 1992 (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1994), pp. 145-56.
The co-occurence of modals of the type "I shall may go" and participial modal constructions of the type "I have wold" in Chaucer's Bo helps us understand the practical absence of them in post-Medieval English. Through a three-hundred-year process,…
Diller, Hans-Jurgen.
Francisco Fernandez, Miguel Fuster, and Juan Jose Calvo, eds. English Historical Linguistics, 1992 (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1994), pp. 219-34.
Studying four families of emotion words (wrath, anger, annoyance, grief) in the Chaucer canon, Diller draws several conclusions: the introduction of emotion words from French and their rivalry with native English words deserve close scrutiny;…
Martinez Romero, Carmen.
Francisco Jose Salvador Ventura, ed. Cine y religiones: Expresiones fılmicas de creencias humanas (Paris: Universite Paris-Sud, 2013), pp. 155–72.
Analyzes Pasolini's version of CT in the context of Eco's and Pasolini's debate about semiology and the relation of reality and art. Thus, the Italian filmmaker creates a filmic narrative reflecting Chaucer's historicity of frontier, in the topics,…
LaGuardia, Eric.
François Jost, ed. Actes du IVe Congrès de l'Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée, Fribourg 1964 (The Hague: Mouton, 1966), II: 844-54.
Distinguishes between medieval and Renaissance versions of poetic "figural imitation." In the former, identified by Erich Auerbach, the "poetic image participates in two modes of reality at the same time: historical and absolute": in the latter, it…
Vial, Claire.
François Laroque and Franck Lessay, eds. Enfers et Délices à la Renaissance (Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2003), pp. 119-34.
Argues that Chaucer anticipates Shakespeare and other Renaissance writers in using the "poetic motif of the multifaceted dance of Venus," exploring passages from SqT, MerT, FranT, and KnT, and arguing that the dance of Venus "could adumbrate either…
Simpson, James.
Frank Bezner and Beate Kellner, eds. Alanus ab Insulis und das europäische Mittelalter (Paderborn: Brill, 2022), pp. 179-94.
Assesses how Chaucer's references to Alain de Lille's works in HF, 985–89 and PF, 315–18 distinguish his own poetic project from the Neoplatonic ideals that Alain represents, preferring worldly tidings to the spiritual wisdom of the empyrean, and…
Galloway, Andrew.
Frank Grady and Andrew Galloway, eds. Answerable Style: The Idea of the Literary in Medieval England (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2013), pp. 140-68.
Explores a relationship between "late-medieval aesthetics and renunciation" in ClT and establishes differences between Petrarch's and Chaucer's treatments of the Griselda story. Points out that Chaucer's Clerk challenges both Petrarch's "absolutist"…
Justice, Steven.
Frank Grady and Andrew Galloway, eds. Answerable Style: The Idea of the Literary in Medieval England (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2013), pp. 169-94.
Examines how Chaucer uses "ordinary structures of narrative inference to create the mirage of subjective depth" in his development of characters in TC. Refers to Chaucer's unique "experiment" with characterization in TC as the "subjectivity-effect."
