Argues that Chaucer had direct knowledge of Vendôme's text and suggests a possible manuscript source of it: Florence, Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Pluteus 33.31.
Several motifs and verbal echoes among MilT, RvT, and "The Decameron" strengthen the case for "memorial borrowing" and invite the invention of a new critical term for Chaucer's poems: "metrical novellas."
Heffernan, Carol Falvo.
Florilegium 22 (2005): 105-20.
Cipolla's tale concludes a set of stories focusing on wit, and PardT ends a fragment that precedes one centered on poetic language. The tales of both speakers coincide in "genre, character, theme, and placement," even though Cipolla improvises his…
Heffernan, Carol Falvo.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2009.
Exploring the question "When is Chaucer known in Italy?" Heffernan surveys other scholars who have examined Chaucer's writings within the Italian tradition and focuses on shared comedic themes in the works of Boccaccio and Chaucer. She reviews…
Heffernan, James A. W.
Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Surveys "how painting and sculpture have been represented by poets ranging from Homer's time to our own," focusing on Homer, Ovid, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer and Gower, Spenser and Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Browning, Auden, William…
Heffernan, Thomas J.
Ruth Morse and Barry Windeatt, eds. Chaucer Traditions: Studies in Honour of Derek Brewer (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 1990), pp.155-67.
Chaucer's canon evolved alongside a substantial body of virtually contemporary apocryphal texts attributed to him. But before the end of the last century, judgment concerning a text's authenticity was often indebted to extratextual biases: the…
Heffernan, Thomas J.
New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Using a new critical method, Heffernan examines the characteristics of the saint's life, sacred biography as historical narrative, important works and collections in the tradition, medieval attitudes toward virginity and chastity,rhetoric and the…
Heffernan, Thomas J., ed.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985.
Includes the following: D. W. Robertson, "Who Were 'The People'?"; Leonard E. Boyle, O.P., "The Fourth Lateran Council and Manuals of Popular Theology"; Judith Shaw, "The Influence of Canonical and Episcopal Reform on Popular Books of Instruction";…
Heffley, Sylvia Patricia.
Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 3446A.
Although Christian marriage was well defined by theologians in the twelfth through the thirteenth centuries, the proper role of sexuality remained debatable, as shown in the west portal of Senlis Cathedral, in Jean de Meun's introduction of the…
Hefling, Carol.
[Jay Ruud, ed.] Papers on the "Canterbury Tales": From the 1989 NEH Chaucer Institute, Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota ([Aberdeen, S.D.: Northern State University, 1989), pp. 247-52.
Presents in outline form materials for a unit on medieval history for the high school classroom, incorporating suggestions or using selections from CT.
Heidt, Edward R.
Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen, 1994.
Chronological survey of representative depictions of church ministers in a variety of works, from Chaucer to Morris West, briefly considering works by Shakespeare, Trollope, John Henry Newman, George Eliot, Ibsen, Edmund Gosse, Joyce, Graham Greene,…
Heidtmann, Peter Wallace.
Dissertation Abstracts International 25.10 (1965): 5905-06A.
Derives a composite "Chaucerian narrator" from the poet's various works, characterized by "naiveté or dull-mindedness," the traditional pose of a "slyly comic writer." Then explores how this nuances of this figure are used to effects in individual…
Argues that Chaucer combines earthly and spiritual love in TC "into one general view of love, one in which the two notions are not mutually exclusive," reading Troilus's ascent through the spheres as a kind of reward or salvation for loving well.
Heijnsbergen, Theo van.
Dutch Quarterly Review of Anglo-American Letters 17 (1987): 115-28.
Compared to Boccaccio's "Il Filostrato," TC is characterized by ambivalence in language, imagery, dialogue, theme, structure, and character, seen particularly in Criseyde as she follows her own sense of reality and social code while Troilus obeys the…
Heinrichs, Katherine.
University Park and London : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990.
Examines "conventions governing allusions to certain Ovidian and Virgilian tales of love in the works of Boccaccio, Machaut, Froissart, and Chaucer," addressing "questions of narrative voice, thematic unity, and purpose" and concentrating on…
In the allusions to infernal sufferers in medieval poems, the lover and the miser are often linked: both have lost their rational capacity, and the sins of both proceed from cupidity. Hence, such reference in BD and TC show that the Black Knight…
Heinrichs, Katherine.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 11 (1989): 93-115.
Boccaccio's "Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta" and Machaut's "Jugement dou Roy de Behaingne" parody Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" as "a source of humor and as a means of characterization." Troilus's Boethian soliloquy (TC 4.960-1082) exploits…
Heinrichs, Katherine.
Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 12 (1991): 13-39.
Mythological lovers alluded to in TC were associated in medieval letters with "amor stultus," foolish love. Allusions to Oenone, Tereus and Procne, Orpheus and Eurydice, and Myrrha help characterize the love of Troilus and Criseyde as foolish,…
Heinrichs, Katherine.
English Studies 76 (1995): 209-14.
Allusions to the Fall appear in at least half of the tales in CT, but a full tropological reading occurs only in ParsT (10.330), where the allegory explains that "the image of God in man guarantees our ability to rise after a fall."
Explores similarities between the love-lorn knight of Machaut's "Jugement" and Troilus, including their mutual concern with Fortune and their misunderstanding of Providence, their failure to comprehend human freedom, and the ways their speeches…
Heinzelman, Susan Sage.
Susan Sage Heinzelman. Representing Justice: Stories of Law and Literature, Parts 1 and 2. The Great Courses (Chantilly, Va.: Teaching Company, 2006), part 1, disc 3, lecture 6; 30 min.
Audio recording (on CD) of a lecture about the "inextricability" of religious and secular law in Chaucer's age as reflected in PardT, ParsT, and especially MLT. Heinzelman contrasts material and spiritual wealth in PardT and ParsT and explores the…
Heinzelman, Susan Sage.
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Law Books, 2010.
Heinzelman examines the interdependencies of literary and legal discourses and the representations of women in them, seeking to define the development of the novel as a stage in the separation of the two discourses. She reads various French and…
Hejaiej, Mounira Monia.
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 12.1 (2010): n.p.
Provides comparative analysis of the modern Tunisian tale "Sabra," an analogue of ClT, told by a woman to an exclusively female audience. Includes summary of and commentary on Chaucer's "ambivalent and ironic version," plus other medieval European…
Helgeland, Brian, dir.
Escape Artists and Columbia Pictures, 2001.
Feature-length film that includes a fictionalized version of Geoffrey Chaucer (played by Paul Bettany) who serves as herald to a would-be knight, William Thatcher (Heath Ledger). Released on DVD by Columbia Tristar.
Hellinga, Lotte, and J. B. Trapp, eds.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Twenty-eight essays by various authors, arranged under three major headings: Technique and Trade, Collections and Ownership, and Reading and Use of Books. The last is subdivided into Books for Scholars, Professions, and The Lay Reader. References to…
