Hilmo, Maidie.
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton and Maidie Hilmo, eds. The Medieval Professional Reader at Work: Evidence from Manuscripts of Chaucer, Langland, Kempe, and Gower (Victoria, British Columbia: U of Victoria, 2001), pp. 14-71.
The Ellesmere miniatures are evidence of the process of text production--the shaping and preparation of the manuscript for aristocratic viewing--and a visual guide to the reading process. The illustrations foster the aristocracy's sense of…
Six related essays on the interaction of words and images in English literary tradition: a theoretical introduction, plus essays on the Ruthwell Cross, Anglo-Saxon art, the Auchinleck and Vernon manuscripts, the manuscript of "Pearl," and the…
Hilmo, Maidie.
Journal of the Early Book Society 10 (2007): 71-105.
Hilmo encourages the view that wood-cuts enhance text through visual rhetoric; specifically, Caxton's addition of a bow to Chaucer's Clerk in his edition of CT represents the Clerk as a moral satirist.
Hilmo, Maidie.
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, ed. Women and the Divine in Literature Before 1700: Essays in Memory of Margot Louis (Victoria, Canada: ELS Editions, 2009), pp. 107-35.
Hilmo explores the iconography of representations of the Prioress, the Second Nun, and their Tales, commenting on the Ellesmere illustrations of the tellers, the Vernon manuscript depiction of PrT, two manuscript depictions of Saint Cecilia, and the…
Hilmo, Maidie.
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Maidie Hilmo, and Linda Olson, eds. Opening up Middle English Manuscripts: Literary and Visual Approaches (Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 2012), pp. 245-89.
Examines illustrations of CT in several manuscripts, including the Hengwrt; Ellesmere; Bodley 686; and Tokyo, MS Takamiya 24 (formerly Devonshire); and portraits of Chaucer, exploring how manuscript illustrations "serve to shape the text and its…
Hilmo, Maidie.
Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Visual Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016), pp. 218-43.
Studies the interplay between textual content and "mise-en-page" in the Ellesmere MS of CT, especially its use of gold, border ornament, decorated letters, and glosses. Such elements shape an integrated experience of the text, duly "sanitized and…
Hiltunen, Risto, Marita Gustafsson, Keith Battarbee, and Liisa Dahl, eds.
Turku: Turun Yliopisto, 1993.
Twenty-three essays on literary and linguistic topics, emphasizing linguistic or structuralist approaches to literature. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for English Far and Wide under Alternative Title.
Introduces a cross-cultural classroom "assignment in which students make their own adaptations of Middle English texts," discussing three samples of undergraduate student projects as examples--on "Sir Orfeo," "Sir Gowther," and TC respectively. The…
Hindrichsen, Lorenz A.
Sathyaraj Venkatesan, Antara Chatterjee, A. David Lewis, and Brian Callender, eds. Pandemic and Epidemics in Cultural Representation (Singapore: Springer, 2022), pp. 31-48.
Interprets CT as a "compelling psychogram of a diverse community processing massive demographic shifts in the wake of recurrent epidemic waves." Explores disruptions of social and linguistic categories, PardT as an allegory of plague death, various…
Hines, Jessica N.
Dissertation Abstracts International A78.09 (2017): n.p.
Considers how Chaucer (in ClT, LGW, and ParsT) develops the concept of pity from European sources, and privileges the concept in English literary discourse.
Hines, Jessica.
Religion & Literature 54 (2022): 49-71.
Presents the role of pity as an "essential virtue" that does not negate suffering in TC; claims that Chaucer shifts language as a way to understand the "complex social and subjective position of pity" in TC.
Hines, Jessica.
Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 34 (2022): 130-47.
Compares the "structures of feeling" in PrT and Gower's "Tale of the Jew and the Pagan," particularly their interrelations of pity, violence, justice, antisemitism, and affective response. Suggests that the two authors reworked their versions at the…
This six-chapter history of fabliau tradition begins with an examination of medieval French fabliaux, including a description of their usual characteristics and a discussion of relevant criticism. It then addresses French fabliaux in English, as…
ManT and the depiction of the Manciple reflect Chaucer's effort to undermine bourgeois threats to court culture, his critique of practical "wit," and, simultaneously, his affirmation of the destructive power of adultery.
Hines, John.
John Hines. Voices in the Past: English Literature and Archaeology (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2004), pp. 105-36.
Discusses the use of space and physical objects in TC, arguing that the poem's movements among exterior and interior spaces reveal how characters manipulate such spaces--and even furniture--to negotiate relationships with one another and to chart…
Hines, John.
Jan-Peer Hartmann and Andrew James Johnston, eds. Material Remains: Reading the Past in Medieval and Early Modern British Literature (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2021), pp. 240-57.
Considers possibilities of assessing material archeology in medieval literature and offers a case study concerning HF, observing connections between the brass-tablet account of Aeneas in the poem (lines 140ff.) and monumental brasses, hypothesizing…
Hinnie, Lucy R.
Chaucer Review 55, no. 4 (2020): 484-99.
Traces how "Chaucer is invoked and"utilized in the 1568 Bannatyne Manuscript," suggesting that the manuscript participates in the "querelle des femmes" and "interrogates the idea that Chaucer becomes a 'straw man' for the writers included in the…
Hinton, Norman (D.)
Papers on Language and Literature 17 (1981): 339-46.
The disparity between Chaucer's allusion to Lucan in MLT 400-403 and the actual passage in Lucan may be explained by commentaries that Chaucer might have known. The "Pharsalia" shares thematic parallels with Chaucer's story, and may reflect his…
Hinton, Norman (D.)
Nona C. Flores, ed. Animals in the Middle Ages: A Book of Essays (New York: Garland, 1996), pp. 133-46.
Comparison of the protagonist of "William of Palerne" with Chaucer's Troilus makes William seem "a paragon of decision," while Alisaundrine is like Pandarus in bringing lovers together.
Hinton, Norman D.
Essays in Medieval Studies 1: 28-48, 1985
Advances computer data-based theory that if various manuscripts of CT represent "compilationes" with the "Tales" as "auctoritates," study of incomplete manuscripts may reveal how readers used them to discuss moral-ethical issues.
Challenges previous arguments that the name "Malyne" is appropriate to the character in RvT because it means "dish cloth," arguing instead that "Malyne," "Aleyn," and their roles in RvT can better be understood in light of the denotations and…
Hinton, Norman.
Donald E. Hayden, ed. His Firm Estate: Essays in Honor of Franklin James Eikenberry (Tulsa Okla.: University of Tulsa, 1967), pp. 72-78.
Argues that the Plague, or Black Death, "stands behind" BD, helping to "give it a shape and a meaning," describing late-medieval attitudes toward death and fortune as described in commentaries on plague.
"[I]nvestigates Chaucer's artistic and philosophical debt to the poetic tradition stemming from the twelfth-century School of Chartres," exploring Chaucer's sources and considering the (neo)platonic concerns in BD, HF, PF, and CT.
