Holsinger, Bruce.
In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017. Relocated 2025 at https://opencanterburytales.lsusites.org/
Outlines "Chaucer's lives as poet, public figure, and literary persona," with recurrent reminders of the limits of what can be known from surviving evidence. Designed for pedagogical, includes suggestions for further reading.
Holt, John Douglas Gordon.
Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1988): 257A-258A.
Lists references both to the Vulgate and to the mass, prayers,holy office, and hymns, as noted in the Baugh, Benson, Fisher, Pratt, and Robinson editions. The Latin passage, modern English translation, and Chaucer's treatment follow.
Holton, Amanda.
Aldershot, Hampshire; and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2008.
Studies Chaucer's stylistic techniques, comparing several texts (KnT, MLT, PhyT, MkT, ManT, and LGW) with sources to show that Chaucer employed a style that was remarkably consistent across genres, rather than appropriating the styles of source…
The Vulgate's sheer availability offers compelling evidence that Chaucer used the Vulgate Bible, while faint lexical echoes of the "Bible historiale" suggest ancillary use of the "historiale." The Wycliffite Bible's candidacy may be ruled out on a…
Holton argues that Chaucer generally prefers direct naming techniques, but he recurrently uses "pronominatio" (i.e., epithets and related circumlocutions) when relying on Virgil as a source in HF and LGW. Also shows how Chaucer exploits the negative…
Holton, Amanda.
Stephen Hamrick, ed. Tottel's Songes and Sonettes in Context (Burlington: Ashgate, 2013), pp. 87-110.
Surveys Chaucer's influence on "Tottel's Miscellany," commenting on various allusions and the inclusion of Chaucer's Truth in the collection (although "deliberately anonymized"), and exploring more thoroughly how he is "strongly resisted," i.e., how…
Holtz, Nancy Ann.
Luanne Franke, ed. Literature and the Occult: Essays in Comparative Literature (Arlington: University of Texas at Arlington, 1977), pp. 159-73.
Despite his comic depictions of star-obsessed humanity, Chaucer respected astrology; but he did not find astrological determinism absolute. In KnT Palamon gains Emily by enduring the tests of Saturn, who is more neutral.
Homan, Delmar C.
Proceedings of the Medieval Association of the Midwest 1 (1991): 82-96.
Physically, and by his associations with hares and the Summoner, the Pardoner is a grotesque, analogous to a major feature of the English Decorated Style in the visual arts. Also, the Pardoner is homosexual.
Homan, Delmar C.
Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest 7: 63-83, 2000.
Assesses the process of consolation in BD in light of modern theories of grief and reminiscence therapy, arguing that the numerology of the poem provides closure.
Through its "metafictional dialogue" between the teller and pilgrim narrator; its "inter-illumination" of genres, including anticlerical satire, oath making, and fabliau; and its depiction of a "carnival hell," FrT parodies and thus undermines the…
Honda, Takahiro.
Koichi Kano, ed. Through the Eyes of Chaucer: Essays in Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Society for Chaucer Studies (Kawasaki: Asao Press, 2014), pp. 111-24.
Focuses on contrastive characterizations of the husband figures in MerT and ShT. Considers the common motif of the untruthful wife in relation to the theme of mutability. In Japanese.
Honda, Takahiro.
Research Reports (Fukushima National College of Technology) 55 (2014): 125-30.
Compares TC with Boccaccio's "Il filostrato" and points out there are two kinds of death for Troilus in TC, as well as salvations in the Chaucer and Boccaccio texts. Traces the continuity of the theme of death from TC to CT. In Japanese, with English…
Honda, Takahiro.
Research Reports, National Institute of Technology, Fukushima College 61 (2020): 161-68.
Analyzes the concepts of mutability and instability in MLT, arguing that Chaucer constantly approaches these concepts in relation to worldly authorities, and that this implies lessons for such authorities. In Japanese, with English abstract.
Honda, Takahiro.
Research Reports, National Institute of Technology, Fukushima College 63 (2022): 56-62.
Contrasts the master-pupil relationships in CYT and Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" and their concepts of philosophy. Argues that CYT ridicules the false nature of philosophy. In Japanese, with English abstract.
Hone, Ralph E., ed.
San Francisco: Chandler, 1966.
A textbook edition of "Samson Agonistes" that includes among the poem's "Antecedents" the Samson section of MkT (CT 7. 3205-3284) from Skeat's 1894 edition.
Eight essays by various authors, selected from the papers presented at SEM (Studientag zum Englisches Mittelalter) 4 and 5, held in Potsdam in 2002 and 2003, respectively. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Riddles, Knights and…
Assesses the "most important" poems about animals in English literature, ca. 700-1400 A.D., focusing on three traditions: "Physiologus," bird debates, and beast fable and epic. Considers PF as a bird debate, describing how it transcends the…
Honegger, Thomas.
Andreas H. Jucker, Gerd Fritz, and Franz Lebsanft, eds. Historical Dialogue Analysis. Pragmatics and Beyond, no. 66 (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, 1999), pp. 189-214.
Examines the dawn songs (aubades) in TC and Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" as elaborate versions of the linguistic category of parting or separation. Both dawn songs assert consolidation and assuage possible feelings of rejection; they also…
Whereas Robert Henryson rarely uses animals for imagery or metaphoric comparisons (outside the allegory of "Morall Fabillis"), Chaucer "exploits the rich and variegated symbolic dimension" of references to animals, even while he avoids "explicit…
Honegger, Thomas.
Irma Taavitsainen and Andreas H. Jucker, eds. Diachronic Perspectives on Address Term Systems (Philadelphia: Benjamins, 2003), pp. 61-84.
Honegger argues that analyses of international forms of address would gain depth if critics considered "situational" factors and even "competing interactional" factors along with traditional considerations of ye/thou pronouns. Focuses on addresses to…
Chaucer and Henryson use the bestiaries in different ways. Chaucer only hints at the allegorical potential of his animals in CT and PF, although he does capitalize on familiar allegorizations in his similes and symbols. More directly, Henryson…
Honeyman, Chelsea Victoria.
DAI A71.12 (2011): n.p.
Discusses Scottish poets' uses of Chaucer, both to deepen their own works and to establish their own independent literary tradition. Instances include "Kingis Quair," which incorporates motifs from TC and KnT; Henryson's work; and Gavin Douglas's…
Honeyman, Chelsea.
Kathleen A. Bishop, ed. Standing in the Shadow of the Master? Chaucerian Influences and Interpretations (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010), pp. 65-81.
Honeyman situates Palice of Honour within the development of an autonomous tradition of Scottish poetry, addressing the work as a self-aware response to HF.
Honoré-Duvergé, Suzanne.
Recueil de Travaux Offert a M. Clovis Brunel, Membre de l’Institut, Directeur Honoraire de l’École des Chartes, par Ses Amis, Collèagues et Élèves (Paris: Société de l'École Chartes, 1955), Volume 2, pp. 9-13.
Republishes (from 1890) a document originally from the "Cartulario" of Carlos II, king of Navarre, correctly transcribing Chaucer's name (Chauserre rather than Chanserre), and suggesting that he was granted safe-conduct in Spain to participate in…
