Horvath, Richard P.
Chaucer Review 37 : 173-89, 2002.
Rather than personal comments to private friends, Buk and Scog may be seen as Chaucer's experiments with "[t]urning the relationship between writer and reader into a poetic subject of its own." The characteristic sense of play and seemingly…
Hosokawa, Satoshi.
Koichi Kano, ed. An Invitation to Chaucer's Cosmos (Tokyo: Yushokan, 2022), pp. 187-210.
Provides a list of French works written in the period up to Chaucer's lifetime in the order of the number of extant manuscripts, from more than 100 to four. Assuming this reflects the French texts that surrounded Chaucer, reviews Charles Muscatine's…
Hostetler, Margaret Mary.
Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 3011A.
Applies spatial metaphors from contemporary feminist scholarship to medieval texts of various genres, including "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," Chretien's "Yvain," TC, the "Life of Christina de Markyate," the "Ancrene Wisse," and the "Book of…
Hostetter, Aaron K.
J. Michelle Coghlin, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Food (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 15-28
Describes the social implications of food and dining practices in late medieval cookbooks, social records, and aesthetic literature, commenting on the culinary concerns associated with the Franklin, Prioress, Squire, and Cook in GP and similar…
Hough, Carole.
Richard Dance and Laura Wright, eds. The Use and Development of Middle English (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2012), pp. 215-29.
Analyzes the name "Pertelote" in NPT as "beautiful paramour" and "little beauty," and "Colle," "Talbot," and "Gerland" as dog-names. Includes recurrent concern with levels of style in Chaucer's naming and on names that link aspects of CT, e.g.,…
Treats as "neighboring texts" Chaucer's account of Pedro I of Castile and Leon (MkT 7..2375-90) and that of Pere Lopez de Ayala in "Cronica del rey don Pedro," theorizing the notion of "neighbor"; exploring the inclusions, omissions, and enigmas of…
Houlik-Ritchey, Emily.
In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017. Relocated 2025 at https://opencanterburytales.lsusites.org/
Compares the functions and effects of Dorigen's "odd pleasure of intense feeling" in FranT with those of Marianne Dashwood in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, considering their feelings in light of their respective community structures and gender…
Houlik-Ritchey, Emily.
Allison Gulley, ed. Teaching Rape in the Medieval Literature Classroom: Approaches to Difficult Texts (Amsterdam: Arc Humanities, 2018), pp. 91-112.
Identifies contradictions and complications in legal and ethical understandings of rape, and describes how issues of consent and culpability can be used productively in classroom discussion of RvT to help students understand their own values as well…
Houlik-Ritchey, Emily.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 41 (2019): 107-39.
Proposes a "theoretical conjunction" between "an ecological love for the non-identical and ethical theories of love for the neighbor," exploring in light of neighbor theory Dorigen's relationships in FranT with Arveragus, with Aurelius, and with the…
Houlik-Ritchey, Emily.
Emily Houlik-Ritchey. Imagining Iberia in English and Castilian Medieval Romance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023), pp. 167-208.
Analyzes the role of Iberia in Constance narratives by Trivet, Chaucer, Gower, and the Portuguese and Castilian translators of Gower's version. Accepts that the Anglo-Castilian politics of John of Gaunt's marriage to Constance of Castile undergird…
Hourigan, Maureen.
Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales" (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 38-46.
Briefly surveys the history of medieval nunneries, the typical responsibilities of a prioress, and critical attitudes toward the Prioress and PrT.
Houser, Richard McCormick.
Chaucer Review 48.1 (2013): 66-90.
Argues that the Wife of Bath "employs the courtroom pleading techniques of 'excepcion' and 'confession' and 'avoidance' to challenge the misogynist teachings of clerical authority." Demonstrates how Alisoun's discourse in WBP reveals her familiarity…
In TC, a vision of love and death, Chaucer uses black and white to portray Criseyde as ambiguous: she shares her whiteness with Venus but is linked with death and its symbolic blackness.
Houwen, L. A. J. R.
L. A. J. R. Houwen, ed. Animals and the Symbolic in Mediaeval Art and Literature. Mediaevalia Groningana, no. 20 (Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1997), pp. 77-92.
Assesses references to mermaids' singing in medieval tradition to argue that Chaucer's reference (NPT 7.3270) suggests flattery and thereby anticipates Chauntecleer's fall.
Houwen, L. A. J. R.
Geoffrey Lester, ed. Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays in Honour of Norman Blake (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), pp. 100-17.
Derived from Boethius's Consolation and from the Roman de la Rose, the exemplary image of the caged bird invoked for the audience of ManT and SqT the "natural law" of sexual drive and the requirement that human beings, unlike birds, curb this drive.…
Houwen, L. A. J. R.
Anne Scott and Cynthia Kosso, eds. Fear and Its Representations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2002), pp. 17-30.
Chauntecleer's responses to the fox in his dream and in his initial sighting of the beast are rooted in Aristotelian traditions of psychology and natural antipathy, here traced from their classical roots through their medieval adaptations. The…
Houwen, Luuk.
Andrew James Johnston, Ferdinand von Mengden, and Stefan Thim, eds. Language and Text: Current Perspectives on English and Germanic Historical Linguistics and Philology (Heidelberg: Winter, 2006), pp. 97-111.
Exemplifies text/image relationships by examining a number of misericords depicting scenes from the beast fable tradition of Reynard and other sly foxes. Considers the role of NPT in the development of this visual tradition.
Howard, Donald R.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.
Although CT is unfinished, it is aesthetically complete. The GP is structured to reveal typifying groups. The tales are ordered into thematic clusters. The ParsT provides a satisfying closure. The structure of the poem is the interlace or…
Howard, Donald R.
New York: E. P. Dutton; London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.
This very readable biography by the late Donald Howard brings together "Chaucer, the man and the poet, and the age in which he lived." Howard traces developments in Chaucer's life from birth to death, setting Chaucer's works contextually within the…
Howard, Donald R.
Larry D. Benson and Siegfried Wenzel, eds. The Wisdom of Poetry (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Western Michigan University, 1982), pp. 151-75.
Explores the philosophy and modern "philosophizing" and especially Bloomfield's location of the philosophy in the actual experience of TC, as for example, in the narrator's "historical hindsight," which is compared to God's prescience.
Howard, Donald R.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion 47.2, Supplement : 307-28, 1979.
Howard compares TC with Il Filostrato and CT with Decameron, focusing on how Chaucer adapts Boccaccio's uses of conventions to engage his audience. In Boccaccio, fiction enables the audience to escape from a contemptible world, whereas Chaucer--more…
Howard, Donald R.
Wittreich, Joseph Anthony, Jr., ed. Milton and the Line of Vision (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1975), pp. 3-23.
Gauges Chaucer's influence on Milton, often mediated by Spenser, commenting on the use of interlace or "labyrinth design" in the works of the poets and their concern with the "picture of quotidian domestic life" in the marriage tales of CT and in…
Howard, Donald R.
Medievalia et Humanistica 3 (1972): 99-115.
Gauges the value of historicist approaches to medieval literary study, compared with other approaches, suggesting that a phenomenological approach aligned with humanistic awareness of individual consciousness is desirable. Recurrent references to…
