Huot, Sylvia.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Examines manuscripts of "Roman de la Rose" to discover how medieval readers interpreted it. Explores glosses and other internal commentary as well as illustrations and various versions of the work. Issues explored in depth include the erotic and…
Kawasaki, Masatoshi.
Hiroe Futamura, Kenichi Akishino, and Hisato Ebi, eds. A Pilgrimage Through Medieval Literature (Tokyo: Nan' Un-Do Press, 1993), pp. 103-22.
Chaucer's use of spatial commonplaces to describe landscapes reflects the symbolic nature of the medieval universe and lends philosophical depth to his stories.
Kelly, Henry Ansgar.
Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Interpretation: Medieval and Modern (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993), pp. 107-22.
Chaucer had a rare sense of genre for a medieval writer. Not only was he "one of a small number of generic innovators," but he also reinterpreted and practiced genres and had a "following of practitioners." Kelly surveys Chaucer's use of genre…
Kelly, Henry Ansgar.
Chaucer Review 28 (1993): 5-22.
Contemporary documents concerning aspects of liturgical life indicate that the people of Chaucer's time were a "fervent laity served by a fervent clergy," notwithstanding the adulterous monk of ShT and Chaucer's corrupt Pardoner, Summoner, and Friar.
Lancashire, Ian, ed.
Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, 1993.
Ten essays from a 1992 conference on the application of computer technology to the study of Chaucer's language, his style, and manuscripts of his works. Includes a summary titled "Afterwords" by Patricia J. Eberle (pp. 189-93), which comments on…
Courter, Jean M.
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1993): 3206A.
The term "Scottish Chaucerians," evolving from Henryson's "Testament of Criseyde," proves inaccurate, overly limited, and unfortunate, since the fifteenth-century Scottish poets,superior to their English contemporaries, initiated their nations great…
Lomperis, Linda, and Sarah Stanbury, eds.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.
A collection of ten feminist essays focusing on representations of the physical body in medieval literature and their sociopolitical importance. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature…
Martin, Carol Ann Nearpass.
Dissertation Abstracts International 54 (1993): 172A.
In light of Gerald Brun's investigations into historical hermeneutic theories, Chaucer may be seen as employing messenger figures throughout his oeuvre, from BD to CT. This role applies especially to Alys of Bath (despite her claims on Venus and…
Meale, Carol M, ed.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Eight essays on women, literacy, and power in medieval Britain, including discussion of Latin, Anglo-Norman, Welsh,and English materials. Topics include romances, literature for recluses, the social conditions of literacy, female access to literacy,…
Mooney, Linne R.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 15 (1993): 91-109.
Chaucer's works and the works of almanac writers John Somer and Nicholas of Lynn reflect the contemporary tendency to rely on "clock time" rather than earlier forms of computing time. Mooney surveys a variety of ways of telling time, discussing…
Nicholson, Peter.
Medievalia et Humanistica 19 (1993): 159-68.
Reviews Priscilla Martin's "Chaucer's Women: Nuns, Wives, and Amazons" and Helen Cooper's "The Canterbury Tales," arguing that they "provide a good indication of some of the newest orthodoxies in Chaucer studies."
Ni Cuilleanain, Eilean, and J. D. Pheifer, eds.
Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1993.
An introduction and eleven essays consider romances of the English tradition written between the late Middle Ages and Spenser, with recurrent concern for relations to the Continental tradition of romance. Topics include Chaucer, the "Gawain" poet,…
Rasmussen, Mark David.
Dissertation Abstracts International 54 (1993): 171A.
Poets have used the complaint to express their own poetic and social situations. In BD, the nonaristocratic poet must work within a courtly mode; in TC, he expresses the "need for a sympathetic audience."
Rogers, Nicholas, ed.
Stamford, Conn.: Paul Watkins, 1993.
Includes five essays on relations between image and text, three on literature, and three on the church and society. For one essay that pertains to Chaucer, search for England in the Fourteenth Century under Alternative Title.
Explores historical and literary traditions of the noble hunt,addressing Christian and classical backgrounds, hunting manuals, narrative motifs, a variety of Middle English romances, and the figures of Sir Tristrem and Christ as hunters. Middle…
Encourages study of the classical-medieval theory and practice of artificial memory, i.e., memory training that depends on associating ideas with familiar places, whether real or imagined. Comments on the important work of Frances Yates and…
Applies Joseph Frank's theory of "spatial form" in the modern novel (forms in which meaning is created through simultaneity and juxtaposition rather than through linearity and causation) to BD, PF, and HF. Examines particularly the use of myth (Seys…
Saunders, Corinne J.
Corinne J. Saunders. The Forest of Medieval Romance: Arvernus, Broceliande, Arden. (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993), pp. 155-62.
Explores Chaucer's use of romance conventions of the forest and the hunt. BD offers a particularly "artificial forest," reflecting the artifice of the work. In FrT, the forest is a kind of hell; in TC, the place of greatest freedom. WBT overturns…
Simpson, James.
Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Interpretation: Medieval and Modern (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993), pp. 167-87.
Refashions the Neo-Platonic "Timaean" aesthetic proposed by Jordan (Cambridge, 1967), focusing on the painting imagery used by Alain de Lille in his discussion of the creative acts of God, Nature, and writers. Despite Jordan's claims for the…
Spearing, A. C.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Examines a wide range of medieval romances and first-person personification love-narratives for the ways they compel their audiences to assume voyeuristic perspectives. Romances include scenes of secret watching of private love, and in…
Describes the forms, styles, goals, and reception of late-medieval English sermons and sermon collections. Examines attendance at sermons; allegorical and literal aspects of sermons; and relations between sermons and literacy, eduction, and…
Suzuki, Takashi, and Tsuyoshi Mukai, eds.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993.
Twenty-six essays on linguistics, early publishing, and English literature, especially Malory, other Arthurian materials, and Chaucer. Also includes a few Renaissance and modern topics.For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Arthurian…
Many postmodern medievalist critics combine deconstructionist rhetoric with a historicist belief in intentionality, thus attributing poststructuralist concerns to medieval authors. Alternatives exist: historical inquiry into textuality or…
Taylor, Robert A.;James F. Burke; Patricia J. Eberle; Ian Lancashire; and Brian S. Merrilees,eds.
Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1993.
For five essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Centre and Its Compass under Alternative Title.
