Reads CT, TC, and LGW in the context of late medieval courtesy books, advice literature, and epistolary collections. Considers public and private marital honor in the Paston letters and FranT, and wifely obedience in ClT, "Menagier de Paris," and…
Hume, Jeannette, S.
Dissertation Abstracts International A26.04 (1965): n.p.
Examines the characters of Griselda and Walter in ClT, with particular attention to the diction associated with them: "bountee" and "sadnesse" for Griselda and "shapen" for Walter. Also examines the words the characters do and do not use.
Surveys the characteristics of the genre of the Breton lai in French and English, and argues that Chaucer labeled FranT as such in order to "minimize the religious implications of certain elements in the story" and encourage response to its courtly…
Hume, Kathryn.
Studia Neophilologica 44 (1972): 289-94.
Argues that Dorigen's lament is "not necessarily Christian," derived as it is from Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" and "spiced with reminiscences" of Ovid's "Metamorphoses." Reads the lament as "completely consonant with what Chaucer regarded…
Humphrey, Chris, and W. M. Ormrod, eds.
Suffolk : York Medieval Press, 2001.
An introduction and eight essays explore various senses of time in the medieval world, assessing their influence upon life and culture. Topics include anachronism as a feature in earlier senses of time, perceptions of death and the Last Judgment,…
The "first survey of medieval English plant names to appear in print," Hunt's work covers 1,800 names, 500 not found in the OED, of interest to botanists and lexicologists as well as nonspecialists.
Argues that "two medieval methods of memorializing" are in tension in KnT: "celebration" of chivalric loss, and Boethian remembrance. Theseus's admonitions to remember Arcite "leave little room" for "healthy" mourning and reveal the limits of…
Considers the "influence of the thirteenth-century Pseudo-Boethian forgery 'De Disciplina Scolarium' on medieval understandings of Boethius." Includes "'Bitwixen game and ernest': Contrary Boethianism in TC," which examines the "contraries" of the…
Hunter, Michael.
The Warden's Meeting: A Tribute to John Sparrow. (Oxford: Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles, 1977), 9-32.
Hunter describes a copy of the 1602 edition of Chaucer in his possession signed "A. Pope." The volume is defective, lacking the first gathering. The signature comes at the beginning of gathering B. There are no marginalia. Presumably this was a…
Huntsman, Jeffrey F.
Modern Philology 73 (1976): 276-79.
Medieval English and Latin dictionaries such as the "Medulla gramatice" can often be of great value in textual criticism,offering solutions to several Chaucerian cruces: "stot" (CT III, 1630) "whore"; "nakers" (CT I, 2511) "horns"; "astromye" (CT I,…
Huntsman, Jeffrey F.
Notes and Queries, 227 (1982): 237.
Although N. F. Blake (N&Q 224:110-11 and Thomas W. Ross N&Q 226:202) assert that the Miller's use of "astromye" reflects his literacy, it seems likely that the form existed as a plausible variant. The B text of "Piers Plowman" also contains sixteen…
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…
Huppé, Bernard F.
Aldo S. Bernardo and Saul Levin, eds. The Classics in the Middle Ages: Papers of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, no. 69 (Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1990), 175-87.
Surveys the typology of journeying in Beowulf, Abelard's Calamaties, Chretien's Eric and Lancelot, Roman de la Rose, Dante's Vita nuova, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Troilus's rise through the spheres in TC.
Huppé, Bernard F.
John P. Hermann and John J. Burke, eds. Signs and Symbols in Chaucer's Poetry (University: University of Alabama Press, 1981), pp. 179-94.
Inconsistencies are found in the poems, in the tone of the narrator, and in the discrepancy between the comic mode of TC and the seriousness of the conclusion. The design of the poem either "employs inconsistency and incongruity, or conversely is…
Huppé, Bernard F.
Albany: State University of New York, 1964.
Reads CT as a thematic engagement with the need for humans to pursue spiritual pilgrimage, considering allegorical and symbolic imagery and focusing on charity, "caritas," and contempt for engagement with the world ("contemptus mundi"). Explores…
Huppé, Bernard F., and D. W. Robertson Jr.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1963.
Interprets BD and PF as allegories, offering "An Approach to Medieval Poetry" (pp. 3-31) as an introduction to exegetical or patristic criticism and a justification of the method. Explores the imagery, structures, ironic juxtapositions, and meanings…
Recording of MercB set to music, performed by the Vasari Singers, "Recorded 2016 February 12–14 Church of St. Judeon-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden, London."
Hurd, Myles R.
College Language Association Journal 34:1 (1990): 99-107.
Presented differently than in Trevet, Chaucer's scenes of the blind Briton and the blindfolded Maurice in MLT emphasize the helplessness of humankind and the help of God. The emphasis is consistent with Innocent III's "De miseria condicionis humane"…
Hurley, Gina Marie.
Amy N. Vines and Lee Templeton, eds. New Directions in Medieval Mystical and Devotional Literature: Essays in Honor of Denise N. Baker (Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University Press, 2023), pp. 163-82.
Identifies the limited "temporal scale" in SNT, arguing that its closing lines (550–53) "leap . . . into eternity" and "create the impression of the endurance of Cecilia's church, a miracle not unlike that of her prolonged life." Contrasts…
Arguing that translations may be used to shape and define community identities, considers MLT as an effort to establish a "multicultural English Christianity." Other examined texts include "Orosius" and Aelfric's "Lives of the Saints."
Hurley, Mary Kate.
Translation Effects: Language, Time, and Community in Medieval England. Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2021), pp. 125-50.
Assesses the "temporally heterogeneous portrayals of an emerging sense" of "Engelond" in the scenes of Saxon conversion in the Constance narratives of Trevet's "Cronicles," Gower's "Confessio Amantis," and MLT. These scenes are "sites where the power…
Hurley, Michael D., and Michael O'Neill.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Introduces the major forms of English poetry from lyric to dramatic monologue to sonnet to ballad and beyond, with recurrent references to Chaucer's role in their development (see index), and a sustained discussion of Chaucer and narrative poetry…
Adaptation of the CT for staging that incorporates abridged versions of PardT, FrT, MilT, RvT, WBT, and NPT, with stage directions, framed by dialogue among Chaucer, a modern student, the Host, and several fiends. The volume includes suggestions for…
Hurst, Mary L.
Selected Papers from the West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association 8 : 1-8, 1983.
Hurst argues that Shakespeare's Cressida is an "embryonic feminist"; Cressida compares favorably with Chaucer's Criseyde, who was elsewhere demeaned in subsequent accounts.
Huseboe, Arthur R.
North Dakota Quarterly 31 (1963): 35-37.
Argues that in Chaucer's three uses of "brotel" and its derivatives in MerT (4. 1279, 2061, and 2241), the poet plays punningly on sexual implications of the term in addition to the primary meaning, "brittle" or "fragile."
