Winstead, Karen A.
Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 1997.
Divides Middle English saints' lives about virgin martyrs (ca. 1200-1450) into three subgroups and examines how each reflects the cultural conditions of its reception.
Graver, Bruce E., ed.
Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 1998.
Scholarly edition of Wordsworth's modernization of selections from Chaucer (PrT, ManT and part of ManP, a portion of TC, and the apocryphal "Cuckoo and the Nightingale") and portions of Virgil's "Aeneid" and "Georgics," including full apparatus and…
Steiner, Emily, and Candace Barrington, eds.
Ithaca, N.Y., and Londons : Cornell University Press, 2002.
Nine New Historicist essays by various authors, assessing the intersections of legal history and literature and addressing Robin Hood, the N-Town Trial play, The Owl and the Nightingale, alliterative poetry, Lollard preaching, and works by Chaucer,…
In the Ellesmere arrangement, CT forms a unified whole, modeled on the seven planets and on the traditional divisions of philosophy, offering a "planetary pilgrimage" and a philosophical "journey of the soul." Like Gower's "Confessio Amantis," CT is…
Astell, Ann W.
Ithaca, N.Y.; and London: Cornell University Press, 1994.
In the Middle Ages, Job was regarded as a figure comparable to the heroes of classical epic, prompting allegorical readings of Job that parallel allegorical readings of works by Homer,Virgil, and Boethius. Astell traces the tradition of treating Job…
Kelly, Henry Ansgar.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1975.
Assesses the meaning and status of "courtly" love and its relation to marriage in medieval traditions and critical commentary on these traditions. Considers a wide range of medieval Latin and vernacular representations of love and marriage, and…
Kiser, Lisa J.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Universisty Press, 1983.
Argues that LGW is important for source study: it is a defense of Chaucer's own narrative poetry in the medieval perceptions of metaphor, allegory, and rhetoric.
Bishop, Morris, ed.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1970.
An anthology of Latin, Continental, and English medieval narratives in modern translation, including RvT (pp. 305-09) in a section called "Merry Tales and Salty Fictions."
Wetherbee, Winthrop.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1984.
A study of literary allusion in the "Troilus," with specific reference to the "Roman de la Rose," Virgil, Ovid, Statius, and Dante. Suggests that the poet-narrator of the poem evolves from a writer in the tradition of courtly romance to a poet in…
Gellrich, Jesse M.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1985.
Using insights of Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Barthes, and Derrida, and treating the history of textuality from Augustine to Chaucer, Gellrich examines the relationship of literature to other medieval cultural forms that are often expressed in the…
Finke, Laurie A., and Martin B. Shichtman, eds.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1987.
A collection of essays that question "traditional perceptions of medieval texts and the fictions and ideologies that structure these perceptions" (introduction). For five essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval Texts and Contemporary…
Farber, Lianna.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006.
Farber examines the "idea of trade . . . in medieval writing from the middle of the twelfth to the early fifteenth century," examining theoretical treatises and literary depictions of trade and its relations to valuation, marital exchanges, and…
Desmond, Marilynn.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006.
Desmond studies the discourse of erotic violence in medieval literature and iconography, surveying depictions of the "mounted Aristotle" and focusing on the adaptations of material from Ovid's "Ars Amatoria" found in the letters of Héoïse and…
Thomas, Alfred.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2007.
Studies artistic, religious, and political exchanges between England and Bohemia in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, including Anne of Bohemia's influence in England, Wyclif's influence in Bohemia, Shakespeare's formulation of Bohemia, and…
Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn, Maidie Hilmo, and Linda Olson, eds.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2012.
Richly illustrated text highlights issues that affected literary production, and focuses on how illustrations and glosses expand understanding of medieval English book culture. Introduction discusses different strategies of scribes in two versions of…
Somerset, Fiona.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2014.
Comprehensive study of over 500 manuscripts containing Lollard writings from 1375 to 1530. Analyzes textual culture associated with Lollard movement. Brief references to MLT, PardT, PhyT, and TC.
Schlett, James.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015.
Recounts the history and events of the nineteenth-century American Philosophers' Camp. The chapter entitled "The Worthy Crew Chaucer Never Had" includes discussion of Ralph Waldo Emerson's notebook commentaries on similarities between the group of…
Lears, Adin E.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020.
Connects noise and knowing and unknowing in late medieval English literature. Chapters 4 and 5 discuss HF and WBT respectively, suggesting how Chaucer's texts "present lay uses of language as noise."
McAlpine, Monica E.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1978.
"De casibus" tragedy stems from a single event which determines the protagonist's career. By contrast, the genre of TC is Boethian, depicting multiple crises in the lives of its characters with no single experience as the crucial one. The story of…
Krier, Theresa M.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001.
Treats Chaucer's topoi of bird song, maternal goddess Nature, voice, mother tongue, and biblical gardens in PF. Argues that the movement from aggressive plot to lyric in the poem and its male protagonist's oblique approach to the maternal draw the…
Lavezzo, Kathy.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016.
Addresses historical and social complexities of anti-Semitism and Jewish--Christian dynamics in medieval English texts. Chapter 3, "The Minster and the Privy: Jews, Lending, and the Making of Christian Space in Chaucer's England," focuses on…
Solberg, Emma Maggie.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018.
Studies the complicated sexuality of the Virgin Mary in late medieval English literature, exploring scriptural and apocryphal backgrounds; visual imagery; and dramatic, narrative, and lyrical texts. Includes comments on wives' secrets and the…
Harris, Carissa M.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018.
Examines late medieval British literary texts (lyrics, pastourelles, flytings, "alewife poems," "schoolroom texts," etc.) for their use of obscene language and imagery to shape and convey attitudes toward gender and sexuality, both positive and…
