Jucker, Andreas H.
Seiler, Annina.
Chaucer Review 58, no. 1 (2023): 35-59.
Focuses on the word "queynte" in MilT to explore the challenges translators face when rendering modernizations that are descriptively and stylistically true to original Middle English texts. Insists that to achieve the correct level of politeness or…
Jucker, Andreas H.
Irma Taavitsainen, Terttu Nevalainen, Päivi Pahta, and Matti Rissanen, eds. Placing Middle English in Context (Berlin and New York: Gruyter, 2000), pp. 369-89.
Classifies instances of verbal aggression within and across narrative layers in CT in several groups: direct, embedded, mediated, or indirect. Considers the speaker, the addressee, and the target of aggression, exploring twenty-two examples.
The choices between ye and thou in CT are governed by the "interactional status of the characters," a set of principles differing "considerably from modern address systems." Jucker surveys previous criticism on the topic and assesses exchanges and…
Jucker, Andreas H.
Richard Dury et al., eds. English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected Papers from the Fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21- 25 August 2006. Volume II: Lexical and Semantic Change. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2008, pp. 3-29.
Arguing that contemporary "negative" politeness may function in public only, Jucker surveys historical functions of politeness in English. Analyzes Chaucer's use of "thou" and "you" forms in ClT as "retractable," i.e., variable by situation, rapidly…
Jucker, Andreas H.
Jonathan Culpeper and Dániel Z. Kádár, eds. Historical (Im)Politeness. Linguistic Insights, no. 65 (Bern and New York: Peter Lang, 2010), pp. 175-200.
Traces developments in the politeness system between Old English and Early Modern English, focusing on Chaucer's uses of the term "curteisie," his uses of the pronouns of address ("ye" and "thou") in MilT, and cases of "discernment" politeness in…
Jucker, Andreas H.
Päivi Pahta and Andreas H. Jucker, eds. Communicating Early English Manuscripts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 229-42.
Describes the pragmatic complexities of greetings and farewells and the limitations of using edited literary examples to explore their history. Tabulates and analyzes 140 instances of greetings and farewells in CT, attending to concerns of social…
Jucker, Andreas H., and Irma Taavitsainen.
Journal of Historical Pragmatics 1: 67-95, 2000.
Anatomizes numerous examples of insults in English, from Unferth's challenge of Beowulf to "flaming" in e-mail communication, including examples from SNT, exchanges between the Host and the Cook, and exchanges between the Host and the Pardoner in CT.…
Analyzes the grammar and usage of the "man" and related locutions that convey independent agency in late Middle English and Early Modern English, considering pronouns, modals, and passive verbal forms as well as "man" and other generalized nouns.…
Judkins, Ryan R.
Carolynn Van Dyke, ed. Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 159-72.
Although anthropocentric, BD emphasizes the similarity of animals and humans under the law of "kynde." They share an "embodied state and an ethical system as a result of their shared creation." The hart, object of the hunt, parallels the Black…
Surveys historical and literary evidence that deer were kept as pets in the Middle Ages, including discussion of deer parks and Nature's garden in PF, which "Chaucer's audience would almost certainly have understood as a deer park."
Contends that metaphors of hunting in TC and the alliterative "Morte Arthure" are intended for a noble audience, and in turn, they shape that audience's attention to ideas of love and chivalry.
Jufresa Muñoz, Montserrat.
Anuari de filologia: Antiqva et mediaevalia 9, no. 2 (2019): 121-31.
Analyzes the depiction of old age in MerT from a philosophical perspective, with particular emphasis on Epicureanism as it was understood during the Middle Ages. In Catalan.
Julius, Anthony.
Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Julius defines anti-Semitism and describes its history and politics in England. Literary anti-Semitism has "distinct tropes and themes, deployed without respect for genre boundaries." The "master trope" of "a well intentioned Christian place in peril…
Julius, Patricia Ward.
Dissertation Abstracts International 37 (1976): 3606A-07A.
BD and HF show thematic unity of conflict between appearance (attractive externals) and reality (the authority of books). Replacing reality with worship for the artificial, mutable object is error.
Jung, Verena, and Angela Schrott.
K. M. Jaszczolt and Ken Turner, eds. Meaning Through Language Contrast. 2 vols. (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2003), 2:345-71.
Combines historical pragmatics and translation studies, using them to clarify issues fundamental to both. Examines translations of questions in "Cantar de mio Cid" and translations of lines from WBP (ll.1-3 and 149-51), assessing in the latter case…
Jungman, Robert E.
Philological Quarterly 55 (1976): 279-81.
The theme of the Pardoner's sermon, "Radix malorum est cupiditas," comes from 1 Tim. 6:10. Appropriately, the dispute between the Pardoner and the Host following the sermon illustrates Paul's assertion in 1 Tim. 6 that teaching based on "cupiditas"…
Jungman, Robert E.
Mississippi Folklore Register 14 (1980): 20-23.
In SumT "covent" refers not only to the Friar's house, but also to witches' "coven," as indicated by various references to witchcraft or demonology--thus suggestiong that the friar is a witch.
Jungman, Robert E.
Chaucer Newsletter 1.1 (1979): 16-17.
Cites "De Doctrina," IV, xxvii, 59 as a source or gloss at least on the Pardoner's "confession": Augustine notes that the wicked may preach what is right and good.
Jungman, Robert E.
Explicator 55:4 (1997): 190-92.
KnT 2681-82 do not (as Wolfgang Rudat supposed) echo Virgil's "Aeneid" 4.569-79 but instead adapt Juvenal's "Tenth Satire" 72-73 to identify Emily with changeable fortune.
Prints the inventory of books found in Purvey's residence upon his arrest in 1414, which were assessed at £12-18s-8d, and analyzes what the titles and their value imply.
Jurschak, Gertrude Mary.
Ph.D. Dissertation. Loyola University Chicago, 1972. DAI 33.04 (1972): 1685A. Fully accessible via https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/1191 (accessed April 14, 2026).
Considers evidence in CT and TC that Chaucer was influenced by Thomas Bradwardine, often mediated by John Wyclif, and that he shares outlooks with John of Gaunt, John Gower, and Ralph Strode.
Justice, Steven, and Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, eds.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997.
Includes an introduction by Justice, five essays by various authors, and an edition and translation of the "autobiographical" passage in "Piers Plowman" (C-text, "passus" 5.1-104).
Justice, Steven.
Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1994.
New-Historical exploration of the relations between late-medieval vernacular literacy and the insurgency of 1381 (Peasants' Revolt). Focuses on six brief texts concerning leaders of the revolt, treating their production, implications, and relations…
