Barrington, Candace.
Yearbook of English Studies 53 (2024, for 2023): 134-50.
Argues that "contemporary critical translation theories shed light on" Chaucer's "translational environment" and identifies "a cluster of five translational actions"--"communication, transformation, transportation, hermeneutics, and liminality"--that…
Barron, Caroline L.
Stephen H. Rigby, ed., with the assistance of Alastair J. Minnis. Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 24-41.
Discusses the character of Chaucer the pilgrim in GP. Includes history of Chaucer's life at Aldgate, his work as controller of customs, and later years when he moved away from London.
Barron, Caroline.
In Linda Clark and Elizabeth Danbury, eds. "A Verray Parfit Praktisour": Essays Presented to Carole Rawcliffe (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2017), pp. 141-51.
Questions why there was "no great belfry housing a public clock in medieval London," arguing that something similar was raised in the 1350s at the parish church of St. Pancras in Soper Lane. Includes one reference to Chaucer: the cock crow rather…
Treats the nature of romance; the evolution of European romance; English romance; the "matters" of England, France, Rome, and Britain; derivatives; the diffusion of the genre; and "The Tale of Gamelyn."
Barry, Gregory L.
English Language Notes 17 (1979-80): 90-93.
The short verse argument to the "Thebaid" prefixed to most manuscripts of TC had probably been memorized in Chaucer's youth and was used for the later books of TC. While the siege of Troy continues, Cassandra completes the story of the siege of…
Bart, Patricia R.
Donald Prudlo, ed. The Origin, Development, and Refinement of Medieval Religious Mendicancies (Boston, Mass.: Brill, 2011), pp. 307-34.
Comments on the presence and treatments of friars in three Middle English writers, including discussion of Chaucer's depictions of friars and the Friar in CT and his uses of anti-mendicant literature as source material.
Bartel, Neva A.
Ball State Teachers College Forum 6.3 (1965): 45-50.
Comments on amplification as a factor in the "powerful dramatic force" of TC and explores, book by book, the poem's themes of "sight and blindness, the words 'bind' and 'bridle'," references to "sea and ships as opposed to references to fishing," and…
Barthel, Carol.
David A. Richardson, ed. Spenser: Classical, Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern (Cleveland State University, 1977), pp. 72-83. [Microfiche available from the Department of English.]
In adapting the outdated motif of the medieval romance of dreaming of a fairy queen from Chaucer's Thop, Spenser blends naiveté and sophistication.
Studies the "dynamic relationship" between Fortuna and Natura in PhyT, ClT, and KnT, surveying in an Introduction (pp. 9-45) their presence elsewhere in Chaucer's works and his antecedents. In PhyT which "approaches allegory" the "destructive forces…
Bartlett, Kate, and others.
[U.K.]: British Broadcast Corporation, 2003.
Adaptations of selections from CT in modern settings and circumstances, originally broadcast by BBC1 in six episodes, September 11-October 16, 2003. Written by Peter Bowker (MilT), Tony Grounds (PardT), Olivia Hetreed (MLT), Avie Luthra (ShT), Tony…
The dreamer's apparently inept, clumsy responses to the knight's complaint result not from sympathetic tactfulness, but rather from his ignorance of courtly love conventions. His recognition of the transience of all earthly things in the knight's…
Bartlett, Robyn A.
Chaucer Review 57 (2022): 321-44.
Highlights that BD conveys the inevitability and incomprehensibility of death, offering a reading of the poem that moves beyond consolation of poetry and memory.
Barwell, Graham, and Christopher Moore.
Jenna Ng, ed. Understanding Machinima: Essays on Filmmaking in Virtual Worlds (New York:Bloomsbury, 2013), pp. 207-26.
Explores the goals and accomplishments of an interdisciplinary (English studies and communication) pedagogical experiment in adapting portions of CT to the online game "World of Warcraft," commenting on the processes of animation, mediation, and…
Bashuna, I. G. [И. Г. Башuна].
M. L. Remneva, ed. Aktual'nye Problemy Iazykoznaniia i Literaturovedeniia (Moscow: Moskovskii Ggosudarsvennyi Universitet imeni M.V. Lomonosova, 1994), pp. 138-46.
Basquin, Edmond A.
Technical Communication 28 (1981): 22-24.
Summary description of Astr that describes Chaucer's "admirable textbook method" and comments on his "rules of good technical writing," including simple diction and syntax, awareness of audience, repetition for emphasis, and copious illustrations.
Explores the symbolic value of the gems, their colors, and their settings (rings and brooch) in TC, discussing the moral implications referred to in medieval lapidaries.
Surveys "unreliable" information about Constantine Africanus in scholarly discussions of Chaucer's references to him in GP 1.433 (Doctour of Phisik) and MerT 4.1810-11. Then clarifies Constantinus's importance in the history of medicine, what is and…
Bassil, Veronica.
Texas Studies in Literature and Language 26 (1984): 157-82.
ClT influenced "The Not-Browne Mayd" in narrative action, diction, and organization. The latter was the model for Matthew Prior's "Henry and Emma," which was in turn the model for Richardson's "Clarissa."
Baswell, Christopher (C.)
Charlotte Cook Morse, Penelope Reed Doob, and Marjorie Curry Woods, eds. The Uses of Manuscripts in Literary Studies: Essays in Memory of Judson Boyce Allen (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1992), pp. 121-60.
Medieval habits of reading characteristically produce "a voicing and an inscription of that voicing" (123), allowing for a fluidity of margin and text, reader and author. Geffrey's position as author and glossed text in LGWP and the Wife's position…
This review article assesses four recent books on how the Middle Ages responded to classical literature: Ralph Hexter's "Ovid and Medieval Schooling," the essay collection "Lectures medievales de Virgile," Jean-Charles Huchet's "Le Roman medieval"…
Baswell, Christopher C.
Jeanette Beer, ed. Translation Theory and Practice in the Middle Ages (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute, 1997), pp. 215-37.
By inserting elements of Chaucerian narrative and language and making direct references to Chaucer and TC, Lydgate replaces the Latin model of literary accomplishment with a vernacular model, thus translating Chaucer's English writing into the high…
Baswell, Christopher C.,and Paul Beekman Taylor.
Speculum 63 (1988): 293-311.
Borrowing from classical, mythographical, and iconographic sources, Chaucer uses Helen of Troy in TC both as a character and as a model to parallel and emphasize Criseyde's calm detachment and ultimate infidelity, leading to betrayal of Troilus and…
