Batkie, Stephanie L.
Yearbook of Langland Studies 32 (2018): 245-70.
Assesses speech and silence in the characterizations and functions of the narrators of GP and the Prologue to "Piers Plowman." Both narrator-figures are introduced "through tropological silencing," but the "muted contact" of the GP narrator with the…
Batkie, Stephanie L., and Eric Weiskott.
Yearbook of Langland Studies 32 (2018): 237-44.
Tallies several differences and similarities between Chaucer's and Langland's works and worlds, comments on the relative prominence of Chaucer studies, and introduces the seven essays in a special section of YLS entitled "Chaucer's Langland." For…
Batkie, Stephanie L., Matthew W. Irvin, and Lynn Shutters, eds.
Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2021.
Collects twenty essays about thematic terms and concepts in Chaucer's works, arranged in groups of four, each group including an additional response essay. Opens with a foreword by Christopher Cannon, followed by an explanatory introduction by the…
Four essays by various authors focus on editing Hoccleve's works, his variety of styles, and the relation of his works to those of Chaucer and Christine de Pizan. Includes a bibliography, an index, and an introduction that surveys critical…
Batt, Catherine.
Catherine Batt, ed. Essays on Thomas Hoccleve ([Turnhout, Belgium]: Brepols, 1996), pp. 55-84.
Examines the "defense-of-women" section near the end of Hoccleve's "Regiment" (lines 5090-194) as a meditation on literary influence and the need for the poet to comment on political issues. The defense alludes to the Wife of Bath and to…
Chaucer drew from more than one segment of Filocolo to design FranT. He incorporated the larger frame narrative of Florio and Biancafiore, a tale of Byzantine origin that allowed him to draw on various elements of the copious and complicated…
Battles, Dominique.
Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2001): 162A, 2001.
Traces the Theban legend from Statius through a twelfth-century Old French version, school texts, florilegia, commentary, Boccaccio, Chaucer (Anel, KnT), and Lydgate. Also assesses relationships with ancient and medieval history. Lydgate's version…
Battles, Dominique.
New York and London : Routledge, 2004.
Examines the Chaucerian treatment of Theban matter. Unlike Boccaccio's "Teseida," Anel represents Thebes as a viable urban center even after the siege, while KnT disentangles Theban from Trojan history and re-creates Thebes as a pagan site. Both…
Describes a series of six short assignments (three pages each) designed for a Chaucer class, intended to introduce students to the major methods and tools used by professional scholars. The assignments focus on diction analysis, tale/teller…
Chaucer draws on a variety of sources--Boccaccio, Ovid, French dawn-songs, popular dawn-song traditions, courtly dawn-songs, and (perhaps) popular poetry--for the dawn-songs in RvT, MerT, Mars, and TC. He uses these sources in a variety of…
Battles, Paul.
Timothy S. Jones and David A. Sprunger, eds. Marvels, Monsters, and Miracles: Studies in the Medieval and Early Modern Imaginations (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 2002), pp. 243-66.
Similarities between magic and tale-telling and between the clerk of Orléans and the Franklin recur in FranT, despite the Franklin's attempts to distance them. As the clerk seeks to educate Aurelius, the Franklin tries to teach the Squire.
Describes Chaucer's and Gower's uses of the present, preterit, perfect, and pluperfect verb tenses, considering them in various syntactical contexts and identifying similarities and differences in their usage. Includes a bibliography and author and…
Explores the functions and nuances of the historical present verb tense, focusing on epic scenes in CT (especially KnT and MLT), TC, LGW, and Anel, and assessing how Chaucer's uses of the tense help with vividness, immediacy, and "visualization" of…
Bauer, Kate [A.]
Nancy M. Reale and Ruth E. Sternglantz, eds. Satura: Studies in Medieval Literature in Honour of Robert R. Raymo (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2001), pp. 205-26.
Explores the figure of the "puer senex" (wise youth) in "Pearl," Gower's "Confessio Amantis" ("Tale of Apollonius"), courtesy books, and PrT. Chaucer carefully presents an "ordinary world" in which the clergeon of PrT is educated through realistic…
Widespread acceptance of C. S. Lewis's belief that Criseyde's ruling passion is fear has resulted in a limited version of her motivation, for an equally powerful force, "routhe," works sometimes with and sometimes against her fear. The two forces…
Bauer, Kate A.
Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 3949A.
Cross-disciplinary evidence (since the publication of Phillipe Aries's "Centuries of Childhood") indicates that strong love between parents and children existed in medieval culture. Chaucer, Gower, and the "Pearl" poet represent children and family…
Bauer, Matthias, and Angelika Zirker.
Lukas Rösli and Stefanie Gropper, eds. In Search of the Culprit: Aspects of Medieval Authorship (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021), pp. 217–38.
Explores how in each of two Shakespearean plays "there is a co-authorship with a past author": Gower in "Pericles" and Chaucer in "The Two Noble Kinsmen." Argues that the presentation of Chaucer as a source in the prologue in "Kinsmen" engages…
Bauer, Renate, Christine Elsweiler, Ulrike Krischke, and Kerstin Majeski, eds.
Collects twenty-three essays by various authors in linguistic, philological, and/or medieval studies. For two essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for Travelling Texts--Texts Travelling under Alternative Title.
Bauer, Renate.
Thomas Honegger, ed. Authors, Heroes and Lovers: Essays on Medieval English Literature and Language (Bern and New York: Peter Lang, 2001), pp. 47-71.
Bauer compares examples of anti-Jewish discourse in the "Ludus Coventriae" ("deicide"), PrT ("ritual murder"), and the Croxton Play of the Sacrament ("desecration of the host"). All three texts criminalize, victimize, and dehumanize Jews,…
Bauer, Renate.
Manuel Braun and Cornelia Herberichs, eds. Gewalt im Mittelalter: Realitaten - Imaginationen (Munich: William Fink, 2005), pp. 181-201.
Bauer assesses formulaic or stereotypic depictions of Jews in "Cursor Mundi," Chaucer's PrT, Gower's "Confessio Amantis" (7.3207-3360), "Elene," "The Siege of Jerusalem," passion treatises, and The Croxton Play of the Sacrament.
Baugh, Albert C.
Beryl Rowland, ed. Companion to Chaucer Studies. Rev. ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), pp. 1-20.
Despite several still unresolved problems, Chaucer's life is well documented in the nearly 500 citations of the Crow and Olsen "Chaucer Life Records," based on the previous researches of Manly, Rickert, and Redstone.
Baugh, Albert C.
Mélanges de Langue et de Littérature du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance Offerts á Jean Frappier, 2 vols. (Geneva: Droz, 1970), 1: 65-76.
Explains why the phrase "In termes," in the description of the Man of Law in GP (1.323), means "in Year Books," i.e., in a collection of "medieval law reports."
Baugh, Albert C.
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1968.
Lists bibliographical citations of Chaucer studies, with sections on reference works, biography, social and cultural environments, editions and modernizations, language and versification, sources, individual works, apocrypha, etc., but excluding…
Baugh, Albert C.
Arno Esch, ed. Chaucer und Seine Zeit: Symposion für Walter F. Schirmer (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1968), pp. 55-69.
Describes the English royal interest in the political and military maneuvers in Castile, Navarre, Aragon, and France that involved Pedro the Cruel, Pedro the Bold, Henry of Trastamara, Bernard du Guesclin, the Free Companies, and England's Black…
