Hanna, Ralph, III, and Traugott Lawler, eds., using materials collected by Karl Young and Robert A. Pratt.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997.
Critical edition of the three Latin antifeminist works that influenced Chaucer most significantly, especially his WBP, MerT, and FranT. Includes a complete version of Map's "Dissuasio Valerii ad Rufinum" and portions of Jerome's "Adversus Jovinianum"…
Mooney, Linne R., ed. and trans.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998.
Referred to by Chaucer in Astr, Somer's "Kalendarium" may have been a source for a number of the poet's astrological references. This facing-page edition and English translation of the Latin "Kalendarium" includes descriptions of the manuscripts;…
Lawler, Traugott, and Ralph Hanna III, eds., using materials collected by Karl Young and Robert A. Pratt.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2014.
Edits the seven known commentaries on Walter Map's "Letter of Valerius to His Friend Ruffinus, Dissuading Him from Marrying," with Latin-English facing pages and scholarly apparatus. The Introduction (pp. 1–14) clarifies the importance of the…
Mann, Jill.
Atlantic Heights, N. J.: Humanities Press International, 1991.
Chaucer defines "woman" as the norm against which all human behavior is to be measured, representing women in ways that undermine traditional antifeminist categories. In HF, TC, and LGW, the antifeminist theme of betrayal is recast to reflect human…
From the perspective of new historicism, this brief introduction to Chaucer's writing reconstructs his ideological milieu and explores his representations of society in GP, PF, ShT, KnT, ClT, and Mel; of religion in SumT, FrT, PardP, PardT, SNT, PrT,…
A bibliography of Old and Middle English scholarship in Spanish up to 1988, with particular attention to Chaucer. Includes listings of M.A. and Ph.D. theses, and offers separate sections on critical studies of Chaucer (items 147-78) and editions and…
Hernández Pérez, M. Beatriz.
Atlantis 24: 117-32, 2002.
Feminist narratological analysis of WBPT reveals that the Wife's arguments, based in traditional misogyny, overwhelm this misogyny through dynamic engagement of it.
Considers the date and provenance of the Longleat 257 manuscript, describes its contents, and offers a full codicological analysis of collation and compilation, hands, and illustrations.
Chaucer's characterization in CT reflects the clash between the dogmatic world view of medieval philosophy and the critical, rational outlook proposed by post-Occamist philosophy. Variations in the "allegorical and/or individual costume" used in…
Petrina, Alessandra.
Atti Dell'Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arte 152 (1993-94): 391-422.
Surveys the connections in classical and Christian literature between incubi and nightmares. Documents the intersections of these traditions in Middle English literature, where such night visitations are more frequent than in Continental literature.…
Mertens-Fonck, Paule.
Atti della Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti Classe di Lettere, Filosofia e Belle Arti 69 (1995): 1-29.
The systematic inconsistencies between numbers in GP (number of pilgrims "announced" v. number found by reader, number of tales "promised" v. actual number, number of potential narrators v. number of tales told) seem to proceed from a poetic strategy…
Schembri, Anthony M.
Augustinian Panorama 5-7 (1988-90): 14-55.
Chaucer's HF, an allegory, is his "one major excursion in the territory usually associated with Dante." Schembri explores Augustinian iconography in the poem, looking particularly at Chaucer's treatment of the Dido story, the Proem to HF 2, and the…
Compares "The Owl and the Nightingale" and NPT as the "best beast fables" in Middle English, examining how the diction of each poem helps to create "voice" and thereby engage an audience.
The stellar phenomenon of TC 3.624-25 certainly occurred in 1385, more likely May 12 (though Saturn was not quite in Cancer, something which Chaucer's Tables may have erred about) than June 9, when a crescent moon may not have been visible in London.
Outlines the expression of narratorial self-consciousness through various phrases such as "I kan nat seye" and through rhetorical usages such as "occupatio" and then analyzes its purposes in Chaucer's poems.
Ryan discusses problems of unity in dream-vision poems, particularly the concepts of beginning and ending. She suggests that Joseph Frank's theory of spatial form may be applicable to analysis of the dream visions and tests this approach on BD.
Balestrini, María Cristina.
Auster 24 (2019): n.p.
Studies Chaucer's engagement with Ovidian sources to consider how LGW is a "narrative of metamorphosis." Argues that the metamorphosis is due to the creative process of ""vernacularization of the classical authority,""which establishes a shared…
Analyzes how the "Legend of Dido" differs from Virgil's "Aeneid" and Ovid's "Heroides," VII. Claims that Chaucer's narrator is more self-referential and that the plurality of voices of the narrator, along with the characters' voices, results in a…
Braswell, Mary Flowers.
Austin Sarat, Cathrine O. Frank, and Matthew Anderson, eds. Teaching Law and Literature (New York: Modern Language Association, 2011), pp. 155-61.
Offers a pedagogical unit in which advanced students explore similarities between CT (especially GP) and manor court records, capitalizing on Chaucer's familiarity with legal proceedings. Suggests that the "manor court seems to have influenced…
Knox, Norman.
Austin Wright, foreward. Six Satirists (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1965), pp, 17-34.
Explores relations between the literary-critical concepts of satire and irony (both verbal irony and situational or philosophic irony), identifying specific instances in PardT, GP, the juxtapositioning of tales and tellers, and more. Replete with…
Includes biographies of thirteen artists and three writers, designed for juvenile audience. The Chaucer material (pp. 84-87) includes basic information and a magnified color detail of William Bell Scott's portrait of Chaucer in from "A Four Leaf…
Lumiansky, R. M.
Thurgood, Malcolm, illus.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1955. Rpt. with additional bibliography, 1980.
Reads the CT as a sustained dramatic narrative, following the Chaucer Society order of the tales, and paying particular attention to the GP and the links among the tales. Focuses on characterization of the pilgrims, especially the Host, and their…
Crow, Martin M., and Clair C. Olson, eds.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1966.
Documentary source book of 493 archival records that pertain to Chaucer's "career as a courtier, diplomat, and civil servant," arranged topically in thirty-one categories from Chaucer's ancestors to his death; includes a "Chronological Table" of the…
