Yvernault-Gamaury, Martine.
Leo Carruthers, ed. Reves et propheties au Moyen Age. (London and New York: Longman, 1998), pp. 69-98.
Focuses on the function of reality and fiction in Chaucer's BD as influenced by Ovid, Boccaccio's "Amorosa visione," Guillaume de Machaut's "Dit de la Fonteinne Amoureuse," and "Jugement du roy de Behaigne."
Bourgne, Florence.
Leo Carruthers, Raeleen Chai-Elsholz, and Tatjana Silec, eds. Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England (New York: Plagrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 115-36.
Vernacular authors anxious about the fragility of texts due to the impermanence of the medium and scribal transmission called attention in their writing to forms of engraving in stone and wax. As writing habits changed, the depiction of writing…
Aloni, Gila.
Leo Carruthers, Raeleen Chai-Elsholz, and Tatjana Silec, eds. Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England (New York: Plagrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 157-73..
Chaucer rewrites his source in Ovid "Metamaphorses" 6 to show the strong bond between the sisters who provide solace to each other. The same kind of bond is shown among the women who support the raped maiden in the WBT. The meaning of rape in…
Vial, Claire.
Leo Carruthers, Raeleen Chai-Elsholz, and Tatjana Silec, eds. Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England (New York: Plagrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 175-91.
Awareness of generic ancestry offers evidence of the palimpsestuous nature of the "true" Middle English Breton lays. Reference is made to Chaucer's FranT among other so-called Breton lays.
Neuse, Richard.
Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen, eds. The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question (Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000), pp 247-77.
As KnT is a reduction of the Teseida, MkT is a miniature imitation of Boccaccio's "De casibus virorum illustrium." The Monk, Boccaccio's ironic double, interrogates newly emergent forms of tragedy and contests with the other pilgrims within the…
Schildgen, Brenda Deen.
Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen, eds. The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question (Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000), pp. 102-27.
Through authorial intrusions into their texts, Boccaccio and Chaucer defend vernacular fiction as legitimate consolation and a necessary cultural medium. In doing so, both enter into a dialogue with Boethius. Schildgen discusses CT, in particular…
Ganim, John M.
Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen, eds. The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question (Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000), pp. 128-47.
Explores several of Chaucer's and Boccaccio's characters and how their autobiographical self-invention is both modern and tied to the past. The importance of confession in developing the sense of the individual is played out in the prologues and…
Georgianna, Linda.
Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen, eds. The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question (Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000), pp. 148-73.
Examines the complexity of anticlericalism. Clerical figures are prominent in the works of both Boccaccio and Chaucer, but CT redirects the potential disruption of anticlerical complaint away from dissent and toward self-evaluation. Georgianna gives…
Hanning, Robert W.
Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen, eds. The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question (Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000), pp. 177-211.
Both The Man of Law's Tale and Decameron 1.1 consider the problematics of mediation inherent in the use of language. MLT is an exercise for the teller to impress the other pilgrims with his authority and wisdom.
McGregor, James H.
Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen, eds. The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question (Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000), pp. 212-25.
The representation of history in KnT is dependent on postplague historiographical views of the Decameron. The Teseida and Chaucer's version of it are tragedies, but with a hope of reconciliation represented in the final marriage.
Edwards, Robert R.
Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen, eds. The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question (Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000), pp. 226-46.
Both Boccaccio in Decameron and Chaucer in FranT rewrite the story of Menedon from Filocolo, and both investigate whether social worth is dependent on lineage or character. While Boccaccio emphasizes the new urban nontraditional man, Chaucer attempts…
Beidler, Peter G.
Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen, eds. The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question (Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000), pp. 25-46.
Argues that Boccaccio's Decameron 8.1 was Chaucer's primary source for ShT, even though scholars have been reluctant to treat Decameron as a source for any of The Canterbury Tales. Posits definitions of source, hard analogue, and soft analogue.
Koff, Leonard Michael.
Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen, eds. The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question (Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000), pp. 278-316.
Examines what the relationship between The Clerk's Tale and Decameron 10.10 might be without the intervening sources: Petrarch's "De insigni obedientia et fide uxoris" and its French translation, "Le livre Griseldis." Chaucer does not reduce the…
Taylor, Karla.
Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen, eds. The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question (Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000), pp. 47-82.
Italian vernacular literature (rather than French court culture) inspired Chaucer to develop his authorial voice. FranT is a reading of Decameron 10.5 that illustrates the development of Chaucer's distinctly English agenda.
Thompson, N. S.
Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen, eds. The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question (Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000), pp. 85-101.
Studies two ways CT borrows from Boccaccio: first, in transforming exemplary narratives into "novelles" and, second, in the use of narrative detail to create local history. MilT, RvT, and ShT are examples.
The first two in a series of essays Dédéyan published on Dante in England in Les Lettres Romanes, volumes 12-15 (1958-1961). The first surveys references, allusions, and uses of Dante in TC, PF, and HF. The second continues the discussion of HF,…
Kennedy, Beverly.
Lesley Smith and Jane H. M. Taylor, eds. Women, the Book and the Worldly: Selected Proceedings of the St. Hilda's Conference, 1993, Volume II (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1995), pp. 85-101.
Documents the manuscript evidence of the authenticity of six passages in WBP (44a-f, 575-84, 605-08, 609-12, 619-26, 717-20) and surveys justifications for their inclusion in various editions.
Trimble, Lester, comp.
Lester Trimble, American Harpsichord Music of the 20th Century (Albany, N.Y.: Albany, 2001), CD-ROM, tracks 14-17.
Audio recording, performed by Nancy Armstrong (soprano), Mark Kroll (harpsichord), Bruce Creditor (clarinet), and Alan Weiss (Flute). The lyrics adapt selections from GP (opening, Knight, and Squire) and WBP.
Mroczkowski, Przemyslaw.
Leszek S. Kolek and Wojciech Nowicki, eds. Discourses of Literature: Studies in Honour of Alina Szala (Lublin: Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Press, 1997), pp. 21-26.
Comments on modern efforts to "get ahead" and contrasts them with attitudes toward success in HF.
Tops, A. J.,Betty Devriendt and Steven Geukens,eds.
Leuven : Peeters, 1999.
Thirty-five essays by various authors on English and comparative linguistics, arranged in four groups: geographic and diachronic variation, "Synchronic Description and Theory, "Grammars from the Past," and "Language Contrast and Teaching." For two…
Hertog, Erik.
Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1991.
Explores the phenomenon of literary analogues through a pragmatic and structuralist analysis of four salient components of narrative, each illustrated with examples from Chaucer's fabliaux and their analogues in various European languages. The…
Sallfors, Solomon, and James Duban.
Leviathan 5 (2003): 73-77.
Sallfors and Duban contend that MilT "informs the dramatic setting, humor, and tension of Ishmael's response to Queequeg's 'Ramadan'" in Chapter 17 of Melville's "Moby Dick." Specifically, the characterization of John the Carpenter underlies…
