Labbie, Erin Felicia.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
Jacques Lacan's "methodologies follow those established by the medieval scholastic scholars who sought to determine the potential for the human subject to know and represent real universal categories"; and his seminars engage medieval discourses on…
Labère, Nelly.
Anne Birberick, Russell J. Ganim, and Hugh G. A. Roberts, eds. Obscenity. EMF: Studies in Early Modern France, no. 14 (Charlottesville, N.C.: Rookwood, 2010), pp. 41-57.
Explores the nature and constitutive motifs of obscenity in the twelfth-century "Lidia," Boccaccio's "Decameron" 7.9, MerT, and the fifteenth-century "Cent nouvelles nouvelles."
Labriola, Albert C.
Carla E. Lucente, ed. The Western Pennsylvania Symposium on World Literature: Selected Proceedings, 1974-1991: A Retrospective (Greensburg, Penn.: Eadmer, 1992), pp. 67-71.
Viewed in light of A Midsummer Night's Dream, KnT is "more comic" than traditionally assumed; its cyclic pattern of "proliferating catastrophes becomes humorous."
Labriola, Albert C.
Texas Studies in Language and Literature 12 (1970): 5-14.
Shows that "figures" (ship, castle, and related images) drawn from Augustinian theology and medieval sermons convey the "Christian concept of charity" in MLT and heighten its "religious intensity."
Lacey, Robert.
Robert Lacey. Great Tales from English History: Chaucer to the Glorious Revolution, 1387-1688 (London: Little, Brown, 2004), pp. 1-5.
Appreciative commentary on CT. Chaucer's "cheery and companionable writing" in the vernacular "sets out the ideas" for the rest of Lacey's volume of anecdotal history.
Lachs, Stephen.
Western Folklore 19.1 (1960): 61-62.
Quotes PrT 7.684-86 at the beginning of a report about a "new version" of the information plaque at the tomb of Hugh at Lincoln Cathedral, one that castigates "Trumped up stories of 'ritual murders' of Christian boys by Jewish communities."
Considers Troilus' allusion to Oedipus at 4.300, and rejects the suggestion that it reflects psychological understanding; Troilus refers to Oedipus as an exemplar of someone victimized by Fortune.
Ladd, C. A.
Edward Donald Kennedy, Ronald Waldron, and Joseph S. Wittig, eds. Medieval Studies Presented to George Kane (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Wolfeboro, N.H.: D. S. Brewer, 1988), pp. 163-65.
Examines the meaning of "let see" in HF 1623, "nothing lyk" in BD 1085, and the "God toforn" in TC 5.963.
Ladd, Roger A.
Studes in Philology 99 : 17-32, 2002.
By fitting merchants directly into his larger exploration of the relationship of sentence and solaas, Chaucer uses them to test the limits of the satiric form that dominated previous literary discussions of trade. Portraying merchants as consistently…
Ladd, Roger A.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Studies the development of mercantile practice in the late Middle Ages and depictions of merchants in English literature, from early satires to greater acceptability. Includes sections on merchants in Langland's "Piers Plowman," Gower's "Mirour de…
Explores Chaucer's strategy of satire in WBPT, arguing that in its concern with interpretation and discursive insensibility it is fundamentally similar to the anti-mercantile satire of MerT, ShT, and MLT. Reads the Wife in "a London context,"…
Ladd, Roger A.
James M. Dean, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer (Ipswich, Mass.: Salem Press, 2017), pp. 81-96.
Examines how Chaucer and Gower handled the genre of "estates satire," and speculates how "their social critique moves away from an estates satire framework." Addresses mercantile practice in MerT, MLT, and WBT, and claims that Chaucer, like Gower,…
Ladd, Roger Alfred.
Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 3163A, 2001.
Clerical anti-mercantile views gradually shifted as a "guardedly pro-trade ideology" emerged. Such attitudes also appear in estates satire found in CT, Gower's "Miroir de l'Omme," "Piers Plowman," Margery Kempe, the York cycle plays, and various…
Ladd, Roger.
Craig E. Bertolet and Robert Epstein, eds. Money, Commerce, and Economics in Late Medieval English Literature (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. 93-107.
Considers relations between PardPT and the Museum of London's carved wooden panel that depicts details of the tale. Calculates the "absurdity of the hoard" in the tale, and explores possible responses of the "London economic elite" to the differing…
LaGuardia, Eric.
François Jost, ed. Actes du IVe Congrès de l'Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée, Fribourg 1964 (The Hague: Mouton, 1966), II: 844-54.
Distinguishes between medieval and Renaissance versions of poetic "figural imitation." In the former, identified by Erich Auerbach, the "poetic image participates in two modes of reality at the same time: historical and absolute": in the latter, it…
LaHood, Marvin J.
Philological Quarterly 43 (1964): 274-76.
Identifies changes that Chaucer's made to his source, Ovid's "Fasti," when shaping his version of the story of Lucrece in LGW, changes that "Christianized" the account.
Laidlaw, Martin.
Marina Gerzic and Aiden Norrie, eds. From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past (New York: Routledge, 2018), pp. 52-66.
Assesses the emphases of four modern adaptations of CT: Brian Helgeland's 2001 movie "A Knight's Tale" (focusing on Chaucer's character as a "PR" man); the 2011–12 Tacit Theatre touring drama "The Canterbury Tales" (bawdy comedy); Pier Paolo…
Laidlaw, Martin.
Victoria Blud, Diane Heath, and Einat Klafter, eds. Gender in Medieval Places, Spaces and Thresholds (London: Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 2019), pp. 107-22.
Examines conflicts between secular and religious notions of masculinity in the Monk's description in GP and in MkPT, showing that they depict the Monk's "inability to abide by the expected behaviours of his vocation" and expose him to ridicule by the…
Lainé, Ariane.
Colette Stévanovitch, ed. L'Articulation langue-littérature dans les textes médiévaux anglais, II. Actes du colloque des 25 et 26 juin 1999 á l'Université de Nancy II. Collection GRENDEL, no. 3. (Nancy: Publications de l'Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 1999), pp. 193-208
Explores whether there is a distinctive Lollard vocabulary. While the usual method is to identify words in Lollard writings that would not be used in orthodox literature, the author highlights the absence of some orthodox words and sees what words…
Surveys a wide range of occurrences and developments for [kn], a cluster with a number of uncommon properties. Examination of the lexical and phonetic idiosyncrasies demonstrates that observed figural representation in is not at odds with a rational…
Laird, Edgar (S.)
Richard J. Utz, ed. Literary Nominalism and the Theory of Rereading Late Medieval Texts: A New Research Paradigm (Lewiston, N.Y.; Queenston, Ont.; Lampeter, Wales: Edwin Mellen, 1995), pp. 101-15.
KnT "participates in a tradition antagonistic to the new nominalism, "based on a "scientific ontology consonant with Boethianism" and understandable in light of the truth-theories of Albumasar, Robert Grosseteste, and John Wyclif.
Laird, Edgar (S.)
Thomas A. Prendergast and Barbara Kline, eds. Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400-1602 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999), pp. 145-65.
The status of Astr as an unfinished scientific treatise encouraged its manuscript compilators to finish or add to it in a number of ways: responding to the descriptive prologue included by Chaucer, adding to or reordering its materials, and placing…
Laird, Edgar (S.)
Chaucer Review 44 (2010): 344-50.
By taking into account the increasing degree of willful irrationality attributed to Cupid in Chaucer's PF, KnT, and LGW and in Clanvowe's "Boke of Cupid," it becomes possible to view the writers' "god of Love [as] to some extent a collaborative…
