Blum, Martin Albert.
Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1998): 163A.
Examines various ways gender, ethnicity, and disease interact with social class in selected texts. In MLT, race is less important than place in salvation history. The tale of Lucrece (LGW) seeks to keep women virginal for marital traffic. Erotic…
Bradbury, Nancy Mason.
Urbana and Chicago: University of illinois Press, 1998.
Explores how Middle English metrical romances reflect "proximity to orally transmitted legends." Treats the "Tale of Gamelyn" and related outlaw ballads as "fragmentary remains of a predominantly oral tradition,"Havelock the Dane" as an early…
Burnley, David.
London and New York: Longman, 1998.
Historical survey of the language and actions of courtly behavior as evident in Anglo-Norman and Middle English writings, with some corroboration from Latin. Traces the emergence of aristocratic courtliness in the eleventh century through to its…
Brewer, Derek.
London and New York: Longman, 1998.
A "radical revision" (xi) of Brewer's 1984 "Introduction to Chaucer" (SAC 8 [1986], no. 55a); like its predecessor, a general introduction intended for specialists and first-time readers of Chaucer alike. Carried over from the first edition, the…
Carruthers, Leo, ed.
Paris: Publications de l'Association de Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 1998.
Eight essays by various authors examining medieval dreams and prophecies in literature and society. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer search for Reves et propheties au Moyen Age under Alternative Title.
Carruthers, Leo, ed.
Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris-Sorbonne, 1998.
Ten essays by various authors exploring the four seasons in medieval English literature and society. Includes an essay by Sandra Gorgiewski about David Fincher's movie "Seven" in relation to ParsT and Dante. For an essay that pertains to…
Cowgill, Jane.
Essays in Medieval Studies 12 (1995): 39-53.
As in late-medieval lyrics and drama, the suffering of mothers and children in Chaucer's works is presented as analogous to the suffering of Mary and Jesus. Surveys the presence and absence of references to children in Chaucer's works.
Crépin, André.
Paris: Publications de l'Association des Medievistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Superieur, 1998.
Catalogue of the exhibition at the eleventh international congress of the New Chaucer Society, held at the Sorbonne. Lists books and objects that illustrate the "boundless influence of French-speaking cultures on Chaucer" and the "scholarly…
Crepin, Andre,and Helene Taurinya Dauby.
Paris: Nathan, 1993.
An introduction to literature written in England from Gildas's Latin chronicle to Sir Thomas Malory, including, among others, separate chapters on Chaucer (pp. 148-61) and Chaucer's influence and apocrypha (pp. 187-201).
Damico, Helen, ed.
New York and London: Garland, 1998.
Thirty-two essays by various authors, sketching the biographies and intellectual achievements of scholars who have helped shape medieval studies. Of greatest interest to Chaucerians are the essays on Frederick J. Furnivall (by Derek Pearsall),…
Dauby, Helene.
Leo Carruthers, ed. La ronde des saisons: Les saisons dans la litterature et la societe anglaises au Moyen Age (Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris-Sorbonne, 1998), pp. 101-10.
Examines the diet of the poor widows in CT and the extravagant menus of the Franklin, the numerous recipes in "Le menagier de Paris," and "The Boke of Nurture" by John Russell.
Federico, Sylvia.
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 3125A.
Examines fictional representations of Troy as England's mythic ancestor in TC, HF, Gower's Vox Clamantis, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and other works. Since Troy was thought to have led to later empires only through its fall, the city is an…
Fradenburg, Louise O.
New Medieval Literatures 2 (1998): 249-76.
Questions the claim that psychoanalytical medievalism is insufficiently historical. Surveys a selection of articles that may consciously or unconsciously use psychoanalytical principles, including articles that address TC and portions of CT.
Harwood, Britton J.
Richard Utz and Tom Shippey, eds. Medievalism in the Modern World: Essays in Honour of Leslie J. Workman (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1998), pp. 379-92.
Recent works of Chaucer scholarship depict a bourgeois Chaucer articulating contemporary American ideology; thus, they work to reproduce that ideology.
Holloway, Julia Bolton.
New York: AMS Press, 1998.
Ten essays and a personal testimony by the author on the interrelated topics of pilgrimage and exile in works from Homer and Plato to James Joyce. Focuses on the Middle Ages, with essays on female saints and mystics, "Song of Roland," Dante,…
Johnson, Ian.
Chris Given-Wilson, ed. An Illustrated History of Late Medieval England (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1996), pp. 127-51.
A survey of genres and topics in Middle English literature, including Chaucer's "diversity of literary forms and [the] strategies he took to negotiate literary authority."
Kamyabee, Mohammad Hadi.
Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1998): 2036A.
Discusses how the narrative strategies and implied audiences of animal fables produce the didactic impact of the tales, assessing "The Owl and the Nightingale" and fables by Chaucer (NPT and ManT), Gower, Langland, Lydgate, and Henryson. Also…
Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn,and Steven Justice.
New Medieval Literatures 01 (1997): 59-83.
Argues that William Langland's readership may have been more like Chaucer's (and John Gower's) than has been assumed in the past, presenting evidence that readers of these authors included scribes and bureaucratic clerks such as Thomas Usk, Thomas…
Lee, Brian S.
Children's Literature Association Quarterly 23 (1998): 40-48.
Examines the diverse portrayals of children in medieval literature, commenting on how Chaucer questions the innocence of the "clergeoun" in PrT and how in LGW and MkT his pathos is more restrained than in his sources.
