North, J. D.
London: Warburg Institute, University of London, 1986.
Studies development (up to the 1500s) of seven modes of "domification"--i.e., the construction by mathematics of mundane houses used in horoscopes. Includes applications through the seventeenth century.
Hart, Roger.
London: Wayland; New York: George Putnam's Sons, 1973.
Illustrated social history of late-medieval England, with literary examples drawn from CT and contemporaneous literature, with visual reproductions from various manuscripts, including the Ellesmere manuscript and printed facsimiles. Arranged…
Wilson, A. N.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004.
Includes a brief account (pp. 20-24) of "Chaucer's London" that summarizes the poet's life and describes several social and political events of his time. Published in the U.S. as "London: A History" (New York: Modern Library, 2004).
Frames and analyzes the pilgrims of CT in terms of the social contexts surrounding their professions in Chaucer's lifetime and the antecedent few decades, interestingly moving directly against perceived social ordering to do so. Begins with the rural…
Brunskill, Ann, illus.
London: World's End Press, 1974.
Item not seen; reported in WorldCat with the following note: "Contains Fragment A of the Middle English Romaunt of the Rose, sometimes (as here) attributed to Chaucer, with the parallel section (verses 1-1670) of its Old French ancestor . . . . 'A…
Brown, Peter, and Darryll Grantley, eds.
London: Yorick, 1987.
Produced to accompany a dramatic presentation of adapted versions of selections from CT. Includes comments on adapting the tales and directing the adaptations, accompanying music, parallels with medieval drama, medieval cooking, the "Tale of Beryn,"…
Despite Tolkien's praise of Chaucer's "accurate observation" of dialects in RvT, examination of the mss of CT reveals that Chaucer's knowledge of northern dialect was in no way exceptional and that many of the northern speech characteristics of the…
Blake, N. F.
Loren C. Gruber, ed. Essays on Old, Middle, Modern English and Old Icelandic in Honor of Raymond P. Tripp, Jr. (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen Press, 2000), pp. 361-86.
Concludes that either the virgule replicates Chaucer's own mark, or its rather uniform placement signals a scribal practice not yet fully understood.
Fichte, Joerg O.
Loren C. Gruber, ed. Essays on Old, Middle, Modern English and Old Icelandic in Honor of Raymond P. Tripp, Jr. (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen Press, 2000), pp. 387-408.
Argues that lack of historical evidence prevents us from learning much about the composition of BD. An examination of its topoi, however, reveals that the poem begins as a lament, turns into a consolation, and finally becomes an encomium designed to…
Jimura, Akiyuki.
Loren C. Gruber, ed. Essays on Old, Middle, Modern English and Old Icelandic in Honor of Raymond P. Tripp, Jr. (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen Press, 2000), pp. 409-46.
Compares each line of TC in Larry Benson's, F. N. Robinson's, R. K. Root's, and B. A. Windeatt's editions in preparation for a larger study that will account for differences of word choice and syntax among these editions.
Robinson, Ian, and Doreen M. Thomas.
Loren C. Gruber, ed. Essays on Old, Middle, Modern English and Old Icelandic in Honor of Raymond P. Tripp, Jr. (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen Press, 2000), pp. 447-66.
Examines the backgrounds and language of BD to uncover John of Gaunt's romantic entanglements and their ramifications for the poem. The article serves as an introduction to a larger forthcoming study.
Rambuss, Richard.
Lori Hope Lefkovitz, ed. Textual Bodies: Changing Boundaries of Literary Representation (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997), pp. 75-99.
The Prioress's identification with the little clergeon of PrT and her elisions of history indicate a "desire for transcendence" rather than sentimentality. The presence of bodily violence and prurience in PrT accords well with some of the…
Erol, Burçin.
Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Donna Lee Brien, eds. The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food (New York: Routledge, 2018), pp. 283-96.
Exemplifies the variety of references to food and uses of food imagery in CT, especially GP, observing how they serve as indicators of social and moral conditions--particularly high status and the sin of lust--and aid in characterization.
Cadden, Joan.
Lorraine Daston and Fernando Vidal, eds. The Moral Authority of Nature (Chicago and London : University of Chicago Press, 2004), pp. 207-31.
Cadden traces the "persistent association of nature with moral conduct and social order" in various late medieval texts, from commentaries on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics to vernacular poetry. Focuses on PF as an example in which both desire and…
Baird-Lange, Lorrayne Y.
Lorrayne Y. Baird-Lange and Hildegard Schnuttgen, eds. A Bibliography of Chaucer (Hamden, Conn.: Shoe String Press, 1988, for 1987), pp. xi-liv.
Reviews developments in Chaucer studies 1974-85 within the context of major twentieth-century critical controversies (including modern critical theories) and notes possible trends for the future.
Dane, Joseph A.,
Fest, Bradley J.
May, Jonathan,
Erwin, Max
Durkin, Andrew
Los Angeles: Marymount Institute, 2019.
Item not seen. WorldCat record includes an abstract: "This book examines cases of [question-begging] reasoning in Chaucer studies, book history, and in other humanistic fields." In it, Joseph Dane critiques "himself and his own formulation of…
Robinson, Peter.
Lou Burnard, Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, and John Unsworth, eds. Electronic Textual Editing (New York: MLA, 2006), pp. 74-91.
Generates five general "propositions" about the nature and practice of electronic editing, explaining how the propositions developed from work of Robinson and others on The Canterbury Tales Project and indicating the applicability of the propositions…
Goossens, Louis.
Louis Goossens, and others. By Word of Mouth: Metaphor, Metonymy, and Linguistic Action in a Cognitive Perspective. Pragmatics & Beyond, New Series, no. 33 (Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1995), pp. 175-204.
Uses data from Aelfric, Chaucer, and Shakespeare to demonstrate how metonymy "works as a tool for meaning extension in a diachronically diverse data base," arguing that there is "something of a metonymy-metaphor continuum" and a complex relation…
