Parker, R. H.
Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 12.1: 92-112, 1999.
Documents Chaucer's knowledge of medieval accounting practice, explaining the principal-agent relation of the Reeve and his lord in GP and discussing debt in the description of the Merchant. Examines the role of accounting in ShT and demonstrates…
Corpus Christi plays are "analogues for the construction of time and space" in CT. In the plays and in the poem, time and space are both physical and metaphysical, unifying characters and audience in the "single teleology" of movement toward…
Sasamoto, Hisayuki.
Hisayuki Sasamoto et al., eds. Hearts to the English-American Language and Literature: Essays Presented to Emeritus Professor Sutezo Hirose in Honour of His 88th Birthday (Osaka: Osaka Kyoiku Tosho, 1999), pp. 315-28 (in Japanese).
Analyzes MerT, SNT, and CYT in the context of Ockhamist thought, focusing on physical sight and blindness.
Stopford, J[ennifer], ed.
Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y. : York Medieval Press, 1999.
Ten essays on aspects of the anthropology and archeology of medieval and pre-medieval pilgrimage. Related to Chaucer studies are Ben Nilson, "The Medieval Experience at the Shrine" (pp. 95-122), which uses "The Tale of Beryn" as a source; and A. M.…
Youmans, Karen DeMent.
Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 1549-50A, 1999.
Chaucer's approaches to hagiography vary from ironic distancing in LGW to pious orthodoxy in SNT, preventing audience identification. Also treats Criseyde, Alisoun, and Dorigen. Griselda, a special case, is historicized and then dehistoricized.
An, Sonjae (Brother Anthony).
Medieval English Studies 7: 63-92, 1999.
Chaucer's use of worthy and the many ways CT plays with questions of value lead to a reading of CT in which SNT exemplifies the highest value in human living-holiness-and joins ParsT to challenge all other values and narratives.
Bowers, John M.
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. 13-44.
Argues that Chaucer chose not to develop the characters of his Yeoman, Plowman, Guildsmen, and Cook because of political concerns. Richard II's reliance on Cheshire yeomen, increased concern about farm laborers and Lollardy, and reaction against the…
Condren, Edward I.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 1999.
Reads CT (in Ellesmere order) as organized by the universal principles of entropy (movement to chaos), cybernetics (movement to stability), and synergy (transition to a changed or transcendent state). These three principles also inform the structure…
Cullen, Dolores L.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : Fithian Press, 1999.
Reads CT as a drama-with Chaucer as "director/producer" (158) and leading player-focusing on Th and Mel as psychological and moral extensions of Chaucer. Thopas and the father are one, with Thopas representing the phallus. Melibee is "the elevated…
Dolan, T. P.
Geoffrey Lester, ed. Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays in Honour of Norman Blake (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), pp. 61-72.
Examines details from GP (in particular the description of the Friar) and ParsT, arguing that Chaucer held the "orthodox view" that the poor should be protected because they were precious to God. Yet Chaucer also indicates that "there is nothing…
Fragment 7 of CT is unified by its focus on the problem of human violence and the "potential of literature to perpetrate or remedy this problem." In ShT, PrT, and Th, Chaucer shows their respective genres' "mythologies" of violence. Mel counsels…
Hanawalt, Barbara A.
Barbara A. Hanawalt and David Wallace, eds. Medieval Crime and Social Control (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), pp. 204-23.
Explores legal and historical records pertaining to innkeepers and innkeeping in late-medieval London as a backdrop to the character of Chaucer's Host. Harry Bailly is most notable for his shrewd handling of people and his responsible maintaining of…
Simpson, James.
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 29: 325-55, 1999.
Literary and historical periodization conventionally depends on viewing the lyrics of Wyatt and Surrey (for example) as distinctive and innovative, expressing a characteristically "Renaissance" divided self that is isolated from political and social…
Smith, D. Vance.
South Atlantic Quarterly 98: 367-414, 1999.
Like Freud and Boethius, Chaucer views tragedy as the temporal transformation of a literal or figurative space. Integral to this understanding of tragedy is the notion of memory as a function of death, a relationship apparent in BD, MkT, and HF.…
Spearing, A. C.
Susan J. Ridyard, ed. Chivalry, Knighthood, and War in the Middle Ages (Sewanee, Tenn.: University of the South, 1999), pp. 53-73.
Chaucer uses classical, pagan setting as a "screen" on which to "project alternatives to medieval social reality." He capitalizes on the strangeness of presenting classical privacy in TC. In KnT, especially in the temple of Diana, Chaucer explores…
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…
Trigg, Stephanie.
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. 270-91.
Considers how editors and critics from Caxton to Furnivall assume or pursue identity with Chaucer, imitating what they perceive to be Chaucerian sensibility in an effort to claim understanding of the poet and his works. Adopting the poet's voice and…
Wallace, David, ed.
Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Analytic survey of the literatures produced in England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland between the Norman Conquest and the death of Henry VIII. Contributions from thirty-three authors on topics ranging from the "afterlife" of Old English to Reformation…
Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn, Nicholas Watson, Andrew Taylor, and Ruth Evans, eds.
University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press; Exeter: University of Exeter Press 1999.
Anthologizes fifty-seven excerpts from works written in Middle English, most of them prologues, documenting the nature and history of "Middle English literary theory," i.e., the "sophisticated and still-influential traditions of theorizing . . .…
Patterson, Annabel.
Sally McKee, ed. Crossing Boundaries: Issues of Cultural and Individual Identity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1999) pp. 155-87.
Assesses the Chaucer portraits in the Ellesmere manuscript and in Hoccleve's Regement of Princes as evidence in the study of the development of individual identity. Considers literary portraits of John Locke, John Milton, John Donne, and Chaucer,…
Twelve previously published historicist essays and book chapters by various authors. The volume is a companion to Pearsall's Chaucer to Spenser: An Anthology. Three essays pertain to Chaucer: Mary Carruthers, "The Wife of Bath and the Painting of…
Prendergast, Thomas A.,and Barbara Kline,eds.
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 1999.
Eleven essays by various authors and an introduction (by Prendergast) on the relations between Chaucer's "original" texts and later adaptations of these texts. The book explores the cultural conditions that produced the adaptations, as well as the…
Quinn, William A., ed.
New York and London : Garland, 1999.
Sixteen essays by various authors on BD, HF, PF, LGW, and the short poems. Fifteen are reprints or excerpts from longer works published between 1948 and 1994. Includes a brief introduction to each of the poems (and the section on the short poems), a…
Ridyard, Susan J., ed.
Sewanee, Tenn. : University of the South, 1999.
Eleven papers by various authors on the literature and history of knighthood, with topics ranging from ascetic knighthood to knighthood as a trope. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Chivalry, Knighthood, and War in the Middle Ages…
