Martínez López, Miguel.
Cuadernos del CEMYR (Centro de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas) 27 (2019): 109-44.
Examines "exceptional crimes" in CT in the context of the main English legal texts that regulated, prosecuted, and punished medieval criminals. The procedural singularities of this type of prosecution are explored first through the analysis of the…
Martinez Romero, Carmen.
Francisco Jose Salvador Ventura, ed. Cine y religiones: Expresiones fılmicas de creencias humanas (Paris: Universite Paris-Sud, 2013), pp. 155–72.
Analyzes Pasolini's version of CT in the context of Eco's and Pasolini's debate about semiology and the relation of reality and art. Thus, the Italian filmmaker creates a filmic narrative reflecting Chaucer's historicity of frontier, in the topics,…
Martinez, Ronald L.
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 325-50.
Traces the connections between Petrarch and Dante for Chaucer, while simultaneously showing the depth of Petrarch's influence on Chaucer's verse. Discusses fame and Petrarch in ClT, MkT, and TC.
A reading of PrT in the mode of Julia Kristeva reveals it to be the narrative of the "litel clergeon's" entry into self-hood and subjectivity by a traumatic passage from the maternal "chora," represented by the singing of "Alma redemptio mater,"…
Marvin, Julia.
Robert Epstein and William Robins, eds. Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honour of John V. Fleming (Buffalo, N. Y.: University of Toronto Press, 2010), pp. 113-28.
Marvin traces a pattern of concern with literary interpretation in LGWP-F and exemplifies that the pattern is also evident in "some of the legends themselves," particularly Dido's. The F prologue and the tale assert bookish authority, question it,…
Marwitz, Will[ard].
[Jay Ruud, ed.] Papers on the "Canterbury Tales": From the 1989 NEH Chaucer Institute, Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota ([Aberdeen, S.D.: Northern State University, 1989), pp. 158-75.
Comments on assessments of the Wife of Bath as either a "Scarlet Woman" or a "truly liberated woman," concluding that she is best seen as "complicated." Includes a series of "Student Challenges" as a study guide to WBP.
Marx, William.
Cambridge; and Rochester, N.Y. : D. S. Brewer, 1999.
Describes, among others, five manuscripts that contain Chaucer material: National Library of Wales MSS 3049 and 3567 and Peniarth MSS 359, 392, and 393.
Marzec, Marcia Smith, and Cindy L. Vitto.
Cindy L. Vitto and Marcia Smith Marzec, eds. New Perspectives on Criseyde (Fairview, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2004), pp. 181-206.
Modern psychological analysis of the codependent personality reveals the enigmatic nature of much of Criseyde's behavior. Her drive to please and the absence of healthy boundaries in relationships with others indicate that she lacks a clear sense of…
Marzec, Marcia Smith.
Proceedings of the ... International Patristic, Mediaeval and Renaissance Conference 12-13 (1987-88): 197-208.
Critically regarded as a failure, MLT may be seen in better light if we look at its overriding theme: the efficacy of God's will at work in the world. But while the tale succeeds in explicating that theme, it fails in its portrayal of Constance,…
To show that love for hunting does not preclude piety, the worldly Monk of GP invokes Edward the Confessor, who was often portrayed as a celibate Christian as well as a passionate hunter. Because of Edward's dual interests, the Monk's pursuit of…
Marzec, Marcia Smith.
Tison Pugh and Marcia Smith Marzec, eds. Men and Masculinities in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2008), pp. 58-72.
Marzec surveys portrayals of Hector as a knightly paragon of prowess and virtue in sources and analogues of TC, arguing that Chaucer's Troilus is a distinctly "courtly" figure in contrast to his brother. The contrast critiques courtly love.
Masciandaro, Nicola.
Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007.
Masciandaro investigates the vocabulary of work (travail, labour, swink, werk, craft) and its cultural significance in late medieval England, exploring depictions of the history of work in Middle English literature (including Gower, a treatise on…
Masciandaro, Nicola.
Myra Seaman, Eileen A. Joy, and Nicola Masciandaro, eds. Dark Chaucer: An Assortment (Brooklyn, N. Y.: Punctum Books, 2012), pp. 71-90.
Considers the anonymous executioner and the three strokes required to execute Cecilia in SNT.
Masciandaro, Nicola.
On the Darkness of the Will ([Italy]: Mimesis, 2018): 37-71.
Studies aspects of "mystical non-mysticism" in Chaucer's poetry. Explores the "nomenclative impotentiality" of the narrator's "non-self-naming" in HF, 1873–82, and his "unknowing" elsewhere in the poem. Comments on the Black Knight's tearless…
The ms cited, an anthology of astronomical treatises possibly compiled in Spain c.1303, and transferred to England c.1350,may contain the specific sources for Chaucer's Astr. Two Chaucerian interpolations coincide with ms marginalia, and Chaucer's…
Masi investigates depictions of women in Chaucer's works compared to depictions in works of other authors, including Christine de Pizan, Aquinas, and Boethius. He links Chaucer's LGW and Pizan, suggesting that Eustace Deschamps may have been a…
Masi, Michael.
Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr., and Philip Edward Phillips, eds. New Directions in Boethian Studies. Studies in Medieval Culture, no. 45. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007, pp. 143-54.
Traces the logic of paradox from its roots in Zeno through Boethius's Consolation to its uses in WBPT. Notes examples from Alain de Lille and Jean de Meun and discusses the Wife of Bath's uses of synthesis beyond contradiction and paradox.
Examines Troilus's love malady in TC in terms of medieval psychology, arguing that his fixation with Criseyde produces melancholy, a "lack of contact between mind and reality," and a loss of the desire to live. Focuses on Troilus's dream of Criseyde…
Maslanka, Christopher.
Journal of Religion & Literature 49,3 (2017): 101-20.
Discusses the connection between physicality and personality in St. Christopher's hagiography in the "South English Legendary" and, in expanding this connection, uses Chaucer's descriptions of the Miller and the Wife of Bath in GP as additional…
Reads Dryden's version of WBT (from his "Fables") and his comments on the tale as reflections of his sensitivity to Chaucer's wit, humor, "genial irony," "gentle sarcasm," and especially his clever juxtapositions--the "imaginative setting of one…
Mason, Tom.
Stuart Gillespie and David Hopkins, eds. The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English. Volume 3: 1660-1790 (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 427-39.
Mason surveys English translations and modernizations of Chaucer's works (and apocrypha) between 1660 and 1795, commenting on Dryden's and Pope's versions and the imitations they inspired. Includes a list of "Chaucer's Translations 1660-1795."
Mason, Tom.
Translation & Literature 16.1 (2007): 1-28.
Documents Dryden's wide-ranging allusiveness in his adaptation of NPT and comments on the reception of this version, arguing that "The Cock and the Fox" presents a delicate balance between praise and blame of humanity.
