Scala, Elizabeth.
Medieval Feminist Forum 30: 27-37, 2000.
Assesses "gossip" about an emotional or sexual relationship between Rickert and John Matthews Manly, co-editors of "The Text of the Canterbury Tales" (1940).
English political poetry of the 1380s and 1390s was deeply marked by the self-image of the monarch, which shifted about the time of the Merciless Parliament (1388), as Richard II became more experienced and less playful. Chaucer's PF and revision of…
Strohm, Paul.
Minneapolis and London : University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
Includes thirteen New Historicist essays as examples of "practical theory," discussing how various historical and literary texts can be seen to reveal more than they say. Topics include legal proceedings, various aspects of Lollardy, John Capgrave's…
Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn,Rosalynn Voaden, Arlyn Diamond, Ann Hutchison, Carol M. Meale, and Lesley Johnson, eds.
Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, 2000.
Twenty-three essays by various authors discuss female literature, conduct, and society in late-medieval literary, religious, and historical texts of Britain. Includes a celebration of Felicity Riddy, a bibliography of her publications, and an index.…
Wright, Constance S., and Julia Bolton Holloway, eds.
New York : AMS Press, 2000.
Ten essays, two fictional narratives, and one lecture on Apuleius, his legacy, and the traditions of folly. Reprints Holloway's "The Asse to the Harpe: Boethian Music in Chaucer." For two new essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Tales Within…
Yamaguchi, Eriko.
Gengobunka Ronshu (University of Tsukuba) 53: 17-44, 2000.
Assesses the chest--a significant piece of furniture as both a container and a bench in the Middle Ages--as an image in CT, discussing "possession" and the body-space formed on/in the chest by the act of sitting on it.
Yamamoto, Dorothy.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Explores relationships of the human body to human identity in Middle English literature, focusing on representations of the animal world and of "wild men" as they define the margins (and hence the center) of the human. Includes discussions of…
Bowers, John M.
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, ed. The Postcolonial Middle Ages (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000), pp. 53-66.
Reads CT as a "decolonizing project" and a "narrative of nationhood" whereby Chaucer resisted Richard II's renewed attachment to French culture and took steps to invent English society. Assesses how several issues in CT reflect English postcolonial…
Edwards, A. S. G., Vincent Gillespie, and Ralph Hanna, eds.
London : British Library, 2000.
Thirteen essays on codicology, compilation, and book production in the English late Middle Ages, an introduction, and two memorials honor the work of Jeremy Griffiths. Includes a list of Griffiths's publications, a general index, and an index of…
Fisher, Sheila.
Roberta L. Krueger, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 150-64.
Argues that Chaucer, the Gawain poet, and Malory use women to define chivalric male identities. The texts of these authors register anxiety about women as "hominis confusio" and marginalize women by marginalizing many of the moments of their greatest…
Ganim, John M.
Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen, eds. The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question (Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000), pp. 128-47.
Explores several of Chaucer's and Boccaccio's characters and how their autobiographical self-invention is both modern and tied to the past. The importance of confession in developing the sense of the individual is played out in the prologues and…
Giaccherini, Enrico.
Paolo Bertinetti, ed. Storia della letteratura inglese. 2 vols. (Torino: Einaudi, 2000), 1:13-60.
A brief description of the works of Chaucer and his contemporaries; the second chapter of a history of English literature designed for Italian undergraduate study.
Grigsby, Bryon Lee.
Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 4419A, 2000.
In the Christian Middle Ages, epidemics were perceived as punishment for spiritual sin, though bubonic plague became so widespread as to seem apocalyptic. Grigsby treats "Pricke of Conscience," "Amis and Amiloun," the York Cycle "Moses and Pharaoh,"…
Gruber, Loren C., ed., with the assistance of Meredith Crellin Gruber and Gregory K. Jember.
Lewiston, N.Y. : Mellen Press, 2000.
Twenty essays by various authors, and a bibliography of Tripp's publications. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Essays on Old, Middle, Modern English and Old Icelandic in Honor of Raymond P. Tripp, Jr. under Alternative Title.
Investigates credulity as a feature of radical medieval thought (Marsilio of Padua, William of Ockham, John Wycliffe) and as depicted in Boccaccio and Chaucer. A creative artist rather than a philosopher or theologian, Chaucer uses various characters…
Hill, John M.,and Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi, eds.
Madison, N.J., and London : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press and Associated University Presses, 2000.
Fourteen essays by various authors, along with an introduction and "Robert O. Payne: In Memoriam" by Hill. For eight essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Rhetorical Poetics of the Middle Ages under Alternative Title.
Hornero, Ana María, and María Pilar Navarro, eds.
Zaragoza : Institucion Fernando el Catolico (CSIC), 2000.
Twenty-six essays by various authors, with eight that pertain to Chaucer. For essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of S.E.L.I.M. under Alternative Title.
Kawasaki, Masatoshi.
Hisao Tsuru, ed. Fiction and Truth: Essays on Fourteenth-Century English Literature (Tokyo: Kirihara Shoten, 2000), pp. 35-46.
Explores the relationship between orality and literacy and between authority and experience in the context of medieval folk culture, dealing with BD and HF.
Kimmelman, Burt.
John M. Hill and Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi, eds. The Rhetorical Poetics of the Middle Ages: Reconstructive Polyphony. Essays in Honor of Robert O. Payne (Madison, N.J., and London: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press and Associated University Presses, 2000), pp. 177-205.
Chaucer's narrative persona is related to the Ockhamist controversy in that his narrator struggles with questions of experience and authoritative knowledge and of whether experience can convey truth. Particularly in Chaucer's dream-vision poems,…
Chaucer was well aware that he was writing for an audience that read his poems aloud. In his four dream poems, he familiarizes his audience with the subject matter through communication strategies, including conversational interjections such as "that…
Krueger, Roberta L., ed.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Fifteen essays and an introduction introduce the reader to "the voyages, transformations, and interrogations of romance as its fictions travel within and between the linguistic, geo-political, and social boundaries of Europe from 1150 to 1600." For…
Chaucer's dream visions confront contemporary philosophical debates, which also shape his poetics. BD is concerned with the status of universals, the relationship of universals to singulars, and the certainty of human knowledge. HF mocks "the logical…
Matsuda, Suguru.
Hisao Tsuru, ed. Fiction and Truth: Essays on Fourteenth-Century English Literature (Tokyo: Kirihara Shoten, 2000), pp. 9-18.
Argues that Chaucer criticized the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, treating the medieval status of the Parson; Lollardy; and Chaucerian concern with people of the lower classes.
