Matsui, Noriko.
Koichi Kano, ed. Through the Eyes of Chaucer: Essays in Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Society for Chaucer Studies (Kawasaki: Asao Press, 2014), pp. 26-42.
Examines the meaning of the expression concerning the seating order in GP (1.52) by considering a similar expression in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Reviews contemporary illustrations and historical records related to the feast. In Japanese.
Matsumoto, Hiroyuki.
Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature 31 (1986): 17-25.
Chaucer makes the best of recurring rhyme pairs such as 'joye'/'Troye', 'gladnesse'/'destresse', and 'pleasaunce'/'remembraunce' to describe the mutability of worldly happiness in TC.
Matsuo, Masatsugu.
Michio Kawai, ed. Language and Style in English Literature: Essays in Honour of Michio Masui. Tokyo: Kenkyusha Shuppan, 1991, pp. 83-92.
Using Hayashi's Quantification Method Type III (a multivariate analysis), Matsuo describes distinctive features of several linguistic structures and clarifies clusters of similarities and dissimilarities. Cites examples from poetry by Chaucer and…
Matsushita, Tomonori, A. V. C. Schmidt, and David Wallace, eds.
Bern: Peter Lang, 2011.
Essays examine influence of classical learning, Germanic and Old Norse cultures, and Romance languages on the development of medieval English literature and language. For essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for From Beowulf to Caxton under…
Middle English text of KnT (based on The Riverside Chaucer), with interlinear phonetic transcription and facing-page translation. Annotations derived from earlier editions.
Mattern, Joanne.
Huntington Beach, Calif.: Teacher Created Materials, 2013.
An introduction to Chaucer. his life and times, and the CT, designed for young readers, with color reproductions and photographs drawn from a variety of sources. Emphasizes basic information and vocabulary, with a glossary of modern terms and an…
Collects excerpts documenting how "the modern study of Middle English became the way it is." Thirteen excerpts discuss language, from George Hickes (1642-1715) to James A. H. Murray (1837-1915), and nineteen consider literary criticism and…
Matthews, David.
Studies in Medievalism 09 (1997): 5-25.
Uses the Hoccleve portrait of Chaucer as a focal point for examining the nineteenth-century image of Chaucer. Viewed at first as the one "modern" author of his time, Chaucer becomes, through the work of the Chaucer Society and the edition of Skeat,…
Matthews, David.
Minneapolis and London : University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
Assesses the roots and development of Middle English studies as a reflection of antiquarian and nationalistic impulses. Traces the growth of English medievalism from Bishop Thomas Percy to Frederick Furnivall and focuses on the impact of individual…
Matthews, David.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 22: 93-114, 2000.
Surveys translations and bowdlerizations of The Canterbury Tales from ca. 1870 to the present, identifying variations on the tendency to present the work as morally regulatory or innocent. Focuses on adaptations by Mary (Mrs. H. R.) Haweis, Charles…
Matthews, David.
Ruth Evans, Helen Fulton, and David Matthews, eds. Medieval Cultural Studies: Essays in Honour of Stephen Knight (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2006), pp. 9-22.
Explores historical formulations of "medieval studies" and "medievalism," arguing that they are inseparable, and encouraging awareness of their interdependencies. Draws examples from Tyrwhitt's edition of CT and Helgeland's film, "A Knight's Tale,"…
Matthews, David.
Gordon McMullan and David Matthews, eds. Reading the Medieval in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 74-88.
Matthews focuses on Thomas Speght's 1598 and 1602 editions of Chaucer and their role in re-imagining Chaucer as an Early Modern rather than a medieval author. The prefatory poem, "The Reader to Geffrey Chaucer," suggests that early editions had…
Matthews responds to articles about Brian Helgeland's film A Knight's Tale, suggesting that medieval studies should be open to medievalism studies, rather than placing the fields in opposition.
Matthews, David.
American Literary History 22 (2010): 758-72.
Matthews considers ways of distinguishing between "medieval studies" and "medievalism" (relating the latter to "antimodernism") and assesses how late nineteenth-century American study of Chaucer "problematizes" the terms. The article contrasts…
Matthews, David.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Matthews explores the English rhetorical device of writing about political topics as if the author were writing directly to the king, even though the works that used the device were intended for a wider audience. The device flourished in the late…
Focuses on ways Chaucer's successors employed lists in dream visions, and refers to HF, BD, PF, LGW, KnT, and GP. Argues that by employing different listing techniques, medieval authors used lists as a way of legitimizing themselves as authors.
Matthews, David.
Adam Smyth, ed. A History of English Autobiography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), pp. 27-40.
Surveys the "presentation of self" in late medieval English literature, gauging the relative degree of "truth value" and describing how authors "entwine life-writing into their larger projects." Uses Ret and Chaucer's ironic "playful portrayal of…
Matthews, David.
Marion Turner, ed. A Handbook of Middle English Studies (Chichester: Wiley, 2013), pp. 253-66.
Considers the value and possible necessity of periodization in history and literary history, focusing on particular difficulties in dealing with the use of "middle" in "Middle Ages" and "Middle English," and arguing that treatments of Chaucer, Gower,…
Matthews, David.
Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 138-52.
Gauges Tudor awareness of and attitudes toward earlier English, comparing comments and lexical choices made by William Caxton in two of his printed volumes: the second edition of CT and John of Trevisa's translation of Ranulf Higden's…
