Anastasopoulos, Alexandra.
Meeting of Minds XVII 11 (2009): 199-203.
Anastasopoulos argues for mediated influence of Benoît's "Le Roman de Troie" on characterization, didactic message, and acknowledgement of sources in TC.
Lecky, Kat.
Megan Moore, ed. Gender in the Premodern Mediterranean (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, 2019), pp. 203-33.
Traces from Chaucer (MLT) to Shakespeare ("Othello") to Milton ("Samson Agonistes") a "literary tradition that seeks to understand England's place on [the] international stage." Identifies the economic/political models that underlie Custance's two…
Peksen, Azime.
Mehmet Ali Celikel and Baysar Taniyan, eds. English Studies: New Perspectives (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2015), pp. 36-45.
Analyzes how May in MerT and the wife in ShT "evade the oppressions" of marriage and "subvert their subjugation through negotiating and challenging the mercantile narration." Each female protagonist "generates her own meanings and pleasure."
Some characteristics of the legend of Philomene, Phyllis, and Hypermnestra are discussed. The brief conclusion proves that the poet's attitude toward LGW is ambivalent; he seems to be mocking, satirical, and at the same time serious and even…
Shigeo, Hisashi.
Meiji Gakuin Ronso 453: English and American Literature 75 (1990): 1-32.
Criseyde's love of Troilus could be the cause of her love affair with Diomede. This article corrects, supplements, and reinforces the conclusion of an article by the same name in "Poetica" 29-30 (1989): 39-57.
Baugh, Albert C.
Mélanges de Langue et de Littérature du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance Offerts á Jean Frappier, 2 vols. (Geneva: Droz, 1970), 1: 65-76.
Explains why the phrase "In termes," in the description of the Man of Law in GP (1.323), means "in Year Books," i.e., in a collection of "medieval law reports."
Fruoco, Jonathan.
Mélanges de Science Religieuses, 76.4 (2019): 5-18.
Examines the depiction of the Pardoner in PardT as a reflection of Chaucer's own ideas about spirituality. Contends that Chaucer's portraits of the religious pilgrims in GP showcase several types of spirituality and argues that the poet seems to…
King, Francis, and Bruce Steele, eds.
Melbourne: F. W. Cheshire, 1969.
A textbook edition of selections from CT (GP, MilPT, RvP, PardPT, PrPT, Tho, NPT, WBPT, ManPT, ParP, a selection from ParsT, and Ret) in Middle English, with facing-page glosses and end-of-text notes and commentary. Also includes passages from…
Everest, Carol A.
Melitta Weiss Adamson, ed. Food in the Middle Ages: A Book of Essays (New York and London: Garland, 1995), pp. 161-75.
May's request for pears in MerT indicates that she is pregnant, since medieval texts align the condition with a desire for unripe fruit. Moreover, medieval medical treatises recommend pears for the treatment of stomach disroders, "especially the…
A complete list of the Latin and French loan words in GP, including proper nouns. Chaucer is indebted to earlier borrowings, especially to those in the "Ancrene Riwle." The number of Chaucer's own borrowings is indicated. A high ratio of the…
Jones, Dylan.
Memoirs of the Faculty of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Fukui 7 (2023): 15-38.
Analyzes three European folktales (Breton, Danish, and Irish) within the "miller-plot" subgenre, comparing them to RvT, "The Mylner of Abyngton," and other stories to highlight their shared features and deeper connections. Suggests that these…
Facsimile reproduction of Greaves' grammar (1594), which was the second grammar of English to be printed; includes as an appendix a six-page "Vocabula Chauceriana," the first glossary of Chaucer's lexicon.
Hakman, Ekmel Emrah.
Meral Hakman, ed. Prehistoryadan günümüze kadın (Ankara: Bilgin Kültür Sanat Yayınları, 2020), pp. 391-437.
Briefly summarizes LGWP and assesses in detail each of the legends, arguing that, generally, Chaucer's anti-misogynistic effort fails. Although his "primary goal is to speak of good women as examples for the society and equal to men," his selection…
Guardia Massó, Pedro.
Mercedes Brea, ed. Marginales e marginados en la Época Medieval. Cuardernos del CEMYR, no. 4 ([La Laguna, Canary Islands]: Universidad de La Laguna, Centro de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas, 1996), pp. 107-24.
Guardia Massó examines ecclesiastical and sexual suppression in Lollardy, "Piers Plowman," and CT (especially in WBP).
Iyeiri, Yoko.
Merja Kytö, John Scahill, and Harumi Tanabe, eds. Language Change and Variation from Old English to Late Modern English: A Festschrift for Minoji Akimoto (New York: Peter Lang, 2010), pp. 79-101.
Iyeiri analyzes the "various forms of negation" in the fragments of Rom, commenting on their implications for attribution. Fragment C is more like B than like the Chaucerian A in many of its forms of negation; hence, it is unlikely to be by Chaucer.
Stadnik, Katarzyna.
Merja Stenroos, Martti Mäkinen, Kjetil Vikhamar Thengs, and Oliver Traxel, eds. Current Explorations in Middle English: Selected Papers from the 10th International Conference on Middle English (ICOME), University of Stavanger, Norway, 2017 (New York: Peter Lang, 2019), pp. 249-64.
Adopts a "grounded approach to cognition" that combines awareness of embodiment, physical environment, and sociocultural situatedness. Discusses "selected cognitive-cultural aspects of diagrammatic iconicity" that structure ParsT and constitute a…
Barbaccia, Holly, Bethany Packard, and Jane Wanniger.
Merry Wiesner, ed. Gendered Temporalities in the Early Modern World (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018), pp. 213-34.
Explores how the "unfulfilled outcomes" of characters who are possibly mothers or possibly pregnant in TC, MerT, Shakespeare's "All's Well that Ends Well," and John Webster's "The Duchess of Malfi" "simultaneously enable author, character, and…
