Schlauch, Margaret.
New York: Cooper Square, 1971. Originally published in Warsaw: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1956.
Surveys the literatures of medieval England, with emphasis on origins, multilingualism, feudalism, developmental transitions, dominant themes, and social, political, and religious contexts. Includes chapters on the contemporaries of Chaucer,…
Reproduces in black and white the London National Portrait Gallery panel portrait of Chaucer (p. 2), preceded by a brief comment on Chaucer's life, with reference to William Dunbar's praise of him, mention of the TC frontispiece portrait (Cambridge,…
Literary history of England, from Caedmon to Malory, divided into seven chapters, although nearly half of the volume attends to Chaucer and his works. Chapter 4 (pp. 70-213) surveys Chaucer's early life and influences, the "early poems," TC, and CT,…
Surveys fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English and Middle Scots literature (excluding drama), with individual chapters dedicated to Chaucer, Gower, Langland, the Gawain poet, Lydgate and Hoccleve, the lyric, Middle Scots (James I, Robert Holland,…
Griffith, Benjamin W.
Hauppauge, N. Y.: Barron's Educational, 1991.
This study guide includes brief summary descriptions of works from "Beowulf" to Beckett; Includes a list of Chaucer's works and sentence-long summaries of seven of the "key" CT (pp. 14-15).
Fisher, John H.
Thomas D. Cooke. ed. The Present State of Scholarship in Fourteenth Century Literature (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1982): pp. 1-54.
Hart, Roger.
London: Wayland; New York: George Putnam's Sons, 1973.
Illustrated social history of late-medieval England, with literary examples drawn from CT and contemporaneous literature, with visual reproductions from various manuscripts, including the Ellesmere manuscript and printed facsimiles. Arranged…
Johnson, Eleanor.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 114, no. 4 (2015): 504-25.
Argues that the Man of Law depicts himself as a traditionalist in law. Through his presentation in GP, his conversation with the Host, and his Tale, the Man of Law separates himself from negative views of lawyers in the wake of the 1381 Rising. In…
Machan, Tim William.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Machan studies the "social meanings, functions, and status of the English language in the late-medieval period," i.e., its "sociolinguistic contextualization." He explores Henry III's letters of 1258; the relationships between language, dialects, and…
Woolf, Rosemary
Beryl Rowland, ed. Chaucer and Middle English Studies in honour of Rossell Hope Robbins (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1974), pp. 384-91.
Describes English analogues and the Latin original to Chaucer's lost translation, "Origenes upon the Maudelyne" (LGWP-F 428), hypothesizing that Chaucr translated his work upon the request of a lady and speculating why he may have done so.
Dahood, Roger.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 31 (2009): 125-40.
Dahood attributes several features of the plot of PrT to "non-Marian, historical English narratives of Jews crucifying English Christian boys" and explores how and when these features became attached to narratives of a chorister murdered by Jews. The…
McCully, C. B,and J. J. Anderson,eds.
Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Thirteen essays (plus an introduction) from the 1991 G. L. Brook Symposium on Old and Middle English Metrics. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for English Historical Metrics under Alternative Title.
Bergs, Alexander, and Laurel J. Brinton, eds.
Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2012.
An encyclopedic handbook with contributions by various authors, with topics ranging from historical periods to modern media studies. Includes an introductory essay by Jeremy J. Smith entitled "Middle English" (pp. 32-47) and a section on various…
Fernandez, Francisco; Miguel Fuster; and Juan Jose Calvo, eds.
Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1994.
Twenty-nine papers read during the Seventh International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Valencia, Spain, 21-26 September 1992. The papers range from general interest to phonology and writing, morphology and syntax, lexicology and semantics,…
Fisiak, Jacek, and Akio Oizumi, eds.
Berlin and New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1998.
Twenty-five essays by various authors and a select, annotated bibliography of Japanese studies of English historical linguistics from 1950-95. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for English Historical Linguistics and Philology in Japan…
Item not accessed; reported by WorldCat, which describes this video as concerned with the impact of French on the English language and identifies four units that pertain to Chaucer: "Geoffrey Chaucer: Father of English Literature" (3:10); "Geoffrey…
Curran, S. Terrie.
Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland, 2002.
A linguistic history of Old and Middle English that uses several Chaucerian examples to explain changes in morphology and phonology. Chapter 12 discusses Chaucer's contributions to English, to poetry, and to prosody. The apparatus indexes the…
Hiltunen, Risto, Marita Gustafsson, Keith Battarbee, and Liisa Dahl, eds.
Turku: Turun Yliopisto, 1993.
Twenty-three essays on literary and linguistic topics, emphasizing linguistic or structuralist approaches to literature. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for English Far and Wide under Alternative Title.
Boffey, Julia.
Donald Maddox and Sara Sturm-Maddox, eds. Literary Aspects of Courtly Culture: Selected Papers from the Seventh Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1994), pp. 113-21.
Examines the provenance and contents of several fifteenth-century manuscripts, arguing that such compilations reflect interest in Chaucer's dream poems, acquaintance with a range of English and French texts, and a "lively awareness of current…
