McLaughlin, Becky Renee.
Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020.
Uses psychoanalysis as a "pedagogical tool" to understand Chaucer's pilgrims in CT. Begins with the "spectacle of hysteria" to explore "ways that conflicts with the Oedipal law erupt on the body and in language" in CT. Discusses "perversions of…
McLemore, Emily.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Notre Dame, 2022.
Dissertation Abstracts International A83.11(E).
Studies "representations of women's desire and . . . its intersections with eroticism, pleasure, and power" in WBPT, Robert Henrysons' "Testament of Cresseid," "The Book of Margery Kempe," and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."
McLeod, Glenda Kaye.
Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1988): 501A
The tradition of listing good women, dissociating them from their backgrounds, reveals varying attitudes toward woman's nature and rhetorical shifts from florilegia to debates; LGW is treated.
McLeod, Glenda.
Glenda McLeod, Virtue and Venom: Catalogs of Women from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Women and Culture Series. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991), pp. 81-109.
Contrary to critical tradition, Chaucer did not necessarily abandon LGW in boredom. A reading with attention to the discrepancies between LGWP and the legends, and to their ordering and their figurative language, reveals a careful and purposeful…
McMahon, Arthur Henry.
Dissertation Abstracts International 52 (1992): 2546A.
Once Harry Bailly loses control of the game unifying CT, those who remain playful and detached become winners. Both pilgrims and readers must reassess the real rewards.
McMahon, Patrick J., and Allen J. Frantzen.
Essays in Medieval Studies 27 (2011): 133-47.
Explores some possible uses for newly developed digital technologies in the teaching of CT, presenting the data for "and," Chaucer's most used word, suggesting the types of questions that might arise from word count and word usage data. This data can…
McMillan, Ann Hunter.
Dissertation Abstracts International 40 (1980): 5437A.
The labels "antifeminism" and "courtly love" misrepresent the medieval literary treatment of women. Three types--the chaste wife, the "manly" virgin, and the martyr of love--dominate the catalogues through the Middle Ages.
McMillan, Ann, trans.
Houston: Rice University Press, 1987.
Literal Modern English translation with introduction (pp. 3-62) treating the catalogue tradition, classical heroines, Jerome, Boccaccio, Christine de Pisan, LGW, LGWP, and the victims.
McMillan, Ann.
Constance H. Berman, Charles W. Connell, and Judith Rice Rothschild, eds. The Worlds of Medieval Women (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 1985), pp. 122-29.
In LGW, Chaucer explodes "the notion that women are, or should be, self-ordained victims." Women in Cupid's Paradise wallow in an "orgy of self-congratulation" for having died for love. The pathos of women destroyed by passion is emphasized in the…
McMillan, Ann.
Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 1.1 (1982): 27-42.
Argues that "The Flower and the Leaf" and "The Assembly of Ladies" are both concerned with female chastity as a means to effective power, the first asserting this theme and the second expressing frustration with such assertions. Also surveys…
McMillan, Samuel F.
Dissertation Abstracts International A80.05 (2016): n.p.
Argues that the "Roman de la Rose" "initiates a literary tradition that understands reason to be in tension with and even antithetical to imaginative writing," examining in this light works by Chaucer (TC), Gower, Lydgate, and Hoccleve, exploring in…
McMullan, Gordon, and David Matthews, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Twelve essays by individual authors, with an introduction by the editors that discusses modern England's ambivalent fascination with the Middle Ages, including, briefly, Shakespeare and Fletcher's "Two Noble Kinsmen" - an adaptation of Chaucer's KnT.…
McMullen, A. Joseph, and Erica Weaver, eds.
Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2018.
Twelve essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors consider the range and depth of impact of Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" on Old and Middle English literature and thought. The introduction summarizes the legacy of the…
McMullen, A. Joseph.
A. Joseph McMullen and Erica Weaver, eds. The Legacy of Boethius in Medieval England: The "Consolation" and Its Afterlives (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2018.), pp. 143-54.
Identifies Chaucer's "cosmological additions" to Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" when translating it as "Boece," identifying the sources of these additions in earlier translations and commentaries, and speculating that Chaucer includes glosses…
McMullen, Carol.
[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. 73-83.
Argues that the "moral lesson" of MerT is "self-deception and spiritual blindness" which result from January's efforts to "create a paradise on earth."
Anthologizes a wide array of medieval texts that pertain to disability studies, each with an introduction and apparatus by individual contributors. Entries include Historical and Medical Documents, Religious Texts, Poetry, Prose, Drama, and visual…
McNally, John J.
Studies in Medieval Culture 2 (1966): 104-10.
Reads TC as a "subtle reprobation of courtly love," suggesting that Chaucer's ironic treatment of love is signaled by the placement and timing of allusions to Dante's "Divine Comedy" and by parallels between the structures of the two works, with Book…
McNamara, John Francis.
DAI 29.09 (1969): 3148-49A.
In TC and "several important" tales of CT, Chaucer expresses more "confidence in human nature" than do Langland or the "Pearl"-poet in their works. He indicates the human need for divine Providence and assurance that "God will not use his absolute…
Reads ClT as a "dramatization" of the teaching of St. James' epistle: the testing of faith "begets patience." Despite Walter's cruelty, he is God's "unwitting agent" in effecting Griselda's faith and obedience.
McNamara, Leo F.
Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters 46 (1961): 231-37.
Rejects the "drunkenness hypothesis" as a way of explaining the Pardoner's character, arguing that pride and "counterfeit humility" underlie the characterization and that the "[s]uspicion, aversion, and contempt" of the pilgrim audience toward him…
McNamara, Rebecca F.
Literature and Medicine 33.2 (2015): 258-78.
In BD, Chaucer reinvents the "dits amoreux" tropes of Froissart (in "Le paradis d'Amours") and Machaut (in "Le jugement dou roy de Behaingne"), applying Galen's humoral medicine to depictions of the lovelorn knight. Likewise, in KnT, the banished…
Not all manuscripts of Ret read LGW as "xxv" tales (other numbers are "xix" and "xx"). Edward of Norwich (ca. 1406) uses "xxv" and refers to the work as the "Goode Wymmen," not, as is more common, the book of "ladies." He may have read Ret, in which…
McQuain, Jeffrey Hunter.
Dissertation Abstracts International 44 (1983): 761A.
Although both Chaucer and Shakespeare inherited the classical misogynist tradition, their works reflect a belief in the equality of the sexes, the value of marriage, and the association of virtue with with women.
