Twenty-five percent of the Old French loanwords in Rom are "new to English or used with a new English menaing'; most reflect influences of aristorcratic, secularized French romances. Includes chart of loanwords.
Wislocka Breit, Bozena.
Miguel Ibáñez Rodríguez, ed. Enotradulengua: Vino, lengua y traducción (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2020), pp. 151-68.
Studies the presence of Spanish wine in England through literary references, starting with a brief survey of Chaucer. Contends that Chaucer's familiarity with Spanish wines such as sherry in PardT is attributable both to his father's business and to…
Warburton, Rachel.
Mihoko Suzuki and Roseanna Dufault, eds. Diversifying the Discourse: The Florence Howe Award for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship, 1990-2004 (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2006), pp. 270-87.
Warburton explores historical and literary connections between notions of female "goodness" and ability to be raped, examining the discourse of Cecily Chaumpaigne's accusation of rape and the tales of Lucretia and Philomela in LGW. The afterword,…
Baldry, Cherith.
Mike Ashley, ed. The Mammoth Book of More Historical Whodunnits (New York: Carroll and Graf, 2001), pp. 297-312.
Short story in which Chaucer, on peace mission to France, solves the mystery of a murder thereby helping Bertrand du Guesclin, who had been falsely accused.
Baldry, Cherith.
Mike Ashley, ed. The Mammoth Book of New Historical Whodunits [sic] (New York: Carroll and Graf, 2005), pp. 178-96.
Murder-mystery short story in which Chaucer and Froissart in Italy seek to solve the death by poison of Duke Lionel. Published in the U.K. in The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits: Third New Collection (London: Robinson).
A "reader-friendly" edition of The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, The Miller and His Tale, The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale, The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale, and The Nun's Priest's Tale, i.e., in modernized spelling, with glosses and…
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat, which indicates that this is an Italian translation of Geraldine's McCaughrean's adaptation of selections from CT (1984), designed for a juvenile audience, with illustrations by Victor G. Ambrus.
Ballestra, Gianfranca, and Leslie-Anne Crowley, eds.
Milan: Vita e Pensiero, 2000.
Proceedings from a seminar on Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's short story, "The Wife of Bath," in which a modern character (a Jane Austen fan) travels to Bath and meets a woman, Alice, whose life recalls Chaucer's character in several ways. The story is…
Milosh, Joseph E.,Jr.
Millicent Lenz and Ramona M. Mahood, eds. Young Adult Literature: Background and Criticism (Chicago: American Library Association, 1980), pp. 433-40.
John the cuckolded carpenter in MilT, delights in a simple faith which makes star-gazing unnecessary. The NPT revolves around the problem of translating intuitive knowledge into action. In both modern and medieval images of the universe,searching…
Kearney, Milo, and Ken Hogan.
Milo Kearney. The Historical Roots of Medieval Literature: Battle and Ballad (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen, 1992), pp. 439-91.
Surveys CT and contemporary works for their reflections of social turmoil. CT reflects Chaucer's views of social order as properly based on class structure and the ultimate goal of salvation.
Patterson, Paul J.
Milton and Melville Review 1.1 (2006): 10-20.
Describes how, increasingly identified with Chaucer in early editions, "The Plowman's Tale" advanced "Chaucer's status as an early Protestant figure," noting in particular the association of them in Milton's "Of Reformation."
Flavin argues that Milton may have been influenced by Chaucer: like Chauntecleer in NPT, Milton's Eve ignores her prophetic dream and falls victim to flattery. Milton's Adam is also similar to Chauntecleer in passionate submission to beauty.
Prose adaptations of GP, WBT, PardT, and CYT, designed for children, accompanied by brief Introduction, a biographical note, and illustrations by Dan Hubrich.
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome.
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
Argues that giants can represent the lost prehistory of the masculine body and therefore figure its present and dangerous instability. Six chapters and an introduction focus on the English Middle Ages. Chapter 4 (pp. 96-118) discusses Chaucer's Th,…
Burger, Glenn, and Steven Kruger, eds.
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
Ten essays on queer issues, with responses by Kruger. Includes readings on a selection of medieval texts, including Christine de Pizan and Dante. For an essay and a response that pertain to Chaucer, search for Queering the Middle Ages under…
Fradenburg, L. O. Aranye.
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
Fradenburg theorizes a new combination of historicism and Lacanian psychoanalysis and explores the medieval idea of sacrifice and its role in cultural production. Linking ethics and desire, sacrifice is a way of pursuing and prolonging desire, even…
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…
