Molencki, Rafal.
Nikolaus Ritt and Herbert Schendl, eds. Rethinking Middle English: Linguistic and Literary Approaches (New York and Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2005), pp. 147-60.
Molencki traces the phonetic and semantic conflation of "dare" and" tharf," once distinct verbs, now obsolete. Scribal errors contributed to the obsolescence of "tharf" and its replacement with the more flexible OE "neden." The essay draws examples…
Argues that "the original Old English concessive conjunction 'peah' transformed into Middle English 'theigh,' survived much longer than is admitted in standard Middle English reference books."
Molencki, Rafał.
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 31 (1997): 163-77.
Traces the history of the phrase "al be it" from its late-medieval "heyday" through its reduction to a single-word conjunction to its current status as a marker of "concessivity" or contradiction. Most medieval instances are cited from Chaucer.
Molencki, Rafał.
Jacek Fisiak, ed. Studies in Middle English Linguistics (Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997), pp. 351-71.
Anatomizes concessive clauses (those beginning with "yet," "although," "nevertheless," etc.), exploring their syntactic variety and semantic use. The subjunctive mood dominates, although instances of the indicative prefigure Modern English.
Molencki, Rafał.
Masachiyo Amano, Michiko Ogura, and Masayuki Ohkado, eds. Historical Englishes in Varieties of Texts and Contexts: The Global COE Programme, International Conference 2007 (New York and Frankfurt am Main, 2008), pp. 201-15.
Discusses the "sudden emergence" of and rapid growth in use of the "adverbial subordinator" because in Middle English writing, including the works of Chaucer.
29 July 2003. Critique of Pier Paolo Pasolini's "I Racconti di Canterbury," commenting that it is the "poor cousin" within Pasolini's "Trilogy of Life" and observing its concern with death. Moliterno includes quotations from Pasolini about his…
Moll, Richard J.
Notes and Queries 254 (2008): 192-94.
An eight-line poem reminiscent of Chaucer's For in both theme and word choices survives in three copies (transcribed here), each in a different hand, written upside down on the final folio of this heraldic manuscript.
Moll, Richard J.
Studies in Philology 119 (2022): 371-404.
Shows how Legh uses the dream vision structure from HF but employs a frame of memory and "argues against Chaucer's position that fame is unrelated to deserving."
Momma, Haruko, and Michael Matto, eds.
Malden, Mass.; and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.
Fifty-nine essays by various authors on topics ranging from the Indo-European roots of English to linguistic theory of the twenty-first century, from "the history of the history of English" to various geographical Englishes, and from English…
Presents a theory of irony, examines various ironic interpretations of "De amore," including those by Alfred Karnein, Betsy Bowden, and D. W. Robertson, Jr., and concludes that the numerous inconsistencies in the work either were unintentional on…
Arguing for the prominence of the Biblical account of Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac in medieval culture, the author observes the presence of children as sacrificial figures in MkT, PrT, PhyT, MLT, and ClT, and notes the rewards of faith in those…
Montelaro, Janet J.
South Central Review 8 (1991): 8-16.
Psychological studies of pain help us understand the Pardoner's personal suffering, his abuse of others, and his "harassment" of Paul's letter in PardP. His intent, style, and argument subvert his biblical model.
An anthology in Spanish of seventeen pieces of short fiction from international medieval and modern sources, and a prologue by Montero that discusses the motif of the unfaithful woman. Includes WBPT (pp. 89-119).
Montgomery, Marion.
Boston University Studies in English 3 (1957): 177-78.
Suggests that "for the nones" in LGWP (F 292-96 and G 194-98), rather than meaning "for the occasion," refers to the canonical hour of Nones, i.e., for the ritual of the "celebration of Nones."
Argues that Rudyard Kipling's story "The Wish House" was influenced by WBP. Key words in Chaucer's text ("daunger," "chep") and connotations of the word "ash" (part of the surname of Kipling's leading character, Ashcroft) reveal that Chaucer's work…
Montroso, Alan S.
Dissertation Abstracts International 80 (2019)
Studies caves in medieval literature as "agential bodies" that challenge "us to reconsider the stories of the women, monsters and marginalized beings who are made to inhabit subterranean spaces" Includes discussion of Emelye's address to Diana as…
Moon, Hi Kyung.
Medieval English Studies 11.1 : 117-30, 2003.
Human experience explodes the reductive and stereotypical distinctions between good and bad and between women and men posed in LGW, undercutting the title of the poem, rendering the narrator's task pointless, and encouraging the reader to reject the…
Moon, Hi Kyung.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 14 (2006): 431-46.
Compares and contrasts the strategies and outspoken polemics of WBP with those of Speght's "A Mouzell for Melastomus" (1617). Speght exposes antagonist Joseph Swetnam in ways similar to those used by Chaucer to expose the Wife.
Mooney, Linne R.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 15 (1993): 91-109.
Chaucer's works and the works of almanac writers John Somer and Nicholas of Lynn reflect the contemporary tendency to rely on "clock time" rather than earlier forms of computing time. Mooney surveys a variety of ways of telling time, discussing…
Mooney, Linne R.
Chaucer Review 30 (1996): 401-07.
Two recently identified Trinity College manuscripts written by the "Hammond" scribe (who worked in London ca. 1460-85), a prolific copier of Chaucer, contain medical, scientific, and legal materials, indicating that this scribe included among his…
