Reviews providential readings of CT, asserting that nominalism furnishes theological context for MLT; contrasts MLT with its source in Trevet; and surveys use of the term "nominalism." In MLT, God's remoteness and arbitrariness ad the "extreme…
Moore, Stephen G.
Chaucer Review 38 : 83-97, 2003.
The narrative structure of Mel compels the reader to read backward and forward between scenes and episodes, encouraging affective involvement in the universal sentential wisdom of the Tale. The purpose is not that Melibee learn, but that the reader…
Moore, Stephen Gerard.
Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1998): 2014A.
Readers of medieval allegory look for meaning but find themselves obliged by many factors to revise their interpretations. Even the literal sense proves highly complex, seeming to shift as it develops, so that readers must reconsider. Moore analyzes…
Although twentieth-century editors of Chaucer have produced increasingly sophisticated and tasteful editions of CT, their practices reject methodology dependent on purely objective criteria.
The Prioress is neither aristocratic, as Bowden, Manly, and Robinson argue, nor classless as Sister Madeleva posits, but a proto-Cockney and, thus, a typically round, contradictory Chaucerian character. With East London associations and dialect (her…
Statistical analyses, including charted data, of variant readings of CT in (1) a given single tale in pairs of manuscripts; and (2) paired tales in single manuscripts.
Moorman, Charles.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1975.
A pedagogical introduction to the practices involved in preparing a critical edition of a Middle English text, with commentary on paleography, the language of Middle English, and the processes of textual criticism. Includes reproductions of the…
Moorman, Charles.
Studies in the Literary Imagination 4.2 (1971): 61-71.
Interprets TC as a work in which "Courtly Love and Fortune" operate as "complementary powers," two forms of determinism, social and cosmic respectively, inflected in equal part by the characters or personalities of the three central figures.
Moorman, Charles.
South Atlantic Quarterly 64 (1965): 87-99. Reprinted in A Knyght There Was: The Evolution of the Knight in Literature (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1967), pp. 76-95.
Contrasts the conventionalized courtly characterization of the knight in BD with the relatively individualized courtly characterization of Troilus in TC, and goes on to assess the Knight and Theseus of KnT as a new kind of figure found only "at the…
A collection of eighteen articles on aspects of intertextuality in the tradition of the Griselda story in Europe. Morabito reviews the sources and body of material (essay in It.); Donnchadh o Corrain, "Textuality and Intertextuality: The Early…
A collection of ten articles by various hands, in Italian, concerning the spread and development of the Griselda tradition in Italy, England, Iceland, Germany, and Bohemia, among other Eruopean countries.
Morabito, Raffaele.
Studi sul Boccaccio 17 (1988): 237-85.
Morabito attempts to provide the fullest bibliography possible for the diffusion of the Griselda story throughout Europe. Beginning in 1350 with the "Decameron," the bibliography is arranged chronologically for each of twenty-one languages.
Moran, Tatyana.
Notes and Queries 208 (1963): 11-12.
Identifies ironic parallels between Troilus's viewings of Criseyde in TC and Cresseid's failure to recognize Troilus in Robert Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid," exploring the latter as a narrative of "punishment and expiation through suffering."
Examines "ironic references" to frame tales in Guy de Maupassant's story, "Boule de Suif," tallying similarities and differences between these references and Boccaccio's "Decameron," Chaucer's CT, and Marguerite de Navarre's "Heptaméron." Also…
In MilT, the coulter was chosen by Chaucer for its etymological and judicial significance and because it parallels a scene from "Tristan and Iseult"--the trial by ordeal.
Morey, James H.
Urbana and Chicago : University of Illinois Press, 2000.
Bibliographical guide to Middle English biblical literature, including manuscript and publication information, descriptions of the works, and identification of the biblical sources, covering some 110 individual works or sets of related works.…
Pandarus's reference to two crowns (TC 2.1735), when speaking to Criseyde before she visits Troilus in Deiphebus's house, alludes to Saint Agnes, sets the date of this meeting as Saint Agnes's Eve (January 20), and thus establishes a chronology for…
Morgan, Gerald, ed.
New York: Holmes & Meier; London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1980.
An edition of FranPT, the description of the Franklin from the GP, and the endlink from the SqT, with notes and glosses. In his Introduction (pp. 1-47), Morgan comments on the "challenges" of reading Chaucer's poetry, the "modulation" of his poetic…
Collection of essays addressing various Chaucerian topics, including "textual authority, poetic design, political affiliations and sympathies, and religious convictions." For individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Chaucer in Context: A…
