Smith D. Vance.
Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
Considers the household as a complex image central to understanding late-medieval England, exploring literary, historical, and economic representations for what they disclose about the "ethics of possession." Analyzes aspects of "Winner and Waster,"…
Examines allegorical, typological, eschatological, and pathetic registers and word play in PhyT, showing how Chaucer thematizes violence and cultural forms that would valorize it. Pitcher compares Chaucer-s rendering with that in the "Roman de la…
The "coillons" interchange between the Pardoner and the Host at the end of PardT goes much deeper than previously noticed. Echoing a passage from the "Roman de la Rose" found in some manuscripts, the lines evoke a transgressive inversion of the "nut…
Psychoanalytic analysis of ManT as "an example of a narrator's strenuously repressing the maternal yet subliminally negotiating its inevitable return." Various features of the Tale are projections of infantile "primal" relations with the mother:…
. ManPT set in opposition two kinds of homosociability: friendship and service. The irresolution of the opposition reflects Chaucer's anxieties about his status as servant and poet.
Prescott, Anne Worthington.
Santa Barbara, Calif.: Fithian, 2003.
Prescott introduces HF to the general reader as simple to read, yet full of Chaucer's mischievous fun. In HF, Chaucer reveals the way fame was viewed by his contemporaries, plus the way he thinks they and we should see it. He gives readers much to…
When Troilus kisses only Criseyde's eyes in TC 3.1352-55, the gesture marks a departure from Boccaccio, whose lovers kiss eyes, lips, and breasts. Following thirteenth-century French literary convention, the behavior may illustrate Chaucer's attempt…
Oizumi, Akio.
Hildesheim, Zurich, and New York : Olms-Weidman, 2003.
A lemmatized concordance, arranged alphabetically, based on the text and corpus of The Riverside Chaucer. Each entry includes a headword, part of speech, references to standard dictionaries (MED, OED, and others), definitions, frequency of…
Brook suggests that Sir Paon de Ruet may have been "a cadet of the family of the Lords of Roeulx" and part of the entourage of Philippa of Hainaut. He was probably born about 1309.
Wallace, David.
Rosalynn Voaden, René Tixier, Teresa Sanchez Roura, and Jenny Rebecca Rytting, eds. The Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages (Turnhout: Brepols, 2003), pp. 179-88.
Wallace considers Eustace Deschamps's attitudes toward the English occupation of Calais and reads Deschamps's ballade 285 (which praises Chaucer) as a "spirited act of reverse or returned colonization." Identifies parallels in the careers of…
Caie, Graham D.
Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 47: 59-71, 2003
Caie argues that modern editions of medieval texts ought to be accompanied by the glosses that accompany them in the manuscripts. He discusses Chaucer's glosses to CT, as well as his use of the humility topos. The glosses to CT may be Chaucer's own,…
An edition of TC, with on-page glosses, explanatory notes at the end of the text, a glossary, and a selected bibliography. Includes a table of correspondences between TC and Boccaccio's "Filostrato," plus a chronology of Chaucer's life and writings.…
Boffey, Julia, ed.
New York and Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Texts, notes, and introductions to Lydgate's "Temple of Glass"; James I of Scotland's "The Kingis Quair"; Charles of Orleans's "Love's Renewal"; "The Assembly of Ladies"; and Skelton's "The Bouge of Court". The general introduction and the…
Amtower, Laurel, and Dorothea Kehler, eds.
Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2003.
Eleven essays by various authors on topics ranging from Anglo-Norman literature to early modern portraiture and drama. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, of this volume.
Kline, Daniel T., ed.
New York and London : Routledge, 2003.
Sixteen essays by various authors, most of them addressing individual texts as literature written for children--for example, "The Babees Book," "Sir Gowther," Aelfric's "Colloquy," and selections from the "Gesta Romanorum" and from Gower's "Confessio…
Klitgard, Ebbe.
Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 47 (2003): 101-13.
Assesses the "linguistic, communicative and narrative markers of performativity" in BD, HF, and PF, arguing that Chaucer composed them for live performance but also with an eye to repeated performance or reading.
Lynch, Kathryn L.
Richard F. Gyug, ed. Medieval Cultures in Contact. Fordham Series in Medieval Studies, no. 1 (New York: Fordham University Press, 2003), pp. 213-22.
Lynch describes how a team-taught, cross-cultural course in European and Islamic literatures discovers dimensions in the literatures, including SqT, FranT, and MLT.
Oliver, Clementine.
New Medieval Literatures 6 (2003): 167-98
Explores the identity and political career of Thomas Fovent (Favent), author of the polemical treatise on the Merciless Parliament--"Historia Mirabilis Parliament"--arguing that the treatise is best regarded as a "pamphlet," an index to the public…
Steinberg, Theodore L.
Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2003.
An introduction to the study of medieval literature, with chapters on "Beowulf," "Chrétien de Troyes, the "Lais" of Marie de France, "The Romance of the Rose," "The Tale of Genji," Jewish literature, sagas, Dante, "Pearl," "Sir Gawain and the Green…
Twenty-eight essays by various authors selected from the Seventh International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages, July 2001, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Topics range from cook books to Lollard arguments. For…
A personal travelogue of a walking trip from Canterbury to London following the Pilgrims' Way--interspersed with brief summaries of portions of CT and musings on medieval social history and folk wisdom, the United Kingdom and the United States,…
Greenwood, Maria K.
Rosalynn Voaden, René Tixier, Teresa Sanchez Roura, and Jenny Rebecca Rytting, eds. The Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages (Turnhout: Brepols, 2003), pp. 189-200.
Dryden's translation of KnT "tidies, clarifies, and modernizes" the text for its eighteenth-century readers, turning Chaucer's "subversive parodies back into the illusory heroic idealizations" of Statius and Boccaccio. Greenwood focuses on the…
Barefield, Laura D.
Laura D. Barefield. Gender and History in Medieval English Romance and Chronicle (New York: Peter Lang, 2003), pp. 37-72.
Barefield contrasts the characterizations of Constance in "Les Cronicles" and MLT, focusing on how female patronage (by Mary of Woodstock) may have encouraged the character's active role in Trevet's version.
Heng, Geraldine.
Geraldine Heng. Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003), 181-237.
Heng assesses MLT as an account of a "feminized crusade" that involves "sexual martyrdom" on the part of Custance and reveals the power of her "reproductive sexuality." The fusion of hagiography and romance in MLT is also evident in ClT, but while…
