Parry, Joseph D.
Philological Quarterly 80.2 : 133-67, 2001.
Because Alisoun in MilT and May in MerT are exempted from retribution for their active roles in adultery and deception, readers are invited to ask how women are or are not fully part of the systems by which we conceptualize accountability for…
Parry, Joseph Douglas.
Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1995): 945A.
Among the narrative techniques employed to achieve authorial purposes, Chaucer's characterization of Dorigen in FranT shows her postponing her ultimately necessary conformity with male ideologies by contemplating authoritative tales based on those…
Parsigian, Elise K.
Rackham Literary Studies 6 (1975): 51-54.
Though the Pardoner is consummately evil, the Host must be reconciled with him because the former is still a representative of the church. The Host's outburst, though justified, is destructive because to the company the Pardoner is an embodiment of…
Chaucer draws upon the festive tradition of mock saints early in TC to poke fun at "the pretensions of 'fin amor'"; as the poem progresses, the inversions of carnival come to represent "a necessary part of being a lover." By the time Troilus laughs…
Parsons-Powell, Michelle E.
Ph.D. dissertation (Purdue University, 2022), Dissertation Abstracts International A85.01(E). Freely accessible at https://hammer.purdue.edu/articles/thesis/Unwiht_Shifting_Boundaries_of_Humnity_in_Early_Middle_English_Language_and_Literature/20399121 (accessed February 1, 2025).
Investigates the concept and diction of the "non-human person" in a range of early English texts from "Beowulf" to CT, tabulating and assessing the usage of various locutions for humans and near-humans. Includes attention to elves, fairies, giants,…
Parsons, Ben.
Jongenelen, Bas.
Fabula: Zeitschrift für Erzählforschung/Journal of Folktale Studies/Revue d'études sur le conte populaire 64 (2023): 282-97.
Explains how MilT has overdetermined scholarship concerning the folk motif of the misdirected kiss, limiting understanding of the range of the motif. Expands this range, and enlarges the number and variety f analogues to Chaucer's use of the motif.…
Parsons, Ben.
Modern Language Review 103 (2008): 940-51.
Not just a continuation of CT, the "Tale of Beryn" engages Chaucer's work critically. Assigned, in the anonymous Interlude, to the Merchant on the return journey, "Beryn" challenges the Clerk's notion of male adolescence as a stage of pre-identity…
Parsons, Ben.
Tatjana Silec, ed. Voix (et Voies) du Désordre au Moyen Âge. Volume Issu du Colloque du Centre d'Études Médiévales Anglaises de Paris-Sorbonne (22-23 Mars 2012). AMAES, no. 34. (Paris: Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 2013), pp. 81-108.
Focuses on the popularity of the Pardoner's character and on the connection between Chaucer and the "Beryn"-poet.
Parsons, Ben.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 37 (2015): 163–94.
Identifies relations between domestic and pedagogical violence in WBP, establishing that its vocabulary is "redolent of the classroom" and arguing that Jankyn's treatment of Alison grants her agency, albeit unintentionally. Describes the motivations…
Parsons, Ben.
Notes and Queries 260 (2015): 525-29.
Although the phrase "Colle oure dogge" (NPT 7.338) has been cited as support for the notion that "collie" derives from a medieval pet name, a review of attestations of "colle" provides no evidence that dogs given that name tended to be members of the…
Parsons, Ben.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 119 (2020): 380-98.
Reveals how the common, generally lower-class forenames in the "Visio Anglie" portion of Gower's "Vox clamantis" reinforce the "degraded, bestial character" that Gower attributes to the rioters of 1381. Because the names could apply to animals or to…
Seeks to "ascertain why the diction of poetry from Chaucer to Milton has a distinct character, and one unlikely to be revived." Chapter 2, "Chaucer and His Successors" (pp. 28-38), assesses Chaucer as "the first English poet with a style recognizably…
Partridge, Stephen Bradford.
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1992): 1529A.
A comprehensive study of CT glosses (except Mel and MkT), indicating that Chaucer himself provided many of them; summary of previous scholarship and descriptions of the glosses.
Partridge, Stephen, and Erik Kwakkel, eds.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.
Collection of essays related to medieval concepts of authorship, focusing on a variety of vernaculars, languages, and literatures, and the "relationship of authorship to readership." For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Author, Reader,…
Partridge, Stephen.
English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700 03 (1992): 29-37.
Compares the vocabulary and style of Equat, Astr, and other contemporary scientific treatises, concluding that variations between Equat and Astr cast doubt on Chaucer's authorship of the former.
Partridge, Stephen.
Norman Blake and Peter Robinson, eds. The 'Canterbury Tales' Project Occasional Papers, Volume I (Oxford: Office for Humanities Communication Publications, 1993), pp. 85-94.
Critiques the inaccuracies, inconsistencies, and inconclusiveness of the Manly-Rickert description (Chicago, 1940) of the glosses in manuscripts of CT. Compares glossarial manuscript groups to the textual groups identified by Manly and Rickert,…
Partridge, Stephen.
English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, 6 (1996): 229-36.
Handwriting, materials, decoration, and language indicate that the scribe of Oxford New College MS 314 also copied Bodleian Library MS Dugdale 45 (Hoccleve's "Regement of Princess"). Though not first-rate, MS 314 was executed by a paid scribe.
Partridge, Stephen.
Daniel Pinti, ed. Writing After Chaucer: Essential Reading in Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century (London and New York: Garland, 1998), pp. 2-26.
Focusing on manuscripts of Chaucer's works, Partridge assesses the habits of scribes and book owners in the fifteenth century, showing how variants among texts alter meaning and how fifteenth-century readers, aware of such variants, made…
Partridge, Stephen.
A. S. G. Edwards, Vincent Gillespie, and Ralph Hanna, eds. The English Medieval Book: Studies in Memory of Jeremy Griffiths (London: British Library, 2000), pp. 51-87.
Summarizes the manuscript information pertinent to The Cook's Tale and The Squire's Tale, focusing on scribal confrontations with their fragmentary state, including continuations and, especially, gaps and notes. Evidence suggests that the notes and…
