Pérez-Fernández, Tamara.
Karen Pratt, Bart Besamusca, Matthias Meyer, and Ad Putter, eds. The Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript (Göttingen: V&R Academic, 2017), pp. 242-56.
Summarizes and extends recent scholarship on Guildhall scribe Richard Osbarn, and assesses his work, focusing on two TC manuscripts to which he contributed: San Marino, Huntington Library, MS HM 114, and London, British Library, MS Harley 3943.…
The Clerk and T. S. Eliot's title character in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" share intellectual interests. In addition, both are "caught" between the external and the internal, both are reluctant to speak, and both speak allusively.
Perfetti, Lisa Renée.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003.
Explores literary representations of women's laughter from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries and examines the contexts that shaped how women told jokes. The Wife of Bath's use of play coincides with Chaucer's own, dramatizing antifeminism as…
Perfetti, Lisa.
Peter Dickinson, Anne Higgins, Paul St. Pierre, Diana Solomon, and Sean Zwagerman, eds. Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice (Lanham: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013), pp. 41-53.
Asks to what extent CT and Boccaccio's "Decameron" advocate "women's equality," exploring female laughter in these works, and focusing on Boccaccio's Pampinea and on the Wife of Bath as a "comic performer who has an intent to play."
Pericard-Mea, Denise.
Juliette Dor and Marie-Élisabeth Henneau, eds. Femmes et pèlerinages / Women and Pilgrimages ([Santiago de Compostela]: Compostela Group of Universities, 2007), pp. 25-46.
Discusses female presence and company on pilgrimage routes, examining women's destinations and motivations compared to those of men.
Perkins, Nicholas, and Alison Wiggins.
Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2012.
Examines the use of desire in stories of romances in Dante, Chaucer, and Malory. Traces development of the medieval romance genre in later periods, including novels of J. R. R. Tolkien and J. K. Rowling, and films, such as "Star Wars" and "Monty…
Perkins, Nicholas.
Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y. : D. S. Brewer, 2001.
Perkins examines the narrative strategies Hoccleve adopts--advisor, servant, court outsider, autobiographer, moralist, petitioner--as responses to the politically charged context of "Lancastrian poetry." This study identifies the political context in…
A heretofore unrecognized reference to KnT in the "Index Britanniæ Scriptorum," compiled by sixteenth-century antiquarian John Bale, provides evidence of a lost manuscript containing Hoccleve's "Regiment of Princes" plus at least Chaucer's KnT and…
Hoccleve's authorial identity develops through "borrowings and echoes" derived from TC: "Boethian dialogue; diseased language; and gendered subjects." These allusions work as conjurings--understood as both invocation and exorcism--of the "spectral…
Perkins, Nicholas.
Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker, with the assistance of William Green, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 68-89.
Explores how the affiliation of bureaucracy and writing developed in England, plus the impact of the association on notions of authority. Mentions several petitions and warrants pertaining to Chaucer and comments on Purse and Pity as petitions.
Perkins, Nicholas.
Susan Scollay, ed. Love and Devotion from Persia and Beyond (South Varra, Victoria: Macmillan Art Publishing, 2012), pp. 151-56; 3 b&w figs.
Comments on the importance of love as a topic in Chaucer's works, with particular attention to TC, SqT, and PF.
Perkins, Nicholas.
Review of English Studies 69, no. 288 (2018): 13–31.
Explores the reception and impact of Thomas Hoccleve in the sixteenth century, including the linking of him with Chaucer and proto-Protestant reform. Includes comments on paratextual materials in Speght's 1598 "Works of Chaucer" that pose the poet…
Perkins, Nicholas.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021.
Engages several literary and anthropological theories of gifts, and addresses related motifs of reciprocity, generosity, promising, and exchange in medieval English texts, especially romances. Individual chapters assess "King Horn"/"Horn Childe"…
Perry, Judy.
Foundations: Newsletter of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy 1.2-3 (2003-2004): 122-31 and 164-74.
Perry documents the complex relationships among the Roets, Swynfords, Lancastrians, and Chaucer's family, rejecting speculation that Thomas Chaucer was the illegitimate son of John of Gaunt and commenting on the dowering of Elizabeth Chaucer at…
Perry, R. D.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 38 (2016): 299-308.
Argues that the scribe John Shirley cultivates a "virtual coterie" in the series of headnotes that he attaches to his copying of five French poems that he attributes (or misattributes) to William de la Pole, the earl of Suffolk. Shirley emulates John…
Looks at Lydgate's Parisian poems with a focus on "Pilgrimage of the Life of Man." Aims to define and construct "virtual coteries" and identify connections between Lydgate's coteries and the poetry of Gower and Chaucer. Refers to Mel, ABC, Purse, and…
Argues that Chaucer uses philosophical language in describing the fart joke of SumT in order to burlesque the "logical thinking" of scholastic thinkers, particularly the Merton Calculators, showing how literature can "more effectively" work out…
Perry, R. D.
Jennifer Nuttall and David Watt, ed. Thomas Hoccleve: New Approaches (Cambridge: Brewer, 2022.), pp. 65-84.
Assesses the "formal organising principle" of Hoccleve's "Series" in light of that of CT (and LGW). Argues that CT is "not just incomplete, but incompleteable" (citing the additivity entailed in CYP), explaining it as Chaucer's response to the…
Perry, R. D., and Mary-Jo Arn, eds.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2020. .
Collects ten essays by various authors and an introduction by Perry, together showing that, in his "Fortunes Stabilnes," Charles d'Orléans was "one of the great formal innovators of English poetry," examining the genres he engaged, his metrical…
Item not seen. WorldCat record notes that "This edition is based on the second edition of The complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer, edited by
the Rev. Walter W. Skeat, 1900 (Oxford)," with a "new introduction."
Describes the cultural landscape that underlies John's exhortation to Nicholas in MilT to "Awak, and thenk on Cristes passioun!" (1.3478 ff.), showing that John's extended and naïve address resonates with the "affective piety" encouraged in the…
Perry, Sigrid Pohl.
Dissertation Abstracts International 42 (1981): 2125A.
In Chaucer, as in patristic writings, true marriage proceeds from physical to psychological to spiritual union, even emblematizing the relationship of God to church or soul. Analysis of marriage in CT further reveals sexual politics.
