Landy, Joshua.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012
Applies understanding of literary texts, including Chaucer's CT, to ideas of everyday life. Chapter 1, "Chaucer: Ambiguity and Ethics," addresses the benefits of using NPT, in particular, to teach ethics and issues of morality.
Jackson, Gabriel, composer.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this vocal score for unaccompanied mixed voices is printed with the text of the Antiphon to the Virgin Mary, "Salve Regina," in Latin by Herman Contractus (attributed), "interspersed with English words by…
Crystal, David.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Examines the heritage of English from locations throughout Britain. Chapter 20, "Talbot Yard, London SE1: Chaucer and Middle English," comments on Chaucer's influence on the English language.
Rigby, Stephen H., ed., with the assistance of Alastair J. Minnis.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Interdisciplinary collection of essays by medieval historians showcasing how application of social, economic, political, religious, and historical frameworks illuminates interpretation of CT. Surveys current debates over social meaning of Chaucer's…
Havely, Nick.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Assesses the general or "public" familiarity with Dante and his works in British culture, acknowledging his impact on poets such as Chaucer, Milton, and T. S. Eliot, but exploring instead a more pervasive presence. Includes references to Chaucer's…
Ginsberg, Warren.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015
With special consideration of Ovid, Dante, and Boccaccio as models (not sources), explores the relationship between Chaucer's predecessors and CT while conducting in-depth investigation into Chaucer's reworking of the original texts both through the…
Gray, Douglas.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Examines how the "lost culture" of oral literary and folk and popular traditions of the Middle Ages influenced medieval writers. Mentions Chaucer's understanding of proverbs and oral and folk culture in ClT, WBT, MLT, FranT, and TC.
Treharne, Elaine,
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Surveys the emergence of earliest literature in Britain and Ireland, including well-known texts, such as "Beowulf" and CT, and less familiar manuscript and print works. Includes discussion of CT, LGW, and TC.
Wallace, David, ed.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Surveys the literatures of late medieval Europe (eastern, western, and peripheral) from the onset of the Black Death to the end of the Great Schism at the Council of Constance, describing historical events, cultural conditions, ideological…
Cannon, Christopher.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Examines the textbook practices of the medieval primary schools--the "grammar schools" or "grammatica"--as underlying the transition from Latin to English as the primary language of "literary" composition in England during the fourteenth century.…
Copeland, Rita, ed.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Includes twenty-eight sections by various authors (four by Copeland) who address the impact of the classics on medieval and early modern English culture: education, mythology, historiography, moral philosophy, humanism, translations, individual…
Lerer, Seth.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Investigates the role of "tradition in the literary imagination" and the value of literature, particularly the "value of close and nuanced reading for our understanding of both past and present." Includes discussion of George Orwell's engagement with…
Davis, Rebecca.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Presents Chaucer's and Langland's representations of the natural world, reading "Langland's treatment of nature alongside Chaucer's as an expression of a continuous though diverse tradition of humanism." Chapter 1 focuses on nature in PF.
Bildhauer, Bettina, and Chris Jones, eds.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Collection of essays that address medieval and medievalism themes and how they continue to impact contemporary perspectives. The introduction includes a history of medievalism from the fourteenth to the twenty-first centuries, and remarks how…
Wallace, David.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Focuses on Chaucer's "global renaissance" and the importance of Chaucer's range of writing, which combines poetry, science, tragedy, and astrology to influence writers from Shakespeare to Sylvia Plath.
Lawton, David.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Approaches late medieval vernacular culture in terms of "voice," and suggests that "voice" is the subject of CT. Argues that Chaucer "frames" his work "between the praise of voice and the censure of it prevalent in pastoral rhetoric and represented…
Wilson, Edward, ed., completed with an introduction by Daniel Wakelin.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edits the Middle English verse translation (906 lines) of the Prologue and Book I of Francis Petrarch's Latin prose dialogue "Secretum de contemptu mundi," with a comprehensive introduction, explanatory notes, and glossary. The introduction and notes…
Winstead, Karen.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Examines life-writing in the European Middle Ages, with commentary on late antique prototypes and focus on England, ranging widely in languages and forms: Latin and vernacular, history and fiction, poetry and prose, biography and autobiography,…
Wallace, David.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Sketches out timeline and details of Chaucer's life and his works in a compelling, accessible narrative. The incorporation of Chaucer's own texts throughout the chapters is especially useful.
Seal, Samantha Katz.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Examines the role of paternal authority and the figure of the father and their use and depiction in CT. Interrogates the construction of "Father Chaucer" to show how widespread this motif of paternal authority is in discussions of Chaucer and his…
Bowers, John M.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Reconstructs Tolkien's efforts to co-edit (with George S. Gordon) a Clarendon student edition to have been titled "Selections from Chaucer's Poetry and Prose"--never finished and long lost. Observes how Tolkien's extant notes and glossary to this…
Bale, Anthony, and Sebastian Sobecki, eds.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Gathers secular and religious travel narratives of England
and France. The volume is divided into three sections: critical essays; twenty-six texts, or excerpts, from narratives, including SqT; and supporting bibliographies.
Sobecki, Sebastain.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Claims that "medieval vernacular literature . . . is indexical . . . and created for a specific audience with direct access to the author" as well as the author's social and historical conditions. Focuses on Chaucer's "authorial humility" and…
Akbari, Suzanne Conklin, and James Simpson, eds.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Offers a comprehensive, "stereoscopic," and wide-ranging view of Chaucer's culture and connections in a collection of essays focusing on current work in Middle English studies. For twenty-nine individual essays by various authors, search for Oxford…
