Riehle, Wolfgang.
Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 10 (1985): 11-20.
Without arguing that Chaucer was a "source" for Mann, Riehle discusses stylistic and thematic parallels between HF and the Joseph novels. The epic humor of both Chaucer and Mann "reflects their deep sympathy with human life."
Riehle, Wolfgang.
Herbert Foltinek et al., eds. Tales and "Their Telling Difference": Zur Theorie und Geschichte der Narrativik, Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Franz K. Stanzel (Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag, 1993), pp. 133-47.
Two tales in CT define Chaucer's role as an "implied author" and reflect his double vocation as a poet and diplomat. Th is a "brilliant example of his mastery as a poet"; Mel expresses his "ideological premises," anticipating the closing of the…
Riehle, Wolfgang.
Beyer, Manfred, ed. Zum Begriff der Imagination in Dichtung und Dichtungstheorie: Festschrift für Rainer Lengeler zum 65. Geburtstag (Trier: WVT, 1998), pp. 186-205.
Explores political and ideological similarities between PhyT and Livy's version of the story, and traces these similarities in later English and German versions, especially the Tudor interlude "Apius and Virginia" and G. E. Lessing's bourgeois…
Riehle, Wolfgang.
Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowoht, 1994.
An introductory biography of Chaucer and chronological commentary on all of his major works in light of social and personal history. Includes a time line, brief selections from critical traditions, a bibliography, an index, and illustrations largely…
Rigby, S. H.
Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1996.
Surveys the polarities in critical assessments of CT, focusing on four oppositions: realism vs. stereotypicality, monologic vs. dialogic approaches, allegorical vs. humanist (ironic) approaches, and misogyny vs. feminism. Assesses the opposed…
Using ironic techniques deplored by Christine, Chaucer is often misunderstood by modern audiences. Rigby contrasts Christine's "comprehensive defence of women" with Chaucer's satire in WBP, where Alisoun is the target.
Rigby, S. H.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 35 (2013): 329-71.
Surveys classical and medieval notions of courage ("fortitude") with particular attention to Giles of Rome and chroniclers of the Battle of Agincourt, and recurrent comments on Chaucer's Knight, Squire, and Troilus. Describes the criteria and nuances…
Rigby, Stephen H.
Stephen H. Rigby, ed. A Companion to Britain in the Later Middle Ages (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003), pp. 497-520.
Rigby explores how a variety of Middle English texts reflect and reinforce the normative ideologies of class and gender in late medieval England. Contempt for the world helped to assert social hierarchies, justify inequalities, and quell tensions.…
Rigby reads KnT as a mirror for princes, comparing it with Giles of Rome's "De regimine principum" and finding Theseus of KnT to be an ideal ruler by this standard. Theseus's personal ethics, his treatment of his household, his political and military…
Rigby, Stephen H.
Matthew Davies and Andrew Prescott, eds. London and the Kingdom: Essays in Honour of Caroline M. Barron. Proceedings of the 2004 Harlaxton Symposium. Harlaxton Medieval Studies, no. 16 (Donington, England: Shaun Tyas, 2008), pp. 316-34.
Orthodox notions of royal prudence and magnificence underlie the idealized figure of Theseus in KnT. Theseus embodies the traits that Richard II was accused of lacking.
Examines Giles of Rome's social theory and its vision of unity and hierarchy, as well as the degree to which it might have been influential in Chaucer's time, commenting on the Wife of Bath's discussion of "gentilesse." Also refers to LGW; HF; KnT;…
Rigby, Stephen H.
Stephen H. Rigby, ed., with the assistance of Alastair J. Minnis. Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 1-23.
Introduces a collection of essays and emphasizes how different social, historical, and ethical "interpretative frameworks" can deepen an understanding of Chaucer's pilgrims in GP.
Rigby, Stephen H.
Stephen H. Rigby, ed., with the assistance of Alastair J. Minnis. Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 42-62.
Presents a historical perspective on crusading in the Middle Ages and provides historical details about the Knight's battle locations in GP.
Rigby, Stephen H.
Stephen H. Rigby, ed., with the assistance of Alastair J. Minnis. Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 368-85.
Offers a history of late-medieval English milling and the social and economic effects of the Black Death in an analysis of Chaucer's Miller. Claims that MilT is both a "comical fabliau" and "an Augustinian moral performance."
Rigby, Stephen H., ed., with Siân Echard
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2019.
Consists of fourteen essays and a calendar of life records by various authors, clarifying Gower's life and works in relation to the "intellectual culture of the social, religious, and political controversies of his day." No single essay focuses on…
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…
Rigg, A. G.
A. J. Minnis, Charlotte C. Morse, and Thorlac Turville-Petre, eds. Essays on Ricardian Literature: In Honour of J. A. Burrow (Oxford: Clarenden, 1997), pp. 121-41.
Explores how English displaced Latin as a literary language in the court of Richard II and assesses meter, Anglicization, and historical topics as common features of Anglo-Latin verse by Gower and Thomas Barry.
Two Anglo-Latin "celibacy poems" use "quoniam" to mean the same thing that it means in WBP, prompting the question, might a "joke have been circulating among thirteenth and fourteenth century clerics, that every "quare" has its 'quoniam'?"
Rigg, A. G.,and Charlotte Brewer, eds.
Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1983.
The editors claim "Z" (a proto-A), found only in the defective MS Bodley 851, to be the earliest version of "Piers Plowman." Introduction examines textual, linguistic, and codicological evidence; edition compares "Z" with "A."
Rijser, David.
NRC Handelsbad Book Supplement, February 7, 2020, pp. 4-5.
Traces the known facts about Chaucer's life and career, thereby showing him to be a man of wide-ranging interests, immersed in the opening world of the early European Renaissance. Claims that Chaucer is a cosmopolite, far removed from the narrow,…
Riley, Martin
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Rev. ed.
An adaptation for the stage of selections from CT, designed for juvenile actors. Includes versions of PardT, NPT, WBT, KnT, and MilT, framed by a prologue and interludes that feature the antics of four "alchemists." The volume includes instructions…
Ripplinger, Michelle.
Jennifer Nuttall and David Watt, ed. Thomas Hoccleve: New Approaches (Cambridge: Brewer, 2022.), pp. 105-23.
Explores Hoccleve's uses of and attitudes toward Christine de Pizan and Chaucer, focusing on Ovidian notions of female readership and how in his"Series" Hoccleve positions Pizan to "speak back to Chaucer" and "asks us to reflect on the Chaucerian…
