Robertson, Kellie.
Literature Compass 5.6 (2008): 1060-80.
Surveys materialist "thing theory" as background on how objectivities and subjectivities interacted in medieval and early modern cultures. Summarizes work to date on the topic and considers how the accoutrements of the Merchant (especially his hat)…
Robertson, Kellie.
In Holly A. Crocker and D. Vance Smith, eds. Medieval Literature: Criticism and Debates (New York; Routledge, 2014), pp. 367-75.
Explores the "cultural connotation of physical matter" expressed in gendered hylomorphic metaphors (matter/form) in the Medea accounts of LGW and John Lydgate's "Troy Book," arguing that Chaucer's representation raises questions about "the human as a…
Robertson, Kellie.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.
Discusses how Aristotelian natural philosophy--physics--was debated in the Middle Ages, and its influence on the aesthetic practice of Latin and vernacular writers, including Chaucer, Jean de Meun, Guillaume de Deguileville, and John Lydgate. Argues…
Robertson, Kellie.
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, ed. Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects (Washington, DC: Oliphaunt, 2012), pp. 91-121.
Distinguishes between modern views of rocks as mere objects and medieval understanding of their "virtues," agency, and exemplary value, raising questions about objects in nature and in art. Assesses the tale of the cock and the rock in Robert…
Robertson, Kellie.
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 63-80.
Argues that labor is a controlling characteristic of GP, by first introducing background material about the importance of work and the shortage of labor in the fourteenth century. Demonstrates that "Chaucer's narrative technique in the 'General…
Redresses neglect of medieval views in recent materialism studies, arguing that "that medieval definitions of matter, both hylomorphic and humoral, constitute their own versions of 'materialism,' versions that can help us to historicize later…
Robertson, Michael.
Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 43 (2022): 55-93.
Accounts for seventeen words found in the glossaries of Speght's 1598 and 1602 editions of Chaucer's works that are labeled "unidentified" in Jürgen Schäfer's "Early Modern English Lexicography" (1989), tracing them "to manuscript variants and…
Robeson, Lisa G.
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1997): 451A.
Ancient writings, especially inscriptions in stone, impressed the medieval reader as the most reliable of records of past wisdom, even though they might be paradoxical or, eventually, disregarded. Considers "Queste del Saint Graal," HF, and…
Adaptation of NPT in Modern English pentameter verse, designed for staging by a cast of seven, with a brief introductory note for performance and stage directions. The frame-story characters are pilgrims who decide to "dramatize the Fox and…
Robins, William.
Robert Epstein and William Robins, eds. Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honour of John V. Fleming (Buffalo, N. Y.: University of Toronto Press, 2010), pp. 91112.
Reads "goter, by a pryve wente" (TC 3.787) literally--a passageway that passes a latrine--and comments on the poetic functions of Troilus's approaching Criseyde's bedroom by this means. The passage characterizes Pandarus's house as up-to-date and…
Robinson, Bonnie J., and Laura J. Getty, eds.
Dahlonega: University of North Georgia Press, 2018.
E-book designed as a classroom anthology, downloadable as a PDF, with Learning Outcomes and introductory backgrounds for each chronological period, and introductions to selected works and authors from "The Dream of the Rood" to Olaudah Equiano. The…
Robinson, Carol L.
Studies in Medievalism 5 (1993): 115-26.
Pasolini's reading of the Wife of Bath as "a rebellious heretic who is yet a sexual and clownish bully" challenges more sympathetic "readings" of the Wife rather than re-creating her Chaucerian self-presentation. The film "I racconti di Canterbury"…
Robinson, Carol L.
Literature Compass 15.6 (2018): n.p.
Questions the assumptions underlying critical commentary on the Wife of Bath's deafness, exploring potential parallels between authority and experience, literacy and orality, and hearing and deafness. Indicts the "audism" of much of the commentary,…
Robinson, Carol L., and Pamela Clements
Studies in Medievalism 18 (2009): 55-75.
Notes (on pp. 65-67) a BBC One production of six tales in CT that aims to present the Wife of Bath as "a wonderful, feisty, bawdy, independent woman who is very much alive and living in the 21st century"; a Canadian (Baba Brinkman) who has…
Robinson, Carol L., and Pamela Clements, eds., with Preface by Richard Utz
Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.
Series of essays by members of the Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organization (MEMO) related to differing interpretations of neomedievalism in various forms of media. For an essay related to Chaucer, search for Neomedievalism in the Media under…
Robinson, Duncan.
William K. Finley and Joseph Rosenblum, eds. Chaucer Illustrated: Five Hundred Years of the Canterbury Tales in Pictures (New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll; London: British Library, 2003), pp. 274-310.
The essay describes the personal and social conditions that led to the 1896 production of the Kelmscott Chaucer by William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. Robinson compares preliminary sketches and final woodcut illustrations. Adapted from Robinson's…
Describes the Kelmscott Press edition of Chaucer as the "supreme achievement" of the partnership between Morris and Burne-Jones, placing the volume in the careers of the two men, describing the process of its production, and examining a number of…
Robinson, F. N., ed.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin; London: Oxford University Press, 1957.
Edits the complete works of Chaucer from various manuscripts, with end-of-volume explanatory notes, textual notes, and glossary. A general Introduction summarizes Chaucer's life, the canon and chronology of his works, his language and meter, and the…
Study guide that includes text and facing-page prose translation of GP, with end-of-text notes and glosses, and brief characterization of each of the pilgrims. Includes a description of Chaucer's life and works and of Middle English grammar,…
Study guide that includes text and facing-page prose translation of FranT and the GP description of the Franklin, with end-of-text notes and glosses, study questions, and a description of Chaucer's language. Includes a description of Chaucer's life…
Study guide that includes text and facing-page prose translation of KnT and the GP description of the Knight, with end-of-text notes and glosses, study questions, and a description of Chaucer's language. Includes a description of Chaucer's life and…
Robinson, Ian, and Doreen M. Thomas.
Loren C. Gruber, ed. Essays on Old, Middle, Modern English and Old Icelandic in Honor of Raymond P. Tripp, Jr. (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen Press, 2000), pp. 447-66.
Examines the backgrounds and language of BD to uncover John of Gaunt's romantic entanglements and their ramifications for the poem. The article serves as an introduction to a larger forthcoming study.
