Identifies a series of analogues to the book-burning episode in WBP 3.816 in eastern versions of the "Seven Sages" (or "Books of Sindibad"), identifying similarities and differences between them and Chaucer's account, and suggesting that oral…
Fleming, Berry.
Sag Harbor, N.Y.: Permanent Press, 1986.
Modern novel that includes a sailing trip to the Caribbean, during which the travelers (the Doctor's Colleague, the Wife, the Diver, etc.) exchange "tales." Includes reference to Chaucer and an approximate quotation of HF 354-60.
Yamamoto, Dorothy.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Explores relationships of the human body to human identity in Middle English literature, focusing on representations of the animal world and of "wild men" as they define the margins (and hence the center) of the human. Includes discussions of…
Item not seen. Young-adult, historical novel about Edward III's ascendancy to power and marriage, presented as a tale told by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of Edward's reign.
Breeze, Andrew.
Review of English Studies, n.s., 45 (1994): 63-69.
Chaucer's harpist, Glascurion (HF 1208), is Gwydion, son of Don. Various sound changes can account for Chaucer's "hearing" of Glascurion, suggesting a lost tale about Gwydion known to Chaucer and his audience.
Kahlert, Shirley Ann.
Dissertation Abstracts International 42 (1981): 1629A.
The Breton lay evolved from Celtic tradition to generic identity with Marie de France to art form in Chaucer's WBT and FranT. Most clearly characterized by the "merveilleux," it has crossed cultural boundaries in such a way as to lose its motives…
Rumble, Thomas C., ed.
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1965.
Presents eight Breton lays in Middle English, each with bottom-of-page glosses, a facsimile manuscript page, a bibliography, and a general Introduction (pp. xiii-xxx) that describes the nature of the genre, its history, and French sources of the…
Hallam, Elizabeth, and Andrew Prescott, eds.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Photographic reproductions of records from British cultural history, arranged chronologically from the departure of the Romans to late-modern multi-culturalism. Reproduces in color (p. 31) three images that pertain to Chaucer: a page from the…
Takada complicates traditional notions of "courtly love" by adducing Continental examples of marital love and English examples of extramarital sex outside of nonfabliau settings, focusing on the two motifs of the brooch and the girdle. Argues that…
Chapter 4 is "The London of Yevele and Chaucer, 1300-1400"; gazetteer and map (182-83) "show main sites where the remains of the medieval and Tudor City of London can still be visited."
Knapp, Ethan.
University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001.
According to Knapp, the "emerging lay bureaucracy at Westminster" is closely aligned with vernacular literary production and a major factor in understanding Ricardian and Lancastrian cultures. As is evident in the career and writings of Hoccleve,…
Nelson, Marilyn.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005.
An anthology of narrative poetry that includes "The Cachoeira Tales," modeled on CT, with a number of distinct allusions to Chaucer's work, including a "General Prologue" that opens with references to April rains and several tales attributed to…
Boitani, Piero, and Jill Mann, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Contains fifteen essays designed for new readers of Chaucer. Emphasizing criticism rather than introductory studies, the contributors introduce fresh insights to encourage new readers to delve further into Chaucer's poetry. Little attention is…
Cole, Andrew, and Andrew Galloway, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Presents a collection of essays to support teaching of "Piers Plowman." For an essay that pertains to Chaucer, search for The Cambridge Companion to Piers Plowman under Alternative Title.
Grady, Franks, ed.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Includes nineteen contributions that analyze critical histories and reappraisals of specific tales and their contexts. For individual essays, search for Cambridge Companion to the Canterbury Tales under Alternative Title.
Da Rold, Orietta, and Elaine Treharne, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Thirteen essays by various writers on the Hows, Whys, and Wheres of studying medieval manuscripts, with an Introduction by the editors, A Guide to Further Reading, an index of manuscripts, and a comprehensive index. For two essays that pertain to…
Krueger, Roberta L., ed.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Fifteen essays and an introduction introduce the reader to "the voyages, transformations, and interrogations of romance as its fictions travel within and between the linguistic, geo-political, and social boundaries of Europe from 1150 to 1600." For…
Dinshaw, Carolyn, and David Wallace, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Seventeen essays by various authors on topics that pertain to women, writing, and social conditions in England and the Continent in the late Middle Ages. None of the essay pertains to Chaucer exclusively, but references to his works recur throughout,…
D'Arcens, Louise, ed.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Presents essays on the scope and complexity of the study of medievalism that explore how the Middle Ages have been adapted and interpreted. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for The Cambridge Companion to Medievalism under Alternative…
O'Neill, Michael, ed.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Fifty-three individual essays by various authors on topics ranging from Old English poetry to various movements, individual poets, and postmodern concerns. Arranged chronologically, with a cumulative bibliography and an index. For three essays that…
Minnis, Alastair, and Ian Johnson, eds.
New York: Cambridge University Press,2005.
A capacious survey of critical theory and application in medieval letters, with twenty-seven essays by various authors, arranged in seven sections: the liberal arts and Latin textuality, the study of classical authors, textual psychologies,…
Wallace, David, ed.
Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Analytic survey of the literatures produced in England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland between the Norman Conquest and the death of Henry VIII. Contributions from thirty-three authors on topics ranging from the "afterlife" of Old English to Reformation…
Hellinga, Lotte, and J. B. Trapp, eds.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Twenty-eight essays by various authors, arranged under three major headings: Technique and Trade, Collections and Ownership, and Reading and Use of Books. The last is subdivided into Books for Scholars, Professions, and The Lay Reader. References to…
Blake, N. F., ed.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Chapters by various authors treat phonology and morphology, syntax, dialectology, lexis and semantics, literary language, and onomastics. Includes an introduction by Blake, a bibliography, an index, and a glossary of linguistic terms. The chapter…
