Saito, Mother Masako, R.S.C.J.
Dissertation Abstracts International 25.03 (1964): A1897.
Explores the archetypal imagery of bondage and liberation from bondage in five "clusters" in CT: chivalric prison, animal confinement, "juridical bondage with its emphasis on 'wit,' entrapment, and hell and purgatory.
Saito, Shun'ichi.
Bulletin of the Daito Bunka University: The Humanities 22 (1984): 119-28.
Discusses parallels between the Birds' Parliament and the Good Parliament in 1376. In PF, Chaucer probably parodied the obstreperous Commons that played an active part in this historic parliament.
Feminist analysis of FranT. Though the theme of the tale is "gentilesse," none of the three men is gentle, and Dorigen suffers from the egoistic behaviors of Arveragus and Aurelius. Dorigen is not a wise wife but an ordinary woman.
Discusses the meaning of "woe that is in marriage" and the antifeminist attitude of the Clerk in ClT, juxtaposed to the Wife of Bath, and shows that the Clerk preaches skillfully about the abnormal relationship between man and wife.
Saito, Tomoko.
Hiroe Futamura, Kenichi Akishino, and Hisato Ebi, eds. A Pilgrimage Through Medieval Literature (Tokyo: Nan' Un-Do Press, 1993), pp. 355-69.
Examines Criseyde in light of medieval social and religious ideals of femininity.
Sakai, Satoshi.
Journal of Tokyo Kasei Gajuin College (May 1980).
Chaucer's strenuous effort to protect Criseyde from harsh criticism against her is an indication that he is a man with interests in humanity in the dawn of the Renaissance rather than a medieval writer.
Salas Chacón, Alvaro.
Káñina (Costa Rica) 17.2 (1993): 105-9.
Surveys Chaucer's Marian allusions and critical commentary on them. Suggests that Chaucer wrote his Marian poetry (ABC, PrT, SNT, and allusions elsewhere) for political and aesthetic reasons, not out of religious devotion.
Salda, Michael Norman.
Chaucer Review 27 (1992): 111-25.
The inspiration for the text of the painted chamber with its "text and gloss" in BD was St. Stephen's chapel with its lavishly painted walls. Previous efforts to correlate Chaucer's text with particular illuminated manuscripts have been futile.
Salemi, Joseph S.
Chaucer Review 15 (1981): 209-23.
Although the frame of TC is Boethian determinism, within it works the playful hand of Fortune (and the word "play" occurs frequently, with a variety of senses). The three major personages represent different attitudes toward freedom of choice and…
Salih, Sarah, ed.
Rochester, N.Y.; and Woodbridge, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 2006.
Seven essays by various authors and an introduction by the editor. The book discusses late medieval English saints from a number of perspectives (readership, shrines and festivals, gender, historiography), with recurrent references to Chaucer,…
Explores the role of virginity in notions of late-medieval bodies, genders, identities and social practices. The study, focusing on female religious versions of virginity, is structured around decreasing degrees of enclosure, examining hagiographic…
Salisbury, Eve, Georgiana Donavin, and Merrall Llewelyn Price, eds.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002.
Thirteen essays by various authors discuss the portrayal of domestic violence in medieval literary, iconographic, legal, religious, and dramatic texts, focusing on how the texts reflect the family as a microcosm of society. For essays that pertain to…
Salisbury, Eve.
Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 3950A.
Despite the apparent variablility of the genre in English, six Breton lays demonstrate distinctive characteristics, influenced by the turbulent fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England that produced them. Though they deal with difficult issues of…
Salisbury, Eve.
Eve Salisbury, Georgiana Donavin, and Merrall Llewelyn Price, eds. Domestic Violence in Medieval Texts (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002), pp. 73-93.
"Daungerous," the term Alisoun uses to describe Jankyn's love, reflects an ambiguous relation between courtly love and marriage; canon and civil law clarify the nature of physical and psychological violence in WBP and FranT.
Considers the acceptance of "spousal homicide" in ManT and the "perfunctory dismissal" of the Tale in ParsP, arguing that the shift from legal to penitential concerns eludes indictment for the murder.
Salisbury, Eve.
Jacek Fisiak and Hye-Kyung Kang, eds. Recent Trends in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Young-Bae Park (Seoul, South Korea: Thaehaksa, 2005), vol. 1, pp. 347-75.
Assesses how WBT, FranT, and other Breton lays in Middle English "underwrite and reinforce the laws of the land"--laws that allowed for domestic violence and left ambiguous the relations between rape and marriage.
Salisbury, Eve.
Andreea D. Boboc, ed. Theorizing Legal Personhood in Late Medieval England (Leiden: Koninklijke Brill, 2015), pp. 50-70.
Discusses Chaucer's familiarity with the law evidenced in Chaucer's "Life Records" and his poetry. Suggests that Chaucer "exploits the confusion of legal terms defining abduction and rape" because of his "unprecedented legal personhood" with regard…
Salisbury, Eve.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Seeks to complicate--even replace--the figure of Father Chaucer with Child Chaucer, examining children in Chaucer's works, along with figures of childishness, playfulness, and childlikeness, exploring the poet's uses of and resistance to traditional…
