Addresses issues of disease, medical practice, faith, household remedy, and gender in fourteenth-and fifteenth-century Middle English "medical discourse," often found embedded in or juxtaposed to broader works, including narrative poetry that engages…
Salisbury, Joyce E.
New York and London : Garland, 1990.
Interdisciplinary (covering religion, medicine, history, literature, and philosophy from early Christian times through the late Middle Ages), this annotated and indexed guide to medieval sexuality and attitudes toward sex and the body contains…
In WBT, the first mention of fairies--the Wife's lament for their disappearance--is linked to and introduces the other fairy scenes. The knight's experience demonstrates that even in her first mention of fairies the Wife associates them with…
Sallfors, Solomon, and James Duban.
Leviathan 5 (2003): 73-77.
Sallfors and Duban contend that MilT "informs the dramatic setting, humor, and tension of Ishmael's response to Queequeg's 'Ramadan'" in Chapter 17 of Melville's "Moby Dick." Specifically, the characterization of John the Carpenter underlies…
Salmon, Vivian.
H. G. Ringbom, ed. Style and Text: Studies Presented to Nils Erik Enkvist (Stockholm: Skriptor, 1975), pp. 263-77.
Evaluation of the characteristics of genuine, spontaneous conversation supports the conclusion that CT provides realistic evidence of English speech in the late fourteenth century. Chaucerian conversation is affected by the need of speech to reflect…
A study of the representation of animals in late-medieval literature, focusing on how human identity is defined in relation to animals. Using examples from late-medieval hagiography and romance, Salter argues that medieval writers reflect on their…
Compares the fifteenth-century Scottish fabliau, "The Freiris of Berwik," to SumT and finds that the treatment of friars in the Scottish tale is more ironic than satirical, and is more concerned with eliciting laughter than with advancing an…
Salter, Elisabeth.
English: The Journal of the English Association 67 (2018): 163-80.
Shows how Chaucer's oeuvre offers many glimpses of readers' and listeners' encounters with the written word, but that last wills and testaments offer more direct insights into "the ways the majority of people interacted with and interpreted 'English'…
Salter, Elizabeth
London; Arnold; New York: Barnes & Noble, 1962.
Discursive, analytic commentaries on KnT and ClT, treating source relations, styles, themes, rhetorical patternings, and aesthetic success in Chaucer's "full realisation of the human predicament" in both tales. The discussion of KnT emphasizes the…
Salter, Elizabeth,and Derek Pearsall.
Flemming G. Andersen, Esther Nyholm, Marianne Powell, and Flemming Talbo Stubkjaer, eds. Medieval Iconography and Narrative: A Symposium (Odense: Odense University Press, 1980), pp. 100-23.
The study of the relationship of text to picture in medieval manuscripts is worthwhile, but seldom performed for Middle English texts, especially Chaucer, except for the "Troilus" frontispiece in Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS 61. It is…
Six essays on literary, social, and historical contexts. The two final essays analyze Chaucer's use of Boccaccio's "Teseida" to explore Chaucer's methods and poetic-philosophical development.
Salter, Elizabeth.
Mary J. Carruthers and Elizabeth D. Kirk, eds. Acts of Interpretation (Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1982), pp. 281-91.
Chaucer acknowledged his difficult role in using his "matere" --Boccaccio's "Filostrato"--and asked his reader to accept Criseyde kindly. Chaucer's transformation of the shallow Criseyde of Boccaccio into the complex woman of TC caused his "nervous…
Salter, Elizabeth.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 2 (1980): 71-79.
Chaucer's writing of BD in English is not evidence of English nationalism but is "the triumph of internationalism." He adopted "both theory and precedent for the creation of high-prestige vernacular literature" to produce in English the kind of…
Salter, Elizabeth.
John Lawlor, ed. Patterns of Love and Courtesy: Essays in Memory of C. S. Lewis (London: Edward Arnold, 1966), pp. 86-106.
Interprets the discontinuities and disunities of TC for the ways that they reveal the "growth and release" of Chaucer's creative imagination, reading them as evidence of his "dissatisfaction" with the characterization of Criseyde and the nature of…
Salter, F. M.
Transactions Royal Society of Canada 48, no. 2 (1954): 1-14.
Describes a strong strain of morality in Chaucer's writing and emphasizes his "reticence" in expressing it. Then explores tragic dimensions of WBPT, focusing on Wife's early marriages (in comparison with May's and January's in MerT), her memory of…
Salu, Mary, and Robert T. Farrell, eds.
Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 1979.
Includes Tolkien's obituary from the London "Times" (3 Sept. 1973), his "Valedictory Address" at Oxford (3 June 1959), a handlist of his writings, and fourteen essays by various authors about Tolkien, Old and Middle English literature, and Tolkien's…
Salzberg, Albert C.
Translation Review 42-43 (1993): 19-23.
Critiques Theodore Morrison's translation of GP for its inaccuracies, losses of irony, and poor poetry, supplying instances of each. The Morrison translation appears in the "Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces" and the Macmillan "Literature of…
