Scattergood, John.
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006.
Reprints fifteen previously published essays by Scattergood, plus a sixteenth, original essay, "The Copying of Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts" (pp. 21-82). The latter--which discusses the habits and status of medieval scribes, early…
Scattergood, John.
Ardis Butterfield, ed. Chaucer and the City (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006), pp. 162-73.
Chaucer's begging poem reflects his anxieties about money within the complex moneyed economy of fourteenth-century London. Reprinted in Scattergood's Occasions for Writing: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Politics, and Society…
Scattergood, John.
Portland, Ore.: Four Courts Press, 2010.
Twelve essays by Scattergood, seven reprinted and five here published for the first time. Chaucer is cited in several of the reprinted essays, one of which is an extended analysis of Purse: "London and Money: Chaucer's Complaint to His Purse."
Scattergood, John.
Clíodhna Carney and Frances McCormack, eds. Chaucer's Poetry: Words, Authority and Ethics (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013), pp. 15-36.
Explores the use of the phrase "good fellow" as it is used in Martin Scorsese's film, "Goodfellas," Clanvowe's Lollard treatise, "The Two Ways," and FrT.
Offers evidence for the source for the opening of the ShT, connecting it with Gilbertus Minorita's "Dictinctiones" and its quotation of then-contemporary vernacular poetry.
Scattergood, V. J.
Chaucer Review 19 (1984): 14-23.
The protagonist of CkT has antecedents, from both society and literature, that permit one to extrapolate details the Cook might have used: trickery, age, and criticism of contemporary mores.
"Balade de bon Conseyl," or Truth, the most popular of Chaucer's short poems, is generally thought to be derived from the Bible and Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy." Out of the twenty-four copies, only in one version does the envoy to "Vache"…
Scattergood, V. J.
Chaucer Review 11 (1977): 210-31.
ShT contradicts the usual view of merchants in the fabliaux. By setting the merchant against the monk and the wife, Chaucer defies tradition and presents the merchant in a generally favorable light.
Scattergood, V. J.
V. J. Scattergood and J. W. Sherborne, eds. English Court Culture in the Later Middle Ages (London: Duckworth, 1983), pp. 29-43.
Argues that Chaucer and Gower were "hardly essential reading " at the court of Richard II, although some evidence indicates that they were being read. Such evidence includes comments on Sted, TC, LGW, Scog, and works by Gower.
Scattergood, V. J.
Essays in Criticism 24 (1974): 124-46.
Shows how concern with lack of "self-control in speech" unifies ManP and ManT, especially in its traditional association with anger, one of the "sins of the tongue." The theme also occurs in SumT and MerT, but it is presented with greater "subtlety"…
Scattergood, V. J., and J. W. Sherborne, eds.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983.
Ten essays on court culture in Chaucer's England. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for English Court Culture in the Later Middle Ages under Alternative Title.
Fictional autobiography of Chaucer in which he recounts the arrival of a thirty-first Canterbury pilgrim, a woman who narrates how she has been impregnated by an extraterrestrial being. Illustrated by Giselda Leirner. In Portuguese.
Responds to critiques of two books previously published by the author--"Some Types of Narrative in Chaucer's Poetry" (1954) and "The Golden Mirror: Studies on Chaucer's Descriptive Technique and Its Literary Background" (1955)--seeking to clarify…
Schaar, Claes.
Lund: Gleerup, 1955. Rpt. 1967, with an Index.
Introduces the conventions of "impersonal" style based in classical rhetoric and developed in medieval rhetorical handbooks Then anatomizes the characteristics of Chaucer's descriptive techniques in relation to his "predecessors and contemporaries,"…
Categorizes ways in which Chaucer describes "sequences of events" or actions in his poetry, identifying types that include "summary," "contrasting summary," "close chronological narrative," and "loose chronological narrative." Describes the…
Schaber, Bennet Jay.
Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1989): 3359A.
Through the application of Lacanian psychoanalysis, Schaber examines HF, BD, PrT, and PardT to determine the repressed objects, erotic and political, manifested as the body and understood as fantasmatic.
Schaber, Bennet.
Warren Ginsberg, ed. Ideas of Order in the Middle Ages. Acta, no. 15 (Binghamton: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1988), pp. 23-43.
Examines Chaucer's correlation of translation and love in TC, yoking aesthetics and ethics and exploring the embedded ideas of order and gender; considers the sexuality evident in discussions of translation by Boethius, Alain de Lille, and Dante; and…
Schaefer, Ursula, ed.
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2006.
Nine essays by various authors with an introduction and epilogue that discuss literary and linguistic aspects of early standardization in English. For five essays that consider Chaucer specifically, search for Beginnings of Standardization under…
Medieval courtly literature must be seen as a reflection of the chivalric ideal. The chivalric ideal in England was less integrated than on the Continent because it was the ideal of an alien Norman aristocracy. Native English landowners were…
Schaefer, Ursula.
Andrew James Johnston, Ferdinand von Mengden, and Stefan Thim, eds. Language and Text: Current Perspectives on English and Germanic Historical Linguistics and Philology (Heidelberg: Winter, 2006), pp. 269-90.
Schaefer considers the process of vernacularization in late medieval English in comparison with other European languages, suggesting that quotations from the period about English are commonplaces rather than reflections of contemporary attitudes and…
Schaefer, Ursula.
Svenja Kranich, Victor Becher, Steffen Höder, and Juliane House, eds. Multilingual Discourse Production: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives (Philadelphia: Benjamins, 2011), pp. 45-69.
Argues that Chaucer's coinage "blisfulnesse" (also "welefulnesse") in Bo is a calque on the Latin models of "beatitude" and "felicitas," reflecting the poet's sensitivity to complicated conditions of discourse.
Schaefer, Ursula.
Anna Kathrin Bleuler and Manfred Kern, eds. Poesie des Widerstreits: Etablierung und Polemik in den Literaturen des Mittelalters (Heidelberg: Winter, 2020), pp. 271-98.
Shows not only that Th is a send-up of the tail-rhyme romance and its conventions, but that the poem's metadiscursive horizon of expectation, established by means of the characterization of Chaucer the Pilgrim, resonates in the tale and reveals…
