Browse Items (16472 total)

Keen, Maurice.   Matthew Strickland, ed. Armies, Chivalry and Warfare in Medieval Britain and France: Proceedings of the 1995 Harlaxton Symposium. Harlaxton Medieval Studies, no. 7 (tamford, Lincolnshire: Watkins, 1998), pp. 1-12.
Keen surveys a range of late medieval attitudes toward chivalry, knighthood, and warfare, especially a "streak of puritanism" that criticized the vainglory of chivalry. He considers a range of texts, including Chaucer's ParsT and the GP description…

Connolly, Margaret.   Chaucer Review 29 (1994): 40-44.
The references to chess in BD are confused because Chaucer seems not to have had any firsthand knowledge of the game, his source being not a proper handbook but the "Roman de la Rose." Applying the chess metaphor from Jean de Meun to a dissimilar…

Brewer, D. S., ed.   University: University of Alabama Press; London: Nelson, 1966.
Nine essays by various authors accompanied by a cultural timeline and a comprehensive index. For the individual essays, search for Chaucer and Chaucerians under Alternative Title.

Myles, Robert.   Robert Myles and David Williams, eds. Chaucer and Language: Essays in Honour of Douglas Wurtele (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001), pp. 3-10.
Survey's Wurtele's studies of Chaucer, clarifying the critic's consistent concern with characterization and how it relates to critical trends.

Hussey, Stanley S.   Wolf-Dietrich Bald and Horst Weinstock, eds. Medieval Studies Conference Aachan 1983 (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1984), pp. 121-30.
Examines CT characters for individuality not conditioned by the story in FranT, MilT, TC, GP's Host and Merchant, MerP, MerT, and RvT.

Grennen, Joseph E.   Viator 15 (1984): 237-62.
Although Chaucer typically "covered his tracks," a major source of HF is Plato's "Timaeus" in the translation and commentary of Chalcidius.

Hazelton, Richard.   Speculum 35 (1960): 357-80.
Explores the range and depth of Chaucer's familiarity with the "Liber Catonis," its commentaries and glosses, and the likelihood that he memorized portions as a schoolboy. Identifies verbal echoes of "Catoniana" in Chaucer's works; then focuses on…

Shikii, Kumiko.   Shirayuri Joshi Daigaku Eibungakka (Tokyo) 10 (1981): 26-31.
Chaucer's optimism, humor, and satire as well can be properly appreciated only in the light of his Catholic view of life. Some typical mistakes in translation are also made from lack of enough knowledge of Catholicism: the doctrines, liturgies,…

Stouck, Mary-Ann.   American Benedictine Review 33 (1982): 276-91.
The innovative material in the first three books of Capgrave's "Life" is indebted to the fifteenth century's interest in Chaucer's "elevated" and pious passages, especially those in TC. Stylistically, however, Capgrave's attempt to emulate his…

Gardner, Averil.   University of Cape Town Studies in English 2 (1971): 31-38.
Item not seen; cited in MLA International Bibliography.

Dronke, Peter.   Notes and Queries 211 (1966): 92.
Describes a "flicker of humour" in Chaucer's allusion to Boethius in NPT (7.3294-95), indicating that the poet disagrees with his authority on the point of musical sensitivity.

Godman, Peter.   Piero Boitani, ed. Chaucer and the Italian Trecento (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 269-95.
Discusses the sources of LGW in Boccaccio's "De cassibus virorum illustrim," "De mulieribus claris," and "Genealogia deorum gentillium."

Wallace, David.   Piero Boitani, ed. Chaucer and the Italian Trecento (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 141-62.
Boccaccio's "Amorosa Visione" and the Chaucer's BD and HF were deeply indebted to de Lorris, Machaut, and Dante, but Boccaccio was never comfortable with "court poems," while Chaucer used "cortesia" with subtlety and ease.

Edwards, Robert R.   Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; and New York : Palgrave, 2002.
Boccaccio provided Chaucer with a means for understanding and configuring antiquity and modernity. Chapter 1 focuses on kinds of love, tensions in Theseus's rule, and the subjugation of women in KnT. Chapter 2 explores how chroniclers, Boccaccio, and…

Boitani, Piero.   Oxford: Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature, 1977.
An extended examination of Boccaccio's "Teseida," Chaucer's KnT, and their relations. After describing "Teseida" and its debts to Dante and the classics, Boitani surveys Chaucer's uses of the work in Anel, PF, TC, and, more extensively, KnT.…

Pagés, Meriem.   Leeds: Arc Humanities, 2023.
Contrasts MLT with "The King of Tars," "Bevis of Hampton," and the Becket legend (where Thomas Becket's mother is a "heathen or Saracen"), arguing that, unlike the "contradictory approaches . . . to the conversion of the Muslim Other elsewhere, MLT…

Simes, G. R.   Geraldine Barnes, John Gunn, Sonya Jensen, and Lee Jobling, eds. Words and Wordsmiths: A Volume for H. L. Rogers (Sydney: University of Sydney, 1989), pp. 91-112.
One of the most consistent strands of controversy has been Chaucer's reputation for the "bawdy" in CT. What has been objected to as "bawdy," "ribaldry," "wantonness," "scurrility," "incivility," and so on "has "shifted and changed over the…

Alderson, William L., and Arnold C. Henderson.   Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970.
Assesses editions and translations of Chaucer's works between 1660 and 1750 (including Speght 3, Dryden, Urry, and Morrell) for the ways they reflect the principles and practices of Augustan scholarship, lexicography, aesthetic outlooks, social…

Mann, Jill.   Studies in the Age of Chaucer 17 (1995): 5-19.
Examines how a twentieth-century atheist can read and respond to Chaucer, suggesting that a form of "dialogism" can mediate between the present and the past and can enable us to recognize that Chaucer is essentially more humanistic than, for example,…

Wood, Chauncey.   Beryl Rowland, ed. Companion to Chaucer Studies. Rev. ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), pp. 202-20.
Chaucer's many references to astrology have often been discussed, but only recently (as in Wood's "Chaucer and the Country of the Stars") have there been any book-length studies of the subject and of its function in his poetry.

Shigeo, Hisashi.   Lingua et Humanita 3 (1985): 57-65.
Chaucer's passages about Arthurian knights, though brief, reveal the poet's understanding of the traditions of Arthurian romance.

Hodges, Laura F.   Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2014.
Explores Chaucer's familiarity with conventional costume description and fabric reference in medieval genres, especially romances and fabliaux, and argues that Chaucer often reverses traditional patterns of audience expectation in which romances are…

Brewer, Derek.   Wolf-Dietrich Bald and Horst Weinstock, eds. Medieval Studies Conference Aachen 1983 (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1984), pp. 111-19.
Examines Chaucer's use of arithmetic--connected with money, towns, upward social mobility, government, the vernacular, astronomy-astrology, universities, commerce--in BD, HF, PF, TC, Astr, CT, GP, KnT, MilT, RvT, MLT, ShT, SumT, CYT, and Ret.

Fox, Robert C.   Notes and Queries 203 (1958): 523-24.
Suggests that Aristotle is the "most likely" referent for "the philosopher" in ParsT 10.484.

Raybin, David, and Susanna Fein,   Chaucer Review 39 (2005): 225-33
Raybin and Fein introduce the six essays included in a "special issue" of Chaucer Review, all pertaining to Chaucer and aesthetics.
Output Formats

atom, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2

Not finding what you expect? Click here for advice!