Scott, Florence R.
English Language Notes 2.2 (1964): 81-87.
Describes the involvement of Thomas Chaucer and Thomas Swynford in matters related to the deposition and death of Richard II, suggesting that they help to account for the tone and perspective in Purse (especially the Envoy) and Henry's swift and…
Scott, Forrest S.
Modern Language Review 51 (1956): 2-5.
Offers a "third suggestion" to the discussions of what "seventhe spere" refers to in TC 5.1809, suggesting that Chaucer altered Boccaccio's eighth sphere (also a variant in TC manuscripts) and, counting inwards from the sphere of the fixed stars,…
In HF, Aeneas is a "possible love-traitor," while in LGW the "condemnation" is much clearer. In the "Laud Troy Book," he is a political traitor who is never presented as the founder of Rome. Such depictions of Aeneas reflect how the "threat--or…
Scott, Kathleen L.
Martin Stevens and Daniel Woodward, eds. The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation (San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library; Tokyo: Yushodo, 1995), pp. 87-119.
MS Bodleian Library Hatton 4, a combined hours and psalter, contains borders created by two Ellesmere limners.
2 vols. Volume 1: Texts and Illustrations. Volume 2: Catalogue and Indexes. Descriptions of 140 late-medieval manuscripts, selected for their representative value and focusing on their styles and programs of illustration. The introduction (1:…
Scott, Kathleen L.
Felicity Riddy, ed. Prestige, Authority, and Power in Late Medieval Manuscripts and Texts (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: York Medieval Press, 2000), pp. 55-75.
Discusses the artist of the Troilus frontispiece of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 61, identifying other manuscripts by the same artist. The associations of these manuscripts with important and influential patrons indicate that the artist…
Scott, Kathleen L.
Carol M. Meale and Derek Pearsall, eds. Makers and Users of Medieval Books: Essays in Honour of A. S. G. Edwards (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2014), pp. 150-77.
Examines records of medieval book ownership by focusing on inscriptions in manuscripts and early printed books, wills, and other inventories of collections from fifteenth-century merchants and craftsmen. Features two listings of merchants with book…
Scott, Kathleen L.
Review of English Studies 18 (1967): 287-90.
Identifies several medieval visual images of a sow playing bagpipes and suggests that the iconography underlies the reference to bagpipes and the two references to a female pig in the GP description of the Miller, helping to characterize him as…
Reports on the Additional collection of medieval manuscripts from the British Library. Indexed manuscripts include literary works by Gower, Chaucer, Lydgate, and Nicholas Love, as well as historical works, noted for their imagery and illustration.
Scott, P. G.
Notes and Queries 211 (1966): 125-26.
Adduces ParsT 10.445 and "Purity" 1407-8 to argue that the paper castle in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" (800-02) has moral implications of luxury and excess.
In WBT, PardT, and NPT, Chaucer exploits many facets of medieval dream and fable lore, including the ambiguous situation of a dream within a fiction and the Augustinian motif of the liar who tells the truth in order to deceive. Shakespeare pushes…
Studies how imagery contributes to theme and operates at an element of structure in BD, HF, PF and TC: light and dark imagery in BD, acoustic imagery in HF, natural versus courtly love in PF, and the contrast of fortune's wheel and celestial light in…
Scudder, Patricia Heumann.
Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1996): 1130A
Chaucer puts the allegorized Latin epic to various uses in five works: HF, TC, KnT, MilT (as comic and unsuccesful rebellion against the hierarchies of KnT), and LGW
Seah, Victoria L.
Dissertation Abstracts International 38 (1978): 4151A.
PF, "Temple of Glas," and "Kingis Quair" deal not with courtly love but with marriage. The idea underlying all three works is that one should be free to marry whom one loves.
Introduces a special issue of Chaucer Review focused on feminism and Chaucer that surveys the state of the field of current feminist approaches to Chaucer, offering a view of scholarship defined by interdisciplinarity and intersectionality. Articles…
Contextualizes MerT by looking at medieval scientific writings on "pica" ("deviant pregnancy cravings") and the medieval "pathology of pregnancy," assessing May's pregnancy and her "sexual longings."
Surveys critical and historical treatments of Philippa Chaucer, showing both the ahistorical nature of much of this work and the common, negative approach in her characterization. Emphasizes that gender plays a significant role in how these judgments…
Seal, Samantha Katz.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Examines the role of paternal authority and the figure of the father and their use and depiction in CT. Interrogates the construction of "Father Chaucer" to show how widespread this motif of paternal authority is in discussions of Chaucer and his…
Argues that Chaucerian biographers and critics have both been horrified by the rape of Cecily Chaumpaigne and depicted it to reenforce Chaucer's masculinity. Traces how these critics and authors have fashioned Chaumpaigne into a courtly lady, whose…
Seal, Samantha Katz.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 44 (2022): 273–83.
Explores the misogyny that underlies several historical records of, and modern commentaries on, an attempt to seduce Alice Chaucer, Chaucer's daughter, by Philip, duke of Burgundy. See a response by Rachel E. Moss, "#NotAllMen: In Conversation with…
Reflects on the newly discovered documents in the case of Cecily Champagne, and contends that, regardless of whether Chaucer was to blame, medieval studies and Chaucerian critics remain at fault if they excused Chaucer on account of his poetry.…
Argues that female bodies in CT represent texts that are unreadable by husbands, and suggests that ultimately, this is symptomatic of an impossibility of "cognitive seeking."
Seal, Samatha Katz.
In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017. Relocated 2025 at https://opencanterburytales.lsusites.org/
Interprets CYPT as "Chaucerian critique of the male desire to use technological and scientific innovation to generate alone, excluding women from creation and thus overthrowing the normative pairing of sex contraries upon which medieval religious,…
Seaman, David M.
Medievalia et Humanistica 17 (1991): 41-58.
No single answer to the concluding question of FranT is satisfactory because the tale's real concern is the interpretive process itself. FranT emphasizes different kinds of "trouthe" and poses ambiguous promises and statements.
