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Growing out of the Parliament of 1386 and subsequent confrontations between Richard II and his subjects, arguments over the nature of royal and representative authority shape the portrayal in MLT of pagan savagery, Northumbrian custom, Providential…

Wheel iconography associated with Hugh of Foilloy's treatise, "The Wheel of True and False Religion," may have influenced the plotting of the divided fart in SumT.

Usk's "Testament of Love" relies on Chaucer's translation of Bo and his literary reworking of philosophy in TC, but it reflects even more significantly Chaucer's innovations in writing nondevotional, apolitical, self-consciously literary prose texts.

Lancashire uses computer-assisted analysis to tabulate recurring words and phrases in Chaucer's writings. The frequency and patterns of repeated words and their collocations identify Chaucer's preoccupations, distinctive features of his writing and…

The portrayal of "faire White" in BD reflects the double vision--physical and metaphysical--of rhetorical description in Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Joseph of Exeter, and Alain de Lille.

Exemplifies how Chaucer "has a great deal of fun with the coalescence of medieval arithmetic, geometry and logic into a single discipline more recognizable today as mathematics," exploring the "proto-probabilistic" dicing and poison-bottle selection…

Though there may never have been a "doctrine" of courtly love,late-medieval literature reflects conventions that may be called courtly.

Argues that Chaucer, the Gawain poet, and Malory use women to define chivalric male identities. The texts of these authors register anxiety about women as "hominis confusio" and marginalize women by marginalizing many of the moments of their greatest…

Sets Middle English romances "in the context of late medieval patterns of family and marriage, and presents them as part of a literate but unlearned lay culture centered on the home." Briefly discusses Thop and TC.

Argues that, in select romances, Chaucer confronts "serious matters"--political, social, ethical, and aesthetic--and experiments with the range and flexibility of the genre, comparing KnT and WBT as metacritical romances that interrogate their own…

According to Walker, the three males in MilT anticipate familiar types of masculine "fool" in English dramatic tradition: John as cuckolded senex amans, Nicholas as the punished "Priapic fool," and Absolon as the "squeamish, infantalised male."…

Bakhtinian analysis of references to garlands and garlanding in KnT and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Greenwood traces the classical traditions of garlands of love and glory, arguing that depictions of both "veer towards negative criticism" in these two…

Surveys evidence for the influence of Chaucer on Tolkien and adds comments on his impact on Tolkien's ""scenes of common life in the inns and in the figures of the innkeeper and the miller."

An anthology of short works and excerpts from the Bible to modern poetry pertaining to the Fall and Redemption, with brief introductions and discussion questions designed for classroom use. Includes an excerpt from ParsT (10.316-57; pp. 33-36) in…

Lesson plans and activities for teaching CT, centered on adaptations of WBT, FranT, and PardT for staging, and including abridged versions of KnT, RvT, NPT, and FrT. Also includes a short play about the death of Thomas Becket. The volume includes…

Fourteen essays by various hands. For individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Chaucer and the Craft of Fiction under Alternative Title.

A comic novel that derives its characters from GP and most of its sub-plots from CT, cast as the thirty-year reunion of a hapless college baseball team, the Tabelard Bees, with first-person narration by the team's utility player, Jeffrey Shoemaker,…

Ten essays by various authors and a descriptive introduction by Derek Brewer. The papers were originally delivered at the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium at the University of the South in April 2000; the colloquium was devoted to Chaucer's work on the…

Descriptive, annotated bibliography of editions and criticism of Middle English lyrics and short poems, focusing on 1900-1995 but including several editions and studies outside this range. Excludes works dedicated exclusively to Chaucer and other…

Thirteen essays by various authors, most focusing on depictions or deferrals of the erotic in Middle English romances, with other topics such as a branch of the "Mabinogi," female Jewish libido, fifteenth-century letters, and more. The editors'…

Bliss surveys the variety of ways that names, naming, and namelessness in romance "contribute to our understanding" of the genre, focusing on Middle English narratives but also discussing French and Anglo-Norman analogues. She identifies a number…

Assesses the details and implications of the clothing and accoutrements of the clerical and academic pilgrims in GP, discussing the Prioress, Monk, Friar, Clerk, Physician, Parson, Pardoner, and Summoner. More richly symbolic than secular dress,…

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 practice of translation from French into English in medieval England, and how the translators themselves viewed their task," including discussion of LGWP as Chaucer's "self-aware, playful" analysis of the factors complicating…

Reads CT, TC, and LGW in the context of late medieval courtesy books, advice literature, and epistolary collections. Considers public and private marital honor in the Paston letters and FranT, and wifely obedience in ClT, "Menagier de Paris," and…