Schulz, Herbert C.
San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library, 1966.
Describes the Ellesmere manuscript, with particular attention to the illustrations of the pilgrims (here reproduced), the program of semi-vinet illumination, and the "Portrait of Chaucer." Also includes a description of the manuscript's text of CT, a…
Thorpe, James.
San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library, 1974.
Reproduces in color the illustrations of the CT pilgrims from the Ellesmere manuscript, and comments on CT, Chaucer and his portrait, and the production and transmission of the manuscript.
Blandeau, Agnès.
Sandra Gorgievski and Xavier Leroux, eds. Le Moyen Âge mis en scène: Perspectives contemporaines. Babel, no. 15. [Toulon]: Université du Sud Toulon-Var, Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, 2007, pp. 17-31.
Blandeau explores how three films capture the spirit if not the letter of CT.
Wilson, Janet.
Sandra J. McEntire, ed. Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays. Garland Medieval Casebooks (New York: Garland, 1992), pp. 223-37.
Treats Margery Kempe and the Wife of Bath as carnivalesque female figures, although each is "mediated and hence vindicated by a masculine consciousness"--Margery's scribe and Chaucer. Both narrators are characterized by "grotesque realism,"…
Sheridan, Christian.
Sandra M. Hordis and Paul Hardwick, eds. Medieval English Comedy (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2007), pp. 111-23.
Sheridan assesses the "common logic" of puns and money in ShT. Both pose the threat of vacuity--meaninglessness or lack of value--while simultaneously offering pleasure.
Beidler, Peter G.
Sandra M. Hordis and Paul Hardwick, eds. Medieval English Comedy (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2007), pp. 195-208.
Beidler compares and contrasts MilT with its likely source, the Middle Dutch "Hiele van Beersele." Of the two, MilT provokes greater laughter because it is more plausible, a result of more carefully deployed details.
Symons, Dana M.
Sandra M. Hordis and Paul Hardwick, eds. Medieval English Comedy (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2007), pp. 83-109.
Symons compares and contrasts the comic inaction of Th with comic spectacle in MilT and in the popular romance "Sir Tristrem." A "sophisticatedly 'bad' poem," Th depends for its success on expectations that differ from those of popular literature.
Erickson, Sandra S. F., and Glenn W. Erickson.
Sandra S. F. Erickson and Glenn W. Erickson. Logos e Poesis: Neoplatonismo e Literatura (Natal, Brazil: EDUFRN, Editora da UFRN, 2006), pp. 35-60.
Argues that Biblical and Neoplatonic number symbolism conveys the message of BD: that souls return to heavenly happiness. Considers Chaucer's summary of Scipio's dream, traces references to Pythagoras in BD, and identifies places where it…
Vance, Sidney.
Sandra Ward Lott, S. G. Hawkins, and Norman McMillan, eds. Global Perspectives on Teaching Literature: Shared Visions and Distinctive Visions. (Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English, 1993), pp. 101-108.
Observes parallels between WBT and the narrative of the matriarch Sogolon in the African (Mandingo) epic "Sundiata." Each includes a quest, a knowledgeable old hag, shape-shifting, and a version of rape. Such parallels enable us to "engage in a…
Besserman, Lawrence [L.]
Sanford Budick and Wolgang Iser, eds. The Translatability of Cultures: Figurations of the Space Between. (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996), pp. 68-84.
Augustine's emphasis on charity and cupidity in "De doctrina Christiana" and his discussion of the relations among gospel narratives in "De consensu evangelistarum" suggest that he equates secular and biblical poetics. Similarly, Chaucer justifies…
Lindahl, Carl, John McNamara, and John Lindow, eds.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, 2000.
Individual entries on topics from "Accused Queen" to "Zither" include brief descriptions and, when appropriate, bibliography. One entry on Chaucer (1.167-73); multiple references to motifs in his works, especially in CT.
Cullen, Dolores L.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : Fithian Press, 1999.
Reads CT as a drama-with Chaucer as "director/producer" (158) and leading player-focusing on Th and Mel as psychological and moral extensions of Chaucer. Thopas and the father are one, with Thopas representing the phallus. Melibee is "the elevated…
Cullen, Dolores (L.)
Santa Barbara, Calif. : Fithian, 2000.
Cullen's third volume on CT claims the work is an allegory reflecting Chaucer's preoccupation with astronomy/astrology. The Pilgrims, who congregate at sunset, correspond to the constellations and planets-celestial "pilgrims" traveling across the…
Snodgrass, Mary Ellen.
Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 1998.
An alphabetical dictionary of the "world fable," i.e., the beast fable and related narratives in various international traditions, both as stand-alone narratives and as exempla in larger works.
Cullen, Dolores L.
Santa Barbara, Calif.: Fithian Press, 1998.
Allegorical reading of the CT Host as an image of Christ, a figure of the Eucharist associated with joy, heroism, and omnipotence. The Host is a guide of others and the only pilgrim not in need of penance. His name, his language, and his leadership…
Prescott, Anne Worthington.
Santa Barbara, Calif.: Fithian, 2003.
Prescott introduces HF to the general reader as simple to read, yet full of Chaucer's mischievous fun. In HF, Chaucer reveals the way fame was viewed by his contemporaries, plus the way he thinks they and we should see it. He gives readers much to…
Thormann, Janet, with Aranye Fradenburg Joy.
Santa Barbara: Brainstorm, 2023.
Psychoanalytic exploration of several unexpected happy outcomes in CT where links between sexual "emergence and abeyance . . . issue in the hope of a beneficent future." MerT "focuses on the Real by way of an impossible suffering of enjoyment through…
Edwards. Jennifer C.
Santa Barbara: Greenwood, 2022.
Introductory survey of the conditions and experiences of women in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England, designed for pedagogical use. Includes chapters on Marriage, Motherhood, Royal and Noblewomen, Urban and Rural Women, Sex and Sexuality, and…
Treanor, Lucia.
Santa Casciani, ed. Dante and the Franciscans. The Medieval Franciscans, no. 3. Boston and Leiden: Brill, 2006, pp. 229-88.
Pope Innocent III explicitly recognized the Greek letter 'tau' as representing the form of the cross and saw it as a sign of renewal in the church. Likewise the syllable 'te' was interpreted as a sign of the cross. Treanor explores graphic…
Hernández Pérez, M. Beatriz
Santa Cruz de Tenerife: La Página Ediciones, 2003.
Compares varied uses of narrative voices in CT and Juan Ruiz's "Libro de buen amor "in light of the tradition of prologue writing. Chaucer and Ruiz employ satire and ambiguity to elicit a variety of questions from their audience - enough to arouse…
