Fleming, John V.
Sante Fe, N. M.: Della Robbia Productions, 1994.
Item not seen. WorldCat reports that it is "a brief introduction to the poet Chaucer and his times, and to the state of the English language (Middle English) in the late fourteenth century."
Fanego Lema, Teresa, ed.
Santiago de Compostela: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 1993.
Thirty literary and linguistic essays from the SELIM IV conference (September 1991), on topics ranging from "Beowulf" to Robin Hood and including discussions of lyrics, drama, dream visions, and various individual works and themes. For essays that…
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.
Neto, Jonatas Batista.
São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, 1977.
Investigates Chaucer's biographical and literary "travels" to Italy, with chapters dedicated to 1) English travel to Italy; 2) Chaucer and the "Italian wedding" of Prince Lionel; 3) Chaucer and Petrarch; 4) Chaucer in Milan; and 5) the influence of…
Assesses graphic representations of selected features of spoken language to show the "dialectical homogeneity" of the Ellesmere manuscript (London), Cambridge Gg 4.27 (East Midland with Northern elements), and British Library Additional 5140 (East…
Fujiki considers comic "misapplication of proverbs" in TC (Pandarus), MilT (John), MerT (January), and SumT (the friar), suggesting that Chaucer capitalized on his audience's expectation of proverbs to characterize some users as foolish.
Caparrós, Marina Asián.
Sara Martin, David Owen, and Elisabet Pladevall-Ballester, eds. Persistence and Resistance in English Studies: New Research (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2018), pp. 109-18.
Exemplifies the "Scandinavian influence" on Middle English, offering morphological, syntactical, and lexical samples of this influence on CT.
Allen-Goss, Lucy M.
Sarah Baechle, Carissa M. Harris, and Elizaveta Strakhov, eds. Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature: With an Edition of Middle English and Middle Scots Pastourelles (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2022), pp. 80-96.
Contrasts Chaucer's and Gower's Philomela stories, focusing on differences between the nuances and implications of weaving in LGW and embroidery in "Confessio Amantis," and arguing that Chaucer's version aligns better with modern understanding of…
Koldeweij, Jos.
Sarah Blick and Rita Tekippe, eds. Art and Architecture of Late Medieval Pilgrimage in Northern Europe and the British Isles. 2 vols. (Boston and Leiden: Brill, 2005), volume 1, pp. 493-510.
Koldeweij comments on pilgrim badges and related materials mentioned in CT and illustrated in the Ellesmere manuscript. The commentary introduces a discussion of obscene badges (ca. 1350-ca. 1450) intended to mock pilgrimage.
Fuller, David.
Sarah Haggarty, ed. William Blake in Context (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 173-83.
Reads Blake's "varied interactions with Chaucer, Spenser, and Shakespeare" as "an education in possibilities of serious reading." In the case of Chaucer, Blake reads "for archetypes, not distracted . . . by historical contingency or an appearance of…
Logan, Harry M., and Barry W. Miller.
Sarah K. Burton and Douglas D. Short, eds. Sixth International Conference on Computers and the Humanities (Rockville, MD.: Computer Science Press, 1983), pp. 384-90.
A KWIC concordance of Chaucer's BD was produced on the IBM 4341 with a statistical analysis of the verbs on PDP 11/34 and VAX 780, using UNIX. Analysis of the subject-verb relationships, according to Case Grammar Theory (identifying participants as…
Copeland, Rita.
Sarah Kay and Miri Ruben, eds. Framing Medieval Bodies (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1994), pp. 138-59.
Explores the roles of sexuality and gender in the institutional history of rhetoric and argues that the Pardoner's ambiguity dramatizes a double sense of rhetoric, both as an academic discipline and as a regulated body of practice.
Zieman, Katherine.
Sarah Rees Jones, ed. Learning and Literacy in Medieval England and Abroad. Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, no. 3 (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2003), pp. 97-120.
Zieman examines the "liturgical literacy" of medieval nuns, exploring the extent to which they may have understood Latin texts that they performed. PrT presents "singing explicitly characterized as illiterate" as "the purest form of piety"; SNT…
Wright, Monica L.
Sarah-Grace Heller, ed. A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Medieval Age (London: Bloomsbury, 2017), pp. 159-72.
Explores medieval literary representations of clothing, nudity, and fashion. Includes discussion (pp. 160-63) of how the Wife of Bath's clothing indicates her "personality" and "the crisis of legibility in the fashion system in England"; reproduces…
Gordić Petković, Vladislava.
Sarajevo Notebook 51 (2017): n.p. Available at http://sveske.ba/en/content/astrologija-i-knjizevnost (accessed January 20, 2020).
A shortened version of an essay from a two-volume work not seen: Ljiljana Banjanin, Persida Lazarević Di Giacomo, Sanja Roić, and Svetlana Šeatović, eds. Il SoleLuna presso gli slavi meridionali, 2 vols. (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2017).…
North, Richard, Barbara Bordalejo, Terry Jones, and Peter Robinson, eds.
Saskatoon: Scholarly Digital Editions, 2020.
Accessible at http://www.sd-editions.com/CantApp/GP/ (accessed October 16, 2023)
Electronic edition of GP, designed for download and web access on mobile devices, based on the Hengwrt manuscript (fully reproduced in color), with hyperlinked transcription, translation, glosses and notes, and an audio performance by Lina Gibbings…
Hindrichsen, Lorenz A.
Sathyaraj Venkatesan, Antara Chatterjee, A. David Lewis, and Brian Callender, eds. Pandemic and Epidemics in Cultural Representation (Singapore: Springer, 2022), pp. 31-48.
Interprets CT as a "compelling psychogram of a diverse community processing massive demographic shifts in the wake of recurrent epidemic waves." Explores disruptions of social and linguistic categories, PardT as an allegory of plague death, various…
Tokunaga, Satoko.
Satoko Tokunaga, ed. Aspects of Publishing History in the East and the West (Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2015), pp. 1-32,
Surveys the presentation of CT in manuscripts and printed books up to the publication of William Thynne's first complete works of Chaucer (1532). Focuses on editorial principles and concepts such as compilatio, authorship, and collation. In Japanese.
Stevens, Martin.
Saul N. Brody and Harold Schecter, eds. CUNY English Forum 1 (New York: AMS, 1985), pp. 155-74.
Argues, from the symmetrical structure of TC, binary rather than the popular five-part interpretation. Manuscript studies suggest that Chaucer originally wrote TC as a two-part poem and later changed it. Shakespeare had the same conflict.
