Compares LGW and Christine de Pizan's "Book of the City of Ladies" to Boccaccio's "Famous Women," arguing that Pizan's work is on equal footing with the other two texts.
Considers vernacular change and development in Chaucer's work through the lens of a suggested parallel to fourteenth-century Italian poetry that "inspired scribes and translators to develop sophisticated methods of using form to reflect historical,…
Discusses the relationship between "translation and historical alterity" in TC, examining how Dante's vernacular language in his "Convivio" connects with how Chaucer "exploits the transformative potential of translation" within his own vernacular…
Compares elements of privacy (e.g., "access, intimacy, and withdrawal") in official documents and records to canonical literary works including TC, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," and Malory.
Newman Jonathan M.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 36 (2014): 103-38.
Explores the Ovidian "erotodidactic" combination of "ars amandi" and "ars dictandi" in TC, describing the similar "rhetorical view of love" in the "Rota Veneris" of Boncompagno de Signa. Focuses on Pandarus, letter-writing, and the manipulative…
Reid, Lindsay Ann.
Explicator 72.02 (2014): 158-62.
Identifies the classical sources (Virgil and Ovid) and explores the implications of two tree metaphors that Pandarus uses to encourage Troilus to court Criseyde.
Linking the idea of intention to the moral self in the medieval understanding of the subject, considers TC along with Margery Kempe and "The Testimony of William Thorpe."
Zimmerman, Harold C.
Neophilologus 98.01 (2014): 129-44
Discusses how Chaucer, while aware of Boccaccio's text, continually downplays Priam's political side in order to emphasize "his interpersonal or familial bond," thus seeking "to interpret events and characters in terms of their most immediate…
Bellis, Joanna.
Medium Aevum 83.02 (2014): 210-34.
Intentional scribal adaptations of the "Siege of Rouen" in continuations of the "Brut" demonstrate that manuscript differences are often intentional and not "innocent." Raises anew questions of what it means for Chaucer to insist that Adam write…
By paying attention to apocryphal texts such as "The Plowman's Tale," readers can understand the appeal of continuations of CT. As CT is an amorphous text, reconsidering medieval writers and readers of apocrypha helps scholars rethink the potential…
Mosser, Daniel W. and Linne R. Mooney.
ChauR 49.01 (2014): 39-76.
Identifies the Beryn Scribe as the scribe of Princeton University, MS 100, as well as other CT fragments. Maintains that the Beryn Scribe worked with other scribes in a scriptorium based in London to disseminate multiple copies of vernacular…
Baechle, Sarah.
In Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, John T. Thompson, and Sarah Baechle, eds. New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices: Essays in Honor of Derek Pearsall (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 384–405.
Discusses how editorial glosses and marginalia in extant manuscripts of CT were received and interpreted by medieval readers in the fifteenth century. Includes examination of Latin source glosses of WBPT.
Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn, John T. Thompson, and Sarah Baechle, eds.
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014.
Collection of interdisciplinary manuscript studies and critical essays presented at the "New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Derek Pearsall" conference on October 21-22, 2011. Includes…
Hanna, Ralph III, and Traugott Lawler, eds., using materials collected by Karl Young and Robert A. Pratt.
Athens, Ga. and London: University of Georgia Press, 2014.
Critical edition of seven commentaries (one excerpted) on Walter Map's Latin antifeminist treatise, with analyses of contents and impact, manuscript information, variants and emendations, extensive notes, and facing-page translations. The…
Yeager, Stephen M.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.
Examines alliterative English writing by focusing on Anglo-Saxon legal-homiletic discourse within vernacular English poetry. Brief mention of FranT, ParsT, MLT, and Mel.
Strmelj, Lidija.
ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries 14.1 (2014): 37–47.
Assesses examples from GP, KnT, MilPT, WBPT, and SNPT, deducing that medieval metaphors of emotion are similar to modern ones, although they depend more closely upon social categories, with negative metaphors typical of middle-class speakers, and…
Wang, Denise Ming-yueh.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 22, no. 2 (2014): 1-27.
Discusses Chaucer's English inheritance from a Taiwanese-Chinese point of view. Reviews multilingualism in Chinese and medieval English cultures, and examines Chaucer's cross-cultural and multilingual literary experience in fourteenth-century…
Somerset, Fiona.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2014.
Comprehensive study of over 500 manuscripts containing Lollard writings from 1375 to 1530. Analyzes textual culture associated with Lollard movement. Brief references to MLT, PardT, PhyT, and TC.
Magnani, Roberta.
Medieval Feminist Forum 50 (2014): 90-126.
Discusses Emily's subjectivity and "empowered devotional femininity" in KnT. Contends that Chaucer's "queer hermeneutics" adjusts "traditional concepts of masculinity and femininity" within KnT.
Slefinger, John.
Essays in Medieval Studies 30 (2014): 155–64.
Explores how the Miller might be interacting with the Wife of Bath when he presents Alisoun, whose description "represents an attempt to control and win the Wife of Bath's sexual attention while undercutting any agency or interiority she may have."
Hui-jeong, Seon.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 22.2 (2014): 31-59.
Examines the irony and paradoxes of ClT, claiming that through the Tale, the Clerk "challenges an audience as Griselda's impassive patience challenges Walter." Views the Clerk as a "complicated figure of utter submissiveness and essential silence…
Skala, Elizabeth.
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, John T. Thompson, and Sarah Baechle, eds. New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices: Essays in Honor of Derek Pearsall (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 363-83.
Examines Derek Pearsall's Variorum Edition of NPT and suggests that the Nun's Priest's "self-conscious literary performance transforms" the tales of CT, which are enhanced by Chaucer's quotations, allusions, and references to his own works. In…
