Obenauf, Richard.
Dissertation Abstracts International A77.01 (2015): n.p.
As part of a consideration of censorship, subjects several works, including PF, to a hypothetical "model of intolerance" based on Abelard, Ockham, and John of Salisbury.
Robinson, Olivia.
English: The Journal of the English Association 64, no. 244 (2015): 27-41.
Argues that Rom should be recontexualized, viewing the work not as a Chaucerian fragment, which perpetuates a fragmentary approach to the work, but as part of a tradition of translation. Analysis of decorated initials and borders in Hunter 409…
Notes that the visual imagery of falling rocks and millstones Pandarus uses to convince Troilus of his future success is associated with death and destruction in the Bible, which actually undermines Pandarus's argument in TC.
Thomas Spencer, a scrivener, purportedly owned a copy of TC in 1394. Presents the historical record regarding Spencer's life, since if this claim is true, it represents the only recorded instance of one of Chaucer's works circulating during his…
Examines the parallels between Cresseid and the narrator showing Cresseid's eventual transformation while the narrator fails to understand the moral point. Includes comments on Chaucer's narrator in TC.
Contends that masculine obsession with interiority, especially that marked by courtly love, enables "powerful men to ignore the destructive public consequences of their political" actions. Yet, TC reveals "that such separation between the public and…
Kirkpatrick, Robin.
Religion & Literature 47.3 (2015): 1-24.
Focusing on TC, argues that Chaucer relied heavily on previous works, primarily Dante's "Divina commedia," for theological and linguistic direction. Contends that Chaucer, like Dante, does not merely regurgitate biblical narratives, but expands on…
Argues that Chaucer's interpretation of Boethius, as shown in two key passages in TC, his translation of Bo, and a significant Bo manuscript, "enables him to present Troilus as a genuinely Boethian hero who channels philosophical insight into…
Raby, Michael B.
Dissertation Abstracts International A77.03 (2015): n.p.
Considers medieval understandings of the relationship between attention and distraction or diversion, using several texts, ranging from Augustine to Walter Hilton, Julian of Norwich, and TC.
Stanley, E. G.
Notes and Queries 260 (2015): 358-60.
Given his "frequent equivocalness" on matters of high seriousness, there is good reason to believe that Prov, a "riddling poem" (NIMEV 3914), is Chaucer's work, philologists' objections on the basis of its inaccurate "compace"/"embrace" rhyme…
One scribe included the "Tale of Beryn" in his copy of CT. The Prologue presents Chaucer's pilgrims after they arrive at Canterbury, and the tale is appropriate to its teller, a merchant. Argues that the "Beryn" author was "an intelligent and…
Eckert, Kenneth.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 22.2 (2014): 131-46.
Connects the "Tale of Gamelyn" to Chaucer with respect to concerns of class, legal, and cultural issues, and focuses on the theme of vulnerability as an important conceit of the poem.
Prendergast, Thomas A.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.
Studies the significance of "Poets' Corner" in Westminster Abbey as both a physical and a metaphorical literary space. Presents the history of Chaucer's importance as the "founding corpse of Poets' Corner" in discussion of how "political, moral, and…
Boboc, Andreea D., ed.
Leiden: Koninklijke Brill, 2015.
Collection of essays exploring "legal personhood vis-à-vis the jurisdictional conflicts" of late medieval England. For an essay pertaining to Chaucer, search for Theorizing Legal Personhood in Late Medieval England under Alternative Title.
Salisbury, Eve.
Andreea D. Boboc, ed. Theorizing Legal Personhood in Late Medieval England (Leiden: Koninklijke Brill, 2015), pp. 50-70.
Discusses Chaucer's familiarity with the law evidenced in Chaucer's "Life Records" and his poetry. Suggests that Chaucer "exploits the confusion of legal terms defining abduction and rape" because of his "unprecedented legal personhood" with regard…
Steiner, Emily, and Lynn Ransom, eds.
Philadelphia: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2015.
Presents essays that explore ways that manuscript evidence is used to understand "literary, geographic, scientific, devotional, and hagiographical knowledge" in the later Middle Ages. For an essay that pertains to Chaucer, search for Taxonomies of…
Strakhov, Elizaveta.
Emily Steiner and Lynn Ransom, eds. Taxonomies of Knowledge: Information and Order in Medieval Manuscripts (Philadelphia: The Schoenberg
Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2015), pp. 7-36.
Considers the appearance of the "mysterious inscription 'Ch'" beside several poems in MS Codex 902 in the University of Pennsylvania Libraries collection. Scholars have assumed that the "Ch" stands for Chaucer, but Strakhov argues that the poems are…
Aers, David.
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015.
Provides close reading and interpretation of "Piers Plowman," and observes how Chaucer and Langland often share similar political and religious views of medieval society. Refers to SumT, WBPT, GP, KnT, ParsT, RvT, and PF.
Gray, Douglas.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Examines how the "lost culture" of oral literary and folk and popular traditions of the Middle Ages influenced medieval writers. Mentions Chaucer's understanding of proverbs and oral and folk culture in ClT, WBT, MLT, FranT, and TC.
