Burrow, J. A.
Essays on Medieval Literature (Oxford: Clarendon, 1984), pp. 69-78.
Documents that the honorific "sir" plus a "knight's name" occurs twelve times in Th and "not once elsewhere" in Chaucer's works, suggesting that, confined to a "burlesque context" and similar to historical French practice, this usage should be…
Item not seen. The WorldCat record indicates that this filmstrip "Uses contemporary prints and paintings to illustrate fourteenth century England as reflected in the works of Chaucer" and that the "Recording includes The tale of the wyf of Bathe read…
Popular social history, presented as a travel guide for the "historical traveler," i.e., the modern traveler in medieval England; includes sections on "Where to Stay," "What to Eat and Drink," etc. The index cites numerous references to Chaucer as a…
Examines Pasolini's inclusion of Italian and English dialects in "I racconti di Canterbury" / "The Canterbury Tales." Reveals how Pasolini's use of dialects reflects his own theories about the importance of "language as an instrument of . . .…
Lundberg, Patricia Lorimer.
Essays in Medieval Studies 3: 34-59, 1986.
Argues that Chaucer depicts an idealized earthly love in books 1-3 of TC, an expedient pseudolove in Criseyde's relationship with Diomede, and a transcendent love in Troilus's continuing love for Criseyde.
Howard, Donald R.
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1966.
Explores the medieval psychology of temptation and sin, anchored in Scripture and patristic writing--the three-fold lures of gluttony (flesh), avarice (world), and vainglory (devil), resisted, ideally, by "contemptus mundi." Treats TC (pp, 79-160) as…
Fisher, John H.
Chaucer Review 8.2 (1973): 119-27.
Shows how the first three tales in CT can be seen to align with the discussion of three rhetorical styles in John of Garland's "Poetria"--courtly, civic, and rustic. Particularly applicable is Garland's commentary on his rectangular chart of…
Lynch, Kathryn L.
Yvonne Bruce, ed. Images of Matter: Essays on British Literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Proceedings of the Eighth Citadel Conference on Literature, Charleston, South Carolina, 2002. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005, pp. 72-91
Lynch posits that Shakespeare had an "anxious" relationship with Chaucer as a model, a source, and a father figure. She reads "Two Noble Kinsman" against KnT for evidence of this "nervous" relationship and similarly assesses Fletcher's "revisionary…
Dogan, Sadenur.
Tarih kultur ve sanat aras¸tırmaları dergisi/Journal of History, Culture, and Art Research 2.2 (2013): 49-56.
Describes how in GP the descriptions of the Knight, the Parson, and the Plowman reflect the ideals of their respective social estates, and how the descriptions of the Monk, the Reeve, and the Wife of Bath exemplify Chaucer's uses of estates satire…
Burrow, John.
J. A. Burrow and Ian P. Wei, eds. Medieval Futures: Attitudes to the Future in the Middle Ages (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell, 2000), pp. 37-48.
The image of Prudence's third eye signifies looking to the future and implies that such prudential anticipation of implications and outcomes had "moral and even spiritual significance." Discusses the image and its implications in TC and Mel, as well…
DiLorenzo, Raymond Douglas.
Dissertation Abstracts International 36 (1975): 1521A-22A.
BD displays the process of consolation as emotional change effected through the medium of epideictic discourse. In the act of speaking, the grieved knight apprehends the cause of his grief in a new way, and is consoled.
Zeeman, Nicolette.
Christopher Cannon and Maura Nolan, eds. Medieval Latin and Middle English Literature: Essays in Honour of Jill Mann (Cambridge: Brewer, 2011), pp. 231-51.
Chaucer, Lydgate, and Henryson recognized a song's ability to excite and articulate passionate feeling and they invoke the idea of song in their works in ways that call attention "to the formal qualities of song itself." Zeeman inquires into "the…
Twenty-eight essays by various authors selected from the Seventh International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages, July 2001, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Topics range from cook books to Lollard arguments. For…
Evans, Robert Owen.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Florida, 1954. Dissertation Abstracts International A81.01E. Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (accessed May 7, 2026).
Argues that the "the bulk of Milton's system of elision was a part of the traditional mechanics of English syllabic verse," detailing the tradition that precedes Milton and Milton's own practices. Chapter 2 analyzes Chaucer's practices in elision,…
Chmaitelli, Nancy Adelyne.
Dissertation Abstracts International 47 (1986): 1722A-1723A.
On the bases of manuscript illuminations, ivory and stone carvings, and typological windows, Chmaitelli examines Dante's pageant at the end of "Purgatorio" and Chaucer's WBPT. The former shows the degeneration of the Church, while the latter reveals…
Discrepancy between intention and outcome is a theme of CT, especially in KnT, WBT, and MerT. Pilgrim narrators produce unintended effects in listeners especially in the Host.
Fisher, Marlene, ed.
Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown, 1969.
A textbook anthology of literary works (some excerpted) that pertain to love and marriage, from the classical period to modern America. Includes MerT in Nevill Coghill's modern translation (pp. 17-44), with a brief descriptive introduction and…
Delasanta, Rodney.
Modern Language Quarterly 31 (1970): 298-307.
Presents the Host as the figure of Judge in CT and identifies the judgment imagery in ParsP and elsewhere in CT, along with its Biblical and iconographical roots. This theme of judgment anticipates the concern with penance in ParsT.
Hanning, Robert W.
George D. Economou, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer: A Collection of Original Articles. (New York: McGraw Hill, 1976) pp. 15-36.
The opposing artistic impulses toward imposing order on experience and toward reproducing life natualistically are both evident in Chaucer's works, especially CT. This thematic tension is apparent in the overall design, in sequences of tales, and in…
Clogan, Paul M.
Medievalia et Humanistica 12 (1984): 167-84.
In TC 2.78ff., Chaucer distinguishes between Statius's "Thebiad" and the "Roman de Thebes" to characterize Pandarus and Criseyde, to emphasize the uncle-niece relationship, and to affect tone and atmosphere. In 5.145ff., he uses Statius to develop…
Star, Sarah.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 40 (2018): 191-216.
Describes the career and works of late medieval English medical writer Henry Daniel, arguing that his views on "collaboration" between "learned and lay sources" are similar to Chaucer's, and that the two writers are also "connected through their…
Blake, N. F.
London, Caulfield East, and Baltimore, Md.: Edward Arnold, 1985.
By manuscript evidence Blake justifies his position that of CT only what appears in Hengwrt can be attributed to Chaucer. He attributes all the early manuscripts to a single copy text assembled from Chaucer's own copies after his death. For best…
