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Chaucer uses the same words to describe the blushes of Troilus and Criseyde, but the meanings differ there and in ShT. (In Japanese)

A note suggesting the use of present-tense "went" (wend) rather than preterit "wente" in TC 2.36. (In Japanese)

A note on the connotations of "bisynesse" and its relationship to Latin "cura" and "diligencia." (In Japanese)

Chaucer uses Wycliffite discourse sympathetically in order to "satirize church corruption which the Pardoner represents," particularly the literal understanding of Scripture and allegories. The Pardoner's treatment of Scripture aligns with the views…

Points out that Chaucer develops the idea of interpretation through his works (especially CT), and demonstrates how Lydgate's "The Siege of Thebes," drawing on Chaucer, revolves around the ideas of truth and interpretation.

Points out thematic parallels between Hoccleve's "Male regle" and PardT, such as "riot and repentance" and "misreading" of "the material and the spiritual," and argues that Hoccleve succeeds in taking in Chaucerian literary resources to make his…

Compares MLT and the stories of Constance by Nicholas Trevet and John Gower. Argues that MLT points to the uncertainty of Rome as the center of ecclesiastical authority in the later fourteenth century.

Examines whether NPT manifests a superficial or an intrinsic religiosity and treats NPT--a tale appropriate to the teller--as a religious allegory with Chauntecler as Man or Adam, Pertelote as Eve, and the fox as Devil.

GP prefigures the comedy of humours in its emphasis on body language, while the depth and complexity of Chaucer's wit make him a forerunner of Shakespeare and Dickens.

Volume not seen; reported by MLA International Bibliography. In Japanese.

Employing the Lacanian theory of Slavoj Žižek, Sullivan examines the relationship of HF to Augustine's "Confessions," Virgil's "Aeneid," Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy," and Dante's "Divine Comedy," arguing that Chaucer and Dante rewrite…

Challenges the theory that ShT was originally intended to be narrated by the Wife of Bath, and suggests a major emendation: moving lines 7.5-19 (which include first-person feminine pronouns) later in the tale and having them spoken by the merchant's…

An essay on ecclesiastical patronage of art in the Middle Ages.

Twenty-two excerpts from previously published Chaucer criticism, from John Dryden and Matthew Arnold to twentieth-century approaches.

Fourteen essays by various writers and a bibliography of works published by Erik Kooper, presented to Kooper on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday. Topics range widely in English and French medieval traditions, with recurrent focus on romance.…

Storm does not distinguish between his own and Chaucer's attitudes toward the Pardoner's homosexuality. Storm's essay appeared in PMLA 97 (1982): 810-18.

Summers assesses the commonalities and differences among Usk's "The Testament of Love," "The King's Quair" of James I of Scotland, Charles d'Orléans' "English Book of Love," the "Testimony" of William Thorpe, the "Trial" of Richard Wyche, and…

After the anonymity of earlier times, fourteenth-century writing reveals increasing individuation and attention to the gender of an author. Chaucer's fictional women writers indicate an anxious sense on his part of declining "auctoritas, whereas…

Petrarch's "Letter to Colonna," twelfth-century handbooks for travelers and pilgrims, and SNT exhibit a characteristically medieval historiography that displaces a model of loss and recovery with one representing historical difference through spatial…

Historicizing the "commonplace" conception that women writers stand in opposition to literary tradition, Summit assesses how the conception itself "dialectically fashioned both 'the woman writer' and 'English literature' in the medieval and early…

Book-by-book examination of TC, with consistent concern for the characters (especially Criseyde) and the construction of their subjectivities. Summit explores the poem's ongoing concern with how textuality and literary transmission are deeply related…

Investigating the period between 1431 and 1631, Summit argues that libraries--particularly the Parker, the Cotton, and the Bodleian--enabled early modern projects of historical and cultural redefinition concurrent with Reformation ideology and…

Looks at Rome's classical geography and topography within Petrarch's "Letter to Colonna" and Chaucer's SNT. Argues that these "medieval topographies" create ways of "taxonomizing space" and deepen an understanding of the material history of medieval…

Inclusion of Diomede's taking Criseyde's rein, original with Chaucer, dates "The Destruction of Troy" after 1385-87. A probable compression of Lydgate's reference to TC suggests a date after 1420 and closer to Luttrell's dating of the alliterative…

According to Virgil (Aeneid, VI) Deiphobus became the husband of Helen after Paris' death. Perhaps Pandarus reveals a covert knowledge of this burgeoning romance when, in TC II, he confidently sends Helen and Deiphobus into the garden for an hour,…