Hagen, Karl T.
Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales" (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 80-92.
Summarizes the history and organization of the four fraternal orders, focusing on the Franciscans and Dominicans. Chaucer's Friar and the friar of SumT are fictional renderings of the antifraternal outlooks of William of St. Amour and Richard…
Rodrigues, Leandro Dias Carneiro.
REVELL: Revista de Estudos Literários da UEMS, special issue (2019): 147-58.
Analyzes the aesthetic features--the linguistic, prosodic, and structural form and the aesthetic tradition of MilT--and the vulgar and humorous content of the Tale to emphasize its importance in the canon of popular poetry.
Martin, Daniel, and Margaret Wright.
Chaucer Review 24 (1990): 271-73.
The "hostes man" who follows the begging friars of SumT can be identified as the servant of their innkeeper, who follows after them to carry their ill-gotten gains.
Klassen, Norman.
New Chaucer Society Newsletter 36.01 (2014): 4-5.
Notes that Liddell's 1901 and Pollard's 1903 editions of GP end line 13 with a full stop. This "aligns with the conclusions of Bernhard ten Brink and Otto Jespersen and solves a difficulty with the syntax that Julius Zupitza noted after 'serve' was…
Fisher, John H.
Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales" (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 281-87.
The GP sketch of the Manciple is interesting insofar as it reflects Chaucer's possible associations with the Inns of Court. The profession was a rare one in Chaucer's day, although there are similarities between reeves and manciples. The antagonism…
Dialectical and textual evidence suggests that the simile in RvT 1.3964 means "'she is as worthy as ditch-water is stinking' that is to say 'very worthy,' with no pejorative implication."
Robb, Candace [M.]
New York: St. Martin's; London: Heinemann, 1998.
Historical detective novel in which Geoffrey Chaucer, while recruiting Welsh archers for defense against the French, assists Owen Archer's investigations of a murder in Wales.
Benson, Larry D.
Hamden, Conn.: Garland Press, 1993.
A complete concordance to Benson's "Riverside Chaucer," excluding only titles, glosses, implicits, and explicits. Includes brief definitions of words and references to definitions in the OED and MED.
Holt, John Douglas Gordon.
Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1988): 257A-258A.
Lists references both to the Vulgate and to the mass, prayers,holy office, and hymns, as noted in the Baugh, Benson, Fisher, Pratt, and Robinson editions. The Latin passage, modern English translation, and Chaucer's treatment follow.
Chapter 1 (pp. 15-31) describes Chaucer's 1373 visit to Florence, a great industrial and financial center declining into political factionalism. Italian meters influenced Chaucer's rhyme royal. Boccaccio taught him the potential of romance; Dante…
Slover, Judith.
Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales" (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 243-55.
Surveys medieval attitudes of and about women as background to the GP sketch of the Wife of Bath, WBP, and WBT. Reads the Wife as a conscious manipulator of antifeminist texts, her husbands, and the conventions of romance--all aspects of her…
Gergely, Nagy.
Tar Ibolya, ed. Studia Iuvenalia in Honorem Emerici Tegyey Septuagenarii. Acta Universitatis Szegediensis. Acta Antiqua et Archaeologica, supplement no. 9 (Szeged: n.p., 2003), pp. 34-40.
Argues that the characterization of Pandarus in TC was influenced by the tradition of the comic servant in Greco-Roman New Comedy. In Hungarian.
Knapp, Janet Schlauch.
Dissertation Abstracts International 38 (1978): 6690A.
The basic narrative unit is limited to nine possible combinations. These combinations can be illustrated by application to the four tales of the Marriage Group in CT. These nine relationships can also be applied to characters, to the relationships…
Burnley, David.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1983.
Provides apparatus for interpreting Chaucer's text, placing his language in its wider contemporary context, and studies differences in grammar between Chaucerian and Modern English, sentence linkage and scribal punctuation, the dialectal status of…
Glowka, Arthur Wayne.
Lanham, Md., New York, and London: University Press of America, 1991.
Designed as a supplemental textbook for college courses on Chaucer or English prosody; includes brief exercises at the end of each of seven chapters. Introduces the basics of meter and rhythm and analyzes Chaucer's verse in traditional foot…
Kökeritz, Helge.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961.
Introduces pronunciation of Chaucer's English, offering a series of general rules, explained in relationship to Modern English, both "British and American" and designed for "teachers and students." Also includes transcriptions of nine passages in…
McCarren, Vincent P.,and Douglas Moffat, eds.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998.
Nineteen essays by various authors that together seek to "raise the standard of scholarly editing for Middle English texts," describing theories and problems of editing and offering practical recommendations on how to edit. The contributors explore…
Briskly surveys English literature and studies of it from the Middle English period to 1960, providing introductions to individual historical periods and lists of editions and criticism for individual authors and topics. Chaucer figures largely in…
Lisowska, Pauline Sidey, with Tony Buzan.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2001.
Study guide to MilT, designed for university students. Includes summaries, commentaries, and discussion of contexts, themes, characterization, style, language, and critical approaches, with advice on how score well on exams, a model exam answer, and…
Lisowska, Pauline Sidey, with Tony Buzan.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2000.
Study guide to WBPT, designed for university students. Includes summaries, commentaries, and discussion of contexts, themes, characterization, style, language, and critical approaches, with advice on how score well on exams, a model exam answer, and…
Twenty-six chapters by various authors, with an Introduction by the editor in which she emphasizes diverse theoretical approaches to Middle English studies and observes that Chaucer's texts "foreground the idea that readers construct texts" (3).…
Historical gothic detective fiction set in the frame of the CT, in which a student, modeled on Chaucer's Clerk, tells a story to the rest of the pilgrims about murder, exorcism, star-crossed love, and returns from the dead. Published in the U.S. as…
The historical development of an Old Testament law can be applied to "Sir Gawain" and WBT. WBT, which begins with a "lawless, violent rape and ends with the free gift of fairness and fidelity, progresses by the efficiency of a statute (cf. OT 'eye…
