Rice, Nicole R.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Rice studies late fourteenth-century vernacular prose devotional guides, with attention to their relationship with works by Chaucer and Langland. Wycliffite writings and changes in religious discipline affected notions of how to live the "best life,"…
Kowaleski, Maryanne, and P. J. P. Goldberg, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Eleven essays by various authors (and an introduction by the editors) address a range of topics: domestic and monastic spaces, attitudes toward living alone, various literary and historical depictions of homes and households, etc. The collection…
Matthews, David.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Matthews explores the English rhetorical device of writing about political topics as if the author were writing directly to the king, even though the works that used the device were intended for a wider audience. The device flourished in the late…
Craun, Edwin C.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Discusses how the late medieval Church encouraged and participated in "fraternal corrections," and establishes connections with major English reformist writings, including "The Book of Margery Kempe" and "Piers Plowman." Brief mention of Chaucer's…
Rosenfeld, Jessica.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011
Examines pleasure, happiness, and enjoyment in late-medieval literature as it was influenced by Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics," mediated by commentaries and the "Roman de la Rose." Considers a balance of intellectualism and voluntarism, and an…
Gillespie, Alexandra, and Daniel Wakelin, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
A collection of essays addressing the history of the book, manuscript studies, culture, and history of late medieval England. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Production of Books in England under Alternative Title.
Cooper, Lisa H.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Explores literary production and representations of craft labor and artisans in the Middle Ages. Looks at works by Chaucer, Lydgate, and Caxton, as well as lesser-known medieval writers.
Claridge, Claudia.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Uses CT as a source of data for a linguistic study of hyperbole, particularly for diachronic case studies in Chapter Six. Charts Chaucer's hyperbolic use of a few, selected words. In Chapter Seven, suggests that Chaucer uses hyperbole in GP to…
Gilbert, Jane.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
In the chapter "Becoming Woman in Chaucer: 'On ne naît pas femme, on le devient en mourant'," Gilbert reads BD and LGW through the lenses of Robert Hertz's and Jacques Lacan's theories, respectively. BD represents a response to death that follows a…
Binski, Paul, and Patrick Zutshi, with the collaboration of Stella Panayotova.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Comprehensive catalog of western European illuminated manuscripts in the Cambridge University Library. Includes several indices of iconography, scribes, artists, binders, and authors (with Chaucer listed under "G" for Geoffrey), along with…
Hardie, Philip.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Explores the meaning of Middle English "fama," derived from the Latin, in relation to the spoken word. Chapter 15, "Chaucer's 'House of Fame' and Pope's 'Temple of Fame'," analyzes relations between the spoken and written word in these poems, as well…
Nuttall, Jenni.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Introduction to TC designed for students. Provides scene-by-scene themes, key topics, and commentary, with recurrent attention to Chaucer's debt to Boccaccio's "Il filostrato."
Hurley, Michael D., and Michael O'Neill.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Introduces the major forms of English poetry from lyric to dramatic monologue to sonnet to ballad and beyond, with recurrent references to Chaucer's role in their development (see index), and a sustained discussion of Chaucer and narrative poetry…
Steiner, Emily.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Discusses the literary and historical contexts of Langland's poetics, and argues that the poem's "multilingualism makes it an exemplary English poem." Chapter 2, "Learning (B.8-12)," refers to WBT, MilT, and ClT.
Wakelin, Daniel.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Extensive survey of scribal correction in manuscripts and genres that focuses on poems by Chaucer, Hoccleve, and Lydgate, as well as a variety of medieval chronicles, and religious and secular works. Includes analysis of CT, Equat, and TC.
Minnis, Alastair.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Wide-ranging introduction to Chaucer's life and works for students and scholars. Includes philosophical, theoretical, and literary connections that celebrate the canonical importance of Chaucer's authority.
Warner, Lawrence.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Surveys the "Langland archive" to address the history of the production and reception of "Piers Plowman."The "Conclusion" (pp. 129-40) reveals early eighteenth-century textual scholarship that attributes "Piers Plowman" to Chaucer.
Cole, Andrew, and Andrew Galloway, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Presents a collection of essays to support teaching of "Piers Plowman." For an essay that pertains to Chaucer, search for The Cambridge Companion to Piers Plowman under Alternative Title.
Toner, Anne.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Studies various kinds of narrative suspension and ellipsis in English literature, and includes comments on a reference to SqT in the expository essay that accompanies the Gothic tale "Sir Bertram, a Fragment" (1773). Connects the essay with Thomas…
Johnston, Michael, and Michael Van Dussen, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Focuses on aspects of the cultural situations of the medieval book. Examines elements of bibliography, social context, linguistics, archeology, and conservation within a broader view of the theory and praxis of manuscript study. For an essay that…
D'Arcens, Louise, ed.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Presents essays on the scope and complexity of the study of medievalism that explore how the Middle Ages have been adapted and interpreted. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for The Cambridge Companion to Medievalism under Alternative…
Machan, Tim William, ed.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Thirteen essays by various authors consider new and traditional conceptualizations of medieval English language and literature. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Imagining Medieval English under Alternative Title
Novacich, Sarah Elliott.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Explores how "poetic form, staging logistics, and the status of performance" contribute to our understanding of how medieval thinkers imagined the "ethics and pleasures of the archive." Includes discussion of HF, MLT, MilT, and Rom.
Prendergast, Thomas A., and Jessica Rosenfeld, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Includes nine essays, an index, and an introduction by the editors. Adopting a new formalist methodology that attends both to aesthetics and historicism, the volume focuses on "the incompleteness and self-contradictory nature of form" in Chaucer's…
Heng, Geraldine
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Provides a comprehensive view of how "race" is defined in the premodern world and addresses the process of "race-making" within and outside the European context. In particular, discusses how Jews in England were "racialized" and analyzes the "sensory…
