Boswell, Jackson C.
Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2021.
Tallies 1,060 entries that identify references to, allusions to, and echoes of Chaucer and his works in books published from 1641 through 1700, with an appendix of 131 references and allusions from 1475 through 1640, all in addition to or expansions…
Boswell, Jackson Campbel.
Chaucer Review 45 (2011): 435-65.
Adding to the work both of Spurgeon in "Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion" and of the author and Holton in "Chaucer's Fame in England," this annotated bibliography presents forty-five new citations, including one to a hitherto…
Boswell, Jackson Campbell, and Sylvia Wallace Holton.
New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2004.
Tallies 1,378 "references to, allusions to, and echoes of Chaucer and his works in printed books published between 1475 and 1640," updating and correcting a portion of Caroline Spurgeon's landmark bibliography. Entries are arranged chronologically by…
Catalogues thirty-one previously unlisted references to Troilus, Criseyde, and Pandaras published 1475-1640. Part of a work in progress: an updating of the "Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed ... 1475-1640" and of Caroline Spurgeon's "Five…
Listings of references to Chaucer and his work published 1475-1640, updating Caroline Spurgeon's "Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion, 1357-1900."
Assembles references to Chaucer's character and literary reputation recorded in English books 1475-1640, the dates of the Short Title Catalog. Entries include author, title, publisher, and STC and University Microfilm (UMD) numbers and establish the…
Botelho, José Francisco Hillal Tavares de Junqueira.
D.Litt. dissertation. Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul, 2021.
Using "several translation theories," Botelho analyzes selected passages of his own 2013 translation of CT into Portuguese, describing choices made to mediate linguistic and historical distances between Chaucer's poem and Botelho's target audience.…
Botelho, José Francisco.
Literature Compass 15.6 (2018): n.p.
Explores cultural, stylistic, and personal aspects of translating CT into Portuguese verse, focused on making the work "readable . . . to the Brazilian readership" in detail and idiom, but also a "bit old-fashioned" and "familiar in a strange way."
Bott, Robin L.
Medieval Perspectives 6 (1991): 154-61.
When describing her fourth husband, the Wife is silent on topics freely discussed with respect to her other husbands (particularly money, age, and temperment); this suggests the equality of the two in these areas. Their marriage fails because the…
Bott, Robin.
Elizabeth Robertson and Christine M. Rose, eds. Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 189-211.
Death is preferred to rape in both PhyT and "Titus Andonicus" because both works take for granted the notion that rape results in pollution or disease. In this way, the works contribute to negative views of women and their bodies in Western…
Chaucer's MkT and "Le Chevalier de la charrette" illustrate variations on the character Ugolino from Dante's "Inferno." Chaucer manipulates Dante's story to emphasize the Monk's exemplum: the fall of a a great man beset by adverse fortune.
Boucher, Holly Wallace.
Dissertation Abstracts International 48 (1987): 921A.
These two post-Ockham works treat absolute truth as unknowable and explore language and its manipulation, especially in their different renderings of the Griselda story.
The century between Dante and Boccaccio saw the poet's role as prophet deteriorate. Boccaccio and Chaucer found a middle road between blasphemy and reverence wherein language has its own independent set of standards, as one sees in comparing the…
Boulger, James D.
John H. Dorenkamp, ed. Literary Studies: Essays in Memory of Francis A. Drumm ([Worchester, Mass.]: College of the Holy Cross, 1973), pp. 13-32.
Reads the NPT as a reflection of its narrator's moral sentiment, suggesting that the Nun's Priest is an intellectual, neither a stern moralist nor a modern relativist; he is a man content with "aesthetic contemplation" of the "world's failings."
Bourgne, Florence
Cahiers de recherches medievales et humanistes 29 (2015): 199–214.
Examines Chaucer's literary exchanges with contemporary French writers, including his interest in "Flaundres, in Artoys, and Pycardie." Offers
how Chaucer's translation of Rom confirms his fascination with the duchy's growing empire, where Picard…
Bourgne, Florence.
Marie-Claire Rouyer, ed. Le corps dans tous ses etats. (Bordeaux: Universite Michel de Montaigne, 1995), pp. 69-79.
Although the manuscript is a typical instance of "compilatio" and unification (e.g., punctuation of ParsT), the virtues portrayed to illustrate ParsT do not belong to a typical iconographic program. After identifying the three virtues with two…
Bourgne, Florence.
Leo Carruthers and Adrian Papahagi, eds. Prologues et épilogues dans la littérature anglaise du Moyen Âge (Paris: Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 2001), pp. 73-91.
Distinguishes three major types of prologues in late-medieval English literature: organic; a dilation; and a displaced prologue, i.e., a prologue that does not correspond to the document. Examines CT, LGW, TC, and Astr.
After a short discussion of the genesis of CT, Bourgne successively explores its structure (collection of tales; importance of commerce and exchanges; prologues; labyrinth); shifts between oral and written literatures, or audiences and readerships;…
Bourgne, Florence.
Colette Stvanovitch, ed. L'Articulation langue-littérature dans les textes médiévaux anglais (Nancy: Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 2005), pp. 247-68.
Studies Chaucer's Bo to determine which texts, versions, and commentaries Chaucer might have used and which modifications he might have introduced and to what purposes.
Bourgne, Florence.
Martine Yvernault and Sophie Cassagnes-Brouquet, eds. Poètes et artistes: La figure du créateur en europe au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance (Limoges: Presses Universitaires de Limoges, 2007), pp. 185-204.
Drawing on BD, TC, and the Gawain poet, Bourgne studies the influence of architecture on poetry.
Bourgne, Florence.
Danielle Buschinger and Arlette Sancery, eds. Mélanges de langue, littérature et civilisation offerts à André Crépin à l'occasion de son quatre-vingtième anniversaire (Amiens: Presses du Centre d'Études Médiévales, Université de Picardie-Jules Verne, 2008), pp. 53-58.
Studies the function of medieval inscribed or letter-shaped jewels and similar objects, referring to Chaucer's Prioress and to TC.
