Kang, Minsoo.
Carl Kears and James Paz, eds. Medieval Science Fiction (London: King's College London Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, 2016.), pp. 245-61.
Explores the different attitudes toward the Middle Ages presented in science fiction and fantasy literature, while also arguing for a new subgenre called "catapunk" that depicts the Middle Ages in fuller ways. Mentions the false alchemy in CYT,…
Kears, Carl, and James Paz.
Carl Kears and James Paz, eds. Medieval Science Fiction (London: King's College London Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, 2016), pp. 3-38.
Argues for a consideration of texts as "science fiction," even if they were produced before the Enlightenment, and further defines the genre to include any text that combines interests in science and fiction. Includes comparison of CYT to Shelley's…
Hannam, James.
Carl Kears and James Paz, eds. Medieval Science Fiction London: King's College London Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, 2016(), pp. xv-xxv.
Defines medieval science fiction and provides a survey of types of science appearing in medieval literature, including natural philosophy (in NPT and PF), alchemy (in CYT), herb lore (in GP), and astronomy.
Economou, George D.
Carl Woodring and James Shapiro, eds. The Columbia History of British Poets (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), pp. 55-80.
Surveys Chaucer's works and their reception, emphasizing his innovation and experimentation. Introduced by a brief section on Chaucer's reading, discussions of each of his major works summarize the sources Chaucer used and his adaptations of them.
St. John, Michael.
Carla Dente, George Ferzoco, Miriam Gill, and Marina Spunta, eds. Proteus: The Language of Metamorphosis. Studies in European Cultural Transition, no. 26. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2005, pp. 83-92.
Argues that an "individual's knowledge of history" is presented in HF in a way that is metaphorically linked to alchemical transformation--with "tydynges" either substantially transformed or flying into uncontrollable energy. CYT shows Chaucer's…
Labriola, Albert C.
Carla E. Lucente, ed. The Western Pennsylvania Symposium on World Literature: Selected Proceedings, 1974-1991: A Retrospective (Greensburg, Penn.: Eadmer, 1992), pp. 67-71.
Viewed in light of A Midsummer Night's Dream, KnT is "more comic" than traditionally assumed; its cyclic pattern of "proliferating catastrophes becomes humorous."
North, Richard.
Carlos Prado-Alonso and Rodrigo Pérez Lorido, eds. Of ye Olde Englisch Langage and Textes: New Perspectives on Old and Middle English Languages and Literature (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2020), pp. 301-22.
Reconstructs a career for the Knight, based on the GP description and details from KnT, MkT, and historical sources. Maintains that Chaucer had met the Knight, perhaps in France, and that the Knight was some fifteen years younger than usually…
Luttecke, Francisco.
Carmen Rabell, ed. Ficciones legales: Ensayos sobre ley, retórica y narración (San Juan, P.R.: Maitén III, 2007), pp. 125-39.
Compares ClT with Boccaccio's tale of Griselda and the version by Juan de Timoneda, showing that Chaucer makes more extensive, more explicit, and more radical the class politics of the narrative, critiquing traditional assumptions about marriage and…
Everhart, Deborah.
Carmina Philosophiae 1 (1992): 35-52.
Everhart considers Chaucer's translation strategies in Bo and identifies his unusual one-to-one substitution of "hap" for Latin "casus" in that work. Multiple connotations of "hap" in TC imply a different, playful rhetoric of translation that in turn…
Hazell, Dinah.
Carmina Philosophiae 11: 43-74, 2002.
Explores how the character Theseus in KnT does and does not embody principles of political philosophy found in Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy." Combining "idealism and political exigency," Theseus fulfills the "composite model of an ideal"…
Gwiazda, Piotr.
Carmina Philosophiae 11: 75-91, 2002.
Reads Form Age as a "document of hope"; its lamentation of present ills recalls the Golden Age of the past but does so to provide a blueprint for a perfect and enduring future.
Wong, Jennifer.
Carmina Philosophiae 11: 93-116, 2002.
In mood and details, Form Age and For enable us to see Chaucer's pessimistic attitudes toward "Boethian concerns." Truth, Gent, and Sted also emphasize the wretchedness of the present world rather than recognition of divine order and the consolation…
Grimes, Jodi.
Carmina Philosophiae 19 (2010): 49-68.
MkT reflects Boethian epistemology and demonstrates the limits of human reason. The Monk presents Fortune as in Books 1 and 2 of the "Consolation," but he lacks the faith necessary to understand the divine, while the mocking Knight and Host…
Kaylor, Noel Harold, Jr., Jason Edward Streed, and William H. Watts, eds.
Carmina Philosophiae 2 (1993): 55-104.
Publishes "for the first time a full transcription of an anonymous Middle English translation of Book I of the "Consolation of Philosophy" which is held by the Bodleian Library of Oxford University and catalogued as MS AUCT. F.3.5," drawing the title…
Stock, Lorraine Kochanske.
Carmina Philosophiae 2 (1994): 1-37.
Explores the late medieval traditions of the Wild Man and idealized primitivism, arguing that they are useful in understanding and interpreting Chaucer's additions to the Boethian materials in Form Age.
Dutton, Elisabeth.
Carmina Philosophiae 22 (2013): 1-33.
Reinforces Mark Liddell's argument ("The Academy," March, 1896, n.p.) that "The Boke of Coumfort" (MS Bodley Auct F.33.5) depended upon Chaucer's translation of Boethius in Bo, showing that it adds material from the Latin commentary tradition.…
Murton, Megan.
Carmina Philosophiae 25 (2016): 1-8.
Argues that Chaucer anticipates readings of Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" as centrally devotional rather than philosophical. Chaucer's word choices in Bo bring this emphasis to the fore, especially of the concluding lines of the work.…
Powers, Tom.
Carmina Philosophiae 26-27 (2020 for 2017–18): 1-194.
Presents a modern English translation of the facing-page 1868 edition of Chaucer's Bo. Claims in introduction that "this is not a work of scholarship but of love and gratitude." Adjusts "punctuation and paragraphing of the Middle English text in…
Johnson, Ian.
Carmina Philosophiae 3 (1994): 1-21, 1994.
Compares Troilus's speech on free will and predestination (TC 4) with John Walton's poetic exposition of the source passage in Boethius 5, prose 3. Aware of TC, Walton "competes" with Chaucer and better succeeds in clearly rendering the nuances of…
Astell, Ann W.
Carmina Philosophiae 3: 23-36, 1994.
Argues that Boethius's "Consolation" inspired many "amatory imitations" (especially the "Roman de la Rose" and TC) because its opening scene parallels--and perhaps helped inspire--the visual commonplace of the (love)sick man tended by a female who…
Yager, Susan.
Carmina Philosophiae 4 (1995): 77-88.
With the exception of Dorigen, the women in the Marriage Group (WBPT, ClT, MerT, FranT) are similar to Boethius's character Philosophy: they assume authoritative roles, echo some of her sentiments, and sometimes recall her voice. Dorigen's behavior…
Thundy, Zacharias P.
Carmina Philosophiae 4 (1995): 91-109.
Suggests that as an example of several kinds of prophetic dream described by Macrobius, as an expression of wish fulfillment, and on the authority of Thynne, BD should be called "The Dream of Chaucer." Argues that the poem was probably recited for…
Item not seen. Online information indicates that this volume addresses questions about why Chaucer included his legend of Cleopatra in LGW, his sources for the account, and its success as a poem.
Clements, Pamela.
Carol L. Robinson, Pamela Clements, and Richard Utz, eds. Neomedievalism in the Media: Essays on Film, Television and Electronic Games (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2012), pp. 35-54.
Essay on adaptations of CT, focusing on Powell and Pressburger's "A Canterbury Tale (1944), Piero Pasolini's "I racconti di Canterbury" (1972), and Brian Helgeland's "A Knight's Tale" (2001), which treat CT in a "neomedievalist fashion" and also…
