Bradbury, Jill Marie, Geoffrey Clegg, Stephanie L. Kerschbaum,
Pamela Kincheloe, and Tonya Stremlau.
Literature Compass 16.1 (2019): n.p.
A group of "deaf/Deaf/hard of hearing scholars with wide-ranging expertise in literary studies, rhetoric, disability studies, and Deaf Studies" express "deep reservations" about Robinson's essay.
Bradbury, Nancy Mason, and Carolyn P. Collette.
Chaucer Review 43 (2009): 351-75.
Bradbury and Collette survey historical records and literary representations of clocks in works by Jean Froissart, Henry Suso, Philippe de Mézières, and Christine de Pizan. The article counters the notion that the mechanical clock caused a sudden…
In TC, Chaucer uses not only sophisticated, upper-class materials but also lower-class matter that has "moved 'upward' into the most prestigious and learned layers of medieval discourse." This "gentrification" can best be seen in Chaucer's use of…
Bradbury, Nancy Mason.
Urbana and Chicago: University of illinois Press, 1998.
Explores how Middle English metrical romances reflect "proximity to orally transmitted legends." Treats the "Tale of Gamelyn" and related outlaw ballads as "fragmentary remains of a predominantly oral tradition,"Havelock the Dane" as an early…
Bradbury, Nancy Mason.
Rosalind Field, ed. Tradition and Transformation in Medieval Romance (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1999), pp. 115-24.
Argues that Chaucer's reception of native romance in TC is more positive and artistically significant than has been previously recognized. After examining the elements of metrical romance in Th and arguing that it parodies one extreme of Chaucer's…
Combining cognitive and ethnographic approaches to proverb study, Bradbury examines proverb use in Fragment 1 of CT. She explores the limitations of the cognitive theories of Richard Honeck, on the one hand, and George Lakoff and Mark Turner, on the…
Bradbury, Nancy Mason.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 28 (2006): 237-42.
Bradbury addresses Chaucer's uses of proverbs as a "crucial" form of "quoting behavior"--a form of "soft source" important to Chaucer's art and its reception in manuscripts and early editions. Draws examples from KnT and refers to uses of proverbs in…
Uses examples from CT, TC, and the anonymous Middle English Dialogue of Solomon and Marcolf, read in a context created by Bakhtin's theory of "speech genres," to demonstrate the power of proverbs to transform the situations in which they are…
Bradbury, Nancy Mason.
Jenny Adams and Nancy Mason Bradbury, eds. Medieval Women and Their Objects (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017), pp. 39-55.
Considers the exchange of objects in the Zenobia/Cenobia story in MkT not as a punitive measure for pushing back on gender constructs or a validation of the Monk's blatant misogyny, but rather as a moment of empowerment.
Bradbury, Nancy.
John M. Hill, Bonnie Wheeler, and R. F. Yeager, eds. Essays on Aesthetics and Medieval Literature in Honor of Howell Chickering (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2014), pp. 262-90.
Discusses handcrafted production and aesthetic beauty of the Kelmscott Chaucer and responds to the question "What constitutes 'beauty' in medieval poetry?" Provides historical background on the Kelmscott Press, the relationship between William Morris…
Chaucer had the opportunity, if not any singularly discernible motive, for actually raping Cecily Chaumpaigne, stepdaughter of Alice Perrers. Alice may have been the prototype of Alice of Bath and may even have been the mother of the illegitimate…
Braddy, Haldeen.
Beryl Rowland, ed. Companion to Chaucer Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), pp. 143-59.
The French strain in Chaucer's poetry (though obviously strongest in his earlier career) pervades his "ouvre." So far as is known, however, Chaucer himself never worte an original line in that tongue.
Explores the sexual connotations of "deth" (death) in TC (3.63 and 1577), both instances helping to characterize Pandarus as unscrupulous and the latter encouraging us to see incestuous relations between Pandarus and Criseyde.
Argues that Chaucer is "multivoiced" and a "realist par excellence" whose "verism . . . encompasses minor elements like obscenity and bawdry." Draws examples from TC and CT, WBPT most extensively.
Exemplifies Chaucer's "homely vocabulary" and "naturalistic choice of words," identifying roots in both French and native English, and commenting on instances of idiomatic phrases, rogues' speech, "zesty vocabulary," "oaths and imprecations," sexual…
Assesses Chaucer's "vulgarisms" for the ways that they "reveal" his "expert insight into the uninhibited lives of the folk." Comments on Chaucer's depictions of incest, claims that Chaucer's uses 119 "bawdy terms," and focuses on his robust…
Bradfield, Joanna Lee Scott.
DAI A73.05 (2012): n.p.
In the context of spheres of male and female acts of treason, suggests that women's disloyalty (e.g., Criseyde) was typically seen as simultaneously political and romantic, whereas a male traitor's action could be more easily compartmentalized, as in…
Bradley, Ann.
Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 4763A.
Chaucer's Troilus derives from three reflections of the "Iliad": classical, the Christian-allegorical, and the romance. Sarpedon's feast is central to TC, with classical, Scholastic, and finally Dantesque treatment of free will, fate, and…
Bradley, D. R.
Philological Quarterly 39 (1960): 122-25.
Adduces details and emphases in Virgil's "Aeneid" to suggest that Chaucer used it directly in composing his Dido legend in LGW, though perhaps in combination with parallel sources.
Bradley, Nancy Warren.
Christianity and Literature 66.3 (2017): 386-403.
Contends that although "Pearl" and PrPT treat the Eucharist as orthodox, they nonetheless evoke religious debates concerning Lollardy and, relatedly, continental female mysticism. Argues that both the works feminize sacramental work, preach in ways…
Bradley, Sister Ritamary, C. H. M.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 55 (1956): 324-30.
Comments on how "the medieval mirror and wisdom metaphor is utilized" in WBP and helps to characterize the Wife, ironically, as a figure of comic "worldly prudence" rather than true wisdom. Cites other examples from CT of ironic characterization…
Brady, Lindy, and Andrew Rabin.
Notes and Queries 263 (2018): 174-77.
Demonstrates that in his remarks on distilling mercury, the Canon's Yeoman draws from Arnald Villanova's "De secretis" rather than from the "Rosarium," as the Yeoman claims (CYT 8.1028-29). Claims that Chaucer's misidentification plausibly springs…
Brady, Lindy.
Notes and Queries 257 (2012): 163-66.
"Arthur and Gorlagon" and WBPT share numerous misogynist topoi as well as the plot element of a mission to understand women. The Latin romance is thus "a more significant analogue for the combined Prologue and Tale . . . than has been recognized."
Braeger, Peter C.
Susanna Greer Fein, David Raybin, and Peter C. Braeger, eds. Rebels and Rivals: The Contestive Spirit in The Canterbury Tales. Studies in Medieval Culture, no. 29 (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1991), pp. 223-26.
Abstract of an article unfinished because of the author's death, examining the more than thirty verbal contexts for "Fortune."
