Brennan, John P.
English Language Notes 17.2 (1979-80): 15-18.
The alliterative phrase "here and houne," usually related to "hare and hound," may derive from an unattested OE formula meaning "the host and the household," an interpretation consistent with the context.
Brennan, John P.
Studies in Philology 70 (1973): 243-51.
Surveys critical discussions of Chaucer's authorship of the "substantive" glosses that appear in his manuscripts, shows that the glosses to PrT 7.579-85 derive from Jerome's "Adversus Jovinianum" rather than from the liturgy of the Holy Innocents,…
Brennan, John Patrick, Jr.
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.11 (1968): 4622-23A.
Describes the influence of Jerome's "Adversus Jovinianum" on Chaucer, especially in FranT and WBP, and explains why the Pembrock MS 234, edited here, is "closer to Chaucer's source manuscript than any of the other" forty-two manuscripts considered…
Brenner, Caitlin R.
Ph.D. Dissertation. Texas A&M University, 2019. vi, 158 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International A83.11(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global and via https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/items/a54ed9ad-791b-44fa-9fc6-810cb25a111c; accessed August 24, 2025.
Investigates "gendered metaphors of translation" in three late-medieval compilations of adaptations from Ovid's "Heroides"--LGW, Gower's "Confessio Amantis," and Bokenham's "Legendys of Hooly Wummen"--addressing them as "the authors' most overt…
Describes relations between structure and theme in TC, demonstrating how the poem's pattern of action and verbal parallels induce "classical symmetry" and function as a "metaphor of harmony and order, while an "underlying chaos" of "inverted…
Brent, Harry.
Phillip C. Boardman, ed., and Robert Gorrell, pref. The Legacy of Language: A Tribute to Charlton Laird (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1987), pp. 1-19.
At a memorial conference for Charlton Laird, a former student pays tribute to the late medievalist and Chaucer scholar.
Brent, Jonathan.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 45 (2023): 171-203.
Assesses the "political and historical meaning" of Trevet's version of the story of Constance--"part of [the] longer world history" of his "Cronicles" and the occasion in it when idolatry is "reformulated as Islam." Includes occasional comments on…
Brenzel, Patrick.
Open access Ph.D. dissertation (Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, 2018). Available at https://hss-opus.ub.ruhr-.de/opus4/frontdoor/index/index/year/2020/docId/7373 (accessed November 23, 2022).
Clarifies the ambiguities of nobility and "gentilesse" in Chaucer's era, and examines the presentation of them in CT, particularly in WBT, ClT, NPT, and FranT, arguing that the Franklin's views align with Chaucer's own, i.e., both view virtues…
Brereton, Georgine E.
Medium Aevum 27 (1958): 173-74.
Proposes that an error of transmission in Chaucer's source (Frère Renaud de Louens' "Livre de Mellibee et Prudence") accounts for the inaccurate claim in Mel: that Ovid says a weasel can slay a bull. The proposed error confuses Ovid's "viper"…
Breslin, Carol Ann.
Dissertation Abstracts International 39 (1978): 2246A.
A study of unity in CT focuses upon justice and law. Commentaries available to Chaucer and his audience include the writings of Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, and Sacred Scripture. Legal texts include Glanville, Bracton, Horn, and court records. …
Breuer, Heidi, and Jeff Schoneman.
Kathleen A. Bishop, ed. Standing in the Shadow of the Master? Chaucerian Influences and Interpretations (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010), pp. 287-314.
Teachers and students need to address explicitly the relevance of literary discourses to cultural practices--an approach best cultivated in a dialogic environment.
Breuer, Heidi.
Kathleen A. Bishop, ed. "The Canterbury Tales" Revisited--21st Century Interpretations (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2008), pp. 1-15.
Identifies several aspects of medieval legal discourse concerning rape and explores how they "inform the representation of rape" in RvT. Also assesses implications of modern resistance to recognizing the two rapes in RvT, viewing that resistance as…
Examines the narrative devices of WBP, classifying the Wife's oaths, metaphors, logic, euphemisms, and proverbs and suggesting that her appropriations of these traditional devices underpin her broader challenge to male authority.
Breuer, Horst.
Wilhelm G. Busse, ed. Anglistentag 1991 Dusseldorf: Proceedings (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1992), pp. 418-27.
Tallies devices in WBP whereby Chaucer sought to "criticize and belittle his own creation": blasphemy, intrusions of male discourse, contradiction, and various forms of distortion and exaggeration. But the Wife's "loud, polemical voice ... carries…
Breuer, Rolf.
Uwe Boker, Manfred Markus, and Ranier Schowerling, eds. The Living Middle Ages: Studies in Mediaeval English Literature and Its Tradition (Stuttgart: Belser, 1989), pp. 183-95.
Treats the concept of tragedy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, touching on TC and MkT.
Brewer, Charlotte, and Barry Windeatt, eds.
Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2013.
Essays honoring the extensive career, range, and importance of Derek Brewer's influence on medieval English scholarship. For essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for Traditions and Innovations in the Study of Middle English Literature under…
Brewer, Charlotte.
Richard Firth Green and Linne R. Mooney, eds. Interstices: Studies in Middle English and Anglo-Latin Texts in Honour of A. G. Rigg (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004), pp. 15-43.
Examines several key terms in textual/editorial theory, exploring their application to various editions of Chaucer--Skeat's edition, Pollard's Globe edition, and editions by Zupitza, Koch, Manly and Rickert, and Robinson. The terms are used…
Brewer, Charlotte.
Charlotte Brewer and Barry Windeatt, eds. Traditions and Innovations in the Study of Middle English Literature: The Influence of Derek Brewer (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2013), pp. 215-61.
Analyzes the history of the OED's medieval portion, and emphasizes how Chaucer's "linguistic innovativeness" is shaped by the "substance of OED and MED quotations and definitions." Includes extensive appendix of OED's record of vocabulary in BD.
Brewer, Charlotte.
Review of English Studies 66, no. 276 (2015): 744–65.
Argues that while quotations of Austen in the revised OED have increased in number overall, those of female authors are still extraordinarily low when compared to the canonical literary male authors: Shakespeare (c. 33,000), Walter Scott (c. 15,000),…
Brewer, D. R., ed.
London and Edinburgh: Nelson, 1960.
An edition of PF based on University of Cambridge Library MS Gg.4.27, with end-of-text textual and explanatory notes, modern punctuation, and original spelling. The Introduction (pp. 1-68) presents the poem as the "best of Chaucer's shorter poems,"…
Brewer, D. S.
A. C. Cawley, ed. Chaucer's Mind and Art (New York: Barnes & Noble; Edinburgh and London: Oliver & Boyd, 1969), pp. 3-28.
Discusses representative examples of book-length studies of Chaucer written in the twentieth century (by Kittredge, Chesterton, Lowes, Dempster, Speirs, Donaldson, Muscatine, Payne, and Robertson); surveys several "main literary topics" in Chaucer…
Contemplates social status and social mobility in Chaucer's works, considering them in light of contemporaneous attitudes. Focuses on Chaucer's uses of "degree" and the ladder of degree as a "symbol of social mobility," inflected by Chaucer's comic…
Brewer, D. S.
D. S. Brewer, ed. Chaucer and Chaucerians: Critical Studies in Middle English Literature (University: University of Alabama Press; London: Nelson, 1966), pp. 1-38.
Describes the conditions under which Chaucer developed his verse and prose styles, focusing on the former. Argues that English verse romances are the foundation of Chaucer's poetic style to which he "grafted" the continental traditions of "fin…
Brewer, D. S.
D. S. Brewer, ed. Chaucer and Chaucerians: Critical Studies in Middle English Literature (University: University of Alabama Press; London: Nelson, 1966), pp. 240-70.
Surveys the reception of Chaucer as a poet, century by century, commenting recurrently on the understanding and appreciation of his rhetoric and meter, humor and moral seriousness, linguistic obscurity, relations with sources, characterization, and…
