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Brookhouse, Christopher.   Larry D. Benson, ed. The Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature. Harvard English Studies, no. 5 (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974), pp. 67-80.
Appreciative comments on BD, HF, TC, and CT, addressing their concerns with death, isolation, knowledge of self, and above all, the hman need for self-disclosure in confronting these concerns. The human need for narrative is particularly evident in…

Brooks, Douglas, and Alastair Fowler.   Medium Aevum 39 (1970): 123-46.
Identifies parallels between the "planetary deities" and the human characters in KnT; describes the "iconology" of Lygurge and Emetreus, particularly the psychological implications of their astrological affiliations; and explores the physiognomic,…

Brooks, Freya Elizabeth Paintin.   Open access Ph.D. dissertation. University of Leicester, 2018. Available at EThOS: E-Theses Online Service (registration required). Accessed February 5, 2021.
"[R]evisits" the manuscripts of CT "in order to piece together the evidence of women's involvement in the consumption and circulation of this work," using "visualisations to map the social networks of women connected to the manuscripts and explore…

Brooks, Harold Fletcher.   London: Methuen; New York: Barnes & Noble, 1962.
Assesses the aesthetic success of the techniques and devices used to characterize and arrange the pilgrims in GP, treating them in "five successive groups" and commenting on degrees of naturalism, pairings, significant details, and various "gamuts in…

Brooks, Karen.   New York: William Morrow, 2014.
Historical novel set in late-medieval England. Includes a character modeled on the Wife of Bath: Alyson, who owns a bathhouse/brothel in Southwark. Originally published as "The Brewer's Tale," North Sydney: Harlequin, 2014; 584 pp.

Brooks, Karen.   New York: William Morrow, 2022 (originally published Sydney: Harlequin, 2021).
Historical novel in which the setting, plot, and first-person protagonist, Eleanor (later Alyson) are based on WBPT, with many characters adapted from history and from CT, including Chaucer. Includes a glossary, list of historical characters,…

Brooks, Michelle.   Studies in Philology 119 (2022): 209-32.
Examines Astr as a work on literature that uses the astrolabe to overcome geographical separation between father and son. A narrative of family reunion then writes the son out of the text, while apophasis keeps the son at its center. Also notes how…

Brooks, Polly Schoyer, and Nancy Zinsser Walworth.   Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1966.
Social history of western medieval Europe from the "Barbarian Invasions" to "The Last of the Middle Ages," presented for young adults. The final section of the book (pp. 221-46) focuses on Chaucer, imaginatively reconstructing his daily life and…

Brophy, Don.   New York: BlueBridge, 2007.
Includes a description of CT as "a religious work in the broad sense of that word" that "makes fine reading, even today."

Brosamer, Matthew James.   Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 4643A.
Assesses gluttony in CT and Piers Plowman, arguing that each presents consumption as both an occasion of the sin and part of its symbolic apparatus. In these works and in scriptural and patristic traditions, gluttony signifies human potential for all…

Brosamer, Matthew.   Donka Minkova and Theresa Tinkle, eds. Chaucer and the Challenges of Medievalism: Studies in Honor of H. A. Kelly (Frankfurt and New York : Peter Lang, 2003), pp. 235-51.
Brosamer investigates hell-mouth imagery in PardT, MLT, and LGWP, drawing upon a number of sources, especially De miseria condicionis humane by Pope Innocent III. The corruption of sin has an alimentary dimension, from ingestion to defecation.

Brosamer, Matthew.   Joyce Moss and Lorraine Valestuk, British and Irish Literature and Its Times; Celtic Migrations to the Reform Bill (Beginnings-1830s). World Literatures and Its Times, no. 3 (Detroit: Gale, 2001), pp. 43-53.
Introductory description of CT, discussed in light of Chaucer's life and several literary concerns: estates satire, the role of the Church and pilgrimage, the "battle of the sexes," and sources. Includes plot summaries of MilT, WBPT, FranT, and NPT.

Brosnahan, Leger.   Chaucer Review 26 (1992): 424-31.
The pendant in the Ellesmere and Hoccleve portraits of Chaucer is a "penner" (not an ampulla, as previously argued), referring specifically to Chaucer as a writer. The penner, coupled with the rosary held by the poet in a number of portraits,…

Brosnahan, Leger.   Chaucer Review 21 (1986): 45-52.
"Hood" is used both literally and figuratively by Chaucer. The problematic occurrence in TC 2.954 probably means "Don't be deferential."

Brosnahan, Leger.   Chaucer Review 16 (1982): 293-310.
Despite the textual authority of the half line (GP A 164) "and preestes thre," arguments from an analysis of Chaucer's practice in the portrayal of other pilgrims suggest that the words should be suppressed in a modern edition. There were probably…

Brosnahan, Leger.   Larry D. Benson, ed. The Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature. Harvard English Studies, no. 5 (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974), pp. 11-18.
Explains the imagery of BD 646 as a literary application of a commonplace proverb; the line is drawn from Machaut and implies the instability of Fortune.

Brosnahan, Leger.   Studies in Philology 58 (1961): 468-82.
Reviews and evaluates discussions of the authenticity of "the six-line continuation and the final couplet of the Nun's Priest's epilogue," agreeing on textual grounds with the "traditional judgment of scholars" that the lines are "inauthentic" and…

Broughton-Willet, Thomas Howard.   Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1993): 3522A.
Discusses thematic and structural implications of parody and analogy in various Chaucerian works and other medival literature.

Broughton, Bradford B.   Bradford B. Broughton, ed. Twenty-Seven to One: A Potpourri of Humanistic Material Presented to Dr. Donald Gale Stillman on the Occasion of His Retirement from Clarkson College of Technology ([Potsdam, N. Y.], 1970), pp. 71-84.
Assesses various historical documents that pertain to the marital life and legacy of John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster, arguing that the evidence indicates John was dedicated to Blanche, even after her death.

Broughton, Laurel   Helen Phillips, ed. Chaucer and Religion (Cambridge: Brewer, 2010), pp. 111-31.
Studies Chaucer's tales that revolve around miracles and saints. Maintains that SNT, PrT, and MLT reveal "Chaucer's artistry in deploying his understanding of medieval English piety."

Broughton, Laurel.   Jean E. Godsall-Myers, ed. Speaking in the Medieval World (Boston: Brill, 2003), 43-63.
By adjusting his source, Chaucer allows the Knight to construct a Theseus who appears noble and positively inclined toward women. Chaucer also reminds us, however, that Theseus is not always the champion of women and the exemplar of chivalry. A…

Brown, Alfie.   Postmedieval 8 (2017): 463-78.
Argues that, rooted in "animality" that is "carefully performed and constructed," the humor of MilT "functions to erect a conception of humanity over and against the ostracized and inferior semi-human." The Miller performs his animality, and,…

Brown, Andy.   New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
Explores how tree climbers have been represented in European and North American literature and art, including discussion of MerT in a section on "questionable gendered attitudes about women climbing trees," traced back to the biblical Garden of Eden.…

Brown, Ashley, ed.
Kimmey, John L., ed.   Columbus, Ohio: Merrill, 1968.
A classroom anthology of sixteen examples of the literary mode of romance, including FranT in Nevill Coghill's modern poetic translation. The volume describes the mode of romance, offers brief biographies of the writers included, and lists discussion…

Brown, Ashley, ed.
Kimmey, John L., ed.   Columbus, Ohio: Merrill, 1968.
A classroom anthology of twelve examples of the literary mode of comedy, including MerT in Nevill Coghill's modern poetic translation. The volume describes the mode of comedy, offers brief biographies of the writers included, and lists discussion…
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