Brown, William H.,Jr.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 83 (1984): 492-508.
In TC, Chaucer used the tradition of Joseph of Exeter and Benoit (who had drawn on Dares) to emphasize Troilus's public career rather than his private affairs.
Browne, Megan Palmer.
Carolynn Van Dyke, ed. Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 203-15.
NPT demonstrates the danger of reading "for a single abstract moral" by means of its emphasis on Chauntecleer's humanlike qualities. Among his most human attributes are experiencing and expounding a dream. If "men" refers to both humans and chickens,…
Brownlee, Kevin, and Sylvia Huot, eds.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.
A collection of essays treating literary approaches to the Roman de la Rose, its iconographic tradition, and its reception in and out of France. Includes a revised reprint of Lee Patterson, "For the Wyves Love of Bathe," SAC 7 (1985), no. 156.
Brownlee, Kevin.
Kevin Brownlee and Marina S. Brownlee, eds. New Perspectives: Studies in Honor of Stephen G. Nichols (New York: Peter Lang, 2022), pp. 277-88.
Argues that both Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun--and their "respective 'poetics'"--are "at issue" in BD 321–34 (where the "Roman de la Rose" is named), and in GP 725–46 ("Chaucer's Apology"). These evince Chaucer's deep, sophisticated, and…
Bruckmann, Patricia.
English Language Notes 18 (1981): 166-70.
Although the tree-vine "topos" with which Chaucer describes the embrace of Troilus and Criseyde is a literary commonplace, it usually describes a relationship that is either destructive or supportive. In TC the "topos" is ambiguous and highlights…
The alchemists' discourse echoes Chaucer's, and one might serve as a "metaphor for the other." Alchemists, like poets, were concerned with interpretations of the written word and with concealment.
Bruhn, Mark Joseph.
Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1996): 690A.
Study based on theories of Fowler (genre) and Jakobson (metaphor and metonymy) reveals that English verse romance from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries is typically episodic, with variations attuned to changing intent.
Frisian verse translation of PrPT. A WorldCat record indicates that this was first published in De strikel: Moannebled foar Fryslan (1970), an item not seen.
Brumble, H. David,III.
Explicator 37.1 (1978): 45.
As Meyer Schapiro has noted, the mousetrap, associated with the Prioress in GP 145, is used by Augustine as a symbol of the cross that entraps the devil with the bait of Christ's flesh. The same allegory is found in Peter Lombard's "Sentences."
Brundage, James A.
Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
An exhaustive study of sexual practices and attitudes (both "official" and "popular") and the attempted regulation of sex and marriage under canon law. Chapter 10 deals with the period from 1348 to the Reformation.
Brundage, James A.
Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler, eds. Desire and Sexuality in the Premodern West (Toronto; Buffalo, N.Y.; and London: University of Toronto Press, 1996), pp. 23-41.
Cites FrT as evidence that the archdeacon's court and its officers were "bitterly disliked," in turn evidence of the gap between legal norms of sexual behavior and actual practice in medieval Europe.
Assesses CT as a web of Tales and voices, focusing on KnT, MilT as a response to KnT, the Marriage Group, and Chaucer's Italian sources, especially Boccaccio. Includes sections on the adaptations of KnT in Shakespeare, in Fletcher's "Two Noble…
Brunetti, Giuseppe.
Mariangela Tempera. A Midsummer Night's Dream: Dal Testo alla Scena (Bologna: CLUEB, 1991), pp. 77-85.
Shakespeare's alterations of KnT in A Midsummer Night's Dream and (with John Fletcher) in Two Noble Kinsman resulted from the exigencies of the stage and produced works of a new tenor and thematic emphasis.
Bruns, Gerald L.
Comparative Literature 32 (1980): 113-29.
Theorizes differences between grammatical/rhetorical invention and Romantic ideas of creativity and originality, commenting on Chaucer's TC and, passingly, on his Adam Scriveyn, as well as on Petrarch's adaptation of Boccaccio's tale of Griselda,…
Brunskill, Ann, illus.
London: World's End Press, 1974.
Item not seen; reported in WorldCat with the following note: "Contains Fragment A of the Middle English Romaunt of the Rose, sometimes (as here) attributed to Chaucer, with the parallel section (verses 1-1670) of its Old French ancestor . . . . 'A…
Brunt, Andrew
Notes and Queries 214 (1969): 87-88.
Regards the detail of covering the child's eyes in MLT 2.840-41 as a "homely touch" of pathos, perhaps drawn from child-care advice found in Bartholomaeus Anglicus, "De Proprietatibus Rerum."
Bruso, Steven Paul Woodcock.
Dissertation Abstracts International A78.10 (2017): n.p.
Argues that Middle English romances reflect "medieval awareness of the problems caused by militarization." Includes discussion of KnT where, "for hardened fighting men who have seen years of service in war, combat is always 'real,' and conduct…
Brwn, Sarah Annes.
Review of English Studies 66, no. 275 (2015): 465–79.
Argues that Underdowne's "Theseus and Ariadne" (1566) draws on a number of earlier versions of the myth, including Ovid's "Heroides" and Chaucer's LGW.
Bryan, Jennifer E.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 42 (2020): 73-109.
Extends discussions of ClT as a "political fable," focusing on the theme of common profit and on the Clerk as a philosopher, assessing both in light of Bo as an "account of the philosopher's duty to the common profit." Rejects the "Griseldean values…
Bryan, Jennifer.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 38 (2016): 1-37.
Assesses "why puns matter so much" in MilT, both "speaker puns" and "recipient puns," exploring the yoked concerns of language and intention, and commenting on secular and religious punning in medieval linguistic, artistic, rhetorical, and lexical…
