Cable, Thomas.
C. B. McCully and J. J. Anderson, eds. English Historical Metrics (Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 7-29.
Cable traces a pattern of development in English stress "clashing," affected by stress subordination and stress spacing. Chaucer's "alternating metre has frequent stress subordination, but it is less clear that it makes systematic use of stress…
Investigates the "active tension" between the characterization of the Manciple and the nature of ManT, analyzing differences between the Tale and its sources and analogues (especially characterizations and moralizations) to show how Chaucer…
Cadden, Joan.
Medievalia et Humanistica 14 (1986): 157-71.
Medical and scientific authors discussed sexual matters with clinical frankness. Chaucer's Merchant sees Constantinus Africanus as "a pander, a peddler of love potions."
Cadden, Joan.
Lorraine Daston and Fernando Vidal, eds. The Moral Authority of Nature (Chicago and London : University of Chicago Press, 2004), pp. 207-31.
Cadden traces the "persistent association of nature with moral conduct and social order" in various late medieval texts, from commentaries on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics to vernacular poetry. Focuses on PF as an example in which both desire and…
Cader, Teresa D.
Robert Pack and Jay Parini, eds. Touchstones: American Poets on a Favorite Poem (Hanover, N. H.: University Press of New England, 1996), pp. 31-36.
Explicates the opening eighteen lines of GP to demonstrate Chaucer's rich combination of formal prosodic devices, colloquial variety of register, and thematic resonance. The appeal of his verse "lies primarily in its sound."
Language, money, and gender are "signifying systems" that underlie notions of law and order in medieval tradition. Cady examines how Chaucer presents the interactions of these systems in WBPT, MerT, and PardT.
Cady, Diane.
New Medieval Literatures 17 (2017): 115-49.
Explores medieval analogies between "storytelling and merchandizing" and how both relate to gender in MLT, clarifying connections between the travel narrative, its rhetoric, and the poverty prologue, and commenting on source and analogue relations.…
Cady, Diane.
Craig E. Bertolet and Robert Epstein, eds. Money, Commerce, and Economics in Late Medieval English Literature (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. 109-26.
Explores "links between gender ideology and money in the late Middle Ages," arguing that Chaucer's "depiction of his purse as a faithless female lover" in Purse reflects the "cultural imaginary around money before the emergence of
political…
Cady, Diane.
The Gender of Money in Middle English Literature: Value and Economy in Late Medieval England (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), pp. 125-60.
Explores how medieval travel writers "imagine storytelling and merchandising as analogous enterprises," how they intersect with "gender ideology" wherein "texts are imagined as both feminine corpora and feminized commodities," and how the Man of…
Cahn, Kenneth S.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 2 (1980): 81-119.
Demonstrates that the Merchant engages neither in usury nor in illegal speculation. Selling "sheeldes" (imaginary coins "of accounts" employed in Flanders) is simply a means of "borrowing" English sterling through foreign exchange. The Merchant is…
Caie, Graham [D.]
Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature 46 : 1-12, 2001.
Caie comments on the presence of glosses in English literary manuscripts, arguing that glosses to WBP, MerT, and MLT can be read as attempts by Chaucer (or his scribes) to contain the subversive potential of texts that the glosses accompany.
Summary (without text) and commentary on MerT, arranged in sections, accompanied by glosses to Middle English phrases. Also includes a brief introduction to Chaucer and his backgrounds; commentary on themes, characterization, and style of MerT; the…
Glosses to the early manuscripts of CT may be read as important commentaries on the text. In particular glosses to WBT point out the wife's misquotations and, ultimately, her spiritual deafness to the New Law and the deeper meaning of marriage.
Caie, Graham D.
David Lyle Jeffrey, ed. Chaucer and Scriptural Tradition (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1984), pp. 75-88.
Puzzling marginal glosses in Ellesmere, Hengwrt, and Cambridge Dd.4.24 may be intended to guide interpretation, as was customary even in vernacular texts. Accepted as integral to the text for a century, glosses serve various purposes in MLT, glossed…
Caie, Graham D.
Stig Johansson and Bjorn Tysdahl, eds. Papers from the First Nordic Conference for English Studies. Oslo, 17-19 September, 1980 (Oslo: University of Oslo, Institute of English Studies, 1981), pp. 25-34.
CT glosses often act as commentary and provide source of quotation; they are not mere insertions by scribes or mere source reference.
Caie, Graham D.
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 100: 175-85, 1999.
The extensive and apparently authorial glosses that accompany MLT often underscore contradictions-spiritual against material, internal against external, ascetic against monetary-between Innocent's treatise and the narrator's perspective; these…
Caie, Graham D.
Geoffrey Lester, ed. Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays in Honour of Norman Blake (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), pp. 47-60.
Examines several glosses to MLT to argue that the "glossator's aim is to show the reader how the narrator manipulates texts," helping us to realize that the Man of Law is too interested in "things of this world and is spiritually lacking."
Caie, Graham D.
Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 47: 59-71, 2003
Caie argues that modern editions of medieval texts ought to be accompanied by the glosses that accompany them in the manuscripts. He discusses Chaucer's glosses to CT, as well as his use of the humility topos. The glosses to CT may be Chaucer's own,…
Caie describes features of manuscript ordinatio, material, glossing, etc. to show how late medieval English vernacular manuscripts (especially those of Chaucer and Gower) lay claim to authority even while their authors assert that they are only…
Caie, Graham D.
Special Issue Nordic Journal of English Studies 3.1 (2004): 125-44.
Caie describes how lay people gained access to the Bible in the late Middle Ages through sermons, compendia, and florilegia. Explores how Chaucer characterizes speakers through their uses of the Bible in CT (e.g., quotation, misquotation, selection,…
Caie, Graham D.
Helen Phillips, ed. Chaucer and Religion (Cambridge: Brewer, 2010), pp. 24-34.
Addresses how Chaucer uses religious "collections, florilegia, anthologies, and miscellanies" along with Latin Bibles and patristic sources to develop his characters in CT, and to reflect "their level of biblical knowledge and literacy." Refers to…
Establishes that the suggestion of amorousness is implicit in the basting of (tight-fitting) sleeves in the "Roman de la Rose," Rom, and related illustrations.
Caie, Graham D.
Studies in Medieval Language and Literature 28 (2013): 1-16.
Explores how the presentation of texts, as well as the reader's response to them, might be influenced by new textual forms, focusing on the manuscript (MS Glasgow University Library, Hunter 197), printed (William Thynne's edition), and electronic…
Caie, Graham D.
Päivi Pahta and Andreas H. Jucker, eds. Communicating Early English Manuscripts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 149-61.
Presents evidence that William Thynne used MS Hunter 409 as his source when preparing Rom for his 1532 edition of Chaucer's Workes," "resorting to the French original when in doubt," and recurrently archaizing the text by adding the y-prefix to…
Cains, Anthony G.
Huntington Library Quarterly 58 (1996): 127-57.
Discusses the disbinding, preservation, and rebinding of Huntington Library MS El 26C9. Provides new information regarding earlier bindings, inks, pigments, the relationship of text and decoration, repairs, etc.
