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Ten Summoner’s Tales.
Sting.
[Sumner, Gordon Matthew Thomas]. Hollywood, CA: A & M Records, 1993.
[Sumner, Gordon Matthew Thomas]. Hollywood, CA: A & M Records, 1993.
The title alludes to SumT, and the musician’s surname derives from “summoner”/”somnour.” The ten songs vary in style and genre.
Apocalyptic Mentalities in Late-Medieval England.
Hackbarth, Steven A.
Ph.D. Dissertation. Marquette University, 2014. ii, 245 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 76.04(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global and at https://epublications.marquette.edu/dissertations_mu/411/.
Argues that the "study of the apocalyptic in the English literature of the late fourteenth cannot boil down simply to the tracing of sources or to historicist (New and otherwise) readings of contemporary texts and artifacts," and pursues, instead,…
Subtle Arts: Practical Science and Middle English Literature.
Stadolnik, Joseph.
Ph.D. Dissertation. Yale University, 2017. Dissertation Abstracts International A78.11(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.
Shows how "Middle English writers tested the capabilities of their vernacular, experimenting with new genres and styles of literary composition, as well as with discursive conventions and practices borrowed from nonliterary fields," particularly the…
The "Romance of the Rose" in Fourteenth-Century England.
Knox, Philip.
D.Phil. Dissertation. University of Oxford, 2015. Dissertation Abstracts International C75.01. A redacted version (without illus.) is fully accessible via https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d55e2158-a9ee-4bf2-b8e4-98d7e0c6a598. Abstract available via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses International.
Traces "the afterlife of the 'Romance of the Rose' in fourteenth-century England, arguing that the RR "exercised its influence on fourteenth-century English literature in two principal ways": 1) "the development of a self-reflexive focus on how…
Theories of Poetry, 1256-1400.
Orton, Daniel.
DPhil. Dissertation. University of Oxford, 2019. v, 282 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International C83.06(E). Freely accessible at https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:dfc9eb17-71d5-425f-a7b1-2e835310e322; abstract available via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.
Surveys interrelated attitudes toward the "status and function of poetry" in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Europe, limning poetry's exalted status in the Parisian schools and in the writings of Roger Bacon and Alberto Mussato, and exemplifying…
Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales": The Position of Fragment VII.
Al-Ibia, Salim E.
Studies in Language and Literature (Montreal) 11.1 (2015): 57-61.
Supports the so-called "Bradshaw Shift" that recommends moving fragment VII of CT to a position just after fragment II, arguing that the move better enhances the "thematic relationship among" ShT, and the fabliaux of fragment I, MilT, and RvT.
Deciphering the Manuscript Page: The "Mise-en-Page" of Chaucer, Gower, and Hoccleve Manuscripts.
Nafde, Aditi.
D.Phil Dissertation. University of Oxford, 2012. Dissertation Abstracts International C73.08 and C81.07(E). Fully accessible at https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b2c67783-b797-494a-b792-368c14d1fe49. Abstract available via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.
Includes analysis the "mise-en-page" of twenty-four Chaucer manuscripts, including assessment of "borders, initials, paraphs, rubrics, running titles, speaker markers, glosses and notes," and arguing that--like Gower and Hoccleve manuscripts--they…
Productive Misogyny in Medieval and Early Modern Literature: Women, Justice, and Social Order.
Herrold, Megan.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Southern California, 2018. Dissertation Abstracts International A84.12(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.
Explores how Chaucer, Gower, Spenser, Shakespeare, Aemilia Lanyer, and other writers "appropriate conventionally misogynistic figures to rethink radically the ethical and political capacities of personhood, and therefore justice, in society."…
An Edition of Oxford, Trinity College, MS 29.
Gillhammer, Cosima Clara.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Oxford, 2020. Dissertation Abstracts International C82.02(E). Abstract available via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses. Fully accessible via https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c3244a71-a6fa-4646-aeb3-9902e055a290.
Edits Oxford, Trinity College, MS 29, a moralized "compilation of reworked extracts from a wide range of sources, forming a history of the world beginning with the creation of man and breaking off incompletely at the time of Hannibal." The…
Politics in Translation: Language, War, and Lyric Form in Francophone Europe, 1337-1400.
Strakhov, Yelizaveta. [Strakhov, Elizaveta].
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Pennsylvania, 2014. Dissertation Abstracts International A76.01(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.
Studies aesthetic and political relations between France and Francophone England during the Hundred Years' War, with particular attention to uses and politics of the "formes fixes" of lyric poetry among French writers, Chaucer, and Gower. Examines…
Linguam Ad Loquendum: Writing a Vernacular Identity in Medieval and Early Modern England.
Wagner, Erin Kathleen.
Wagner, Erin Kathleen. Linguam Ad Loquendum: Writing a Vernacular Identity in Medieval and Early Modern England. Ph.D. Dissertation. Ohio State University, 2015. Dissertation Abstracts International A81.12(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Abstracts.
Studies uses of and attitudes toward vernacular English in late-medieval and early modern writing, literary and religious, from Wyclif and the Lollards to Tyndale and More. Includes comparison of ManT with Gower's analogous Tale of Phebus and…
Re-forming the Past: The Medieval Romance Book as a Dynamic Site of Memory.
Ensley, Mimi.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Notre Dame, 2019. Dissertation Abstracts International A81.09(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (last accessed March 31, 2025).
Includes recurrent comments on early modern reception of Chaucer and his status as a laureate poet, with focused attention on the spurious attribution to Chaucer of the romance "Kynge Rycharde cuer du lyon" found in an annotation to the work in the…
Negotiating Violence at the Feast in Medieval British Texts.
Elmes, Melissa Ridley.
Ph.D. Dissertation. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2016. Dissertation Abstracts International A77.11(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses and at https://libres.uncg.edu/ir/listing.aspx?id=19566.
From Elmes's abstract: "Making use of theoretical underpinnings from anthropology and history that characterize the feast as a culturally essential event and medieval violence as a rational and strategically-employed tool of constraint, coercion, and…
Urban Chaucer: Fragmented Fellowships and Troubled Teleologies in Some Late Fourteenth-Century Texts.
Turner, Marion.
Turner, Marion. Urban Chaucer: Fragmented Fellowships and Troubled Teleologies in Some Late Fourteenth-Century Texts. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Oxford, 2002. Dissertation Abstracts International C70.03. Abstract available via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.
"This thesis examines the depiction of social antagonism in certain texts written in the 1380s and 1390s, in the London area. It focuses on Chaucer, looking at 'Troilus and Criseyde' and the 'Canterbury Tales' alongside other, contemporary texts.…
The Sundial.
Jackson, Shirley.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1958.
A novel of family tensions, centering on death, possessiveness, and the legacy of a household estate. A central image is the sundial of the title, on display in the family library. Inscribed on the sundial is a half-line quotation of KnT 1.2777:…
Chaucer's Divided "I": Narrative Voice and Performance Dynamics in Late Fourteenth-Century English Literature.
McDuffie, Isaac
Ph.D. Dissertation. Louisiana State University, 2017.
Freely accessible at https://repository.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/4182/; accessed February 5, 2025.
Freely accessible at https://repository.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/4182/; accessed February 5, 2025.
Argues that Chaucer's works "reflect an increasing awareness of the fragility of the author's implied voice and the dangers of misprision in a listening reception," largely an effect of the rise of English as a written language and tensions between…
The Road to Canterbury.
Heartfield, Kate.
[California]: Choice of Games, 2018.
Item not seen. The WorldCat record indicates that this “continually updated,” interactive historical novel involves Chaucer and Philippa de Roet on a pilgrimage to Canterbury, with the reader joining the pilgrimage and helping to shape the plot.
Chaucer as a Prose Writer.
Wilson, Herman Pledger.
Dissertation Abstracts 16.11 (1956): 2154.
Identifies the "characteristics" of Chaucer's prose style in Bo, Mel, ParT, and Astr, comparing and contrasting them, and arguing that his reputation as a prose stylist has suffered because of linguistic changes and changes in taste.
Studies in Chaucer's Imagery.
Tornwall, William Allen.
Dissertation Abstracts 16.09 (1956): 1676.
Ranges throughout Chaucer's corpus, exploring imagery in a wide variety of works, arranged in five chapters: "Chaucer's Imagery and the Colors of Rhetoric," "The Appropriateness of the Subject Matter in Chaucer's Imagery," "Chaucer's Treatment of…
Chaucer and Dante: A Revaluation.
Schless, Howard H.
Dissertation Abstracts 16.09 (1956): 1675.
Comments on Chaucer's possible access to Dante's works before traveling to Italy in 1372, and explores the "literary relationship of the two writers," arguing that "Chaucer drew on Dante not heavily but over many years," principally for the Ugolino…
Chaucers Stellung in der Mittelalterlichen Literatur.
Kleinstück, Johannes Walter.
Hamburg: Cram, de Gruyter & Co., 1956.
Surveys courtly virtues in Chaucer ("courtoisie," "franchise," "gentillesse," "honour," "joie," "pitie," etc.) and the vices which are grounded in pride and the pursuits of fortune. Focuses on KnT when examining the virtues and on the fabliaux for…
Two Texts of the "Disticha Catonis" and Its Commentary, with Special Reference to Chaucer, Langland, and Gower.
Hazelton, Richard Marquard.
Dissertation Abstracts 16 (1956)
Edits "two glossed texts" of the "Disticha Catonis," constructed for use by students of Chaucer, Langland, and Gower. The Introduction juxtaposes passages from their poetry with "Catonian materials" to indicate the "poets' indebtedness" to the text…
Middle English: Chaucer.
Bazire, Joyce.
Year's Work in English Studies 35 (1956): 55-66.
A discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1954 divided into four sections: General, CT, TC, and Other Works.
Artistry in Troilus and Criseyde: A Study of Chronology, Structure, Characterization, and Purpose.
Thompson, Louis Felsinger.
Dissertation Abstracts 20.05 (1959): 1771.
Compares TC with Boccaccio's "Filostrato," arguing that Chaucer "adapted more portions" of it "than has previously been noticed," subordinating formulas, conventions, thematic concerns, and moral concerns to artful construction and "psychological…
"Le Jaloux" and History: A Study in Mediaeval Comic Convention.
Olson, Paul A.
Dissertation Abstracts 19.10 (1959): 2603.
Places the medieval "Jaloux tale" in "its philosophic and historical framework," rooted in the marriage controversies of Sts. Augustine and Jerome with the Pelagians, Manichee, and Jovinians Traces the tradition in French humanists of the twelfth and…