Jansohn, Christa.
Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 175 (2023): 290-309.
Describes aspects of late medieval celebrations--focusing on feasting--to provide context for celebratory scenes in Middle English literature: "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" compared with "Cleanness"; Chaucer's KnT, WBT, SqT, the GP description of…
Ten essays by various authors on topics in Middle English and Anglo-Norman studies, with an introduction by the editors and a comprehensive index. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Gender, Poetry, and the Form of Thought in Later…
Trigg, Stephanie.
Jennifer Jahner and Ingrid Nelson, eds. Gender, Poetry, and the Form of Thought in Later Medieval Literature: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth A. Robertson (Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University Press, 2022), pp. 25-46.
Explicates the shift from Criseyde's bright thoughts of love to cloudy ones in TC, II.764ff., part of a "broader pattern of sun and cloud imagery" in the poem. Uses cognition theory and resonances with Boethius's "Consolatio" to argue that the…
Taylor, Jamie.
Jennifer Jahner and Ingrid Nelson, eds. Gender, Poetry, and the Form of Thought in Later Medieval Literature: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth A. Robertson (Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University Press, 2022), pp. 3-24.
Articulates similarities and differences between dreaming and insomnia as devices in late medieval dream-vision prologues, following Emmanuel Levinas's suggestion that "the self-alienation experienced by the insomniac can be understood as a release…
Simpson, James.
Jennifer Jahner and Ingrid Nelson, eds. Gender, Poetry, and the Form of Thought in Later Medieval Literature: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth A. Robertson (Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University Press, 2022), pp. 201-21.
Considers WBPT as a "not yet" text, i.e., one that "points to a future resolution" without providing it. Rich in "represented reception" on the pilgrimage and in "contested reception" in manuscript glossing, critical response, and adaptation, the…
Hutton, Ronald.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022.
Surveys the origins and development of versions of the fairy queen and related figures in western tradition. Includes a brief description of Chaucer's contribution to this development in WBP, 860 ("The elf-queen") where he blends "the classic image…
Hardun, Katherine Jane.
Ph.D. dissertation (University of California, Riverside, 2023), Dissertation Abstracts International A85.07(E).
Examines the history and literature of Richard II "through a queer theoretical lens," including discussion of TC, Maidstone's "Concordia," Shakespeare's "Richard II "(and its performance history), and modern fiction. Explores the "cultural norm of…
Fisher, Matthew.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 45 (2023): 313-61.
Attributes the copying of British Library, MS Cotton Appendix XVI ("Statuta Angliae") and nineteen Chancery documents to Richard Sotheworth, whose will records the earliest known ownership of a CT manuscript. Uses these and related documents to…
Feinstein, Sandy
Wang, Bryan Shawn.
Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 23 (2023): 349-61.
Reflects on the teaching of a two-instructor, interdisciplinary course in literature and molecular biology designed for undergraduate general education, emphasizing changes brought about by COVID-19 in the course's design, assignments, and subtending…
Ensley, Mimi.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023.
Studies post-Reformation understandings and treatments of romance--a "fluid" genre--for the ways they disclose "subtle continuity" across the traditional divide between medieval and Renaissance. Focuses on resistance to erasure of the genre,…
Edwards. Jennifer C.
Santa Barbara: Greenwood, 2022.
Introductory survey of the conditions and experiences of women in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England, designed for pedagogical use. Includes chapters on Marriage, Motherhood, Royal and Noblewomen, Urban and Rural Women, Sex and Sexuality, and…
Drury Hall, Anne.
South Bend, Ind.: Saint Augustine’s Press, 2023.
Reflects on reading and responding to "Great Books," offering appreciative descriptions of samples from Plato, Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and Melville, and asserting their success in conveying moral philosophy artfully, despite the…
Dragu, Jacqueline.
Ph.D. dissertation (University of Chicago, 2023), Dissertation Abstracts International A84.12(E). Accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (accessed January 31, 2025).
Discusses psychoanalytic aspects of melancholy and subjectivity in several medieval texts, including BD and PrT. The "logic of identification" in BD signals that "melancholia might be seen as more open-ended than a pathology constantly teetering on…
Dominick, Gina A.
Ph.D. dissertation (New York University, 2022), Dissertation Abstracts International A 84.01(E).
Explores how texts such as Julian of Norwich's "A Revelation of Divine Love," CT, and Thomas Malory's "Morte Darthur" "unsettle the medieval aesthetic-ethical form of "formosa deformitas," or, the ‘beautiful ugly,’ ” and "bring attention to the…
Davies, Daniel.
Ph.D. dissertation (University of Pennsylvania, 2021), Dissertation Abstracts International A83.02(E). Freely accessible at https://repository.upenn.edu/entities/publication/59a38ac4-5b08-41e6-a701-26a6f3939e86 (accessed January 30, 2025).
Argues that "the nascent art of international relations . . . among England, Scotland, and France, creates a heightened awareness of the connections between literary and political mediation central to the distinct textures of medieval wartime."…
Contzen, Eva von.
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 53 (2023) 597-622.
Focuses on three different approaches to CT, examines the ways that scholars have attempted to avoid ascribing intention to Chaucer, and concludes that "when engaging with Chaucer, critics need to embrace intention as a key generator in the…
Cornelius, Ian.
Ardis Butterfield, Ian Johnson, and Andrew Kraebel, eds. Literary Theory and Criticism in the Later Middle Ages: Interpretation, Invention, Imagination (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. 220-48.
Explains how George Colvile's 1556 translation of Boethius's "Consolatio" is a "medieval throwback," tracing its marginal explanatory notes to medieval commentary and finding similar commentary "intercalated" with Boethius's poems, tentatively…
Carruthers, Mary.
Ardis Butterfield, Ian Johnson, and Andrew Kraebel, eds. Literary Theory and Criticism in the Later Middle Ages: Interpretation, Invention, Imagination (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. 206-19.
Explores the roles of distress, dislocation, and thoughtfulness in medieval academic discourse, theology, and literary invention. Includes comments on the scene of encountering marvels in SqT (81ff., esp. 189–95)--among the "many [examples] to…
Brown, Peter, and Jan Čermák, eds.
Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2023.
Eleven essays by various authors on topics in the social, literary, and cultural relations between England and Bohemia in the late fourteenth century, embodied in the marriage between Richard II and Anne of Bohemia. The introduction by the editors…
Boffey, Julia
Edwards, A. S. G.
Peter Brown and Jan Čermák, eds. England and Bohemia in the Age of Chaucer (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2023), pp. 203-13.
Assesses evidence of influence on Chaucer of Bohemian culture, focusing on transmission of this culture and on the "possible role" of Anne of Bohemia as influence on and "likely commissioner" of LGW, attending especially to the “queenly rulers”…
Petrikova, Klara.
Peter Brown and Jan Čermák, eds. England and Bohemia in the Age of Chaucer (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2023), pp. 159-67.
Describes two fifteenth-century Czech "responses" to Petrarch's tale of Griselda, one in Latin and its translation into Czech: "Historia infidelis mulieris" and "O Bryzelde rec zla o zle" (An Evil Tale of Evil Briselda). Shows how "the Bohemian text…
Dienstbier, Jan.
Peter Brown and Jan Čermák, eds. England and Bohemia in the Age of Chaucer (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2023), pp. 168-80; 6 b&w illus.
Provides context for the link between death and the tapping of a barrel in RvP, 3892-94, and for the relationship between the Pardoner and Kit the Tapster in the prologue to the "Tale of Beryn," mentioning other English analogues and describing…
Wallace, David.
Peter Brown and Jan Čermák, eds. England and Bohemia in the Age of Chaucer (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2023), pp. 214-37.
Describes cultural contact and marital negotiations among Plantagenets, Bohemians, and Viscontis as background to Anne of Bohemia's recurrent presence in Chaucer's works, often as an imperial daughter and/or mediatrix, and often reflecting "Marian…
Bridges, Venetia.
Corinne Saunders and Diane Watt, eds. Women and Medieval Literary Culture: From the Early Middle Ages to the Fifteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. 342-76.
Assesses the "depiction of women as ethical signifiers" in Chaucer's and Gower's writings, summarizing the "multilingual and transnational networks on which both poets draw," exploring the "ethical valences" of gender (especially feminine) in their…
Cooper, Helen, and Robert R. Edwards, eds.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Twenty-nine essays devoted to the examination of poetry from the end of Old English verse through the Ricardian poets, including an introduction by the editors. For nine essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Oxford History of Poetry in English.…
