Ruszkiewicz, Dominika.
New York: Peter Lang, 2021.
Considers relations between moral virtue and courtly love in a variety of Chaucer's works and Scottish Chaucerian works, analyzing a series of pairings--Rom and William Dunbar's "Golden Targe," Chaucer's Boethian poems and "The Kingis Quair," HF and…
Opens with commentary on oldness in KnT, MilT, and RvT, and proceeds to assess old age as a source "of debility and impairment as well as authority and veneration" in Scog, Adam, the Reeve’s description in GP, RvPT, and WBT. Disability studies and…
Roger, Euan, and Andrew Prescott
Chaucer Review 57 (2022): 498-526.
Highlights the amount of potential material in The National Archives as compared to more traditional repositories for high-value manuscripts. Considers approaches to find and use this material with new examples for Chaucer, Gower, and Skelton.
Richmond, Andrew M.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Studies "ways in which medieval British romances conceived of ecological contexts" and identifies a "range of economic, religious, and social values attached to landscape"--hills and mines; seashores and beaches; and foreign, domestic, and fantastic…
Reid, Lindsay Ann, and Rachel Stenner.
Comparative Drama 55 (2021): 127-37.
Assesses and combines various attempts to define Chaucerian "resonance" as a term of intertextuality and the reception of Chaucer; also summarizes each of the twelve essays included in this special number of Comparative Drama. For summaries of the…
Raybin, David, and Susanna Fein.
New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession 3 (2022): 86-94.
Describes and assesses NEH K-12 Seminars for high school teachers pertaining to CT and held in London, 2008–14; reflects on 2014 legislation that discontinued funding for such programs held outside the USA; and encourages future collaboration…
Whitehead, Christiania.
Raluca Radulescu and Sif Rikhardsdottir, eds. The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature (New York: Routledge, 2022), pp. 332-44.
Examines "Middle English lyric writing before and after Chaucer, assessing its evolving relationship to the Continent" and interactions between sacred and secular within the genre. Analyzes Chaucer's (and his successor's") uses of French lyric formes…
Turner, Marion.
Raluca Radulescu and Sif Rikhardsdottir, eds. The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature (New York: Routledge, 2022), pp. 278-88.
Shows how Chaucer's life and literature were "embedded in European contexts," even as he "ostentatiously displays the Englishness of his poetry." Comments generally on Continental and English aspects of Chaucer's style and content, and examines how…
Radulescu, Raluca, and Sif Ríkharðsdóttir, eds.
New York: Routledge, 2022.
Thirty-seven essays by various authors on the forms, borders, networks, writers, and texts of medieval English, along with modern critical approaches, with an introduction by the editors (on "Trans-European and Global Contexts"), a timeline, and…
Quinn, William A.
English Studies 102 (2021): 395-414.
Explores Chaucer's attitude toward the Boethian notion that "right reasoning alone should guarantee rhetorical success." Mirrored in Chaucer criticism and inflected by issues of gender and point of view, "objectivity," effective persuasion, and…
Quinlan, Heather E.
Canton, Mich.: Visible Ink, 2020.
Introduces medical, historical, sociological, and literary aspects of various infectious human diseases, including addiction, illustrated with sidebar facts, literary examples, and photographs and reproductions. A chapter on "The Black Death"…
Perkins, Nicholas.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021.
Engages several literary and anthropological theories of gifts, and addresses related motifs of reciprocity, generosity, promising, and exchange in medieval English texts, especially romances. Individual chapters assess "King Horn"/"Horn Childe"…
Paravicini, Werner.
Adlig leben im 14. Jahrhundert: Weshalb sie fuhren. Die Preußenreisen des europäischen Adels, Part 3 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020), pp. 138-44.
Part of Paravicini’s three-volume study of the crusades against Lithuania undertaken by the Teutonic order, focusing on literary backgrounds to the chivalric imagination underlying the crusades. Includes evidence of tensions between crusading and…
Murchison, Krista A.
Modern Language Review 115 (2020): 497-517.
Explores how writers and audiences in medieval England "approached textually constructed audiences," considering evidence from rhetorical theory, readers' comments, and "signs of adaptation undertaken by authors, correctors, and scribes."…
Moss, Rachel E.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 44 (2022): 293–95.
Personal response to two essays concerning medieval female consent in light of a rape in London in 2021; both essays are included in this volume of "Studies in the Age of Chaucer."
Anthologizes a wide array of medieval texts that pertain to disability studies, each with an introduction and apparatus by individual contributors. Entries include Historical and Medical Documents, Religious Texts, Poetry, Prose, Drama, and visual…
Mahaffy, Mary Caitlin.
Ph.D. Dissertation. (Indiana University, 2022),
Dissertation Abstracts International A83.12(E).
“[E]xplores how understandings of nonhuman animals and the environment shaped which human behaviors were labeled natural prior to the Enlightenment." Includes comments on animals, animal imagery, and environmental idealism in Form Age, MilT, and…
Elmes, Melissa Ridley.
Karma Lochrie and Usha Vishnuvajjala, eds. Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2022), pp. 135-54.
Describes depictions of affective female friendship in works by Chaucer (TC and FranT), John Gower (Albinus and Rosamund in the "Confessio Amantis"), and Thomas Malory (portions of "Le Morte Darthur"), contrasting them with source materials and…
Lochrie, Karma.
Karma Lochrie and Usha Vishnuvajjala, eds. Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2022), pp. 177-96.
Identifies three ways to illuminate female friendship in CT, disclosing "identity of feeling" among women (Custance, the Sultaness, and Hermengild in MLT), "enclaves . . . afforded by misogynistic discourses" (the Wife, her gossip, and female…
Lochrie, Karma, and Usha Vishnuvajjala, eds
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2022.
Collects twelve essays that celebrate friendship among women in medieval literature, with an Introduction by the editors, an Afterword by Penelope Anderson, and a cumulative Index. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Women’s…
Uses Paul Ricoeur's "theory of narrative identity" to explore various aspects of Chaucer's poetry, including issues of female agency in FranT, ClT, and TC; racialized narratives and white identity in CT; Chaucer's "talking-animal poetry"; and "poetic…
Anthologizes seventeen essays by Knight, “written over several decades focused on the social and political contexts of medieval literature," three previously unpublished, one of which pertains to Chaucer: Chapter 14, "Chaucer’s Fabliaux and Late…
King, Lauren Rebecca.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of California, Los Angeles, 2021
Dissertation Abstracts International A83.06(E).
Argues that Pizan and Chaucer "used their writing to open up educational opportunities" for their readers, seeking "to facilitate practices of engaged reading" for an expanding vernacular audience, with Chaucer modeling "problematic reading…
