Fruoco, Jonathan.
Ph.D. Dissertation. Université de Grenoble, 2014. Fully available via https://theses.fr/2014GRENL003 (accessed March 12, 2026).
Argues that "Chaucer's decision to write in Middle-English . . . was consistent with an intellectual movement that was trying to give back to European vernaculars the prestige necessary to a genuine cultural production, which eventually led to the…
Jagot, Shazia.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Leicester, 2014. Dissertation Abstracts International C74.06. Fully available via https://figshare.le.ac.uk/articles/thesis/Fin_amors_Arabic_learning_and_the_Islamic_world_in_the work of Geoffrey Chaucer/10158581?file=18307655 (accessed March 11, 2026).
Demonstrates that "Chaucer's portrayal of fin' amors is informed by Arabic learning in the related fields of medicine, natural philosophy, astrology and alchemy, disseminated through Latin translations from the Iberian Peninsula in particular."…
Khoury, Marcelle Muasher.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Virginia, 2014. Fully accessible via https://libraetd.lib.virginia.edu/public_view/sn009z07c (accessed March 11, 2026)
Argues that "fifteenth-century alchemical poets, George Ripley and Thomas Norton, perceived themselves to be 'Chaucerian' in far deeper ways than has been recognized," joining "author, reader and pilgrim on an essentially hermeneutical journey to…
McShane, Kara L.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Rochester, 2014. Dissertation Abstracts International A75. 09(E). Fully accessible via https://urresearch.rochester.edu/institutionalPublicationPublicView.action?institutionalItemId=28064 (accessed March 11, 2026).
Examines anxieties about the status of the vernacular and cultural identity in late medieval England, particularly as evident in "exotic documents" found in Middle English narratives. Includes discussion of such documents in "Alexander and Didimus,"…
Bucciarelli, Stacee M.
Ph.D. Dissertation. Loyola University, 2014. Dissertation Abstracts International A76.06(E). Fully accessible via https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/1252 (accessed March 2, 2026).
Defines "medieval female voice" as "any instance of thought or speech by a female character" and "evaluates the alterations made (by Chaucer and scribes) to five Italian-sourced female voices" in KnT (Emelye and Ypolita), MerT (May), FranT (Dorigen),…
Mitchell, Robert.
Ph. D. Dissertation. University of Manchester, 2012. Fully accessible via https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/guilt-and-creativity-in-the-works-of-geoffrey-chaucer/ (accessed February 23, 2026).
Explores the "sense of guilt and uncertainty about the value of creative literature" in Chaucer's works, particularly as it generates "expansive, questioning poetics" in HF and "problematises the principle of allegory" in the final fragments of CT,…
Slipp, Nicole Elizabeth.
Ph.D. dissertation, Queens University, 2017. Fully accessible via https://queensu.scholaris.ca/items/2168a905-fe87-4bbd-a896-5492740912bf (accessed February 22, 2026).
Outlines "the history and theory of BDSM [bondage and discipline, domination and submission, and sadism and masochism]" and explores "concepts of fantasy, performance, consent, and eroticized violence" in "Sir Gowther," "The Book of Margery Kempe,"…
Sapio, Jennifer Leigh.
Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 2017. Fully accessible via https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/items/ad2752f5-c295-4379-bbdd-1fab164a5106 (accessed February 22, 2026).
"[I]nvestigates three medieval manuscript collections--compiled in the 14th and 15th centuries in Herefordshire, Derbyshire and East Anglia, respectively--that are significant in their similarly implied female readerships, their thematic treatment of…
Reinbold, Charlotte Rose Alice.
Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Cambridge, 2017. Abstract available at https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/e26e369b-4069-465e-a00d-49e07967cbcd (accessed February 22, 2026); full-text embargoed until January 1, 2400.
Argues "that conventions of setting, familiar themes or locations which create expectations in the reader about the content of the dream itself, provide a valuable and largely overlooked perspective upon the genre of Chaucerian dream poetry."…
Honoré-Duvergé, Suzanne.
Recueil de Travaux Offert a M. Clovis Brunel, Membre de l’Institut, Directeur Honoraire de l’École des Chartes, par Ses Amis, Collèagues et Élèves (Paris: Société de l'École Chartes, 1955), Volume 2, pp. 9-13.
Republishes (from 1890) a document originally from the "Cartulario" of Carlos II, king of Navarre, correctly transcribing Chaucer's name (Chauserre rather than Chanserre), and suggesting that he was granted safe-conduct in Spain to participate in…
Hagstrum, Jean H.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958.
Studies the use of pictorial imagery in neoclassical English poetry, its aesthetic effects, and the "tradition out of which it grew," from the classics forward. Includes discussion of the Chaucer's ekphrastic descriptions in HF, KnT, and Rom,…
Pragmatic analysis of the historical development in early English of the ideal of sincerity and of "affective-linguistic" apology. Identifies the roots of sincerity in Christian devotion and traces its literary and historical developments among…
Baldini, Gabriele.
Turino: Edizioni Radio Italiana, 1958.
Includes a brief biography of Chaucer and a lengthy chronological work-by-work introduction to his oeuvre. Also includes a chapter on Chaucerian apocrypha, relations with Gower, and influence on later poets.
Anthologizes translations of selections and excerpts from English poetry and prose into Esperanto; by various translators. The selection from Chaucer (Purse and a portion of WBP 3.35-134) is translated by William Auld.
Collects fifteen essays by Itô, thirteen previously printed (most in Japanese); all here are translated into English in revised form. Gower's relation to Chaucer is a recurrent concern, along with rhetoric, style, sources, themes, verse forms, and…
Ito, Masayoshi.
John Gower, The Medieval Poet (Tokyo: Shinozaki Shorin, 1976), pp. 25-38.
Compares the aesthetic virtues and limitations of MLT in comparison with Gower's Tale of Constance, observing how Gower's account is more proportionate than Chaucer’s, even though the latter exhibits more complex characterization, humor, and…
Ito, Masayoshi.
John Gower, The Medieval Poet (Tokyo: Shinozaki Shorin, 1976), pp. 39-59.
Compares and contrasts the style, characterization, sentiment, and structure of nine narratives of shared subject matter among Chaucer's and Gower's works. Concludes that Gower's are superior in formal features, "such as balance and unity," but that…
Ito, Masayoshi.
John Gower, The Medieval Poet (Tokyo: Shinozaki Shorin, 1976), pp. 101-18.
Compares Gower's art and skill in using rhyme royal stanzas with Chaucer's, arguing that Chaucer's are superior and more flexibly adapted to narrative, largely because the "fetters of the ballade stanza" constrain Gower's dexterity. Originally…
Ito, Masayoshi.
John Gower, The Medieval Poet (Tokyo: Shinozaki Shorin, 1976), pp. 80-100.
Explores Gower's development of his Tale of Jason and Medea in light of its sources and multiple analogues, emphasizing its success as a "beautiful love story." Includes points of comparison with Chaucer's version in LGW. Originally published in…
Farrell, Thomas J.
Journal of the Early Book Society 25 (2022): 71-110
Analyzes the textual record of RvT and identifies nineteen witnesses "committed to accurate transmission" of its northernisms whereas others translate northern dialect features or fail to recognize them (e.g., "sal" for "shall"). Discusses the…
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Zhou, Yue.
Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature 67 (2023): 19-35.
Analyzes nature-related adjectives in TC. Key findings include Chaucer's enhancement of Venus's role, symbolic natural imagery reflecting Criseyde's betrayal, and a sympathetic tone toward her in descriptions of animals and plants.
Examines the last stanza of TC, the first three lines of which are translated almost verbatim from Dante''s "Paradiso" (14.28-30), and argues that the ending not only affirms Chaucer's debt to Dante, but is crucial for an understanding of the poem.…
Shupe, Deirdra M.
Ph.D. dissertation (Florida State University, 2021), Dissertation Abstracts International A 82.12(E). Abstract available via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (accessed February 2, 2025).
Argues that the "use of ill bodies in storytelling acts as a virus" so that, when familiar narratives are retold, "the image of ailing bodies will spread to future versions," often mutating. Links lovesickness in TC to leprosy in Henryson's…
Sanok, Catherine.
Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 34 (2022): 252-59.
Explores relations among "crisis, ambivalence, and futurity," focusing on TC and "Amis and Amiloun," "assessing Criseyde''s ambivalence about returning to Troy as "an affective correlative of crisis" and Amis's ambivalence about the sacrificial…
