:Emare": An Influence on the "Man of Law's Tale."
Establishes parallels between MLT and "Emare" of manuscript Cotton Caligula A II to explain details not found in Trevet.
. . . Dann kriegt der Mensch auf eine Wallfahrt Lust : Über den Dichter der Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer (1340 - 1400)
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat.
...A Dyere...
Surveys the process and business of dyeing in the Middle Ages, commenting on the economic status of the dyers' guild and individual dyers in late-medieval England. Briefly assesses Chaucer's depiction of the Dyer as one of the Guildsmen in GP.
...A Webbe...
The inclusion of the Weaver among the Guildsmen of GP "is an anomaly" insofar as the typical weaver of the age was "an exploited, usually propertyless laborer." Morgan surveys the history of weavers and their role in the English wool trade.
...And a Carpenter...
As background to the GP carpenter--one of the Guildsmen--this essay surveys the prospects and activities of medieval carpenters: their organization into guilds and the guild hierarchy, their relations with masons and iron mongers, their techniques and tools of lumbering and building, regulation of their wages and workdays, etc.
...And a Tapycer...
Briefly surveys the medieval history of tapestry- or rug-making as background to the portrait of the Tapicer in GP.
...The Anti-Imperial Approaches to Chaucer (Are There Those?): An Essay in Identifying Strategies
A postcolonial meditation on "what is Chaucer in the changing reality that is the context of Australia," which focuses on portions of four texts: a conversation between Meaghan Morris and Stephen Muecke, Ralph Elliott's 1968 comments on the development of the Australia and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, a Frank Moorhouse short story that mentions Chaucerian Stephen Knight, and Gayatri Spivak's view that Chaucer is a component in an imperialist project.
' Ne suffreth nat that men yow doon offence': The Griselda Figure in Boccaccio, Petrarch, and Chaucer
ClT is, in some ways, more like Boccaccio's version of the Griselda story than like Petrarch's, and it goes even further than its predecessors in eliciting pity for Griselda and her children.
'-less' words in Chaucer
Chaucer's "-less" words deserve our special consideration. Some ninety percent of all the "less" words occur in verse. Though the total frequency is not so high, they may be said to fulfill an important function seen from a syntactical, stylistical, rhythmical, metrical and rhetorical viewpoint in Chaucer's poetry-making.
'. . . hold of thi matere/The forme alwey,and do that it be like . . .' (II,1039-40): L'entrée en matière dans le Troilus and Criseyde de Chaucer
Considers the nature, function,and value of the incipits and proems in TC. In French
'[W]ordy vnthur wede': Clothing, Nakedness and the Erotic in Some Romances of Medieval Britain
Hopkins explores depictions of sexual frisson, or arousal, in a variety of Middle English romances, focusing on the presentation of clothing, nudity, and partial nudity. She surveys examples in which female ugliness is represented almost as often as beauty, works in which partial beauty "can be more erotic than complete nakedness," and depictions of male and female erotic potential. In TC, Chaucer focuses on male pleasure. He explores female pleasure in WBPT.
'A beest may al his lust fulfille': Naturalizing Chivalric Violence in Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale'
In KnT, warriors are compared to animals, a seemingly desirable condition that would allow warriors to "discharge at will their power and violence." However, several references to shackled, confined, or endangered animals create a contrast between warrior self-identification with animals and animals' subjugation in the realm of chivalric warfare.
'A bok for king Richardes sake': Royal Patronage, the Confessio, and the Legend of Good Women
Coleman considers the first recension of Gower's "Confessio Amantis" and the F version of LGWP for evidence of royal patronage, arguing that both were inspired by Anne of Bohemia and by the popularity of the "Flower and Leaf" conventions that Anne introduced to Richard's court.
'A compaignye of sondry folk': The Structure of Chaucer's 'General Prologue'
Interprets the interplay of literal and symbolic implications in GP, reading pilgrimage as a "metaphor for a society in the act of 'being itself'." The poem "declares its intention to deal less with what 'should be' in society than what is actually 'going on'." Significant attention to how the description of the Knight in GP sets up and challenges readers' expectations.
'A Completely Funny Story': Mary Eliza Haweis and the Miller's Tale
A series of essays and translations written between 1877 and 1886, Mary Eliza Haweis's work on MilT constitutes a large and uniquely positive chapter in the reception of MilT in Victorian England.
'A Coverchief or a Calle': The Ultimate End of the Wife of Bath's Search for Sovereignty
Chaucer's awareness of analogues to WBT and its theme of sovereignty may be indicated by his use of the word "calle," 'head-dress' (WBT 1018), an early borrowing of the Irish "caille," 'veil,' a derivation of which came to mean "old woman" as well as "hag, witch."
'A Culpa et a Poena': Christ's Pardon and the Pardoner
Explains the puzzling benediction of the pardon in contradistinction to the Pardon of Christ.
'A Definite Claim to Beauty': 'The Canterbury Tales' in the Kelmscott Chaucer
Discusses handcrafted production and aesthetic beauty of the Kelmscott Chaucer and responds to the question "What constitutes 'beauty' in medieval poetry?" Provides historical background on the Kelmscott Press, the relationship between William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, and the medieval craftsmanship that influenced the making of the Kelmscott Chaucer.
'A gay yeman, under a forest side': 'The Friar's Tale' and the Robin Hood Tradition
Phillips explores verbal, narrative, and thematic parallels between FrT and Robin Hood tales such as "Robin Hood and Guy of Gisburne." Emphases on "grenewode," archery, disguise, commercialism, ecclesiastical corruption, oppression of the poor, and ultimate righteousness suggest that Chaucer had outlaw tales in mind when writing FrT.
'A Gentle Knight Was Pricking on the Plaine': The Chaucerian Connection
Discusses Chaucerian resonances in Spenser, especially from Th.
'A Jape of Malice': The Dark Spirit of Chaucer's Fabliaux
Identifies the "dark spirit" in MilT, RvT, FrT, SumT, MerT, and ShT, focusing on their "violence, deception, and sense of continual flux rather than their comedy.
'A leur fez cousines': Words, Deeds, and Proper Speech in Jean de Meun and Chaucer
Demonstrates that Chaucer's "discourse of words and deeds" in GP and his apology for language in MilP are "heavily indebted" to Jean de Meun's comments on language in "Roman de la Rose," tracing lines of influence and emphasis from Jean's sources forward and exploring Chaucer's extension of Jean's depiction of what constitutes "proper" speech.
'A Little More than Kin and Less than Kind' : The Affinity of Literature and Politics
Discussion of how the political functions of literature are framed by broader ethical and moral concerns, drawing examples from Virgil, Cervantes, Robert Frost, and CT, where the pilgrimage frame indicates that social order--the common good--is dependent on "having an objective that is beyond" the common good.
'A Lover's Complaint' : Shakespeare and Chaucer
Establishes the authenticity of Shakespeare's "A Lover's Complaint" and suggests that the female falcon's complaint in SqT is a possible analogue. Both laments belong to the complaint tradition.
'A Man of Gret Auctorite' : The Search for Truth in Textual Authority in Geoffrey Chaucer's The House of Fame
Examines Chaucer's use of the dream-vision genre and authoritative texts and suggests that the author "deconstructs any sense of textual authority." The process of granting fame in HF parallels the random process of readers granting authority.