Maffestone, Elizabeth Christine.
Dissertation Abstracts International A81.12(E) (2020): n.p.
Traces "gendered protocols of violence that have been inherited through literary interpretive practices as they arerepresented in Chaucer's corpus.” Argues that “acts of reading, writing, and translation can function as forms of violence in medieval…
Advocates robust participation in academic "shared governance" and general education curricula as a way for medievalists to serve their own professional interests; includes opinions about how Chaucerians are well equipped for such participation.
Kirk, Jordan.
New York: Fordham University Press, 2021.
Examines works by Priscian, Boethius, Augustine, Walter Burley, and Chaucer,
to explore how fourteenth-century writers understood "possibilities in language" and "transformed these accounts into new forms, and practices of non-signification."…
Kamali, Elizabeth Papp.
Speculum 96.2 (2021): 367-417.
Explores how medieval English law dealt with doubt and ambiguity, particularly in cases where the identity of the accused was uncertain Examines various legal cases, including the infamous case of the "Green Children" of Woolpit, and argues that…
Johnston, Andrew James.
New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy & Profession 1,1 (2020): 18-25.
Contemplates "Medieval English Studies in Germany" as a model for cultivating a “truly global,” interdisciplinary ideal of medieval studies, describing critical trends, boundaries, and bridges in several subdisciplines, and commenting briefly on the…
Jenkins, Simon.
A Short History of London: The Creation of a World Capital ([London]: Viking, 2019), pp. 33-42.
Chapter 4 of a social history of London, with emphasis on the plague, the status of the Church, the vivid characterizations of CT as a "window on the world . . . in all its richness," and Richard Whittington's mayoralty. Also published in The City on…
Identifies two projects in Chaucer studies--John M. Manly and Edith Rickert's early twentieth-century "Chaucer Research Project" and Ingham's own graduate research practicum, "Experiments in the Humanities Lab"--as evidence of ongoing reclamation and…
Halliday, Stephen.
Cheltenham: History Press, 2020.
Arranged in districts; includes brief references to Chaucer and his works, e.g., Cheapside (CkT), south of the Thames (CT), Aldgate (Chaucer's residence), etc.
Outlines the "historical background on outlawry as a legal practice," and uses this background to explore how the depictions of outlaws in WBT and KnT unveil "chivalry's ideological blemishes" by showing how outlawry displaces a character's…
Fulton, Helen.
Francesca Kaminski-Jones and Rhys Kaminski-Jones, eds. Celts, Romans, Britons: Classical and Celtic Influence in the Construction of British Identities (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 51-78.
Compares "English, Welsh, and Irish refabrications of the Trojan legend as national origin myths," focusing on the ambivalences of the legend, describing the “translatio imperii studiique,” and commenting on medieval (including Chaucerian) meanings…
Flannery, Mary C.
Chaucer Review 56.4 (2021): 360-77.
Discusses the long-standing view of Chaucer as a fun, perhaps obscene writer, suggesting that readers "are invested in protecting their ability to enjoy Chaucer freely." References Kate Manne's notion of "himpathy," or the "excessive sympathy" felt…
Elmes, Melissa Ridley.
Once and Future Classroom 17.1 (2021): 1-26.
Describes a semester-long assignment for use in an undergraduate Chaucer course, with extensive hand-outs, adaptable to in-class, online, and hybrid formats. The end-product is a "commonplace book" or “medieval miscellany” that combines traditional…
Edwards, A. S. G.
Times Literary Supplement July 2, 2021, pp. 7-8.
Attributes reduction of Chaucer's presence in UK university curricula to "asserted economic exigency and the quest for relevance," and aligns it with "unreflective dogma" of forms of "political correctness," including "radical feminism." Responses…
Assesses the need for experimentation in current educational endeavors, considered in light of the provocative “failure” of the “Strawberry Creek College” (officially, the “Collegiate Seminar Program”) of University of California, Berkeley, and the…
Davis, Alex.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Explores ho inheritance was imagined between the lifetimes of Chaucer and Shakespeare. Examines medieval writings, including CT and TC, and Renaissance writings, such as Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queene" and William Shakespeare's "As You Like It,"…
Examines the fifteenth-century manuscript known as "On Husbondrie," compiled by Duke Humfrey of Gloucester, which contains information on farming, agriculture, and animal husbandry. Argues that the manuscript is not simply a practical guide for…
Reports on the author's completing a Ph.D. in medieval English and pursuing a career during the COVID-19 pandemic; includes comments on the “clear parallel” between teaching Chaucer's works and teaching online courses generally.
Gastle, Brian W.
Susannah Mary Chewning, ed. Studies in the Age of Gower: A Festschrift in Honour of R. F. Yeager (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2020], pp. 203-16.
Examines John Gower's consideration of the "appropriate purpose and use of incarceration, including comparison of his Tale of Tereus” in the "Confessio Amantis" with Chaucer's analogous account in LGW. In Gower, imprisonment precedes the rape of…
Kuczynski, Michael P.
Susannah Mary Chewning, ed. Studies in the Age of Gower: A Festschrift in Honour of R. F. Yeager (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2020), pp. 173-88.
Compares Genius of Gower's "Confessio Amantis" with Chaucer’s Parson of CT in order to disclose Gower's "views concerning priests," arguing that both characters are idealized models of "proper pastoral care" and, perhaps, the result of conversations…
Peck, Russell A.
Studies in the Age of Gower: A Festschrift in Honour of R. F. Yeager (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2020.), pp. 59-78.
Examines several stories from Gower's "Confessio Amantis" to investigate the poet's "thoughts about the limitations of patriarchy as an institution." Includes comparison of Gower’s Tale of Constance with Chaucer’s MLT, showing that the latter is more…
Chewning, Susannah Mary, ed.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2020.
Fourteen essays by various authors, with an introduction and a "Personal Tribute" by the editor, offering accounts and analyses of Gower’s works, influence, and reception. For three essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for Studies in the Age of Gower…
Cheng, Elyssa Y.
Patricia Haseltine and Sheng-Mei Ma, eds. Doing English in Asia: Global Literature and Culture (Langham, Md.: Lexington, 2016), pp. 69-85.
Reports briefly on the study of English language and literature in Taiwan and describes a pedagogy for teaching a course in early British literature, including discussion of the advantages of using, among others, a "painting and drawing technique" to…
Bushnell, Rebecca, ed.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.
Anthologizes a wide variety of selections from classical, biblical, medieval, and early modern literatures in a "companion to literary or cultural study of premodern ecological concerns." Includes two samples from Chaucer: a conflation of portions of…
Balestrini, María Cristina.
De medio aevo 10.15 (2021): 169-79.
Reviews development of late fourteenth-century English poetry and the canonization and recognition of Chaucer and Gower as founders of English literature. Claims that their literature contributes to a sense of belonging, through the use of the…
Baechle, Sarah, and Carissa M. Harris.
Chaucer Review 56.4 (2021): 311-21.
Introduces a special edition centered on Chaucerian scholarship and its relationship to power, empire, class, race, and gender, suggesting how scholars can navigate the toxic nature of Chaucer and his writings. Considers how scholars can "write about…
