Salisbury, Eve.
Andreea D. Boboc, ed. Theorizing Legal Personhood in Late Medieval England (Leiden: Koninklijke Brill, 2015), pp. 50-70.
Discusses Chaucer's familiarity with the law evidenced in Chaucer's "Life Records" and his poetry. Suggests that Chaucer "exploits the confusion of legal terms defining abduction and rape" because of his "unprecedented legal personhood" with regard…
Compares Chaucer's manipulation of romance conventions with Carter's postmodern use of romance to challenge rationalist discourse. In its portrayal of mercantile challenge to feudal aristocracy, CT is a medieval modernist text.
Tuck, Anthony J.
Paul Strohm and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1, 1984 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1985), pp. 149-61.
The court of Richard II was influenced not only by Wycliffe and Lollard preachers but also by the Carthusians, who emphasized private devotion, mysticism, and eremiticism.
Anderson, David.
Hebrew University Studies in Literature and the Arts 13:1 (1985): 1-17.
Cassandra's "olde stories" of the Calydonian boar and of the siege of Thebes are not digressions but analogies that draw prophetic parallels between Troilus's situation and the circumstances of both the Trojan and the Theban wars. Past disputes led…
Karath, Tamas.
Andrew C. Rouse, Gertrud Szamosi, and Gabriella Voo, eds. CrosSections, no. 2, Selected Papers in Literature and Culture from the 9th HUSSE Conference Pécs (Pécs: Institute of English Studies, University of Pécs, 2010), pp. 17-24.
Examines the narration and the interpretations of Troilus's dream in Book V of TC, the questions of sources and authority, and the function of the Latin argument to Cassandra's speech in manuscripts.
Whitehead, Christiania.
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003.
Whitehead describes the complex significations of architectural structures in medieval thought and memory, examining Christian and classical roots of such thinking. Discusses classical, scriptural, and exegetical commentaries on concrete figures…
References to animals presented as "sentient beings" in SumT convey the friar's "spiritual weakness," perhaps reflecting oral traditions of Franciscan ideals.
Sklute, Larry.
Studia Neophilologica 52 (1980): 35-46.
Chaucer builds his descriptions of the pilgrims according to the traditional catalogue plan of the accumulation of details. But he breaks with tradition in drawing details of a portrait from differing angles, thereby surprising his reader and…
Anderson, David, ed.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee, [1986]
A catalogue of and guide to the 1986 exhibition of manuscripts and printed books of Chaucer's works and sources, held at the Arthur Ross Gallery and the Rosenbach Museum for the Fifth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, in…
Kang, Minsoo.
Carl Kears and James Paz, eds. Medieval Science Fiction (London: King's College London Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, 2016.), pp. 245-61.
Explores the different attitudes toward the Middle Ages presented in science fiction and fantasy literature, while also arguing for a new subgenre called "catapunk" that depicts the Middle Ages in fuller ways. Mentions the false alchemy in CYT,…
Shippey, T. A.
Times Literary Supplement (London), Nov. 30, 1979, pp. 73-74.
Medieval scholarship and criticism suffers from reading texts without contexts, allowing modern perspectives to influence the interpretation of medieval writers, and careless translation.
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate the score was "reproduced from composer's manuscript," with "texts taken from Chaucer, Joyce, Shakespeare, and Dylan Thomas among others." Variously numbered as opus 44, opus 45, and opus 47.
Jonassen, Frederick B.
Fifteenth-Century Studies 18 (1991): 109-32.
The "Beryn" poet defuses the moral menace of Chaucer's Pardoner. The Pardoner in "Beryn" is more of a fool than a threat to either the Inn or the Cathedral, the symbolic "poles" of the pilgrimage.
Pertelote's quotation from Cato ("Ne do no fors of dremes"--NPT 2941) is from distich 2.31, which specifically denies the significance of a type of dream that is different from Chauntecler's dream. The cock's attack on the "auctorite" of Cato thus…
Kaske, R. E.
David G. Allen and Robert A. White, eds. Traditions and Innovations: Essays on British Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1990) pp. 11-34.
KnT and MLT are complementary philosophical narratives. In KnT, Chaucer turns "Boccaccio's narrative of event . . . into a narrative poem about wisdom." The treatment of Fortune is pagan, with Palamon and Arcite representing contrasting patterns of…
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Masahiko Kanno, Gregory K. Jember, and Yoshiyuki Nakao, eds. A Love of Words: English Philological Studies in Honour of Akira Wada (Tokyo: Eihosha, 1998), pp. 79-102.
Explores the "ambiguity of causality as a measure of the moral status" of the narrator and characters of TC, particularly Criseyde. Nakao tabulates and examines causal phrases beginning with "because," "since," and "for" in light of their contexts…
Chan, Amado.
Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 21: 166-70, 2000.
Details of the Prioress's GP description, WBPT, and Emelye's desires in KnT indicate that "women by nature oppose man's endeavor to rule and establish order in the world."
Taylor, Paul Beekman.
Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Poetics: Theory and Practice in Medieval English Literature (Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 1991), pp. 69-82.
The theory that "words can reveal to the inner eye of understanding the invisible forms behind visible shapes" is rejected through repeated examples of "the complicity of sight in the tragedy of love."
Huntsman, Jeffrey F.
Modern Philology 73 (1976): 276-79.
Medieval English and Latin dictionaries such as the "Medulla gramatice" can often be of great value in textual criticism,offering solutions to several Chaucerian cruces: "stot" (CT III, 1630) "whore"; "nakers" (CT I, 2511) "horns"; "astromye" (CT I,…
Blake, N. F.
N. F. Blake. William Caxton and English Literary Culture. (London and Rio Grande: Hambledown Press, 1991), pp. 149-65.
Argues that Caxton's two editions of CT were prompted by patrons; that the revision of the text from the first to the second edition was a "haphazard affair"; and that Caxton's published remarks on Chaucer are conventional and economically motivated,…
Blake, N. F.
Leeds Studies in English 1 (1967): 19-36.
Gauges William Caxton's appreciation of Chaucer's literature by exploring why Caxton printed the works of Chaucer that he did, how he treated the texts, and to what extent his decisions reflect his own tastes or those of patrons, poets, and the likes…
Matthews, William.
Bonnie Wheeler, Robert L. Kindrick, and Michael D. Salda, eds. The Malory Debate: Essays on the Texts of Le Morte Darthur. Arthurian Studies, no. 47. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000, pp. 1-34.
A revision (by Robert L. Kindrick) of Matthews's "Caxton and Malory: A Re-View" (SAC 24 [2002], no. 34), with a corrected title.
