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Summarizes the life and medical expertise of John of Gaddesden, rejecting the notion that Chaucer caricatured Gaddesden in the GP description of the Physician, suggesting that it is instead an "impersonal description." Also comments on Chaucer's…

Explores the "[p]ossible influence" of ShT "on the Don Juan theme" in England and in Spain, observing that the former "is likely enough but difficult to prove," while the latter is "very unlikely and virtually unprovable."

Chaucer's references to education are scattered, unpredictable, and peripheral except in the WBT and SqT, where the education theme is central.

Similarities in the depiction of character, in the pilgrimage topos, and in the reworking of source material suggest Chaucer's influence on "The Waste Land." Evans explores Eliot's academic and scholarly familiarity with Chaucer.

In Japanese. For seven articles that pertain to Chaucer, search under Alternative Title for Chaucer and English and American Literature: Essays Commemorating the Retirement of Professor Masatoshi Kawasaki.

Although Chaucer's writings reflect the disposition of his time to exclude, in one way or another, those who are strangers in various communities, the poet is uninterested in England as a nation. Nonetheless, in the nineteenth century Chaucer came to…

Proposes that Erasmus's satiric "Peregrinatio religionis ergo"--detailing a pilgrimage to Canterbury--is influenced by the cynicism of Chaucer's CT. The parodies on "dulia" and "latria" in KnT, of Moses and Aaron in the Pardoner and Summoner, and…

Griselda reflects the "ordinary peasant woman" of Chaucer's age. Her anxieties about the burials of her children are similar to concerns found in guild records; both ClT and the guild records indicate late-medieval interconnections among poverty,…

Eleven essays and an introduction (by Davis) deal with Chaucer's concern with poetic fame and/or with his poetic reputation among his contemporaries, down to the twenty-first century. The introduction (pp. 1–19) describes the essays and comments on…

Martin defends the "eclectic approach" she adopted in her book, "Chaucer's Women: Nuns, Wives, and Amazons" (University of Iowa Press, 1990), a critical posture that borrows from a variety of critical approaches.

Nine essays by various authors, eight of which assess Chaucer's fifteenth-century legacy. For the individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry under Alternative Title.

In the fifteenth century, an anonymous "Chaucerian" translated the French romance "Partonope of Blois" into English. Chaucer's influence on the translator is seen in many close verbal echoes of Chaucer and in resemblances to Chaucer's technique and…

Comments on the limited impact of Chaucer's prose on later tradition, and explores the stylistic dexterity of his verse in light of contemporary linguistic features: his use of open and close vowels in rhyme and the impact of rhyme on his diction;…

Considers evidence in CT and TC that Chaucer was influenced by Thomas Bradwardine, often mediated by John Wyclif, and that he shares outlooks with John of Gaunt, John Gower, and Ralph Strode.

Explores the reception of Chaucer by William Morris (the Kelmscott Chaucer) and Virginia Woolf ("The Pastons and Chaucer"), arguing that the responses of both individuals are deeply autobiographical and indications of how "modernity privatizes the…

Explains why Eustace Deschamps considered Chaucer to be the "grant translateur" of French into English by detailing the general and specific ways in which Chaucer imitated and emulated three of his French predecessors. As the "archetype" of the love…

Given its resonance with references to duties of friendship that preface many astrolabe treatises, Chaucer's reference to his young son Lewis as his "frend" may accede to the wishes of adult friends who also wished for "a companionable guide to…

Masi investigates depictions of women in Chaucer's works compared to depictions in works of other authors, including Christine de Pizan, Aquinas, and Boethius. He links Chaucer's LGW and Pizan, suggesting that Eustace Deschamps may have been a…

Pugh describes a course plan that focuses on genre expectations and reversals, concentrating on romance in KnT and on the fabliaux of CT.

Chaucer views gentility as a matter of virtue rather than of birth or economics, reflecting contemporary shifts in aristocratic lifestyles. Italian influences and decreasing military service made it necessary for the aristocracy to redefine…

Several studies have suggested Chaucer's indebtedness to works by Giraldus Cambrensis. Comparison of passages from the "Topographia Hibernie" and HF support the claim that Chaucer used this particular Latin source.

Chaucer and Gower both saw life as a soul's endless journey. Both were concerned with the antipodal aspects of man's life. But Gower observed human conduct in light of moral and philosophical standards, while Chaucer never passed judgments.

The seven essays assess Gower and Chaucer as joint recipients of an antique heritage, as readers of (and borrowers from) each other's works, and as writers whose work reveals much about late-medieval attitudes toward language and about the constantly…

Explores how Chaucer addresses the sacred authority of hagiography, posing it in tension with the poet's own authority in LGWP, and examining authority and authorization in the "pseudo-hagiographies" of CT (MLT, ClT, and PhyT) where Chaucer…

Despite recurrent uncertainty, the location of "Bobbe-up-and-doun" mentioned in ManP is surely the same place as Harbledown.