Lawton, David.
Corinne Ondine Pache, Casey Dué, Susan Lupack, and Robert Lamberton, eds. The Cambridge Guide to Homer (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 580-81.
Surveys Chaucers references to and possible knowledge of Homer, emphasizing mediating sources, especially Boccaccio.
Schoeck, Richard J.
Constance S. Wright and Julia Bolton Holloway, eds. Tales Within Tales: Apuleius Through Time: Essays in Honor of Professor Emeritus Richard J. Schoeck (New York: AMS Press, 2000), pp. 97-106.
Explores various kinds of game or play in TC: rhetorical games, war games, courtly games, and the games of life. Suggests Troilus may be seen as homo ludens (man playing).
Jagot, Shazia.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 44 (2022): 27-61
Challenges the limitations of traditional source-and-analogue study, exploring resonances between SqT and the "Kitab al-Manazir" of Ibn al-Haytham /Alhacen to which it alludes (see SqT, 232–45), including discussion of mediating sources in Latin…
Mooney, Linne R.
Geoffrey Lester, ed. Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays in Honour of Norman Blake (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), pp. 139-60.
Charts "specific astronomical references" that are datable in Chaucer's works against other known events of the poet's life. Although the references may not help us date the poems in which they occur, they do indicate Chaucer's active interest in…
Salter, Elizabeth.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 2 (1980): 71-79.
Chaucer's writing of BD in English is not evidence of English nationalism but is "the triumph of internationalism." He adopted "both theory and precedent for the creation of high-prestige vernacular literature" to produce in English the kind of…
Pratt, Robert A.
Modern Language Notes 74 (1959): 293-94.
Suggests that several details of the Wife of Bath's chiding of her elder husbands (WBP 3.257-62) derive, ultimately, from Isidore of Saville's "Etymologiarum."
Fulton, Helen, ed.
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2021.
Collection of essays focusing on Chaucer's engagement with "Italian tradition" and his use and interpretation of Italian sources. For eight individual essays, search for Chaucer and Italian Culture under Alternative Title.
Clarke, K. P.
Oxford; Oxford University Press, 2011.
Studies how Chaucer's ClT may have been affected by the Italian textual tradition. The first part of the book concentrates on the Italian texts, particularly the Manelli codex of Boccaccio, "Decameron" X.10. The second part considers how the Hengwrt…
Argues that in LGWP Chaucer derives his tone from Jean de Meun's self-conscious narratation in the "Roman de la Rose," as well as many "particularities . . . of himself as love and writer." Chaucer's narrator is a caricature of Jean's Amant, an…
Compares Bo with Jean de Meun's and other versions and discusses Chaucer's translation technique and style. Scholars need more information on Chaucer's use of Jean de Meun and on medieval French translations of "De consolatione philosophae."
The levels of style of the first three Canterbury tales correspond to John of Garland's columnar figure, which is itself a memory locus derived from classical rhetoric.
Explicates Chaucer's reference to John of Legnano ("Lynyan" at ClT 4.34), clarifying the international reputation of the canon lawyer and his role in justifying the papal schism, suggesting how Chaucer may have learned of him during his 1378 mission…
A comparison, not a source study, which discovers parallel attitudes toward style, character, and tradition, especially on the role of humor in "Ulysess" and CT.
Economou, George D.
Robert M. Stein and Sandra Pierson Prior, eds. Reading Medieval Culture: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Hanning (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005), pp. 290-301.
Economou considers a range of possibilities--that Chaucer and Langland knew each other, knew each other's works, or shared the same literary context. Focuses on GP and Ret of CT.
Lassahn, Nicole.
Essays in Medieval Studies 17: 49-64, 2001.
Compares Chaucer's use of history in BD with that of Langland in "Piers Plowman," suggesting that focus on contemporary events is common to the poets and perhaps indicative of their common audience. Such commonalities and the habits of mind they…
Davlin, Mary Clemente, O.P.
Kathleen M. Hewett-Smith, ed. William Langland's Piers Plowman: A Book of Essays (New York and London: Routledge, 2001), pp. 119-41.
Chaucer and Langland are both "great religious writers," although Langland is more deeply engaged in "who and what God is." Both writers are poets of religious experience: Chaucer explores pathos, and Langland confronts the "central beliefs of…
Bowers, John M.
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press , 2007.
Chaucer's preeminence over Langland is an effect of historical and social forces and must be revised, because tradition is a conflicted notion that helps construct understanding of past, present, and future. Chaucer was a medium of this process, "the…
Myles, Robert., and David Williams, eds.
Montreal and Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.
Ten essays that pertain to Chaucer, plus a commemorative preface (by M. I. Cameron), an introduction (by David Williams) that summarizes the essays, a bibliography of Wurtele's publications, and a subject index. For individual essays that pertain to…
Horobin, Simon.
Literature Compass 8 (2011): 258-65.
"Reviews work on Chaucer's language and its importance for the development of English literary language." Also suggests directions for future language studies.
Wass, Rosemary Thérèse Ann.
DAI 35.08 (1974): 5124A.
Counters "Robertsonian" or exegetical criticism of Chaucer's works, particularly its neglect of "later scholastic philosophy," focusing on views of individuality and experience found in writers such as Roger Bacon, Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham.…
Clogan, Paul (M.)
Medievalia et Humanistica 9 (1979): 163-74.
Like most of the early nineteenth-century critics, Leigh Hunt strove to bring about a popular revival of Chaucer. But more important, he was among the first to attempt a technical analysis of Chaucer's poetry and to link his poetry with the idea of…
