Pearsall, Derek, ed.
Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1990.
A teaching edition of three works of Chaucerian apocrypha, including individual introductions, notes, marginal glosses,bibliographies, and a brief glossary. The introductions place the poems in the Chaucerian tradition and comment on their genres…
Edits these two examples of Chaucerian apocrypha, with introduction, textual and critical notes, glossary, and bibliography, observing that the "only reason for the attribution" to Chaucer is "their inclusion in the sixteenth-century collected…
The "Clementine Recognitions" and "Apollonius of Tyre" were probably known to Chaucer. He eschews their incest motif but reminds readers of it by his reference to Apollonius in the introduction of MLT.
Edwards, Robert R.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Seven chapters on topics related to Ovid, Augustine, Hloïse and Abélard, Marie de France, Dante, Roman de la Rose, and Chaucer's relations with Boccaccio and Dante in TC. Grounded in Augustinian, Ovidian, and biblical models, TC (lines 5.540 ff.)…
Thiessen, David.
Open access Ph.D. dissertation (University of Waterloo, 2020). Available at https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/handle/10012/15637 (accessed October 17, 2022).
Compares "contemporary cognitive models of self, that posit an interconnection between body and mind, with Pre-Modern conceptions of an embodied self " as the latter are represented in several late medieval English works including BD, HF, and KnT.
Rubey, Daniel.
Peter G. Beidler, ed. Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde (Cambridge; and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1998), pp. 157-71.
Places Mel in the context of Richard II and his detractors in the 1380s and 1390s and examines the competing kinds of masculinity in the Tale as argued by Prudence and allegorized in the character of Sophie.
Kern-Stahler, Annette, Beatrix Busse, and Wietse de Boer, eds.
Boston, Mass.: Brill, 2016.
Collection of essays presenting perspectives on interrelations between sense perception and secular and Christian cultures in England from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern period. For essay on Chaucer, search for The Five Senses in Medieval and…
Rosser, Gervase.
Stephen H. Rigby, ed., with the assistance of Alastair J. Minnis. Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 247-61.
Discusses Chaucer's creation of the five Guildsmen in GP. Stresses the "complex phenomenon," historical background, and proliferation of medieval guilds and fraternities in the fourteenth century.
Basquin, Edmond A.
Technical Communication 28 (1981): 22-24.
Summary description of Astr that describes Chaucer's "admirable textbook method" and comments on his "rules of good technical writing," including simple diction and syntax, awareness of audience, repetition for emphasis, and copious illustrations.
Hagge, John.
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 20 (1990): 269-89.
By adducing several Middle English prose texts prior to Chaucer's Astr, Hagge refutes claims that Astr represents the first piece of technical writing in English.
Coleman, Joyce.
Joyce Coleman, Mark Cruse, and Kathryn A. Smith, eds. The Social Life of Illumination: Manuscripts, Images, and Communities in the Late Middle Ages (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013), pp. 403-37
Explores the argument that the lack of Chaucerian presentation miniatures suggests that Chaucer did not write for wealthy patrons. Identifies the first presentation miniature in an English-language manuscript as the 1409 incipit image in John…
Explores paradoxes of thematic and structural order in KnT--the "mechanical" ups and downs of Fortune, the narrator's control, the human order of design and progression, accumulative resonances of Boethian material, and the "logic, justice, and order…
In his "Teatro d'huomini letterati" (1647), Gerolamo Ghilini includes a sketch of Chaucer's life and works based on John Pits's "Relationem historicarum de rebus anglicis" (Paris, 1619). Errors and omissions demonstrate that Ghilini depended wholly…
Dorris, George E.
Romance Notes 6.2 (1965): 141-43.
Identifies the earliest mention of Chaucer in Italian criticism, in the preface to Paolo Rolli's translation of Milton's epic, "Del Paradiso Perduto" (1729). Rolli's comments include recognition, perhaps the first, that Chaucer refers to Dante in…
Caroline Spurgeon's (1925) attribution of the first German essay on Chaucer to J. J. Eschenburg (1793) is inaccurate. Karl Friedrich Flogel published a short Chaucerian essay a decade earlier in "Geschichte der komischen Literatur" (1784-87). …
Peterson, Joyce E.
Chaucer Review 5.1 (1970): 62-74.
Argues that SqT reflects its teller's unsophisticated "effort to dissociate himself and courtly love from the . . . crude caricature" evident in MerT, and contends that when the Franklin interrupts the Squire he is "'pretending' to think him…
Martin, Joanna M., ed.
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020.
Edits thirty-four poems from Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.1.6—those found in no other manuscript—with texts, notes, glossary, and bibliography. The introduction includes discussion of language and scribes, and commentary on the poems' place in…
Koppy, Kate.
Karen Pratt, Bart Besamusca, Matthias Meyer, and Ad Putter, eds. The Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript (Göttingen: V&R Academic, 2017), pp. 147-64.
Examines the arrangement and composition of two of the booklets of the Findern manuscript (Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.1.6) for the ways they may be seen as "the record of interactions within the community of readers and scribes who had…
Reiss, Edmund.
College English 25.4 (1964): 260-66.
Investigates the dramatic ironies of PardPT (comparing them with those of WBPT), arguing that the Pardoner does not reveal "more than he intends, but rather the converse": that none of the pilgrims "is able to see the full meaning of what he says"…
Daichman, Graciela Susana.
Dissertation Abstracts International 44 (1983): 485A.
In the "Libro de buen amor" and CT, Dona Garoza and the Prioress are treated satirically, in a tradition based on reports of bishops' visitations to convents.
Surveys the relationship between song and poetry in English tradition, identifying the tenacity of the association until the end of the nineteenth century as evident in poetry and in the statuary of London's Albert Memorial. Cites evidence from TC…
Durling, Robert M.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1965.
Treats the "significance of the Narrator's changeability or instability" in Renaissance epics by Boiardo, Ariosto, Tasso, and Spenser, with prefatory discussions of works by Horace and Ovid, Chaucer, and Petrarch. The chapter on Chaucer (pp. 44-66)…
Holloway, Julia Bolton.
DAI 35.04 (1974): 2225-26A.
Compares and contrasts CT, Dante's "Divine Comedy," and Langland's "Piers Plowman" as pilgrimage narratives, particularly their emphasis on the poet as pilgrim and movement toward salvation as structure.
