Focuses on ways Chaucer's successors employed lists in dream visions, and refers to HF, BD, PF, LGW, KnT, and GP. Argues that by employing different listing techniques, medieval authors used lists as a way of legitimizing themselves as authors.
Mahameed, Mohammed, and Al-Quran Raji.
Nebula 8.1 (2011): 199-208.
Asserts that details of astrology, astronomy, and mythology in BD, TC, and CT evince Chaucer's confused and skeptical views of Christianity, commenting on passages from LGW and CT. Available at http://nobleworld.biz/images/Mohammed_Raji.pdf (last…
Lavezzo, Kathy.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016.
Addresses historical and social complexities of anti-Semitism and Jewish--Christian dynamics in medieval English texts. Chapter 3, "The Minster and the Privy: Jews, Lending, and the Making of Christian Space in Chaucer's England," focuses on…
Kertz, Lydia Yaitsky.
Dissertation Abstracts International A78.06 (2016): n.p.
In the course of a discussion of a medieval aesthetic associating romance's luxury with aristocracy, finds examples in HF and TC, among other period works.
Kellogg, Michael K.
Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus, 2016.
Defends the "depth of thought and the diversity of expression that characterized the Middle Ages" through an examination of "philosophical treatises, memoirs, letters, tales, romances, and epics that drove the medieval search for wisdom." The chapter…
Ingham, Patricia Clare.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.
Focuses on the "preoccupation with newness and novelty in literary, scientific, and religious discourses of the twelfth through sixteenth centuries." Examines the "newfangledness" of the "romance discourse" in SqT and alchemy in CYT.
Hurley, Michael D., and Michael O'Neill.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Introduces the major forms of English poetry from lyric to dramatic monologue to sonnet to ballad and beyond, with recurrent references to Chaucer's role in their development (see index), and a sustained discussion of Chaucer and narrative poetry…
Hernández Pérez, Mª Beatriz.
F. J. Cortés et al., eds. Variation and Variety in Middle English Language and Literature (Barcelona: Kadle, 2000), pp. 55-64.
Analyzes Chaucer's use of seascapes and water imagery in LGW, HF, and TC, attending to their metaphoric qualities and their narrative functions.
Gray, Douglas.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Examines how the "lost culture" of oral literary and folk and popular traditions of the Middle Ages influenced medieval writers. Mentions Chaucer's understanding of proverbs and oral and folk culture in ClT, WBT, MLT, FranT, and TC.
Flannery, Mary C.
Review of English Studies 62, no. 255 (2011): 337-57.
Addresses the "handling of gendered shame" in Chaucer's works, arguing that shamefastness (modesty) is a "point of tension between medieval concepts of manliness and feminine honour." Paradoxically, shame is a feature of female honor, while ideals of…
Scott, Anne M. Vergasser.
Sharon Farmer, ed. Approaches to Poverty in Medieval Europe (Turnhout: Brepols, 2016), pp. 229-52.
Explores enigmatic medieval attitudes toward poverty through the allegorical figures of three "loathly ladies"--Lady Poverty (Franciscan "Sacrum commercium"), Chaucer's Wife of Bath's hag, and Glad Poverty (Prologue to Book III of Lydgate's "Fall of…
Examines two major medieval turning-points in the relationship between rich and poor: the revolution in charity of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and the era of late medieval crises when the vulnerability of the poor increased and charitable…
Evans, Ruth.
Beatrice Fannon, ed. Medieval English Literature (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 128-43.
Explores memory and gender in TC, focusing on the poem's deployment of the trope of the knot, as representative of both memory and the bond of love. Argues that the poem's use of knots and nets does not easily resolve itself into gender binaries or…
Allen, Valerie.
Beatrice Fannon, ed. Medieval English Literature (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 144-60.
Draws on connections between "Chaucerian poetics and the properties . . . of gold," and maintains that "gold is a deep metaphor for poetry." Examines Chaucer's poetic references to gold and "sumptuous description" in CT, particularly in KnT.
Phillips, Helen.
Beatrice Fannon, ed. Medieval English Literature (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 79-94.
Addresses Chaucer's discourse on medieval political principles, including kingship and hierarchical order. Examines SqT, Mel, KnT, ClT, LGW, PF, and Sted.
Offers essays that reflect the variety of critical viewpoints of medieval writers, including William Langland and Chaucer. Part 2 is devoted to Chaucer scholarship. For five essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval English Literature…
Warner, Lawrence.
Andrew Cole and Andrew Galloway, eds. The Cambridge Companion to "Piers Plowman" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. 198-213.
Contends that Chaucer's portrait of the Plowman in GP and "The Plowman's Tale" contribute to an understanding of how late medieval plowman traditions influenced early modern writings.
Cole, Andrew, and Andrew Galloway, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Presents a collection of essays to support teaching of "Piers Plowman." For an essay that pertains to Chaucer, search for The Cambridge Companion to Piers Plowman under Alternative Title.
Cervone, Cristina Maria.
Cristina Maria Cervone and D. Vance Smith, eds. Readings in Medieval Textuality: Essays in Honour of A. C. Spearing (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2016), pp. 195-214.
Proposes to resituate Pity within a "medieval mode of metaphysical poetry" because of its "collective subjectivity." Reveals how Pity, because of its allegorical and lyrical metaphysical aspects, deserves closer attention as an "example of medieval…
Waters, Claire M.
Cristina Maria Cervone and D. Vance Smith, eds. Readings in Medieval Textuality: Essays in Honour of A. C. Spearing (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2016), pp. 31-46.
Explores ways that Chaucer plays with the "work of makyng" in Adam and Pr–ThL. Reinforces that Chaucer's "middleness," or ability to remain in the "process of making," is revealed in these rhyme royal works.
Aers, David.
Cristina Maria Cervone and D. Vance Smith, eds. Readings in Medieval Textuality: Essays in Honour of A. C. Spearing (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2016), pp. 85-96.
Reexamines own earlier writings about Troilus's metaphysical "philosophizing response" and journey in TC, in response to a critique from Spearing from March 25, 1989.
Smith, D. Vance.
Cristina Maria Cervone and D. Vance Smith, eds. Readings in Medieval Textuality: Essays in Honour of A. C. Spearing (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2016), pp. 135-56.
Examines the "unresolved ending" of the "Legend of Philomela" in LGW.
Pearsall, Derek.
Cristina Maria Cervone and D. Vance Smith, eds. Readings in Medieval Textuality: Essays in Honour of A. C. Spearing (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2016), pp. 3-14.
Examines the lexicographical meaning of the word "experience" to gain an understanding of Chaucer's meaning and intent in WBP.
