Taggie, Benjamin F.
Benjamin F. Taggie, Richard W. Clement, and James E. Caraway, eds. Spain and the Mediterranean (Kirksville, Mo.: Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1992), pp. 35-44.
Describes political and military events involving Edward, the Black Prince, Pedro of Castile, and his rivals that led up to the military campaign of 1366. Suggests the nature and timing of Chaucer's likely participation in these events, perhaps as an…
Garbaty, Thomas Jay
English Language Notes 5.2 (1967): 81-87.
Argues that Chaucer's role in Spain in 1366 was as a "confidential messenger" of the Black Prince, adducing historical and biographical evidence as well as the attitude expressed about Pedro of Spain in MkT 7.2375ff.
Describes a pedagogical experiment featuring a mock trial of Chaucer--asking students to prosecute and defend Chaucer on the charge of perpetrating medieval antifeminism through his characterization of women in CT and TC.
Wasserman, Julian N., and Robert J. Blanch, eds.
Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1986.
A collection of essays from the conference "Chaucer at Albany II" places Chaucer's works in both medieval and modern contexts. Some essays apply contemporary critical theories, e.g., Harold Bloom on the anxiety of influence, while others reinterpret…
Assesses Chaucer's sense of poetic tradition in HF, arguing that while following Dante's use of the vernacular, Chaucer eschewed Italian emulation of classical models because he distrusted "classical pretensions to artistic or moral superiority."
Valdes Miyares, Ruben.
Bernardo Santano Moreno, Adrian R. Birtwhistle, and Luis G. Girón Echevarria, eds. Papers from the VIIth International Conferenceo of SELIM (Caceres: Universidad de Extremadura, 1995), pp. 351-59.
Chaucer is an "accommodated deconstructionist" rather than a politically committed one. Nonetheless, HF goes beyond mere textual play to historical reference, and Chaucer wavers in the uneasy contradiction between the formal presence of authority…
Nicholson, Peter.
Medievalia et Humanistica 19 (1993): 159-68.
Reviews Priscilla Martin's "Chaucer's Women: Nuns, Wives, and Amazons" and Helen Cooper's "The Canterbury Tales," arguing that they "provide a good indication of some of the newest orthodoxies in Chaucer studies."
Coggeshall, John M.
Southern Folklore Quarterly 45 (1981): 41-60.
Chaucerians have reached no consensus on specific written sources for NPT, PardT, MilT, and RvT, similarities between which and their Ozark analogues (all reprinted here) point to a common source in Anglo-American oral folktales.
Justifies accepting PF 99-105 as the more likely immediate source of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" 1.4.70-88 than Claudian's "De Sextu Consultat Honorii Augusti," Preface, 3-10, the ultimate source of both English texts.
Wack, Mary.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 5.1 (1997): 63-68.
Reports on pedagogical applications of digitized images and concordancing programs in the Chaucer classroom. The goal is to improve students' abilities to perform research and to read closely.
Scattergood, John.
Myra Stokes and T. L. Burton, eds. Medieval Literature and Antiquities: Studies in Honour of Basil Cottle (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1987), pp. 145-62.
Set in "a sort of suburban underworld," SNT and CYT treat "subtle threats" to the established values and ideologies of the city. For Chaucer, "the potential for growth and change...lay beyond the comfortably reassuring town walls in the suburban…
Donaldson, E. Talbot.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 2 (1980): 7-13.
In this first presidential address to the New Chaucer Society, Professer Donaldson wittily summarizes the 20th-century conflict of opinion regarding Chaucer's work to conclude that Chaucer is partly to blame for the confusion. Like all great poets…
Urban, Malte.
Clíodhna Carney and Frances McCormack, eds. Chaucer's Poetry: Words, Authority and Ethics (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013), pp. 146-57.
Examines "afterlives" of Chaucer created by post-medieval scholars using digital tools. Argues for attention to digital engagements with Chaucer, such as "Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog," as having significant existences separate from a historical…
Rossiter, William T.
Isabel Davis and Catherine Nall, eds. Chaucer and Fame: Reputation and Reception (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2015), pp. 21–42.
Explores how Chaucer used Petrarch, Petrarch used Dante, and Dante used Virgil: a sequence of influence that underpins Chaucer's "conception of renown" and encouraged him to lay claim to belonging to the schiera (band) of famous poets. Discusses…
Reale, Nancy M.
Kathleen A. Bishop, ed. Standing in the Shadow of the Master? Chaucerian Influences and Interpretations (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010), pp. 257-86.
Reale summarizes the versions of Chaucer's tales that abound on the internet, suggesting that each has its own agenda for re-presenting Chaucer.
Nolcken, Christina von.
Katherine E. Ellison, and Susan M. Kim, eds. Collaborative Humanities Research and Pedagogy: The Networks of John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), pp. 303-42.
Examines archival records that pertain to the Chaucer Project (which produced "The Text of the Canterbury Tales" [1940]) to explore the history of the project, focusing on the work, working conditions, and attitudes of several scholars who assisted…
Schlaeger, Jürgen.
Werner Röcke and Helga Neumann, eds. Komische Gegenwelten: Lachen und Literatur im Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit (Paderborn: Schningh, 1999), pp. 123-31.
Short introduction to various theories of laughter, followed by a brief analysis of laughter in MilT and TC.
Crow, Martin M., and Clair C. Olson, eds.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1966.
Documentary source book of 493 archival records that pertain to Chaucer's "career as a courtier, diplomat, and civil servant," arranged topically in thirty-one categories from Chaucer's ancestors to his death; includes a "Chronological Table" of the…
Horobin, Simon.
Ana Laura Rodríguez Redondo and Eugenio Contreras Domingo, eds. Focus on Old and Middle English Studies (Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2011), pp. 11-23.
Studies the treatment of manuscripts in the MED, especially those containing Chaucer's works. Detects potential for confusion in the use of the double-dating system (manuscript and composition dates, not always consistently cited), and in the…
Originally posted in 1998. The site attempts to organize Chaucer resources on the World Wide Web, providing links to various Chaucer websites, Chaucer's works and bibliographies online, and "MetaMentors" (Chaucer scholars willing to discuss Chaucer…
Using Chaucerian spellings, the dictionary is designed for beginners and nonspecialists as well as for scholars and specialists interested in the etymology, formation, and development of personal names and names of gods and goddesses (mythical and…
