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Dean, Nancy.   Comparative Literature 19 (1967): 1-27.
Surveys the status of the complaint as a formal genre in classical and in medieval French, Provencal, Italian, and English traditions as background to discussing Chaucer's uses of the genre in BD, TC, Mars, and elsewhere. Focuses on Chaucer's…

Edwards, A. S. G.   Notes and Queries 262 (2017): 220-21.
Encourages editors to adopt the manuscript variant "his" (rather than "hir") at the end of the Cook's fragment (CkT 1.4422), which would indicate that the wife prostituted herself "not to make her own living, but in order to provide money for her…

Bassan, Maurice.   Mediaeval Studies 24 (1962): 127-40.
Surveys "unreliable" information about Constantine Africanus in scholarly discussions of Chaucer's references to him in GP 1.433 (Doctour of Phisik) and MerT 4.1810-11. Then clarifies Constantinus's importance in the history of medicine, what is and…

Biggs, Frederick M.   Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2017.
Addresses connections between Boccaccio's "Decameron" and CT, with particular focus on ShT, MilT, and WBT. Presents a "hermeneutic argument" that explores areas including "alchemy, domestic spaces, economic history, folklore, Irish/English politics,…

Steadman, John M.   Modern Language Notes 76.3 (1961): 196-201.
Explores the mythological tradition which "linked Jupiter with the sands of Libya" as well as "Venus' association with the wilderness of Libya," helping to clarify Chaucer's reference to the "desert of Libye" in HF and his use of Virgil's "Aeneid" as…

Colley, John.   Studies in the Age of Chaucer 43 (2021): 45-73.
Investigates the reference to the "Judeo-Roman historian Josephus" in HF, 1429–36, exploring how his authority varies in the Middle Ages "depending on the extent to which he is understood as a Christian or a Jew," and showing how, in Chaucer's…

Norton-Smith, J.   Medium Aevum 32 (1963): 117-24.
Interprets Form Age as a topical, even occasional, poem, rather than as a translation from Boethius, investigating its manuscript contexts, identifying echoes from Tibellius, Ovid, Jean de Meun, Eustace Deschamps, and Sted, and arguing that the poem…

Reid, T. B. W.   Notes and Queries 209 (1964): 373-74.
Argues that an analogue (perhaps source) of Chaucer's image of a coin-shaped ("farthing") spot of grease in his GP description of the Prioress (1.134) is "Clef d'amors," line 3236. The play in the French may derive from a punning echo of "speck" and…

Candelaria, Frederick H.   Modern Language Notes. 71.5 (1956): 321-22.
Suggests that the portentous oak of PardT 6.765 (no species mentioned in analogues) gains dimension in light of Chaucer having been robbed at a "fowle oak" in Kent in 1390, and also suggests, therefore, that Chaucer must have been written PardT after…

Kelly, Francis J.   Explicator 24.9 (1966): item 81.
Explicates the phrase "withouten coppe" (FranT 5.492) as meaning "outside of the cup," conveying that Aurelius drank his penance to the fullest extent.

Kellogg, A. L.   Notes and Queries 204 (1959): 190-92.
Disagrees with editorial explanations of FrT 3.1314, arguing that the subject of the sentence, a "composite sinner," is the recipient of "pecunyal peyne." Offers supporting evidence from several contemporary sources.

Eckhardt, Caroline D.   Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
In addition to sections on editions; bibliographies, indexes, and other research tools; general criticism and cultural background; language, metrics, and studies of manuscripts; and the springtime setting, this bibliography of 1,387 entries includes…

Adams, George Roy.   Dissertation Abstracts International 22.07 (1962): 2382.
Examines Chaucer's use of first-person narration, "traditional themes," "rhetorical principles," and "artistic structure" in GP, exploring the pilgrimage and spring motifs, the chain of being, and connections between this chain, the serial…

Birney, Earle.   Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 61 (1960): 257-67.
Explores details, emphases, ironies, and double ironies in the GP description of the Manciple and in ManPT, characterizing him as "shrewd," "smug," and "indiscrete"--a "successful rascal" who aspires to "gentil" status, is "insecure," and overly…

Biggs, Frederick M.   Studies in the Age of Chaucer 40 (2018): 289-330.
Argues that "gnof" (MilT 1.3188) is Chaucer's neologism, clarifying the trouble his scribes had with the word, detailing its later use in English (especially in association with Kett's Rebellion of 1575), and establishing the likelihood that Chaucer…

Wilson, William Smith   Yale University Dissertation, 1960. Dissertation Abstracts International 31.06 (1970): 2893-94A. Full text available at ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.
Considers HF to be an occasional poem, perhaps "written for Christmas Revels at the Inner Temple," and reads its three parts an "an allegorical representation of the trivium" that pertains to poetry, "testing the trivium, and rejecting it, and…

McKinley, Kathryn.   Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2016.
Analyzes Boccaccio's impact on Chaucer in HF. Presents literary history of Boccaccio's "Amorosa vision" and descriptions of Chaucer's trips to Italy, and claims that "Chaucer tries out an array of Boccaccian approaches to Dantean questions and…

Delany, Sheila.   Comparative Literature 20 (1968): 254-64.
Shows that Chaucer's depiction of Fame in HF has several parallels with the depiction of her in the French "Ovide moralisé": use of anaphora in amplification of Ovid's original, Fame's role of judge and her "aura of authority," and overt concern…

Dickerson, A. Inskip.   Texas Studies in Literature and Language 18 (1976): 171-83.
HF refutes rumors about Chaucer's libertinism. It raises the question of love's definition through the story of Dido and Aeneas in Book I, the remonstrations of the Eagle in Book II, and the scandals in the houses of Fame and Rumour in Book III.

Brookhouse, Christopher   Medium Ævum 34.1 (1965): 40-42.
Identifies several instances of Chaucer's uses of lists of impossibilities (rhetorical "adynata" or "impossibilia") in "personal laments and exclamations of fidelity and sincerity" (TC, BD, Anel), giving classical precedents in Virgil's "Eclogues"…

Rumble, T. C.   Philological Quarterly 43 (1964): 130-33.
Interprets "chiere" of KnT 1.2683 as "frame of mind" or "state of feeling," and maintains that this obviates the question of the whether or not the preceding two lines on the fickleness of women are spurious.

Beidler, Peter G.   English Record 18 (1968): 54-60.
Argues that the subject matter, irony, depiction of love, and touches of humor in KnT are "in no way inappropriate" to the characterization of the Knight evident elsewhere in CT

Penninger, F. Elaine.   South Atlantic Quarterly 63 (1964): 398-405.
Argues that by "idealizing" reality "into unreality" KnT opens the "question of appearance and reality," a recurrent concern throughout CT which is resolved only in ParsT.

Roney, Lois.   Tampa : University of South Florida Press, 1990.
Proposes that KnT has a "two-fold focus: one centering on theories of human nature--Franciscan, Dominican, and Chaucerian; the other centering on theories of valid language use, whether literal alone or figurative as well." Allegory is not the right…

Cozart, William R.   Rosario P. Armato and John M. Spalek, eds. Medieval Epic to the "Epic Theater" of Brecht: Essays in Comparative Literature (Los Angeles: University of Southern California Press, 1968), pp. 25-34.
Suggests that the notion of making a "virtue of necessity" in TC and Theseus's "First Mover" speech reflect late-medieval nominalism and express concern with the precariousness of human life and its relation to "Ultimate Justice." Ending on a…
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