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Keen, Maurice.   V. J. Scattergood and J. W. Sherborne, eds. English Court Culture (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983), pp. 45-61.
Why is the Knight identified with crusades against the infidel at a time when crusading fervor had supposedly dissipated? Evidence from three contemporary disputes over armorial bearings (at one of which Chaucer testified) suggests that the…

Valentine, Virginia Walker.   Tampa, Fla.: Axelrod, 1994.
Six critical essays by the author on topics ranging from Old English to modern literature. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Chaucer's Knight: A Man Ther Was under Alternative Title.

Valentine, Virginia Walker.   Virginia Walker Valentine. Chaucer's Knight: A Man Ther Was (Tampa, Fla.: Axelrod, 1994), pp. 1-23.
Argues from evidence in KnT and GP that Chaucer presents not an idealized figure but a complex, realistic character. Valentine treats the narrative and rhetorical features of KnT and its relations with Boccaccio's "Teseida" as evidence of the…

Jones, Terry.   Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. 2d rev. ed., 1985; with new introduction, 1994 (London: Methuen).
Ranging through the history of the Crusades, Jones attempts to prove that Chaucer's Knight is a venal mercenary and Chaucer's means to criticize his contemporary military politics.

Brown, Emerson, Jr.   Mediaevalia 15 (1993, for 1989): 183-205.
Chaucer initially uses "worthy" for the Knight in GP with clear denotative meaning, but by the word's final appearance its meaning becomes ambiguous. The Knight is not being criticized; rather, the semantic degeneration of "worthy" indicates a…

Schembri, A. M.   Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies 5: 15-37, 1997.
Chaucer's changes to Boccaccio's "Teseida" in KnT introduce a concern with Cathar heresy. Until Theseus's final speech, the plot reflects cosmic dualism (Saturn and Jupiter), determinism, and pervasive sterility and evil. The poem is also touched by…

Brewer, Derek.   George Hughes, ed. Corresponding Powers: Studies in Honour of Professor Hisaaki Yamanouchi (Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1997), pp. 103-12.
Reads KnT as an expression of Chaucer's own outlooks, i.e., his sympathetic views of chivalry and ritual.

Edwards, Elizabeth B.   Exemplaria 20 (2008): 361-84.
Edwards discusses the rites and purposes of mourning in KnT in relation to the psychological theories of Freud and Derrida. Contrasts the Freudian account with medieval practices of theology and Purgatory. Tthe pagan setting is necessary to…

McAlpine, Monica E.   Toronto; Buffalo, NY; London: University of Toronto Press, 1991.
Annotated entries are alphabetized in five chronological periods (1900-30, 1931-60, 1961-70, 1971-80, 1981-85) under two headings: Knight in the GP (and Links) and KnT.

Morgan, Gerald.   Gerald Morgan, ed. Chaucer in Context: A Golden Age of English Poetry (New York: Peter Lang, 2012), pp. 153-88.
Examines the characterization of Theseus in KnT, comparing it with that of Boccaccio's Teseo and arguing that Chaucer depicts an ideal of moral worth, aristocratic justice, knightly virtue, and nobility of conquest.

Thomas, Paul R.   T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer, eds. "Seyd in Forme and Reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio Press, 2005), pp. 19-35.
Argues that Palamon and Arcite in KnT are very carefully balanced, "even equivalent" as warriors, lovers, and husbands to Emelye. Explains aspects of the symmetry by means of fin amor, or courtly love.

Taylor, Mark N.   Chaucer Review 38 (2004): 299-313
The chess metaphor in BD shows that Chaucer's knowledge of the game, while not extraordinary, was adequate for his purpose. His knowledge could have come from being an actual player, from studying medieval chess puzzles, from knowledge of the…

Boitani, Piero.   Chaucer Review 17 (1983): 197-220.
In HF, concerned with the nature of poetry, Chaucer reflects fourteenth-century culture, reveals his debts to Dante and Boccaccio (Lollius), and deals with literature.

Kawasaki, Masatoshi.   Hiroe Futamura, Kenichi Akishino, and Hisato Ebi, eds. A Pilgrimage Through Medieval Literature (Tokyo: Nan' Un-Do Press, 1993), pp. 103-22.
Chaucer's use of spatial commonplaces to describe landscapes reflects the symbolic nature of the medieval universe and lends philosophical depth to his stories.

Elliott, Ralph W. V., edited by L. K. Lloyd Jones.   North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2010.
An anthology of reprinted publications, addresses, and a memoir by R.W.V. Elliott, with topics including Chaucer, the "Gawain"-poet, runes, Thomas Hardy, and more. Two of the three pieces that pertain to Chaucer were published previously, and one is…

Elliott, Ralph (W. V.).   Michio Kawai, ed. Language and Style in English Literature: Essays in Honour of Michio Masui (Tokyo: Eihosha, 1991), pp. 74-95.
Compares the various landscape features in Chaucer's works with the walled garden of the Roman de la Rose. The merit of Chaucer's landscapes is that the poet tailored them to be part of an intimate, homey world.

Grady, Frank.   Yearbook of Langland Studies 32 (2018): 271-87.
Identifies various ways Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" influenced Langland's "Piers Plowman" formally and thematically, and suggests in conclusion that, unlike other late medieval English writers, Langland and Chaucer "are interested in…

Horobin, Simon.   New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Discursive description of Middle English, focusing on Chaucer's dialect and usage, divided into eight chapters: (1) Why Study Chaucer's Language?; (2) Writing in English; (3) What Was Middle English?; (4) Spelling and Pronunciation; (5) Vocabulary;…

Peters, Robert A.   Bellingham, Wash. : Western Washington University, 1980.
After briefly placing Chaucer's language in the history of the development of English, Peters describes Chaucer's vocabulary, phonology, morphology, and syntax. The study is presented as a "one-text description of Chaucer's language for the student…

Burnley, J. D.   Cambridge:
The medieval tyrant "topos," with its lexicon and its various transformations, provides the means of studying Chaucer's moral vocabulary. The tyrant figure embodies passion, cruelty, injustice, and the heartlessness. Its antitype is first that of…

Ohno, Hideshi.   Akio Katami, Tomohiro Kawabata, and Fumiko Yamamoto, eds. A History of the English Language for English Teachers (Tokyo: Kaitakusha, 2018), pp. 83-105.
Introduces elements of the English language that are particularly useful for teaching English, following the ordinary division of the language's development into five stages: Old English, Middle English, early modern English, late modern English, and…

Phillips, Susan E.   Chaucer Review 46-1.2 (2011): 39-59.
Examines the varying degrees and uses of multilingualism among the Canterbury pilgrims and the characters in their tales, commenting on the facile "linguistic posing" of several speakers (Pardoner, Parson, Wife of Bath, Summoner and his characters)…

Johnson, W[illiam]. C., Jr.   William C. Johnson and Loren C. Gruber, eds. "New" Views on Chaucer: Essays in Generative Criticism (Denver: Society for New Language Study, 1973), pp. 17-27.
Exemplifies how Chaucer "frequently presents his characters as victims of a necessity that become meaningful not through its external operation as 'fortune,' but through its inner presence as an experience of 'emotional necessity'," illustrating this…

Nakao, Yoshiyuki, and Yoko Iyeiri, eds.   Suita: Osaka Books, 2013.
For six articles that pertain to aspects of Chaucer's language, search for Chaucer's Language: Cognitive Perspectives under Alternative Title.

Hoad, T. F.   PoeticaT 36: 15-37, 1992.
Hoad challenges critical discussions of specific words and syntactical emphases in Chaucer on the grounds that modern linguistic intuition is unreliable, comparison of medieval uses is often flawed, and medieval commentary can be misleading.…
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