Reconsiders the social status of franklins in the late medieval period and points out that their gentility is ambiguous. Discusses the value of "gentilesse" in FranT by comparing the tale with Boccaccian analogues, taking into account the…
Comments on questions of "prior circulation and authorial revision" that were disclosed by the Manly-Rickert edition of CT and suggests that recent advances in codicology and the history of the book may offer future editors new perspectives from…
Bergvall, Caroline.
PennSound (Sound recording; MP3 format. Recorded in London, September 22, 2006.) [writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Bergvall.php].
Four poems inspired by Chaucer's CT, written and recorded by Bergvall: "The Host's Tale"; "The Summer Tale (deus hic, 1)" [link to text included]; "The Franker Tale (deus hic, 2)" [link to text included]; and "The Not Tale (funeral)."
Boffey, Julia.
Stephen G. Nichols and Siegfried Wenzel, eds. The Whole Book: Cultural Perspectives on the Medieval Miscellany (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998), pp. 69-82.
Discusses whether British Library MS Harley 116 and Cambridge University Library MS Hh 4.12 were meant to be anthologies or whether the quire signatures indicate discrete works that came together by accident.
Fizzard, Allison D.
Journal of British Studies 46 (2007): 245-62.
Fizzard considers Chaucer's GP description of the Monk among other satires and accounts of monastic dress, exploring in particular debates about standards of dress among Augustinian monks.
Item not seen; cited in MLA International Bibliography, where it is described as concerned with the memory, thought, and the muses in HF and LGW. In Japanese.
Boffey, Julia.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 38 (2016): 265-73.
Explores the connections between two compilations produced by scribe John Shirley--Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.3.20 and British Library, Additional MS 16165--suggesting that the manuscripts indicate John Lydgate's two different reactions to the…
Item not seen; cited in MLA International Bibliography, where it is described as concerned with Hisashi Shigeo's theories of women and love in Chaucer. In Japanese.
Sylvester, Ruth.
ETC: A Review of General Semantics 71.3 (2014): 248-57.
Summarizes differences between oral and literate communication, describes CT as a product of a transitional "manuscript culture," and discusses how WBP lends verisimilitude to the speaking voice of WBT, an example of Chaucer's virtuosity in a "time…
Argues that TC is largely concerned with "certitude and volition as they pertain to human perception and judgment" and as they relate to late medieval philosophical discussions of divine omnipotence and divine self-limitation. Troilus, Pandarus, and…
Hernández Pérez, María Beatriz.
Sonia Villegas and Beatriz Domínguez, eds. Literature, Gender, Space (Huelva: Universidad de Huelva, 2004), pp. 131-42.
Assesses the hospitality of female characters in LGW, showing that the betrayal suffered by these women is not the result of their fickleness but of a failure of the courtly code.
Stadnik, Katarzyna.
In Przemysław Łozowski and Katarzyna Stadnik, eds. Visions and Revisions: Studies in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2016), pp. 179-86.
Uses the Boethian imagery of Fortune and her wheel in For and Truth to clarify "situated cognition," exemplifying how visual images can enable cultural transmission across time.
Discusses prefaces to CT as marketing and self-promotion that linked the authority of editors and a dedicatee, Henry VIII, to the authority of the author.
Pérez-Fernández, Tamara.
Karen Pratt, Bart Besamusca, Matthias Meyer, and Ad Putter, eds. The Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript (Göttingen: V&R Academic, 2017), pp. 242-56.
Summarizes and extends recent scholarship on Guildhall scribe Richard Osbarn, and assesses his work, focusing on two TC manuscripts to which he contributed: San Marino, Huntington Library, MS HM 114, and London, British Library, MS Harley 3943.…
Harriss, Gerald.
Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Harriss studies English social and political history from the Hundred Years' War to the Wars of the Roses as a period of cultural transformation that established the "shape of English society and government" that "it was to retain until the Civil…
Novacich, Sarah Elliott.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Explores how "poetic form, staging logistics, and the status of performance" contribute to our understanding of how medieval thinkers imagined the "ethics and pleasures of the archive." Includes discussion of HF, MLT, MilT, and Rom.
Smith, Ryan.
Ph.D. Dissertation. State University of New York at Buffalo, 2021.
Dissertation Abstracts International A82.12(E).
Explores "reductio ad absurdum" in "theology and romance texts of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries," including discussion of Chaucer's uses of it as "a marker of generic resistance to chivalric romance" in KnT and ClT.
Moore, Miriam Elizabeth.
Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 3163A, 2001.
Women in TC and Fernando de Rojas's "Celestina" seek to establish themselves and their fates through "control of language," but rhetorical control gives way as men eventually become subjects and women objects of physical desire.
Koldeweij, Jos.
Sarah Blick and Rita Tekippe, eds. Art and Architecture of Late Medieval Pilgrimage in Northern Europe and the British Isles. 2 vols. (Boston and Leiden: Brill, 2005), volume 1, pp. 493-510.
Koldeweij comments on pilgrim badges and related materials mentioned in CT and illustrated in the Ellesmere manuscript. The commentary introduces a discussion of obscene badges (ca. 1350-ca. 1450) intended to mock pilgrimage.
Burger, Glenn.
Glenn Burger and Steven Kruger, eds. Queering the Middle Ages (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001), pp. 213-35.
Argues that Chaucer set the standard for discourse on heterosexuality and modernity, even though modern study has written over his "queer touch." Exemplifies the gendered instability of Chaucer's text by contrasting the normativizing power of…
Examines shame as a force in identity construction and a constraint on female agency, focusing on Criseyde in TC and Dido in HF, and briefly mentioning LGW. As an historical force, shame also determines narrative possibilities in these poems.
McTaggart, Anne.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
HF, TC, and CT more commonly represent shame (an exterior phenomenon) than guilt (an interior one); in dialogue with late medieval penitential theology, they suggest the narrative invisibility of guilt. HF and TC tackle the plausibility, in pagan…
