Griffin, Conan M., trans.
Boston, Mass.: Brill, 2023.
Translates Bo into modern idiomatic English, with text based on "The Riverside Chaucer," 3rd ed. (1986), and bottom-of-page notes, a glossary of proper names, and a citation glossary of Middle English words in Bo accompanied by Latin equivalents.…
Explores "how late-fourteenth and fifteenth-century [English] poets use dance to experiment and play with descriptions of motion." Includes discussion of Anel as well as Osbern Bokenham's "Legend of Holy Women," Thomas Chestre's "Sir Launfal," John…
Runstedler, Curtis.
Curtis Runstedler. Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), pp. 89-129.
Explores the "moral value for Chaucer's audience" of CYPT and articulates "alchemical connections" elsewhere in CT, especially SNT. Focuses on the diction and imagery of CYP, on CYT as a negative exemplum, and on the Yeoman's final rejection of…
Johnson, Eleanor.
Eleanor Johnson. Waste and the Wasters: Poetry and Ecosystemic Thought in Medieval England (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023), pp. 102-25.
Reads CYP in the context of late medieval English concerns about waste as "ecosystemic misconduct par excellence," linking to the plague the Canon's Yeoman's social contagion and the damage done to him by his working environment. Explicates the…
Zuraikat, Malek J.
Orbis Litterarum: International Review of Literary Studies 78 (2023): 205-16.
Contends that NPT "shows how free will and destiny . . . mysteriously connive together to form what can be called 'conditional free will',” arguing that the combination of Chauntecleer's dream and the outcome of the plot compromise Augustinian,…
Yıldız, Nazan.
RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi 28 (2022): 498-507.
Traces "similarities between Boethius's Lady Philosophy and Chaucer’'s Prudence" in Mel regarding "the authority of women over men as the source of knowledge and wisdom." Comments on female empowerment and Prudence as a "Wife of Bath in disguise."…
Wright, Joshua C.
Neophilologus 107 (2023): 301-0.
Reads Th through the lens of Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of the carnivalesque as a dismantling of the religious and moral authority established by PrT in order to reassert the carnivalesque as the organizing principle of CT.
Wiemann, Dirk.
Dirk Wiemann. Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts: Postcolonial Literature and the Politics of Gaps (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023), pp. 133-92.
Includes a subsection titled "Detoxing England: Patience Agbabi's 'Telling Tales,'" arguing that Agbabi successfully detoxifies CT's “ideologeme of othering, most obviously in religious, sexual and racial dichotomies." Uses case-study comparison of…
Kelly, Maggie S.
Ph.D. dissertation (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2023), Dissertation Abstracts International A84.12(E). Fully accessible at https://libres.uncg.edu/ir/listing.aspx?id=46652 (accessed January 31, 2025).
Addresses "medieval and early modern literary uses of blood symbolism to describe and represent these marginalized groups: Christ, women, Jews, and disabled persons." Chapter 4 considers "the concepts of ritual murder libel, blood libel, and Jewish…
Hines, Jessica.
Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 34 (2022): 130-47.
Compares the "structures of feeling" in PrT and Gower's "Tale of the Jew and the Pagan," particularly their interrelations of pity, violence, justice, antisemitism, and affective response. Suggests that the two authors reworked their versions at the…
Zavrl, Andrej.
Stridon: Journal of Studies in Translation and Interpreting 3 (2023): 29-49; 2 color illus.
Compares and contrasts Marjan Strojan's presentations of the Pardoner's sexual identity in his 1974 and 2012 Slovenian translations of the GP description of the Pardoner; WBP, 161-87; and PardPT; examining variations and omissions in the texts and…
Williamson, John R.
Zell, Mary Jo.
Davis, Elizabeth A.
New York: Bedford/ St. Martin's, 2023.
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that Unit One of this pedagogical study guide includes a thematic section “Faith and Doubt,” which features PardT (J. U. Nicolson’s poetic translation), with exploratory study questions. A student…
Goedhals, John Antony.
Studia Neophilologica 96 (2024): 36-51.
Builds on previous readings of PardT that identify its descriptions of food, especially bread and wine, as part of its parody of the Christian mass and Eucharist. Demonstrates that Chaucer uses specifically Wycliffite terms when referring to food and…
Creedon-Carey, Una.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 45 (2023): 105-38.
Shows that "medical models for textual interpretation” structure Part 6 of CT. Assesses violent, authoritative models of medical cure posed in the GP description of the Physician; interrogates literary interpretation as self-repair in PhyT; and…
Shields, Rachel Linn.
Yearbook of English Studies 53 (2024, for 2023): 21-35.
Argues that the "tidal influences" in FranT encourage "feminist interpretation" of Dorigen's promise, "identification of an environmentalist sensibility" in the tale, and attention to human subjection "to natural cycles and forces." Furthermore,…
Challenges the use of a mid-line semicolon in FranT, 964, arguing that it and the virgule in the Ellesmere manuscript disambiguate the syntax of the description of the conversation between Dorigen and Aurelius, diminishing the characterization of…
Newby, Rebecca Ellen.
Chaucer Review 58, no. 1 (2023): 60-88.
Contends SqT and Thopas are not artistic failures but that their departures from the usual norms of the medieval romance genre in tone, form, and subject matter are evidence of Chaucer's search "for a new mode of romance writing." Further, their…
Kao, Wan-Chuan.
Geraldine Heng, ed., Teaching the Global Middle Ages (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2022), pp. 289-301.
Outlines the teaching of a unit on global, multicultural "inns and "hostels" in medieval texts, focusing on representations of nonwestern dwelling places during travel. Includes comments on SqT as "rich in hotel psyche and tonality."
Jagot, Shazia.
Postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies 13 (2022): 621-24.
Responds to essays included in a special issue of "postmedieval," and comments on SqT, identifying ways that the work and its brass steed--"belong to a world of the "sıra" in ways that reflect the entangled and often diffuse ways that fictional…
Robinson, Olivia.
Daisy Delogu and Anne-Hélène Miller, eds. Approaches to Teaching the "Romance of the Rose" (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2023), pp. 227-36.
Describes goals and methods of teaching the "Roman de la Rose" in undergraduate courses that include Middle English literature. Includes attention to manuscript illustrations and to intertextual relations of MerT to Rom.
Explores how tree climbers have been represented in European and North American literature and art, including discussion of MerT in a section on "questionable gendered attitudes about women climbing trees," traced back to the biblical Garden of Eden.…
Wells, Marion A.
Marion A. Wells. Gender, Affect, and Emotion from Classical to Early Modern Literature: Afterlives of the Nightingale's Song (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), pp. 145-94.
Argues that "Petrarch’s Stoicization of Boccaccio's" story of Griselda "constucts an ideal of apatheia predicated on the forcible interruption of the . . . internal process of assent," and that Chaucer's re-vernacularization of the tale "uses the…
Introduces a special issue dedicated to Shakespeare's references to Padua, summarizing the collected essays and addressing references to Padua in the Towneley mystery play ("Magnus Herodes") and in ClP (27). Suggests that Chaucer’s linking of Padua…
Advocates the use of student-generated creative writing in a course called "Surviving Trauma in the Middle Ages," focusing on reading ClT in tandem with Patience Agbabi's retelling of Chaucer'stale, "I Go Back to May 1967," from "Telling Tales"…
Minnis, Alastair.
New Medieval Literatures 22 (2022): 114-61.
Assesses the demonic presence in FrT (the Green Yeoman), placing "Chaucerian demonology within a wider intellectual and cultural context" from St. Augustine to the "Malleus maleficarum." Surveys views on demonic/angelic presence as apparition,…
