Provides links to online samples of Chaucer's works, "read by professors" and intended to "help students improve their pronunciation of Chaucer's Middle English." Includes passages from CT, TC, and other works. Formerly hosted at Virginia Military…
Includes ten essays by various authors and a comprehensive index. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Patterns of Love and Courtesy under Alternative Title.
Brown, Peter.
Europe: A Literary History, 1348-1418 (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 1:191-207.
Describes late medieval literary production in the city of Canterbury and explores its literary affiliations, ummarizing its place in early English Christianity and the impact of Becket's martyrdom. Highlights works produced in Canterbury or written…
Includes photostats of Cambridge, Peterhouse, MS 75.I (Equat) among several additions to "Section A" of Oronzo Cilli's "Tolkien's Library: An Annotated Checklist" (Edinburgh: Luna Press, 2019), and comments on Tolkien's concern with scribal…
Madden, William A.
College English 20 (1959):193-94.
Challenges Paul Ruggiers' essay, "Some Philosophical Aspects of 'The Knight's Tale'" (1958), maintaining that the critic fails to distinguish between Chaucer's views and those of the Knight, and disagreeing with his interpretations of several points…
Explores "imperfect analogies between Chaucerian poetics and border theory/pedagogy," reporting on classroom experiences and discussing what Chaucer can teach us about "inhabiting borderlands."
Stratford, Jenny.
Jessica A. Lutkin and J. S. Hamilton, eds. Creativity, Contradictions and Commemoration in the Reign of Richard II: Essays in Honour of Nigel Saul (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2022), pp. 75-92, plus appendix.
Summarizes the life and legacy of Isabella of Castile, examining in detail her last will and testament (included in Latin and French). Refutes John Shirley's suggestion in his manuscript afterwords to Mars and to Venus that the poems link the…
Hines, Jessica.
Religion & Literature 54 (2022): 49-71.
Presents the role of pity as an "essential virtue" that does not negate suffering in TC; claims that Chaucer shifts language as a way to understand the "complex social and subjective position of pity" in TC.
Harris, Carissa M., and Fiona Somerset.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 44 (2022): 268-71.
Identifies Criseyde's comment to Troilus about consent in TC, 3.1210–11 as evidence of her awareness of difference between "survival strategy" and "affirmative consent."
Hamaguchi, Keiko.
Studies in Medieval Language and Literature 37 (2022): 27-45.
Investigates TC's portrayal of Criseyde as a representation of English widows facing threats and deceit. Utilizing legal records of the time, considers how Poliphete's false suit mirrors real cases of widows unjustly targeted for their property and…
Easler, Jennifer Nicole.
Ph. D. Dissertation. University of Minnesota, 2022. Open access at https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/227922 (accessed November 18, 2023).
Examines the themes of prophecy and retold narrative in premodern works about Troy by Virgil, Dares and Dictys, Chaucer (TC), Lydgate, and Shakespeare, arguing that, in various ways, they "call into question the efficacy of poetry and of knowledge,…
Dumitescu, Irina.
Times Literary Supplement February 11, 2022, p. 27.
Comments on Criseyde in TC and the protagonists of LGW as evidence of Chaucer's effort "to articulate the problem of writing about women: in the public eye, no female character is entitled to a full personality."
Alberghini, Jennifer.
Medieval Feminist Forum 57 (2022): 7-34.
Explores Criseyde's role as daughter in TC, Calkas's putative authority over her in marital matters, and the views of other characters concerning her ambiguous, conditional consent to her father's wishes. Treats Criseyde's "feminine virtue" and…
Contains archival evidence and unpublished papers from Henry Bradshaw. Examines Bradshaw's "rhyme tests," which he used to establish Chaucerian authorship of the "Tale of Gamelyn" and Rom, and accounts for Walter W. Skeat's sometimes incorrect…
Demonstrates that PF reflects a movement from natural law to a more subjective interpretation of individual rights and ties this transition to the crisis of "commonalty" in the late fourteenth century.
Krajník, Filip.
Paul Poplawski, ed. Studying English Literature in Context: Critical Readings (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), pp. 27-43.
Contrasts medieval and modern ideas of authorship, focusing on how Chaucer "treated old authorities in developing his own reputation and what strategies he employed to establish a harmony among the multiple authorial voices" in PF. Proposes that, for…
Focuses on Jason in LGW and other sexually predatory men, examines a number of motifs in Chaucer's version of Jason, and highlights the danger of men such as Jason who hide their behavior behind gentility.
Allen-Goss, Lucy M.
Sarah Baechle, Carissa M. Harris, and Elizaveta Strakhov, eds. Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature: With an Edition of Middle English and Middle Scots Pastourelles (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2022), pp. 80-96.
Contrasts Chaucer's and Gower's Philomela stories, focusing on differences between the nuances and implications of weaving in LGW and embroidery in "Confessio Amantis," and arguing that Chaucer's version aligns better with modern understanding of…
Moll, Richard J.
Studies in Philology 119 (2022): 371-404.
Shows how Legh uses the dream vision structure from HF but employs a frame of memory and "argues against Chaucer's position that fame is unrelated to deserving."
Lewis, Sean Gordon.
Enarratio: Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest 23 (2022): 52-68.
Examines the "embodiment of language" in HF and argues that it displays epistemological "confidence in the ability of the textual word/body to communicate accurately to the reader's imagination in a synesthetic experience." Focuses on how Chaucer…
Kordecki, Lesley.
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 29 (2022): 570-82.
Argues that the eagle in HF "represents poetry," manifest in its "uncanny perception," its ability to "uplift" the narrator, and its concern with sound and transformative power.
Keller, Wolfram R.
Iris Därmann and Aloys Winterling, eds. Oikonomia und Ökonomie im klassischen Griechenland: Theorie--Praxis--Transformation (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2022), pp. 157-73.
Argues that HF depicts a journey through the mental operation of using traditional classical material to generate new literature (tidings) and, in doing so, reflects aspects of late medieval understanding of psychology and economics. Crucial to the…
Cossio, Andoni.
SELIM: Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature 27 (2022): 166-76.
Identifies which folios of Cambridge, Peterhouse, MS 75.I are included (photostatic copies) in the Tolkien archive of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Tolkien VC 277, using the copies to assess Tolkien's possible assistance to Derek J. Price and R. M.…
