Kumamoto, Sadahiro.
Kumamoto Daigaku Eigo Eibungaku [Kumamoto Studies in English Language and Literature] 45 (2002): 1-31.
Item not located; reported in MLA International Bibliography, which indicates that the essay pertains to syntactical uses of the infinitive in BD, PF, and HF; also indicates that the essay is in Japanese, with an English summary.
Argues that the scheme of "diminution" penetrates every dimension of Th and discusses how the meanings are generated and complicated through combination of different dimensions. In Japanese.
Considers Chaucer's idea of nature in CT, assessing its relationship to Renaissance humanism, to scholarship and various arts, and to conceptions of the celestial world and natural science. Also gauges the influence of Chaucer's view of nature on…
Kawasaki, Masatoshi.
Eigo Seinen 137.11 (1992): 558-60.
Item not seen; cited in MLA International Bibliography, where it is described as concerned with the garden imagery and sources in Chaucer. In Japanese.
Critical discussion of Chaucer's life and each of his major works, including a section concerned with the resonances of his poetry in later literature, including Russian literature. Considers social and religious conditions of Chaucer's age, his…
Lee, Brian S.
Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest 10 : 31-48., 2003.
The absence of details of physical dress or adornment applied to Custance in MLT coincides with the presentation of her as a virtuous, Christian heroine. Though descriptive details are conventional in romances, their relative absence here is…
Rejects exegetical readings of BD that construe the poem as a wholesale Christian allegory, but argues that Christian consolation is nevertheless conveyed through resurrection imagery (birds, horns, harts, etc.) and details of "sleeping, dreaming,…
Assesses TC as a "peculiar combination of church, chivalry, and courtly love," exploring the history of the amalgamation of the "system of knighthood," the church's influence on the "chivalric code," and the "idealization of woman." Then examines…
McGrath, Alister E., ed.
Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2001.
An anthology of selections and excerpts, arranged chronologically, from Clement of Rome to Garrison Keillor, each example accompanied by a brief biographical introduction and study questions. Includes a translation of PardP (6.329-462).
Pugh explores the "performative cruelties" of TC--the ways the three major characters are willing to "resort to tactics of cruelty to advance their individual agendas" and the way the narrative itself displays the "pleasures of salvation" that are…
Breuer, Rolf.
Uwe Boker, Manfred Markus, and Ranier Schowerling, eds. The Living Middle Ages: Studies in Mediaeval English Literature and Its Tradition (Stuttgart: Belser, 1989), pp. 183-95.
Treats the concept of tragedy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, touching on TC and MkT.
Burns, Nicholas.
Joan F. Hallisey and Mary-Anne Vetterling, eds. Proceedings: Northeast Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature (Weston, Mass.: Regis College, [1996]), pp. 19-24.
Unlike modern thinkers who pose Islam as an "Other" in opposition to Christianity, Dante and Chaucer depict the continuities of the two religions. In "Divine Comedy," Dante disapproves of Islam but incorporates it into his cosmic scheme. In MLT,…
Hirsh, John C.
Corinne Saunders, ed. A Concise Companion to Chaucer (Malden, Mass.; Oxford; and Victoria: Blackwell, 2006), pp. 241-60.
Hirsh summarizes how religious concepts, contexts, and developments in the politico-religious situation in Ricardian and Lancastrian England bear on our understanding of CT. Discusses the Great Schism, pilgrimage, mysticism, and the shared themes of…
Chance, Jane, trans.
Newburyport, Mass. : Focus Information Group, 1990.
In her introduction, Chance treats the life and works of Christine de Pizan, the origins of Pizan's "gynocentric mythography" and the debate over the "Rose," medieval genealogy of the gods, and the "Letter of Othea" as a mythographic text, with…
Clark, Roy Peter.
Studies in Short Fiction 13 (1976): 277-87.
The tale includes several oblique references to Christmas. At once comic and suggestive of serious religious ideas, these features may mark the work as an actual bawdy Christmas tale.
Eighty-four brief poems or excerpts from longer ones, including lines 36-56 of SNP in Middle English (pp. 68-69), with indication of Chaucer's debt to Dante, whose version of "St. Bernard's Hymn to the Virgin" is given in Italian and English…
Baird, Lorrayne Y.
Studies in Iconography 9 (1983): 19-30.
Pre-Christian and Christian traditions connecting "gallus" and "deus" bear on NPT, especially hymns of Jerome and Prudentius, iconography, and popular equations of the cock with Christ in apocrypha, devotionals, folklore, and slang. As antagonist of…
Ferris, Sumner.
Chivalric Literature: Essays on Relations Between Literature and Life in the Later Middle Ages. Studies in Medieval Culture, no. 14. (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1980), pp. 25-38.
Deals with the interrelations between the chivalry of literature and chivalric actualities, chronicles, biographical accounts.
Thirty vignettes of London and its citizens arranged chronologically, with nine recommended walking tours and an Index. Chapter 7, "Geoffrey Chaucer is Appointed Comptroller of the Port of London: 8 June, 1374" (pp. 46-51; 4 figs.), briefly describes…
Peverley, Sarah L.
Juliana Dresvina and Nicholas Sparks, eds. The Medieval Chronicle VII (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011), pp. 167-203.
Describes how in the first version of his "Chronicle" John Hardyng was influenced by Lydgate in his descriptions of royal power and social harmony--moments of "great joy and triumph"--while depending upon Chaucer and Walton for his concern with…
