Ridyard, Susan J., ed.
Sewanee, Tenn. : University of the South, 1999.
Eleven papers by various authors on the literature and history of knighthood, with topics ranging from ascetic knighthood to knighthood as a trope. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Chivalry, Knighthood, and War in the Middle Ages…
Kobayashi, Yoshiko.
Dissertation Abstracts International 58: 3144A, 1997.
Like Gower in "Confessio Amantis," Chaucer in TC adapts two strategies from Benot de Sainte-Maure's "Roman de Troie" to criticize chivalry: indicating how chivalry oppresses women and revealing the incompatibility of knightly conduct and good…
Nakao, Yoshiyuki, Akiyuki Jimura, and Noriyuki Kawano.
Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature 59 (2015): 1–34.
Compares frequencies of different negative forms as well as syntactic, lexical, and semantic negative patterns in the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts and two critical editions by Blake and Benson, respectively. Tabulates the result as statistical…
Cooper Helen.
Guillemette Bolens and Lukas Erne, eds. Medieval and Early Modern Authorship (Tübingen: Narr Verlag, 2011), pp. 29-50.
Addresses the "literal paternity" of Chaucer as the "father of English poetry" for fifteenth- and sixteenth-century writers, including Shakespeare and Jonson. Discusses how Chaucer established himself as a "poet within the classical poetic line." …
Reiff, Raychel Haugrud.
Essays in Medieval Studies 26 (2010): 69-84.
Reiff examines uses of second-person singular pronouns "thou" and "you" to indicate relationships among characters in KnT, particularly idealized chivalric relationships, Theseus's changing attitude toward the knights, the unfaltering brotherhood…
Fulton, Helen.
Helen Fulton, ed. Chaucer and Italian Culture (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2021), pp. 91-120.
Presents examples from the "classical genres of chorography and topography" in analysis of ClT. Argues that Chaucer's “untypical use of chorography . . . draws attention to Italy's international trade routes" and reinforces the economic…
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…
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…
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.
