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…
Hoerner, Fred.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 16 (1994): 69-98.
Reads PardPT psychoanalytically and in light of Max Weber's theory of charisma, commenting on how words and details of the Pardoner's performance reflect his attraction to salvation and his fearful distortion of it. Institutionalized and…
Ikegami, Tadahiro.
Shounosuke Ishii and Peter Milward, eds. Renaissance Bungaku no nakano Yosei (Fairies in Renaissance Literature). (Tokyo: Aratake Shuppan, 1984),: pp. 33-58.
Using "elf, dwarf" and "fairy, fay" as key words, analyzes the meaning of fairies in literature from Old English through the fifteenth century in England.
Deusen, Nancy van, ed.
Boston, Mass.: Brill, 2013.
Ten essays by various authors and an introduction by the editor that consider the influence of Cicero on western language and literature from late Antiquity to the early modern era. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Cicero Refused to…
Finke, Laurie A., and Martin B. Schichtman.
Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
The authors survey a range of popular and artistic films, analyzing uses and presentations of the Middle Ages and assessing the interactions of the modern medium and the ancient material. The book includes commentary on Brian Helgeland's A Knight's…
Hanks, D. Thomas,Jr., Arminda Kamphausen, and James Wheeler.
Chaucer Yearbook 3 (1996): 35-53.
Shows how modern punctuation obscures subtleties of Chaucer's poetry, drawing examples from CT. Unpunctuated, Chaucer's verse has a rich poetic syntax, especially in the ways it compels readers to posit one meaning, adjust that meaning to a second…
Albritton, Benjamin L.
Dissertation Abstracts International A70.04 (2009): n.p.
Considers Machaut's allusions to earlier works in his lays (e.g., "Roman de Fauvel" and "Remede de Fortune") and gauges Machaut's impact on English court poetry, using Chaucer and Froissart as examples.
Fisher, John H.
Medieval Perspectives 1 (1988, for 1986): 1-15.
Medieval comedy is class-based: ridicule of the stupidity of country folk. Modern comedy is psychological: ridicule of the eccentricity of city dwellers. Evolution from class-based to psychological comedy can be traced in the fabliaux and in…
Fradenburg, Louise Olga.
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.
Chapter 8 discusses differences between aristocratic and lower-class desire in PF, exploring how endless desire establishes sovereignty in the poem. The essay also assesses the relations of the poem with Scots tradition, especially the version of…
Hsy, Jonathan.
Marion Turner, ed. A Handbook of Middle English Studies (Chichester: Wiley, 2013), pp. 315-29.
Considers cities as a "mode of thought" for critical analysis, describing a walk-through pedestrian perspective and a from-on-high omniscient perspective in late-medieval English works that include "The Stores of the Cities," "St. Erkenwald," and HF,…
Compares "The Owl and the Nightingale" and NPT as the "best beast fables" in Middle English, examining how the diction of each poem helps to create "voice" and thereby engage an audience.
Through a historically situated investigation of the Pardoner's possible homeosexuality and its relation to language in PardPT, modern readers can resist Chaucer's (possibly) homophobic intentions, reclaiming and even celebrating the Pardoner's…
Defines clandestine marriage and describes it as a widespread and well-known phenomenon in fourteenth-century England, even though condemned by the Church. Argues that because the lovers in TC are not Christian, their love is "licit" and not…
