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Ebi, Hisato.   Hiroe Futamura, Kenichi Akishino, and Hisato Ebi, eds. A Pilgrimage Through Medieval Literature (Tokyo: Nan' Un-Do Press, 1993), pp. 371-82.
Compares the symbolism of Chaucer's poetry with that of the Wilton Diptych, focusing on the iconic meaning of the daisy.

Mann, Nicholas.   Convegno Internazionale Francesco Petrarca: Roma-Arezzo-Padova-Arquà Petrarca, 24-27 Aprile 1974. Atti dei Convegni Lince, no. 10 (Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1976), pp. 59-69.
Includes very brief mention of Chaucer's uses Petratrch in TC, ClT, and CYT.

Jacobus, Lee A.   Kristin Pruitt McColgan and Charles W. Durham, eds. Arenas of Conflict: Milton and the Unfettered Mind. (Selinsgrove, Penn.: Susquehanna University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1997), pp. 261-70.
Compares Milton's portrayal of Dalila in "Samson Agonistes" with earlier representations by Boccaccio, Chaucer, Lydgate, and Swetnam. Chaucer offers no analysis of her motives; Milton condemns her actions, not her gender.

Cady, Diane.   New Medieval Literatures 17 (2017): 115-49.
Explores medieval analogies between "storytelling and merchandizing" and how both relate to gender in MLT, clarifying connections between the travel narrative, its rhetoric, and the poverty prologue, and commenting on source and analogue relations.…

Cady, Diane.   The Gender of Money in Middle English Literature: Value and Economy in Late Medieval England (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), pp. 125-60.
Explores how medieval travel writers "imagine storytelling and merchandising as analogous enterprises," how they intersect with "gender ideology" wherein "texts are imagined as both feminine corpora and feminized commodities," and how the Man of…

Gallacher, Patrick J.   Viator 13 (1982): 275-93.
The idea that virtue is perfect only when it is enjoyable is corrected in WBT with the discourse on gentilesse. The three main concepts regarding pleasure discussed in WBT are the equation of pleasure with perfection, the coexistence of pleasure and…

Shapiro, Gloria K.   Chaucer Review 6 (1971): 130-41.
Explores "important tensions" in the characterization of the Wife of Bath, interpreting the "larger subject" of WBT as the "grace of God," even though it concludes with the Wife's "irreligious" final curse. In WBP, her "masking is predictable…

Kauffman, Corrine E.   Chaucer Review 4.1 (1969): 41-48.
Uses late-medieval and Renaissance herbals to show that the ingredients for a remedy that Pertelote recommends to Chanticleer in NPT are all "quite wrong for her patient" and his condition: some unavailable, some inappropriate, and some deadly. The…

Talbot, C. H.   Essays and Studies 25 (1972): 1-15.
Provides historical evidence that females practiced medicine in medieval Europe, identifying several examples of their experience and tribulations, and presenting them as background to Chaucer's "Trotula" (WBP 3.677).

Bugge, John.   Annuale Mediaevale 14 (1973): 53-62.
Explores the phallic imagery of MerT, particularly the innuendoes in "clyket" and "twiste."

Lankewish, Vincent A.   Victorian Poetry 60 (2022): 35-164; 10 b&w illus.
Introduces the activities and concerns of a Victorian "salon" conducted by John Ruskin and Edward Burne-Jones in which young women could "engage in serious conversations about medieval poetry, about art, and about humanitarianism and virtue." Focuses…

Koretsky, Allen C.   Derek Cohen and Deborah Heller, eds. Jewish Presences in English Literature (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990), pp. 10-24.
Chaucer uses the anti-Semitism of PrT to depict pernicous innocence.

Crider, Richard.   American Notes and Queries 18 (1979): 18-19.
Chauntecleer's citation of Daniel (NPT 7.3128-29), frequently taken to refer to Daniel 7, more pertinently refers to Daniel 4 where Nebuchadnezzar relates a dream similar to Chauntecleer's and to the dreams Chauntecleer cites. This dream and its…

Haas, Renate.   Toshiyuki Takamiya and Richard Beadle, eds. Chaucer to Shakespeare: Essays in Honour of Shinsuke Ando (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1992), 233-42.
Published in 1767-69, Schiebeler's thirty-six-page adaptation of John Campbell's article in Biographia Britannia is the earliest known German essay on Chaucer, a product of Enlightenment thought.

Jeffrey, David Lyle.   Jeffrey P. Greenman, Timothy Larsen, and Stephen R. Spencer, eds. The Sermon on the Mount Through the Centuries (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Brazos, 2007), pp. 81-107.
Jeffrey explores Chaucer's allusions to the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7), arguing that they reflect Chaucer's distrust of glossing and that the Sermon underpins theological themes of CT most evident in Mel and ParsT: peacemaking and obedience.

Tambling, Jeremy.   Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Rejecting unity theories and reductive allegorization, Tambling draws on "medieval theories of reading and understanding a text" and compares them with Derridean critical theories and hermeneutics (with several references to Chaucer).

Eisner, Martin.   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 286-302.
Argues "that far from being occasional, accidental, or haphazard, Boccaccio's engagement with Dante structures the authorial interventions in the frame of the "'Decameron/." Traces Boccaccio's use of Dante to demonstrate how Chaucer uses Boccaccio in…

Pike, David L.   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 351-67.
Maps out Dante's depiction of the infernal city and traces the "infernal mode of representation of urban experience," by suggesting that Dante describes the city
with an "urban variation on the vertical cosmos of the Last Judgment." Documents the…

Wetherbee, Winthrop.   Thomas C. Stillinger, ed. Critical Essays on Geoffrey Chaucer (New York: G.K. Hall; London: Prentice Hall International, 1998), pp.243-66.
An analysis of the end of TC that reads Troilus's ascent (itself inherently meaningless) as a stage in the progress of the narrator's recognition of the relations between Christian poetry and classical tradition.

Alexander, Michael.   Rosalynn Voaden, René Tixier, Teresa Sanchez Roura, and Jenny Rebecca Rytting, eds. The Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages (Turnhout: Brepols, 2003), pp. 201-13.
Identifies ways Dante influenced the invocations in TC, as well as TC's depictions of love and hell. Also explores the words that Chaucer invented to rhyme with "Troie" and with "Criseyde."

Dédéyan, Charles.   Les Lettres Romanes 12 (1958): 367-88; 13 (1959): 45-68.
The first two in a series of essays Dédéyan published on Dante in England in Les Lettres Romanes, volumes 12-15 (1958-1961). The first surveys references, allusions, and uses of Dante in TC, PF, and HF. The second continues the discussion of HF,…

Wallace, David.   Rachel Jacoff, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Dante (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 237-85.
Surveys engagement with Dante by writers in English, from Chaucer to Seamus Heaney. Discusses Dantean influence on the Hugelyn section of MkT, and on other portions of CT, HF,Lady, and TC.

Griffiths, Eric, and Matthew Reynolds, eds.   New York : Penguin, 2005.
An anthology of selections from Dante's works adapted or translated into English, including several examples from Chaucer's works (WBT, MkT, SNT, HF, and TC). Focusing on the Commedia and arranged chronologically, the selections range from Chaucer to…

Boitani, Piero.   Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies 5: 1-14, 1997.
Details the historical record of Chaucer's Italian connections and surveys the influence of Dante on English poetry from Chaucer to the twentieth century. Likens Dante's influence on English to a love story.

Minnis, Alastair.   Essays in Criticism 55 (2005): 97-116
The Loathly Lady's lecture on "gentilesse" in WBT goes beyond sexual sovereignty to encompass dominium, a concept central to Wyclif's challenge to authority. Without naming his source, Chaucer channels orthodox, Boethian ideas about "gentilesse"…
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