Woods, Marjorie Curry.
I. D. McFarlane, ed. Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Sanctandreani: Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies, St. Andrews 24 August to 1 September 1982 (Binghamton, N.Y.: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1986), pp. 617-26.
Suggests that both TC and CT conclude in accord with the medieval rhetorical principle of "digression." Identifies the device in medieval rhetoric tradition, particularly the "Poetria Nova" of Geoffrey of Vinsauf, and applies it briefly to the…
Kang, Ji-Soo.
Dissertation Abstracts International 55 (1994): 274A
Discusses tensions between disorder and coherence in the conclusions of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," "Pearl," "Cleannes," and "Patience," contrasted to conclusions of works by Chaucer.
Hamilton, Christopher T.
Christian Scholar's Review 23 (1993): 145-58.
Chaucer's and Langland's depictions of clergy are rooted in the "biblical topos of contrastive portraits for emulation and rejection," reflecting the medieval belief that church reform depended on the renewal of the clergy. Chaucer's Parson and…
White, Beatrice.
In F. R. H. Du Boulay and Caroline M. Barron, eds. The Reign of Richard II: Essays in Honour of May McKisack (London: Athlone, 1971), pp. 58-74.
Surveys a wide range of representations of peasants and links with poverty in medieval poetry, with particular emphasis on works by Langland, Chaucer, and Gower, as well as a number of their near-contemporaries. Contrasts Langland's Piers with…
Bourgne, Florence.
Martine Yvernault and Sophie Cassagnes-Brouquet, eds. Poètes et artistes: La figure du créateur en europe au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance (Limoges: Presses Universitaires de Limoges, 2007), pp. 185-204.
Drawing on BD, TC, and the Gawain poet, Bourgne studies the influence of architecture on poetry.
Burrow, John.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 13 (1991): 17-37.
Disagrees with modern critical arguments that CkT, SqT, HF, and LGW are intentionally open-ended. Surveys the textual history and continuations of these poems to show that recent opinions probably result from post-Romantic "taste for the…
Pinsky, Robert, and Maggie Dietz, eds.
New York: Norton, 2002.
Includes an excerpt from BD (the Black Knight's lament, lines 475-86), with Maggie Dietz's brief comments about how Middle English words "change in the mouth" (p. 128).
Hodnett, Edward, ed.
New York: Norton, 1957. Rev. ed. 1967.
Anthologizes English poems and excerpts alphabetically by author, including the Envoy to ClT (7.1178-1212), translated by Hodnett into Modern English in rhyme royal stanzas.
Kennedy, Caroline, ed., and Jon J. Muth, illus.
New York: Disney-Hyperion, 2013.
Anthologizes poetry for a juvenile audience, arranged topically. Includes the first eighteen lines of GP in Middle English (pp. 168–69) in a section entitled "Extra Credit."
Boffey, Julia.
Julia Boffey and Christiania Whitehead, eds. Middle English Lyrics: New Readings of Short Poems (Cambridge: Brewer, 2018), pp. 189–200.
Transcribes a version of Lydgate's "Thoroughfare of Woe" from London, British Library, Additional MS 60577 (the "Winchester anthology") and discusses it in light of other versions, commenting on it as "an extended meditation on a proverbial…
Turville-Petre, Thorlac.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 21: 301-14, 1999.
Chaucer's Truth and Gentilesse (and other English works) were added into the Rushall Psalter (Nottingham University Library, MS Me LM1) when it was owned by John Harpur. The additions reflect Harpur's anxiety about the contingencies of his social…
Twenty-line poem in five four-line stanzas, with possible echoes of GP, a reference to Chaucer in the title, and a quotation of GP lines 1.9-10 on the cover. This art edition is limited to 300 copies, designed as a holiday greeting, with a cover…
Nohara, Yasuhiro.
English Review (Momoyama Gakuin University) 16 (2001): 143-66.
Explores development and uses of plural nouns from Old to Modern English. Modern English plural usage was already established for the most part in Chaucer's Middle English.
Petrosillo, Sara McKay.
Dissertation Abstracts International A78.03 (2016): n.p.
Links the rise of falconry in the Middle Ages to the use of falconers' discourses as lenses for understanding texts. Discusses falconry metaphors in TC.
Warner, Lawrence.
Andrew Cole and Andrew Galloway, eds. The Cambridge Companion to "Piers Plowman" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. 198-213.
Contends that Chaucer's portrait of the Plowman in GP and "The Plowman's Tale" contribute to an understanding of how late medieval plowman traditions influenced early modern writings.
Assesses "maternal authority" in literary works from Augustine's "Confessions" to Tony Kushner's "Angels in America," including a chapter entitled "Maternal Abandonment, Maternal Deprivation: Tales of Griselda in Boccaccio, Petrarch, Chaucer, and…
Johnston, Alexandra F.
English: The Journal of the English Association 64, no. 244 (2015): 5-26.
Explores the meanings and dating of "miracle play" / "miraculum" as descriptors for medieval drama, discussing a range of historical records and offering WBP (3.543-59) and details from MilT as evidence of fourteenth-century dramatic activities in…
Huppé, Bernard F.
Aldo S. Bernardo and Saul Levin, eds. The Classics in the Middle Ages: Papers of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, no. 69 (Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1990), 175-87.
Surveys the typology of journeying in Beowulf, Abelard's Calamaties, Chretien's Eric and Lancelot, Roman de la Rose, Dante's Vita nuova, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Troilus's rise through the spheres in TC.
