Dahood, Roger.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 31 (2009): 125-40.
Dahood attributes several features of the plot of PrT to "non-Marian, historical English narratives of Jews crucifying English Christian boys" and explores how and when these features became attached to narratives of a chorister murdered by Jews. The…
Woolf, Rosemary
Beryl Rowland, ed. Chaucer and Middle English Studies in honour of Rossell Hope Robbins (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1974), pp. 384-91.
Describes English analogues and the Latin original to Chaucer's lost translation, "Origenes upon the Maudelyne" (LGWP-F 428), hypothesizing that Chaucr translated his work upon the request of a lady and speculating why he may have done so.
Machan, Tim William.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Machan studies the "social meanings, functions, and status of the English language in the late-medieval period," i.e., its "sociolinguistic contextualization." He explores Henry III's letters of 1258; the relationships between language, dialects, and…
Johnson, Eleanor.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 114, no. 4 (2015): 504-25.
Argues that the Man of Law depicts himself as a traditionalist in law. Through his presentation in GP, his conversation with the Host, and his Tale, the Man of Law separates himself from negative views of lawyers in the wake of the 1381 Rising. In…
Hart, Roger.
London: Wayland; New York: George Putnam's Sons, 1973.
Illustrated social history of late-medieval England, with literary examples drawn from CT and contemporaneous literature, with visual reproductions from various manuscripts, including the Ellesmere manuscript and printed facsimiles. Arranged…
Fisher, John H.
Thomas D. Cooke. ed. The Present State of Scholarship in Fourteenth Century Literature (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1982): pp. 1-54.
Griffith, Benjamin W.
Hauppauge, N. Y.: Barron's Educational, 1991.
This study guide includes brief summary descriptions of works from "Beowulf" to Beckett; Includes a list of Chaucer's works and sentence-long summaries of seven of the "key" CT (pp. 14-15).
Surveys fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English and Middle Scots literature (excluding drama), with individual chapters dedicated to Chaucer, Gower, Langland, the Gawain poet, Lydgate and Hoccleve, the lyric, Middle Scots (James I, Robert Holland,…
Literary history of England, from Caedmon to Malory, divided into seven chapters, although nearly half of the volume attends to Chaucer and his works. Chapter 4 (pp. 70-213) surveys Chaucer's early life and influences, the "early poems," TC, and CT,…
Reproduces in black and white the London National Portrait Gallery panel portrait of Chaucer (p. 2), preceded by a brief comment on Chaucer's life, with reference to William Dunbar's praise of him, mention of the TC frontispiece portrait (Cambridge,…
Schlauch, Margaret.
New York: Cooper Square, 1971. Originally published in Warsaw: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1956.
Surveys the literatures of medieval England, with emphasis on origins, multilingualism, feudalism, developmental transitions, dominant themes, and social, political, and religious contexts. Includes chapters on the contemporaries of Chaucer,…
Treats the nature of romance; the evolution of European romance; English romance; the "matters" of England, France, Rome, and Britain; derivatives; the diffusion of the genre; and "The Tale of Gamelyn."
Imahayashi, Osamu, and Hiroji Fukumoto, eds.
Hiroshima: Keisuisha, 2004.
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat, where the summary of contents includes reference, without page numbers, to two essays that pertain to Chaucer: "Chaucer's 'Semely' and Its Related Words from an Optical Point of View," by Yoshiyuki Nakao, and…
An anthology in two parts: 1) seventy-six examples of English verse "reflections" on the nature and features of poetry; 2) 318 examples of "English poets' responses" to other English poets. Includes notes and indexes. The Chaucer section of part 2…
Praises Chaucer (pp. 17-31) as the first poet in English to be "read for pleasure" because he "invented in English the pleasant habit of writing for the sake of writing." Commends Chaucer's innovative uses of French and Italian models and the "wealth…
Reprints twenty-two of Burrow's essays on fourteenth- and fifteenth-century poetry, including several on Chaucer. Individual essays retain their original pagination.
Describes the forms, styles, goals, and reception of late-medieval English sermons and sermon collections. Examines attendance at sermons; allegorical and literal aspects of sermons; and relations between sermons and literacy, eduction, and…
Studies the history of English meter from Chaucer to Wyatt, considering scansion, rhythm, pronunciation, and syllabification, assessing Chaucer's uses of tetrameter and pentameter, and the practices of Lydgate, Hoccleve, and Wyatt. Focuses on the…
Perez Lorido, Rodrigo.
Luis A. Lazaro Lafuente, Jose Simon, and Ricardo J. Sola Buil,eds. Medieval Studies: Proceedings of the IIIrd International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (Madrid: Universidad de Alcala de Henares, 1996), pp. 247-59.
Though not a practicing musician, Chaucer had a better-than-average knowledge of late-fourteenth-century French monodic and English polyphonic music. This knowledge is evident in his specific and accurate use of musical terminology.
Phillips, Noëlle H.
In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017. Relocated 2025 at https://opencanterburytales.lsusites.org/
Describes the events and social impact of major historical events in fourteenth-century England: war with France, Black Death, the Uprising of 1381, Wycliffite reform, and their interrelations. Designed for classroom use.
Chaucer's own verses are interpreted, as are fourteenth-century pre-Chaucerian romances, according to two syllabic variants "pre-Chaucerian," in which the final -"e" is counted, and "Chaucerian," in which the final -"e" is counted only when required…
