Straus, Barrie Ruth.
Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler, eds. Desire and Sexuality in the Premodern West (Toronto; Buffalo, N.Y.; and London: University of Toronto Press, 1996), pp. 245-64.
The formel eagle in PF, Emily in KnT, and Margery Kempe seek to delay or renounce sexual activity. The eagle's blush embodies her later request to delay a choice of mate; Emily's desire to remain unmarried is marked by her desire to reject the…
Burnley, John David.
Dieter Kastovsky and Arthur Mettinger, eds. Language Contact in the History of English (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2001), pp. 17-34.
Challenges "over-simple dichotomies" between English and French in late-medieval England and illustrates the "pragmatic complexity" of the use of Anglo-French texts. Assesses grammar, style, "speaker attitudes" (with reference to CT and TC), and…
Butterfield, Ardis.
A. J. Minnis, Charlotte C. Morse, and Thorlac Turville-Petre, eds. Essays on Ricardian Literature: In Honour of J. A. Burrow (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997), pp. 82-120.
Assesses aspects of the social and political exchange between France and England as background to their poetic exchange. Focuses on how lyric refrains (especially "Qui bien aimme," found in PF and elsewhere) were "common currency" between the two…
Crepin, Andre.
Bulletin des Anglicistes Medievistes 31 (1987): 466-76.
Argues that rhyme in English was rare only by reference to French lyrical poetry. Chaucer felt suspicious of craftsmanship for its own sake. Sophistication in rhyming is better left to those who "make in Fraunce."
Sancery, Arlette.
Martine Yvernault and Sophie Cassagnes-Brouquet, eds. Frères et sœurs: Les liens adelphiques dans l'Occident antique et médiéval (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2007), pp. 221-28.
Focuses on the meaning of brotherhood in "Ipomadon," "Octavian," and Chaucer's KnT.
Keller, Wolfram R.
Klaus Stierstorfer, ed. Anglistentag 2007 Münster: Proceedings (Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2008), pp. 385-99.
Examines John Lydgate's sources for his "Troy Book," including HF and TC, arguing that Lydgate re-invents "Britain's Trojan origins," calling into question Lancastrian imperialism and offering a "Chaucerian counter-nationhood," anchored in individual…
Lavers, Norman.
College English 26 (1964): 180-87.
Argues that the main characters of ClT "have Oedipal fixations": Griselda, a masochistic form that correlates with "an incestuous quality in her relationship with her father," and Walter, a sadistic version that reverberates with the Cupid/Psyche…
Kendrick, Laura.
Bulletin des Anglicistes Medievistes 50 (1996): 37-57.
Friar Hubert practices false-seeming by faking a Francophone lisp, replacing dentals with sibilants in order to increase his social prestige and his seductiveness. Kendrick also explores why Parision French was considered "sweet".
Argues that Edmund Spenser's adaptations of SqT and "Amis and Amiloun" in Book IV of "The Faerie Queene" "[embody] his theory of friendship," both in the relations and interactions among the characters and in the ways that he asserts his own place in…
Reuters, Anna Hubertine.
Frankfurt am Main Peter Lang, 1991.
Classifies some thirty English medtrical romances according to several categories of friendship or love: tales of masculinefrinedship, of male/female mutual love, of marriage, and of the advances of forward fairies, heroines, or heroes. These…
Leon Sendra, Antonio R.
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. 217-46.
Examines an exchange between Troilus and Pandarus to explore the theme of public versus private life in TC. Explores the relation between friendship and the public-private dialectic.
Gaylord, Alan T.
Chaucer Review 3.4 (1969): 239-264.
Argues that friendship in TC "is an idea that matters very much," both as a "value" and an "element in the plot." Throughout the poem, Chaucer depicts various friendship relations (support, protection, counsel), strengthening those found in…
Classen, Albrecht, and Marilyn Sandidge, eds.
New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010.
Nineteen essays by various authors, an introduction by the editors, and a comprehensive index. Topics range from friendship in Augustine's "Confessions" to the Whitehall conference of 1655. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for…
. ManPT set in opposition two kinds of homosociability: friendship and service. The irresolution of the opposition reflects Chaucer's anxieties about his status as servant and poet.
Bremmer, Rolf [H.], Jr.
N. R. Arhammar et al., eds. Miscellanea Frisica: A New Collection of Frisian Studies (Assen: Van Gotcum, 1984), pp. 357-70.
In later medieval Latin and Middle English, Frisia had a negative reputation: "Frise" often means "Phrygia," while Latin "Phrygia" could mean "Frisia." Refutes the general acceptance of "Frise" (Rom 1093) as "Frisia" but accepts the usual…
Fyler, John M.
Donald Maddox and Sara Sturm-Maddox, eds. Froissart Across the Genres (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998), pp. 195-218.
Despite Chaucer's early borrowings from Froissart, the two poets diverged as their careers developed. Contrasts the "Voyage en Bearn" section of Froissart's "Chroniques" with SqT and FranT, arguing that Froissart is "in some respects even more…
Cartier, Normand R.
Revue de Littérature Comparée 38 (1964): 18-34.
Reviews attempts to clarify Chaucer's reference to Morpheus's companion "Eclympasteyr," found in BD line 167 and also found in Froissart's "Paradys d'Amour" as "Enclimpostair." Argues on linguistic and literary grounds that the name in "plain…
Wimsatt, James (I.)
Paul Strohm and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1, 1984 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1985), pp. 69-79.
In Pennsylvania MS French 15, bourgeois realism produces the finest effects in the twelve pastourelles by "puy" poets. Possibly Chaucer was familiar with the collection, which could have influenced GP, MilT, RvT, CYT, PF, and TC.
Butterfield, Ardis.
Andre Crepin, ed. L'imagination medievale: Chaucer et ses contemporains (Paris: Publications de l'Association des Medievistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Superieur, 1991), pp. 53-69.
In the Voir dit, La prison amoureuse, and TC, different genres are different ways of producing meaning and possess different forms of fictionality.
Despite traditional misconceptions of their relative chronology and a lack of specific verbal echoes, the "structural and thematic parallels" of BD and Froissart's "Dit dou Bleu Chevalier" indicate Chaucer's dependence on Froissart. Their common…
Canitz, A. E. C.
Medievalia et Humanistica 17 (1991): 81-99.
Documents Douglas's theory of literal translation, "with its stress on the integrity and inviolability of the text," and gauges his success in achieving his goal. Douglas's theory is evident in his critiques of Caxton's translation of the "Aeneid"…
Fish, Varda.
Dissertation Abstracts International 42 (1981): 1628-29A.
Comparison of Chaucer's poem with Boccaccio's reveals the narrator in conflict with the story as Chaucer himself both came into conflict with the ideas and ideals represented and also understood his role as poet. As lovers are seduced by a seemingly…
Surveys Chaucer's depictions of emblematic women in BD, HF, PF, and TC, and examines the Prioress and Wife of Bath as complex women who struggle with the roles imposed on them by male-dominated society. The GP description of the Prioress reflects a…
Havely documents Dante's reception in sixteenth-century England, focusing on the perception of Dante in relation to England as "empire" and treatments of Dante as a "proto-Protestant" writer. Observes recurrently how Dante and Chaucer were yoked in…
Torti, Anna.
Piero Boitani, ed. The European Tragedy of Troilus (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), pp. 171-97.
Lydgate, true to his sources--Guido and Chaucer--sets Criseyde's infidelity and Troilus's death in the framework of the Trojan War. Henryson, however, focuses on the "fatal destiny," guilt, and ultimate self-awareness of Cresseid, going beyond…
