Clifton, Nicole.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 25, no. 2 (2018): 123-43.
Describes an "upper-division Chaucer course that teaches Chaucerian English as a foreign language," aiming "to ensure that students learn to read Chaucer's language comfortably on their own." Provides sample lesson plans and assignments.
Cleaves, Wallace Thomas II.
Open access Ph.D. dissertation (University of California, Riverside, 2017). Available at https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6gr3m9zr (accessed April 4, 2022).
Explores aspects of medieval literary studies and Native American studies, including examination of 'the trickster figure" in the works of Chaucer, particularly the GP descriptions and characterizations, and MilT, RvT, SumT, PardT, and ManT. Also…
Chaudhuri, Aparna.
Dissertation Abstracts International A82.04 (2019): n.p.
Studies obedience in Middle English literature, including discussion of the theme in LGW and Ovid’s "Tristia" and comparison of ClT and "Pearl" as works which indicate that imperfect obedience "is as culturally and theologically important and perhaps…
Campbell, Ethan.
Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2018.
Makes clear the anti-clericalism, overt and implicit, in the works of the "Gawain"-poet ("Cleanness," "Patience," "Pearl," and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"), examining the theme in light of contemporaneous polemics. Includes several references…
Stanbury, Sarah.
Glenn D. Burger and Rory C. Critten, eds. Household Knowledges in Late-Medieval England and France (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020), pp. 129-53.
Focuses on "household music" and the "intermingled melodies of birdsong and . . . musical instruments" in ManT. Argues that ManT can be analyzed as a "poignant record of the vibrant household world filled with music and song" that is connected to…
Burger, Glenn D., and Rory C. Critten, eds.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020.
Focuses on a variety of late medieval households and argues that there is "a dynamic and reciprocal relationship between domestic experience and its forms of cultural expression" and cultural production. For an essay that pertains to Chaucer, search…
Revised edition of A Companion to Chaucer (2000) with thirty-six new and revised chapters: Candace Barrington and Jonathan Hsy, "Afterlives"; Andrew Galloway, "Auctorite"; Jane Griffiths, "Biography; Linda Ehrsam Voight, "Bodies"; Alfred Thomas,…
Attridge, Derek.
The Experience of Poetry: From Homer's Listener to Shakespeare's Readers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 2285-3.
Examines evidence for the modes of performance and reception of late medieval English poetry, focusing on Chaucer’s dream visions, TC, and CT, but also commenting on works by John Gower, other English poets, and continental writers. Considers…
Alberghini, Jennifer.
Dissertation Abstracts International A80.08 (2019): n.p.
Studies tensions between family approval and the consent of marital couples in late medieval England and its literature, arguing that TC and LGW offer conflicting views of the tension while MLT resolves it.
Adamson, Peter.
Medieval Philosophy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 495-501.
Comments on Chaucer's and Langland's engagements with philosophical debates of their age, especially determinism and voluntarism. Includes discussion of the tensions between KnT and MilT as Chaucer's poetic expression of philosophical concerns.
Wawrzyniak, Agnieszka.
Marcian Grygiel and Robert Kieltyka, eds. Cognitive Linguistics in the Year 2017 (New York: Peter Lang, 2019), pp. 87-97.
Describes Chaucer's uses of "soth," "sothly," "verry," "verrily," and "lye" as epistemic markers, contrasting the density of his usage with that found in present-day English to distinguish between medieval and modern worldviews as, respectively,…
Wawrzyniak, Agnieszka.
Danuta Gabrys-Barker, Dagmara Gałajda, Adam Wojtaszek, and Paweł Zakrajewski, eds. Multiculturalism, Multilingualism and the Self (Cham: Springer, 2017), pp. 49-61.
Describes uses of the lexemes "trouthe" and "soth" in CT, comparing them with "truth" in present-day English. Shows that, associated with love, light, and wisdom, Chaucer’s "trouthe" differs from his "soth": the former resides in an abstract semantic…
Analyzes the lexicon of Henry Daniel's medical treatise on urine, "Liber uricrisiarum," as it is found in Huntington, MS HM 505. Shows that often "Daniel and Chaucer share a precise vocabulary," detailing their similar uses of "piss," and tabulating…
Parsons, Ben.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 119 (2020): 380-98.
Reveals how the common, generally lower-class forenames in the "Visio Anglie" portion of Gower's "Vox clamantis" reinforce the "degraded, bestial character" that Gower attributes to the rioters of 1381. Because the names could apply to animals or to…
Ohno, Hideshi.
Akio Katami, Tomohiro Kawabata, and Fumiko Yamamoto, eds. A History of the English Language for English Teachers (Tokyo: Kaitakusha, 2018), pp. 83-105.
Introduces elements of the English language that are particularly useful for teaching English, following the ordinary division of the language's development into five stages: Old English, Middle English, early modern English, late modern English, and…
Considers "connections between the thinking subject and affected body in the medieval period," focusing on "heaviness" as a state of health and a condition for communication. Cites instances in Mel and TC as examples of external and internal…
Machan, Tim William.
Chaucer Review 55, no. 3 (2022): 317-26.
Traces the definition and history of "knarre' in GP, cataloguing evidence for both a Dutch and Old Norse etymology. Offers some considerations for the role of the lexicographer and historian in general by addressing the particular history and meaning…
Hadbawnik, David.
Katherine W. Jager, ed. Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages: Politics, Performativity, and Reception from Literature to Music (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), pp. 201-31.
Focuses on Norton and Gower, but closes with a comparison of Gower's "linking of alchemy and language" with Chaucer's in CYT and suggests that Gower combines Latin and English to "produce poetic truths" while Chaucer emphasizes "combinations of…
Yager, Susan.
Once and Future Classroom 16, no. 1 (2020): 1–14.
Offers multiple examples of ways to play with the scansion of Chaucer's verse as means to engage student interest, nuanced readings, and enjoyment. Examples include scenes of awakening, bird-talk in HF and NPT, and wedding celebration in MLT and WBT,…
Weiskott, Eric.
Notes and Queries 264 (2019): 361-63.
Explores the orthography and meter of "seint(e)" in GP, 120, and elsewhere in Chaucer’s poetry, claiming that "the line is a metrical non-problem," despite the tradition of reading it as irregular, in need of emendation, or troubling because of the…
Pearsall, Derek.
Ad Putter and Judith A. Jefferson, eds. The Transmission of Medieval Romance: Metres, Manuscripts and Early Prints (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 33-49.
Describes Middle English metrical predecessors to "The Tale of Gamelyn" and assesses its regularities and place in the tradition of alliterative long-line verse. Also comments on its status as an example of Chaucerian apocrypha.
Eleven essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors focus on the codicology and metrical forms of Middle English romances; the volume includes an index. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Transmission of Medieval…
Robertson, Elizabeth.
Ad Putter and Judith A. Jefferson, eds. The Transmission of Medieval Romance: Metres, Manuscripts and Early Prints (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 50-68.
Argues that rhyme royal was rarely used in Middle English romances because it "mitigates against some of the aims and purposes" of the genre, creating "a self-consciousness about temporality that presses against the fairy-tale temporality of romance"…
