De Hamel, Christopher.
[London]: Allen Lane, 2016; New York: Penguin, 2017.
Discusses twelve notable medieval manuscripts, recounting personal encounters with each in its library setting, emphasizing aesthetic appreciation, illustrations, and the exigencies of provenances, while including codicological descriptions and…
Ten essays by various authors on topics related to digital research and analysis in medieval studies, with an Introduction by the editors and a comprehensive index. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Meeting the Medieval in a Digital…
Carruthers, Mary [J.]
Chris Humphrey and W. M. Ormrod, eds. Time in the Medieval World (Suffolk: York Medieval Press, 2001), pp. 137-55.
Like tense-switching and first-person point of view, the use of the "historical present" by Chaucer and the Gawain poet illustrates how medieval authors could convincingly remember and authenticate the stories they told. The past is the time of…
Dane, Joseph A.
Joseph A. Dane. Mythodologies: Methods in Medieval Studies, Chaucer, and Book History ([Santa Barbara, Calif.]: Punctum, 2018), pp. 79-104.
Asserts that the conflation of editing and canon-formation in literary history "involve[s] an unavoidable circularity of reasoning, and an equally unavoidable series of assumptions we often claim to wish to avoid." Explores logical and methodological…
Buckmaster, Elizabeth.
Modern Language Studies 16 (1986): 279-87.
Using the three parts of the "virtue of Providence" as the basis for the three-book structure of HF, Chaucer implies that, although time moves forward through history, the past,present, and future exist all at once.
Aers, David.
John Simons, ed. From Medieval to Medievalism (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992), pp. 29-40.
Condemns the application of deconstructive criticism to medieval literature, critiquing, by way of example, the claim that Chaucer is a deconstructionist in Marshall Leicester, "Oure Tonges Difference: Textuality and Deconstructive in Chaucer"…
Pugh, Tison, and Angela J. Weisl.
London: Routledge, 2012.
Analysis of the influence of medieval literature and culture on contemporary film, literature, and various academic disciplines. Includes discussion of Chaucer's CT, KnT, PF, and TC.
Alexander, Michael.
New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007.
Alexander traces the "set of ideals" underlying English medievalism, commenting on art, architecture, politics, and religion but focusing on literature. The study contains recurrent references to Chaucer's influence, including investigation of Walter…
Wilson, Charles E., Jr.
Studies in Medievalism 10: 74-91, 1998.
Suggests that Naylor's novel "revises" CT by using Chaucer's frame technique to eliminate "unnecessary and arbitrary barriers, rules, and labels." Naylor makes the café, like the pilgrim fellowship, a kind of sanctuary.
Davidson, Mary Catherine.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
In late medieval England, "code-switching" among English, French, and Latin was linked to literacy and social prestige, not to aberrant or nonconformist behavior; code-switching was a means to articulate social identity. Chaucer distanced his…
Williams, Deanne.
Kent Cartwright, ed. A Companion to Tudor Literature (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), pp. 213-27.
Describes the "scope and range of Tudor responses to the Middle Ages," tracing the "literary afterlife" of Chaucer, Tudor "editions and redactions" of medieval romances, and "Elizabethan dramatizations of medieval history." Poetic and editorial…
Toswell, M. J., and Anna Czarnowus, eds.
Cambridge: Brewer, 2020.
Collection of essays exploring the origins, development, and "manifestation of medievalism in Canadian literature." For three essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for Medievalism in English Canadian Literature under Alternative Title.
González Mínguez, M. Teresa.
Ana Laura Rodríguez Redondo and Eugenio Contreras Domingo, eds. Focus on Old and Middle English Studies (Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2011), pp. 209-17.
Analyzes E. E. Cummings' recovery and revision of medieval themes, models, and authors, including Chaucer, who inspired him to express the exaltation of beauty. Both authors' use of language is considered revolutionary for their times.
Utz, Richard J.
Studies in Medievalism 6 (1993): 76-91
Compares the consciously nominalistic modern poetics of German realist Andersch to Chaucer's nominalist mentality as evident in the anti-deterministic mood in TC.
Trigg identifies two conflicting motivations for the making of Brian Helgeland's film "A Knight's Tale": the desire for academic research to provide legitimacy and the desire to create a new fictional narrative to engage a contemporary audience. This…
Burrow, J. A.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Deals with the ideas behind Middle English literature, wirters, audiences, genres, personality versus impersonality, allegory, edification, and the attitude of later ages to the literature of medieval England.
Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn,Rosalynn Voaden, Arlyn Diamond, Ann Hutchison, Carol M. Meale, and Lesley Johnson, eds.
Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, 2000.
Twenty-three essays by various authors discuss female literature, conduct, and society in late-medieval literary, religious, and historical texts of Britain. Includes a celebration of Felicity Riddy, a bibliography of her publications, and an index.…
Wilson, Katharina M., ed.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1984.
An anthology of women writers from the ninth through the fifteenth centuries, edited and translated by various hands,with biographical and critical studies; includes writings of Dhouda, Hrotsvita, Marie de France, Heloise, Hildegard of Bingen,…
Adams, Jenny, and Nancy Mason Bradbury, eds
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017.
Collection of essays that represents multifaceted views of gender and material culture in late medieval France and England. For seven essays that pertain to Chaucer search for Medieval Women and Their Objects under Alternative Title.
Zhang, John Z.
English Language Notes 28 (1991): 10-17.
Suggests that the prison window in KnT "alludes to certain medieval paintings that reveal the meaning of the scene"; also discusses symbolism and allegory in KnT.
Kendrick, Laura.
S. Douglas Olson, ed. Ancient Comedy and Reception: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Henderson (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014), pp. 377-96.
Investigates the performative nature of Deschamps's "relatively faithful French translation," "Geta et Amphitrion," and proposes an occasion when it might have been performed. Contrasts Deschamps's treatment of Plautus's Latin original with those of…
Tinkle, Theresa.
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996.
Mythographic tradition provided Chaucer and his contemporaries a wide variety of significations for the figures of Cupid and Venus. Tinkle surveys this variety from antiquity forward, showing that vernacular representations of Cupid and Venus…
Clough, Andrea.
Medievalia et Humanistica 11 (1982): 211-27.
Fourteenth-century practice recognized at least three categories of tragic narrative: "de casibus" tragedy, the Ovidian tale of the deserted heroine, and the tale of ill-fated lovers. In TC, Chaucer combined the first and last of these in a new…
Spearing, A. C.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Rewriting literary history from Chaucer to Spenser, Spearing challenges C. S. Lewis's view that Chaucer "medievalized" his Renaissance-oriented sources, especially Boccaccio and Dante.
