Minnis, A. J.,and A. B. Scott,
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.
Treats "the tradition of systematic commentary on authors both sacred and profane, Latin and vernacular, 'ancient' and 'modern,' from around 1100 until around 1375." Selections are descriptive, evaluative, and critical.
A collection of essays previously published, to which Delany has added a new essay, "Run Silent, Run Deep: Heresy and Alchemy as Medieval Versions of Utopia," to examine utopian discourse in the Middle Ages.
Defines parody and surveys "all of the major literary parodies in Middle English, Old French, and Middle German," including "three little-known anti-courtly parodies by Hermann von Sachsenheim and Geoffrey Chaucer." Includes comments on ManT.
Edwards, Robert R.
Patrick Cheney and Frederick A. de Armas, eds. European Literary Careers: The Author from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002), pp. 104-28.
The twin rubrics of succession and invention guide Statius's response to Virgil and, in turn, Boccaccio's response to Statius, Chaucer's responses to Boccaccio, and Lydgate's response to Chaucer. By exploiting the silences of their predecessors, the…
Kelly, Henry Ansgar.
Kenneth Pennington, Stanley Chodorow, and Keith H. Kendall, eds. Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law: Syracuse, New York, 13-18 August 1996. Monumenta Iuris Canonici, Series C: Subsidia, no. 2 (Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2001), pp. 985-1001.
Documents where wife beating was both allowed and forbidden in medieval canon and civil law, often presented in analogies to bishops' treatment of clerics and lords' treatment of slaves. Kelly comments on instances in CT, particularly in WBP.…
Seya, Yukio.
Koichi Kano, ed. An Invitation to Chaucer’s Cosmos (Tokyo: Yushokan, 2022), pp. 155-86.
Surveys the history of Latin literature from Carolingian Renaissance to the twelfth century and enumerates the Latin texts that Chaucer undoubtedly read or his works directly draw on. The final passage focuses on Boccaccio, Petrarch, and ClT. In…
Reiss, Edmund.
Journal of the History of Ideas 42 (1981): 209-26.
Although lacking the modern consciousness of irony, the Middle Ages was ironic both in its Christian view of the world and in its literary expression. Examines the "concordantia oppositorum" in art and literature. "The constant possibility of…
King, Andrew, and Matthew Woodcock, eds.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2016.
Presents a collection of essays that respond to and commemorate Helen Cooper's "contribution to the study of medieval and Renaissance literature, literary history and periodisation." For an essay that pertains to Chaucer, search for Medieval into…
Sturges, Robert S.
Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991.
Stressing the role of the reader in finding meaning, Sturges traces the development of a "belief in an indeterminacy of literary meaning." Alongside Neo-Platonism and the "directed vision" typical of the early Middle Ages, a "new mind set emphasized…
Six related essays on the interaction of words and images in English literary tradition: a theoretical introduction, plus essays on the Ruthwell Cross, Anglo-Saxon art, the Auchinleck and Vernon manuscripts, the manuscript of "Pearl," and the…
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, ed.
Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
Bodies in medieval literature are depicted as rhizomatic, unfinished identity machines invented by texts, such as TC, CT, and others. Commentary draws on theories of Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, and others. Particular references to SqT, WBP,…
Clasby, Eugene.
Howell Chickering, ed., pref., and introd.; Frederic Cheyette and Margaret Switten, pref. 1983 NEH Institute Resource Book for the Teaching of Medieval Civilization (Amherst, Mass.: Five Colleges, 1984), pp. 230-31.
Compares Chaucer's treatment of order in KnT with the concept in "De consolatione philosophiae" of Boethius, the "Confessions" of Saint Augustine, and the "Commedia" of Dante.
Yıldız, Nazan.
[Yildiz, Nazan]
Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi/Selçuk University Journal of Faculty of Letters 37 (2017): 329-42.
Assesses the Franklin as a "hybrid and mimic who is caught in between the medieval acknowledged identities of the commoners and the nobility," striving upward, and searching for "for a recognisable identity" in his changing medieval society. Includes…
Orme, Nicholas.
Barbara A. Hanawalt, ed. Chaucer's England: Literature in Historical Context (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992), pp. 133-53.
Surveys the attitudes toward and conditions of hunting in late-medieval society, describing practices, laws, criminal offense, social variety, and artistic representations in literature and visual art. Includes brief comments on KnT, BD, and the GP…
Examines what is lost when we look at a digitized manuscript instead of the material book, which invokes the senses of touch, smell, and taste and the habits of the medieval reader. Mentions the graphic tail-rhyme in Th as a type of habit that…
Jones, Dylan.
Studies in Medieval Language and Literature 29 (2014): 85-101.
Identifiess medieval and Renaissance characteristics of RvT and an early modern analogue,"The Mylner of Abyngton," and concludes that the two works share much in common.
In HF, Chaucer makes parodic use of traditional topics of the "artes grammaticae," especially in the Eagle's explanation of the propagation of sound and in Chaucer's treatment of the reliability and importance of "auctores."
Mieszkowski, Gretchen.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Western tradition bifurcates the go-between into two separate traditions: the first, working for idealized love; the second, working for lustful sexual conquest. Mieszkowski surveys go-between figures in medieval tradition and discusses how Pandarus…
Brosamer, Matthew James.
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 4643A.
Assesses gluttony in CT and Piers Plowman, arguing that each presents consumption as both an occasion of the sin and part of its symbolic apparatus. In these works and in scriptural and patristic traditions, gluttony signifies human potential for all…
