Bloch, R. Howard.
Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
Explores the scriptural roots of medieval attitudes toward women, focusing on how various kinds of abstraction and aestheticizing led to fundamentally misogynistic contradictions. Examines French romances, lays, and lyrics for the ways they elevate…
Urban, William.
London: Greenhill; St. Paul, Minn.: MBI Publishing, 2006.
Surveys relations among mercenary practice, war, and the monetization of war-making in Western Europe. Includes comments on the "traditional" idealized view of the Knight and his Tale, attributing these views to John Aubrey in the seventeenth…
Hines, John.
John Hines. Voices in the Past: English Literature and Archaeology (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2004), pp. 105-36.
Discusses the use of space and physical objects in TC, arguing that the poem's movements among exterior and interior spaces reveal how characters manipulate such spaces--and even furniture--to negotiate relationships with one another and to chart…
Redresses neglect of medieval views in recent materialism studies, arguing that "that medieval definitions of matter, both hylomorphic and humoral, constitute their own versions of 'materialism,' versions that can help us to historicize later…
Waterhouse, Michael, dir.
Episode Two in "The Beauty of Books." Tern Television Productions. BBC Worldwide, 2011.
Introduces the manuscript of the Luttrell Psalter and the Oxford copy of William Caxton's second edition of CT (with hand-colored woodcuts), with extensive visual representation of the codices (panning many details) and their library settings,…
New York: Films Media Group, 2011. Originally produced by the BBC; available through Films on Demand.
Features the beauty and importance of the Luttrell Psalter and Caxton's second edition of CT, with commentary on book production and the sociohistorical importance of the featured texts. Four sections pertain to Chaucer: "Commercial Printing" (2:30),…
Bullough, Vern L.,with Gwen Whitehead Brewer.
Jacqueline Murray, ed. Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities: Men in the Medieval West. Garland Medieval Casebooks, no. 25; Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, no. 2078 (New York and London: Garland, 1999), pp. 93-110.
By making the Pardoner offensive, Chaucer "established a negative stereotype of the effeminate male in Western literature." Modern critical tradition perpetuates the negative stereotype, often ignoring the fact that the Canterbury society tolerates…
Driver, Martha [W.]
Derek Pearsall, ed. New Directions in Later Medieval Manuscript Studies: Essays from the 1998 Harvard Conference (York; and Rochester, N.Y.: York Medieval Press, in association with Boydell and Brewer, 2000), pp. 53-64.
Assesses the Internet and CD-ROMs as tools in the study and teaching of manuscript research, summarizing the potential and limitations of each. Comments on the impact of a number of projects, products, and Web sites, focusing on the Canterbury Tales…
Ambrisco, Alan Scott.
Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 1569A, 1999.
In medieval thinking, cannibalism became a marker setting off the Christian West from the barbarian East. Gradually, cannibalism came to be perceived sometimes figuratively, involving both the self and the other and a sense of identity. Ambrisco…
Cosman, Madeleine Pelner.
New York State Journal of Medicine, October 1, 1972, pp. 2439-44.
Argues that Chaucer's Physician is idealized, "a splendid representative of both medieval physician and medieval surgeon." Uses evidence from medieval malpractice cases, and comments on various "transportable medicozodiacal instruments."
Phillips, Kim M.
Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2003.
Examines how the "experiences and voices" of young, unmarried women in late-medieval England reflect ideals of femininity and the social processes of becoming adult women. Focuses on social history and literature, with recurrent mention of CT, TC,…
Hirsh, John C., ed.
Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2005.
A classroom anthology with notes, marginal glosses, introductions, bibliographical citations, and occasional illustrations. Fifty poems arranged by topic into ten categories, with three appendices of additional poems, including one appendix titled…
Butterfield, Ardis.
University of Toronto Quarterly 88.2 (2019): 142-59.
Reexamines theories of Auerbach and Spitzer through the lens of issues of translatability and untranslatability in medieval lyrics. Argues that medieval lyric poetry "shows the power of untranslatability to disrupt and re-make literary history."…
Holloway, Julia Bolton.
American Benedictine Review 32 (1981): 114-21.
Recent Princeton performances of the "Officium Peregrinorum" (from Luke 24) reveal probable echoes in CT of the liturgical drama of Christ's pilgrimage to Emmaus in the pilgrimage frame itself, in the poet who like Christ uses "lying" fables to…
Weisl, Angela Jane, and Anthony Joseph Cunder.
New York :Routledge, 2018.
Introduces western medieval literature and latter-day medievalism, focusing on multiple modes and genres and selected authors (Dante, Boccaccio, the "Gawain"-poet, Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, and Sir Thomas Malory). Designed for classroom use, seeks…
Machan, Tim William, ed.
Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1991.
In addition to the introduction, this collection contains nine original essays focusing on the interrelations between textual and interpretive studies of late Middle English literature. The authors discuss the effect of editorial decisions on…
Aers, David, ed.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986.
Ten essays by various hands. For six essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval Literature: Criticism, Ideology, and History under Alternative Title.
Crocker, Holly A., and D. Vance Smith, eds.
New York; Routledge, 2014.
Includes thirty-eight essays, new and previously printed. by various authors who examine debates within English medieval literary studies on topics that focus on gender and sexuality, politics, language, nationhood, science, and desire. For six…
Treharne, Elaine,
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Surveys the emergence of earliest literature in Britain and Ireland, including well-known texts, such as "Beowulf" and CT, and less familiar manuscript and print works. Includes discussion of CT, LGW, and TC.
Muscatine, Charles.
Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 1999.
Fourteen previously printed pieces by Muscatine, including articles, sections of books, and reviews. The four essays that pertain to Chaucer are "The Canterbury Tales: Style of the Man and Style of the Work" (1966), "Chaucer's Religion and the…
Investigates whether modern translation theory can be usefully applied to the Middle Ages, when the "skopos" or "wider development of the literary culture" differed so widely from today's cultures. Long uses "skopos" theory and "polysystems" theory…
Kline, Daniel T., ed.
New York and London : Routledge, 2003.
Sixteen essays by various authors, most of them addressing individual texts as literature written for children--for example, "The Babees Book," "Sir Gowther," Aelfric's "Colloquy," and selections from the "Gesta Romanorum" and from Gower's "Confessio…
Anthologizes seventeen essays by Knight, "written over several decades focused on the social and political contexts of medieval literature," three previously unpublished, one of which pertains to Chaucer: Chapter 14, "Chaucer's Fabliaux and Late…
Nine essays on medieval English literature, a preface by Derek Brewer, an introduction by Aers, and a bibliography of Pearsall's publications through 1998. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval Literature and Historical Inquiry…
