Rogers, Will, and Christopher Michael Roman, eds.
Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2020.
Discusses medieval English, French, and Latin sources and offers directions for discovering queerness by connecting these texts to recent developments in queer theory, including queer phenomenology and queer failure. For two essays pertaining to…
Burrow, J. A., and Ian P. Wei, eds.
Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y. : Boydell, 2000.
Nine essays by various authors on topics related to common attitudes toward the future in the Middle Ages, i.e., theories and practices rather than apocalyptic concerns. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval Futures under…
Lindahl, Carl, John McNamara, and John Lindow, eds.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, 2000.
Individual entries on topics from "Accused Queen" to "Zither" include brief descriptions and, when appropriate, bibliography. One entry on Chaucer (1.167-73); multiple references to motifs in his works, especially in CT.
Robertson, Elizabeth.
Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 26 (2007): 67-79.
Includes recurrent attention to Chaucer studies, while exploring the history of feminism in medieval studies and the need for a "dialectical questioning" between concerns of particular historical women and their more general contexts.
Hostetter, Aaron K.
J. Michelle Coghlin, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Food (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 15-28
Describes the social implications of food and dining practices in late medieval cookbooks, social records, and aesthetic literature, commenting on the culinary concerns associated with the Franklin, Prioress, Squire, and Cook in GP and similar…
Webb, Diana.
Houndmills, Basingstoke; and New York : Palgrave, 2002.
An introduction to pilgrimage in medieval western Europe that describes motives for pilgrimage, kinds of pilgrims, geography, relics and souvenirs, responses to pilgrimage, etc. Webb pays recurrent attention to CT, especially as a depiction of social…
Kemmler, Fritz, and Courtnay Konshuh, eds.
Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2008.
Surveys Old English and Middle English works to determine interconnectedness of the language and texts. Brief discussion of Chaucer's GP. Includes glossary and bibliography.
Bale, Anthony, and Sebastian Sobecki, eds.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Gathers secular and religious travel narratives of England
and France. The volume is divided into three sections: critical essays; twenty-six texts, or excerpts, from narratives, including SqT; and supporting bibliographies.
A bibliography of Old and Middle English scholarship in Spanish up to 1988, with particular attention to Chaucer. Includes listings of M.A. and Ph.D. theses, and offers separate sections on critical studies of Chaucer (items 147-78) and editions and…
Outlines the literary and social contexts in which late medieval English romances were produced. Assesses a number of these romances and their "afterlives," exploring their gender affiliations, uses of symbols, concerns with familial and cultural…
Kratzmann, Gregory,and James Simpson,eds.
Cambridg : D. S. Brewer, 1986.
Nineteen essays by various hands emphasizing religious and ethical change and focusing on Chaucer's religious poetry and "Piers Plowman" but including religious writings in the Old English period and the sixteenth century.
Lundeen, Stephanie Thompson.
DAI A69.05 (2008): n.p.
Considers Chaucer's works in the context of medieval poetry, approached here as "instantiations of performance," i.e., understood as interplay among author, performer, audience, and the material form of the texts.
Bahr, Arthur, and Alexandra Gillespie.
Chaucer Review 47.4 (2013): 346-60.
Introduces a special issue on manuscript studies and history of the book in relation to critical theory; also, summarizes the issue's articles. Discusses CT, TC, and Th.
Brantley, Jessica.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.
Offers "a general introduction to manuscript studies for readers whose particular interests lie in medieval literature," commenting on material concerns, paleography, decoration and illustration, codicology, and principles of manuscript description,…
Davies, R. T., ed.
London: Faber and Faber, 1963.
[Evanston, Illinois]: Northwestern University Press, 1964.
Anthologizes 187 English lyric poems and lyrical excerpts from the twelfth through the sixteenth centuries, arranged in chronological order, with an Introduction (pp. 13-49), on-page glosses, end-of-text notes, an appendix of Types and Titles of the…
Having normalized the language "in accordance with the grammar and spelling of late fourteenth-century London English," Duncan divides this "comprehensive selection" of lyrics into four thematic groups, three of which include lyrics attributed to…
Offers a "comprehensive selection" of short poems and lyrical interpolations from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries (Part I) and from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (Part II), topically arranged, in normalized spelling, with sidebar…
Trapp, J. B., Douglas Gray, and Julia Boffey, eds.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
An anthology of works from "Beowulf" to Caxton, with a variety of selections from Chaucer (pp. 111-331) in Middle English, with introductions, notes, and glosses: GP, NPPT (with two other fox stories), WBPT (with Dunbar's "Two Married Women and the…
Offers essays that reflect the variety of critical viewpoints of medieval writers, including William Langland and Chaucer. Part 2 is devoted to Chaucer scholarship. For five essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval English Literature…
Discusses the idea of the anthology as a fundamental characteristic of medieval literature, using CT as an example because individual tales were often copied into other anthologies.
Trapp, J. B., ed.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1973
Textbook anthology of Old and Middle English literature that includes selections from Chaucer (pp. 119-283) in Middle English with glosses, notes, and introductions to Chaucer's life, works, and language. Selections include GP, MilPT, NPPT (with two…
Conde Silvestre, Juan Camilo, and M. Vila Vázquez González, eds.
Murcia: Universidad de Murcia, 2004.
Includes five essays that pertain to Chaucer; for the individual essays search for Medieval English Literary and Cultural Studies under Alternative Title.
