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…
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.
