Kaske, R. E.
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 73 (1972): 122-26.
Exemplifies the "allusive richness" of SumT by explaining the references to horn and ivory (3.1741-42) which emphasize the falsity of the tablets of the Summoner's Friar.
North, J. D.
London: Warburg Institute, University of London, 1986.
Studies development (up to the 1500s) of seven modes of "domification"--i.e., the construction by mathematics of mundane houses used in horoscopes. Includes applications through the seventeenth century.
Bolens, Guillemette.
Miranda Anderson and Michael Wheeler, eds. Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance Culture (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019), pp. 66–85.
Exemplifies how the interactive and "enactive" process of reading details of the frame narrative of CT (GP and links between tales) prompts cognition in ways that are analogous to the "distributed cognition" of human sensorimotor operations. Focuses…
Yvernault, Martine.
Colette Stévanovitch,ed. L'Articulation langue-littérature dans les textes médiévaux anglais (Nancy: Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 2005), pp. 191-215.
Posits that uncertainty and ambiguity are structuring stylistic techniques of Chaucer's descriptions in PF.
Stanbury, Sarah.
Bonnie Wheeler, ed. Mindful Spirit in Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth D. Kirk (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), pp. 211-24.
Accusations of eucharistic host desecration in Prague in 1389 may be read as a backdrop for PrT. Stanbury summarizes the events of mob violence that led to a massacre of Jews.
Echard, Siân.
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 30: 185-210, 2000.
Cultural and institutional practice has frequently estimated the status of Gower's poetry and the value of his manuscripts, not through assessment of his own achievements, but through his historical and literary proximity to Chaucer.
Medieval Murderers, The. [Bernard, Knight, Ian Morson, Michael Jecks, Philip Gooden, and Susanna Gregory.]
London: Simon & Schuster, 2007.
Historical fiction in a series of five "interlinked mysteries" that pertain to Bermondsey Priory and its curse. The section titled "Act Four," by Philip Gooden, "relates to how the poet Chaucer becomes embroiled in the priory's dark history."
Burger, Glenn D., and Rory C. Critten, eds.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020.
Focuses on a variety of late medieval households and argues that there is "a dynamic and reciprocal relationship between domestic experience and its forms of cultural expression" and cultural production. For an essay that pertains to Chaucer, search…
Boffey, Julia.
Elizabeth A. New and Christian Steer, eds. Medieval Londoners: Essays to Mark the Eightieth Birthday of Caroline M. Barron (London: University of London Press, 2019), pp. 55-70.
Includes discussion of the location and implications for readership of Chaucerian materials found among the fascicles of MS HM 140: ClT, Truth, and a selection from Anel.
Stanbury, Sarah.
Glenn D. Burger and Rory C. Critten, eds. Household Knowledges in Late-Medieval England and France (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020), pp. 129-53.
Focuses on "household music" and the "intermingled melodies of birdsong and . . . musical instruments" in ManT. Argues that ManT can be analyzed as a "poignant record of the vibrant household world filled with music and song" that is connected to…
Hernández Pérez, María Beatriz.
SELIM 16 (2009): 103-20.
Analyzes HF in light of Saint Augustine's understanding of memory, showing how Chaucer proposes a dialogue with history and literature of the past in which the author and the reader are recipients of a common legacy.
Morse, Charlotte C.
Hugh T. Keenan, ed. Typology and English Medieval Literature (New York: AMS, 1992), pp. 141-48.
In terms of medieval Christian thought, wherein conversion to Christianity was viewed as gradual rather than instant, the life of Griselda typologically represents the Christian soul, though Chaucer may not consciously have connected the two while…
Camargo, Martin.
Robert Epstein and William Robins, eds. Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honour of John V. Fleming (Buffalo, N. Y.: University of Toronto Press, 2010), pp. 146-78.
Camargo details how the Pardoner "pointedly rejects every tenet" of moral instruction found in chapter 1 of Waleys's "De modo componendi sermones" and shows how the treatise discloses flaws in the Pardoner's rhetorical techniques. The Pardoner "may…
Griffin, Elaine.
Once and Future Classroom 15, no. 1 (2019): 81-94.
Contemplates the value of teaching CT in contemporary classrooms, focusing on how it can be used to encourage diverse outlooks and help close the "empathy gap," aiding students to "develop the cognitive and character skills that support their…
Kelly, Henry Ansgar.
Blair Sullivan, ed. The Echo of Music: Essays in Honor of Marie Louise Göllner (Warren, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press, 2004), pp. 3-18.
Kelly traces Cecilia's entry into hagiographic tradition and compares details of various versions of the saint's legend, including the original "passio" and the versions by Jacobus a Voragine, Chaucer (SNT), Osbern Bokenham, and John Dryden. Also…
Elbow, Peter H.
Chaucer Review 7.2 (1972): 97-112.
Tallies similarities and differences in the characterizations of Palamon and Arcite in KnT, arguing that there is no way to resolve the "demande d'amour" that closes Part 1--"who is more worthy?" Theseus's rational decision making, the intervention…
Bowers, John M.
Nathaniel B. Smith and Joseph T. Snow, eds. The Expansion and Transformation of Courtly Literature (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1980), pp. 141-55.
The visual image of Troilus on his horse, which Criseyde sees from her window, is connected to the earlier image of Troilus as a horse. The horse image, with its suggestions of lust and pride, is associated with both Troilus and Criseyde.
Pearsall, Derek.
TLS, January 12, 2007, pp. 12-13.
Examines attempts to associate Chaucer's works with qualities (assumed or inferred) that constitute "Englishness" and argues that such associations were products of nineteenth- and twentieth-century xenophobia (usually anti-French). Chaucer's works…
Cook, Megan.
Journal of the Early Book Society 15 (2012): 215-43.
Son of Chaucer's editor and contemporary of Robert Cotton, Francis Thynne read as an antiquarian, as evidenced by his objections to Speght's 1598 edition and comparison of his annotations of this edition with the annotations of humanist Gabriel…
Dor, Juliette.
Myriam Watthe-Delmotte and Paul-Augustin Deproost, eds. Imaginaires du mal. Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres: Transversalités, no. 1 (Paris: Cerf; and Louvain-la-Neuve: Université Catholique de Louvain, 2000), pp.79-89.
Examines the ironies of LGW and LGWP, observing tensions between Cupid's binary claims and the dialogical voices and approaches in the tales themselves. Mythological allusions and various plays suggest a cycle of fertility at odds with binary…
Dane, Joseph A.
Joseph A. Dane. Mythodologies: Methods in Medieval Studies, Chaucer, and Book History ([Santa Barbara, Calif.]: Punctum, 2018), pp. 29-52.
Castigates modern studies that describe the verse form of Francis Kynaston’s Latin translation of TC as "pentameter" or as "rhymed accentual," explaining that it is, instead, in eleven-syllable lines with an accent on syllable ten. Then explores…
David, Alfred.
Larry D. Benson, ed. The Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature. Harvard English Studies, no. 5 (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974), pp. 19-29.
Identifies a source for HF 1229-32, where Marsyas is gendered female: a group of mansucripts of the "Roman de la Rose" that interpolate a comic account "in which Apollo flays a female satyr called 'Marse'."
Serrano Reyes, Jesus L.
Antonio Leon Sendra and Vicente Lopez Folgado, eds. In Memoriam Henry Sweet, vol. 1. (Cordoba: Grupo de Investigacion no.5.075 de la Junta de Andalucia, 1993), pp. 134-56.
Reconsiders Chaucer's use of Seneca in CT, adding twenty-one allusions to those already attested in previous scholarship.
