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.
McGavin, John J.
Chaucer Review 21 (1987): 444-58.
In ManT, Chaucer gives us no information about the crow's personality, motives, or style. He and the Manciple have paradigmatic significance as users of speech and tellers. However, the poet does focus on the narratorial personality of the…
Ussery, Huling E.
Tulane Studies in English 15 (1967): 1-18.
Argues that the Clerk is characterized as a "middle-aged scholar and professional logician," distinct among the other clerks of CT for his age (probably "more than thirty and less than fifty years of age") and wisdom, and unique in the GP as a…
Slocum, Sally K.
Philological Quarterly 58 (1979): 16-25.
Evidence suggests Pandarus is a peer to Troilus and hardly older than Criseyde, probably around thirty. The younger age eliminates harsh judgments on his involvement in their love affair and on behavior deemed lecherous in an older man.
Spencer, Matthew, Barbara Bordalejo, Peter Robinson, and Christopher J. Howe
Literary and Linguistic Computing 18 (2003): 407-22.
Drawing techniques from biology, the authors gauge the reliability of several aspects of textual stemmata: whether separate sections of a given text have separate histories, the quantity of text necessary for a reliable stemma, the levels of…
Dinshaw, Carolyn.
Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2012.
Addresses queer readings and the asynchrony of time within medieval tales in relation to "amateur medievalists" and scholars. Study includes discussion of temporality, queer historicism, and autobiographical anecdotes, providing a fresh way of…
Farrell, Thomas J.
Medieval Perspectives 18 (2011 for 2003): 113-31.
Analyzes varying treatments of the "sergeant" character in Chaucer, the Anonymous French, Petrarch, and Boccaccio by considering the character's rhetorical effect in each. Rather than imitating a character either cruel (as in the French) or not-cruel…
Crocker, Holly A.
Cindy L. Vitto and Marcia Smith Marzec, eds. New Perspectives on Criseyde (Fairview, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2004), pp. 139-64.
Seen in light of external texts that establish the medieval rhetoric of feminine virtue, Criseyde's betrayal reflects betrayal of the patriarchal culture that sets up expectations for feminine conduct and that uses a woman such as Criseyde for its…
Landy, Joshua.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012
Applies understanding of literary texts, including Chaucer's CT, to ideas of everyday life. Chapter 1, "Chaucer: Ambiguity and Ethics," addresses the benefits of using NPT, in particular, to teach ethics and issues of morality.
Öğütcü, Murat.
In Evrim Doğan Adanur, ed. IDEA: Studies in English (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011), pp. 289-99.
Assesses the "multilayered constitution" of TC "as a polysemous text" that celebrates "the flesh and the divine simultaneously," reading the poem as the recreation of the "suppressed sexual experience" of Chaucer's youth in his old age, an…
While we cannot be sure of Chaucer's pronunciation of "Berwyk" (CT 1.792), one manuscript version of Bradwardine's memory treatise may suggest the loss of medial (w).
Ashe, Laura.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 42 (2020): 111-46.
Maintains that "medieval thought was continually pushed toward true contradictions . . . despite [the] impossibility imposed by classical logic," citing Aristotle, Abelard, Jean Buridan, Aquinas, and modern thinkers such as Hegel and Graham Priest…
