Stadnik, Katarzyna.
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 51 (2016): 45-76.
Traces the role of the verbs "mot-," "shul," "oughte," and "willen" in defining the relations and motivations of Walter and Griselda, to demonstrate how "the contextualization of the linguistic construction of identity relative to the individual's…
Similarities of orthography and copying habits indicate that the Hammond scribe copied the following manuscripts: BL Additional 34360, BL Harley 2251, Trinity College Cambridge R.14.52, and Royal College of Physicians 113 [Py]. This scribe's spelling…
Smith, Jeremy J.
Derek Pearsall, ed. Manuscripts and Readers in Fifteenth-Century England: The Literary Implications of Manuscript Study (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1983), pp. 104-12.
Demonstrates how specific linguistic features can be used to disclose "scribal attitudes to the text being copied," using as a primary example a number of linguistic forms from "one of the most notorious manuscripts" of CT, British Library MS Harley…
Putter, Ad.
English Language Linguistics 26 (2022): 471-85.
Treats the scansion of "high" and "sly" in works by Chaucer, Gower, and Hoccleve--all "careful metrists"--as evidence of the demise of "inflection of monosyllabic adjectives (final -e for weak and plural adjectives)." Posits that irregularities in…
Wagner, Erin Kathleen.
Wagner, Erin Kathleen. Linguam Ad Loquendum: Writing a Vernacular Identity in Medieval and Early Modern England. Ph.D. Dissertation. Ohio State University, 2015. Dissertation Abstracts International A81.12(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Abstracts.
Studies uses of and attitudes toward vernacular English in late-medieval and early modern writing, literary and religious, from Wyclif and the Lollards to Tyndale and More. Includes comparison of ManT with Gower's analogous Tale of Phebus and…
Rentz, Ellen K.
Notes and Queries 263 (2018): 172-74.
Argues that San Marino, Huntington Library, MS HM 64538, a short Middle English defense of women attributed to Solomon, appears to derive from Chaucer's Mel, specifically Mel, 1103-9. Suggests that "scholars ought to continue thinking about the…
Wright, Constance S.
American Notes and Queries 24 (1986): 68-69.
A new text offered for these lines returns to the manuscript reading of "he" for Robinson's "she" in line 882, and with different punctuation. The new text resembles more closely the lines of Ovid that Chaucer is paraphrasing.
Fletcher, Alan J.
English Language Notes 24:2 (1986): 15-20.
The many appearances of the name Malkyn in medieval English texts do not support the common assumption that the name suggested a woman of loose morals but rather indicate that it evoked a woman of the lower classes.
Scott, Kathleen L.
Felicity Riddy, ed. Prestige, Authority, and Power in Late Medieval Manuscripts and Texts (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: York Medieval Press, 2000), pp. 55-75.
Discusses the artist of the Troilus frontispiece of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 61, identifying other manuscripts by the same artist. The associations of these manuscripts with important and influential patrons indicate that the artist…
Grossvogel, David L.
Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1968.
Explores the "complex dialectic between the author and his reader" as the defining feature of the novel as a literary form, offering case studies in a range of works, medieval to modern. Includes a discussion of TC (pp. 44-73) which focuses on…
Travelling levels status distinctions and puts the pilgrims at the threshold stage in a rite of passage. Their "ritual elder" is the Host; their enterprise, a restructuring of social conventions: love, rank, "gentillesse", vulgarity, and money. …
Considers the protagonists of ClT and Lars von Trier's film "Breaking the Waves," exploring how the audience's experiences of the "weird realism" of Griselda and Bess may be seen to induce a "heightened mode of encounter with the traces of a…
Širca, Alen.
Primerjalna književnost 44 (2021): 87-105.
Surveys depictions of Antigone in western literature from Antiquity through the late Middle Ages, with assessment of Chaucer's characterization of her in TC as an interweaving of Trojan and Theban traditions. In Bulgarian with English abstract.
Ebi, Hisato.
The Journal of Liberal Arts Department, Kansai Medical University (December 1980): pp. 15-126.
Pseudo Dionysius Areopagita's theory of "One Light of God" had very much to do with the rich achievements of Gothic art. Consciously or unconsciously, Chaucer was a man in the High Gothic era. In BD his aesthetic idea is clearly presented by the…
Fradenburg, L. O. Aranye.
Staying Alive: A Survival Manual for the Liberal Arts (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Punctum, 2013), pp. 223-61.
Contemplates and appreciates the "indisputable fact of our common aliveness," exploring various topics for evidence of cognitive and aesthetic similarities: biosemiotics, real estate advertising, human natal development, communal grooming, and the…
The Old Man of PardT, wretched because of his inability to die, embodies a lesson of "contemptus mundi" that should correct the rioters' "rash wish" to overcome physical death,but due to their spiritual blindness, they fail to heed his warning.
Mann, Jill.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.
A collection of Jill Mann's previously published essays, edited with an introduction by Mark David Rasmussen. The Preface explains that the essays are organized around exploring the implications of key words as ways to understand human experience in…
Mertens-Fonck, Paule.
Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Poetics: Theory and Practice in Medieval English Literature (Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 1991), pp. 105-15.
Chaucer's use of the name "Eglentyne" in the description of the Prioress in GP and in a scene of KnT emphasizes the disparity between reality and the courtly love tradition.
Craun, Edwin D.
Cambridge: Cambridge Univeristy Press, 1997.
Draws from thirteenth-century pastoral literature (much of it in manuscript) that treats "Sins of the Tongue" to demonstrate how a pastoral "speech code" was "woven into late medieval [literary] texts." Chapters 1 and 2 distinguish in the pastoral…
Analyzes Langland's and Chaucer's uses of "tally-tale-tail" puns in "Piers Plowman" and ShT, clarifying medieval understandings of signification, polysemy, equivocation, deception, economic value, and misogyny. Unlike Lady Mede, who is trapped in a…
Nine essays by various authors on love-sickness in classical and medieval literature. The essays discuss the topos in medicine, classical writing, medieval Latin, Islamic writing, troubadour poetry, ansd medieval vernacular languages: Spanish,…
Reichl, Karl.
Theo Stemmler, ed. Liebe als Krankheit: 3. Kolloquium der Forschungsstelle fur europaische Lyrik des Mittelalters an der Universitat Mannheim (Tubingen: Narr, 1990), pp. 187-215.
Surveys the forms and conventions of Middle English lyrics that treat love-sickness, including MercB, and those in TC and KnT.
Sanders, Barry.
David R. Olson and Nancy Torrance, eds. Literacy and Orality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 111-28.
In GP, Chaucer poses himself as a "liar," capable of impossible feats of memory; in tales such as MilT, he capitalizes on the oral genre of joking. As a liar and a joker, the literate Chaucer manipulates oral expectations, compelling his audience to…
Argues that both the structure and the content of ManT explore the relativity of truth and lie. Regarding the structure, the dependence on literature of practical wisdom raises a doubt as to the tale's authority as an exemplum. As for the content,…
