Offers evidence for the source for the opening of the ShT, connecting it with Gilbertus Minorita's "Dictinctiones" and its quotation of then-contemporary vernacular poetry.
Walts, Dawn Simmons.
Chaucer Review 43 (2009): 400-413.
In MilT, Nicholas's real and reputed knowledge of astrology convinces John of the upcoming Flood, evidence that the clerk has spent his time well in learning the science of reckoning time. Indeed, in contrast to the carpenter, the educated clerk has…
Fifteen essays on topics related to sacred and secular English manuscripts of the late Middle Ages. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Tributes to Kathleen L. Scott under Alternative Title.
Sturm-Maddox, Sara.
In Jamie C. Fumo, ed. Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess": Contexts and Interpretations (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 119-34.
Argues for the "strong intertextual presence" of Machaut's "Remede de Fortune" in BD, reflective of developments in late medieval francophone and anglophone social history. Both poems combine praise for an idealized lady with an account of the…
Julius, Anthony.
Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Julius defines anti-Semitism and describes its history and politics in England. Literary anti-Semitism has "distinct tropes and themes, deployed without respect for genre boundaries." The "master trope" of "a well intentioned Christian place in peril…
Taylor, Paul Beekman.
English Language Notes 37.2: 1-13, 1999.
The Host's question of Chaucer-the-pilgrim, "what man artow?" elicits triadic contexts for reading Th, whose prosody, parodic style, and plot are particularly informed by debate structures. These same contexts deconstruct Harry Bailly as adequate…
Perry, Sigrid Pohl.
Dissertation Abstracts International 42 (1981): 2125A.
In Chaucer, as in patristic writings, true marriage proceeds from physical to psychological to spiritual union, even emblematizing the relationship of God to church or soul. Analysis of marriage in CT further reveals sexual politics.
Allor, Danielle Grace.
Ph.D. dissertation (Rutgers University, 2021), Dissertation Abstracts International A83.06(E). Freely acces. sible at https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/66869/ (accessed January 30, 2025).
Explores “how late medieval English poets used the properties of trees, from their branching forms to their growth cycles, to negotiate literary influence and construct poetic meaning." Includes a chapter on HF as well as one each on "Piers…
Annunziata, Anthony.
P. E. Szarmach and B. S. Levy, eds. The Fourteenth Century. Acta 4. Binghampton: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, SUNY, Binghampton, 1977), pp. 125-35,
The tree paradigms in MerT are illuminated by the etymological kinship of "tree" and "true," by the tree's biblical and allegorical implications, and by evocations of the Tree of Jesse and trees of virtues and vices.
Roache, Joel.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 64 (1965): 1-6.
Documents "legal aspects" of discovered treasure in late-medieval England, identifying similarities in lexicon and imagery between legal records concerning found hoards and the rioters' descriptions of their treasure in PardT. The similarities…
Herman, Peter C.
Chaucer Review 25 (1991): 318-28.
According to the rules for infidelity in the Middle Ages, Phebus's wife is guilty of both adultery and high treason since she commits adultery with a person of lower birth and social class.
Strohm, Paul.
Paul Strohm, with an Appendix by A. J. Prescott. Hochon's Arrow: The Social Imagination of Fourteenth-Century Texts (Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1992), pp. 121-44.
The statutory redefinition of treason in 1352 and a case of domestic treason in 1387 (Elizabeth Wauton) suggest that Chaucer conceived the Wife of Bath to be a household traitor, one whose insurrections against her husbands are analogous to broader…
Bolton, W. F.
Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 203 (1966): 255-62.
Describes the concern with treason in TC, identifying references to the "Troy story as a series of betrayals" and allusions to the "Troy legend" where betrayal occurs, connecting them with questions of trust and treason in a pagan world lacking faith…
Wurtele, Douglas J.
Fifteenth-Century Studies 18 (1991): 315-43.
Argues that a "climate" of social and political treachery prevailed in Chaucer's England, considers its effects on Chaucer's work, and surveys the poet's incorporation of the theme of treachery in his major poems.
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Noboru Harano et al., eds. Travels Through Space and Time in Medieval Europe. (Hiroshima: Keisuisha, 2004), pp. 97-140.
Nakao discusses traveling as physical movement through space and mental movement through time. A dual space-time scheme is central to the structure of CT and contributes to the rise of dualistic interpretations of such words and phrases as "licour"…
Schaefer, Ursula.
Svenja Kranich, Victor Becher, Steffen Höder, and Juliane House, eds. Multilingual Discourse Production: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives (Philadelphia: Benjamins, 2011), pp. 45-69.
Argues that Chaucer's coinage "blisfulnesse" (also "welefulnesse") in Bo is a calque on the Latin models of "beatitude" and "felicitas," reflecting the poet's sensitivity to complicated conditions of discourse.
Bauer, Renate, Christine Elsweiler, Ulrike Krischke, and Kerstin Majeski, eds.
Collects twenty-three essays by various authors in linguistic, philological, and/or medieval studies. For two essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for Travelling Texts--Texts Travelling under Alternative Title.
Barrington, Candace.
Educational Theory 64.05 (2014): 463-77.
Recognizes the difficulties surrounding modern translations of Chaucer's work and its relation to humanism. Using Nazmi Ǎgıl's Turkish translation of SqT as a test case, argues that studying non-anglophone translations of CT activates both Emily…
Friedrich, Jennie Rebecca.
Dissertation Abstracts International DAI A77.01 (2015): n.p.
Considers Chaucer as part of a larger discussion of medieval ideas of the physical damage that accrued from travel, both in the sense of a literal pilgrimage and in tropes including the "wandering heart."
Busse, Wilhelm G.
Rudolf Hiestand, ed. Traum und Traumen: Inhalt, Darstellungen, Funktionem einer Lebenserfahrung in Mittelalter und Renaissance. Studia humaniora, no. 24 (Dusseldorf: Droste, 1994), pp. 43-67.
Places Chaucer's presentations of dreams in TC, PF, HF, and NPT in the context of the development of Western attitudes toward the validity of dreams.
Millichap, Joseph R
Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association 28.4 (1974): 102-08.
Considers the imagery of transubstantiation and transformation in PardPT and in the GP description of the Pardoner. In traditional Christian terms, the Pardoner fails to use properly the things of the world for spiritual purposes; in terms of Jungian…
Barr, Helen.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014.
Combines traditional literary Chaucerian scholarship with innovative ways of looking at the material culture of medieval texts and early modern drama. Focuses on how Chaucer plays with time, "temporal circularity," and textual history. Includes…
Bowden, Betsy.
Studies in Medievalism 11: 73-111, 2001.
The treatment of horses and horsemanship helps to contrast the "secular lightheartedness" of Thomas Stothard's 1809 painting of the Canterbury pilgrims and the "heartfelt religious fervor" William Blake sought to convey in his 1807 engraving.
McKinley, Kathryn.
James M. Dean, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer (Ipswich, Mass.: Salem Press, 2017), pp. 113-27.
Considers the "international" aspects of Chaucer's works and Chaucer's "European nature as a writer." Emphasizes the importance of Chaucer's "ability to draw upon international vernaculars . . . and retain elements of his own culture" in his works,…
Chism, Christine.
Faith Wallis and Robert Wisnovsky, eds. Medieval Textual Cultures: Agents of Transmission, Translation and Transformation (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016), pp. 85-120.
Describes the variety of cultural uses to which the astrolabe was put historically, and argues that the "complex back-histories of multicultural compilation," the "multifocal transmission," and the "imaginative pedagogy" of Astr assert a "reluctance…
