Examines the "rhetoric of pestilence" as a "powerful contemplative tool" that urges readers to "self-examination, penitence, and a more active, strategic approach to death" in five texts: PardT, John Lydgate's "Danse Macabre," "The Castle of…
Sawada, Mayumi.
Osamu Imahayashi, Yoshiyuki Nakao, and Michiko Ogura, eds. Aspects of the History of the English Language and Literature: Selected Papers Read at SHELL 2009, Hiroshima (New York; Peter Lang, 2010), pp. 131-42.
Tallies uses of "that" clauses and "to" clauses after the verb "command" in Chaucer's works, documenting their frequencies in various syntactic contexts.
Yeager, R. F.
In Miren Lacassagne, ed. Le rayonnement de la cour des premiers Valois à l'époque d'Eustache Deschamps (Paris: Presses de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2017), pp. 69-79, 183-91.
Explores the influence of Eustache Deschamps on the development of non-musical fixed forms in the English lyric tradition, commenting on poems from Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson D. 913; the poems of "Ch"; and works by Chaucer and John Gower,…
Anastasopoulos, Alexandra.
Meeting of Minds XVII 11 (2009): 199-203.
Anastasopoulos argues for mediated influence of Benoît's "Le Roman de Troie" on characterization, didactic message, and acknowledgement of sources in TC.
Thaisen, Jacob.
English Studies 95 (2014): 500-513.
Establishes that scribes are less likely than otherwise to introduce their own spellings of words that occur in initial position in verse lines, exploring why in psycholinguistic terms, and suggesting several implications for manuscript study. The…
Chancery highlighted problems posed in the medieval common law courts by failures in jurisprudence. MLT raises questions about injustice that reflect critically on the Sergeant of Law. Though he is shown to be an expert in jurisprudence, he is…
Lemons, Andrew Miles.
Ph.D. Dissertation. Princeton University, 2014. Available at http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01h415p968p. Accessed November 28, 2021.
Dissertation Abstracts International 75.08 (2014): n.p.
Identifies the "sense of middleness" found in Middle English verse that rejects "received concepts of poetic form and offers alternatives.” Includes a reading of HF "in which Chaucer presents a radically unconventional definition of 'poetic voice'…
Knutson, Karla.
Dissertation Abstracts International A70.06 (2009): n.p.
Knutson examines medieval ideas of innocence associated with penitential forgiveness in CT, "Pearl," and medieval pageant plays, suggesting that a later concept of innocence—a lack of "knowledge or experience"—shaped William Godwin's and Mary…
Wildermuth, M. Catherine Turman.
Dissertation Abstracts International 45 (1984): 1112A.
Medieval literature uses pathos of innocent suffering to relate physical to spiritual. The humanization of Griselda highlights her Christian virtues; the Prioress emphasizes the spiritual; the Physician stimulates audience self-awareness.
Caie, Graham D.
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 100: 175-85, 1999.
The extensive and apparently authorial glosses that accompany MLT often underscore contradictions-spiritual against material, internal against external, ascetic against monetary-between Innocent's treatise and the narrator's perspective; these…
Donner, Morton.
Mediaevalia 9 (1986, for 1983): 125-44.
Chaucer was not an inept translator in Bo, as some contend, but an innovator who expanded the vocabulary of English ideological writing by some 500 constructions, anglicizing new Latin and Romance terms and extending the meanings of existing English…
Examines the vice of curiosity, arguing that Chaucer both expands its application from the realm of the intellectual to the realm of the physical, and suggests that poetry may be a cause and a remedy for the desire to inquire into private matters.…
Baker, Denise N., ed.
Albany : State University of New York Press, 2000.
Eleven essays examining the reciprocity between literature and history in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Inscribing the Hundred Years' War under Alternative Title.
A topically arranged survey of female same-sex desire in Western literature, with a brief discussion (p. 6) of MLT as "perhaps the earliest example in English" where "mutual passion between two women . . . moves the story along."
Harris, Carissa M.
Essays in Medieval Studies 27 (2011): 45-60.
Examines fifteenth-century scribal responses to sexual language in the CT, noting that some manuscripts either replaced obscenities or added to sexual language. Observing that female narrators in the CT are restricted in their use of vernacular…
Khinoy, Stephan A.
Chaucer Review 6.4 (1972): 255-67.
Assesses the Pardoner as a "puzzle" posed by Chaucer to challenge his audience to consider the relationship between morality and story-telling. The Pardoner's dazzling rhetoric, his relics, and the tensions between his immoral prologue and moral tale…
Morrison, Susan Signe.
Medieval Feminist Forum 56, no. 2 (2020): 73-92.
Uses "lessons from trauma studies concerning silence, as well as new materialist and ecocritical approaches," to explore the resistance of Griselda's patient silence. "[T]hrough a preponderant use of negative words"--a "poetics of negation"--Griselda…
Whiteley, Giles.
Notes and Queries 262 (2017): 478-80.
Asserts without explanation that a reference to Chaucer in "To Mr. Creech on His Translation of Lucretius" by "J. A." derives from RvT 1.3992 and that it may help to clarify a crux in Alexander Pope's "Dunciad" Variorum.
Practical handbook to literacy training, with exercises that include using lines from GP to inspire literacy, from a chapter titled "Exploring Geoffrey Chaucer: A Start" (pp. 181-84).
Harris, A. Leslie.
English Studies 74 (1993): 124-32.
Late-medieval instructional poetry presents children as adults saw them and with adults' worries about them. In late-medieval narrative poetry, children are almost entirely absent, apart from a few exceptions such as the Pearl-maiden, the clergeon…
Crane, Susan.
Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1986.
Argues that romances produced in England, whether in Anglo-Norman or Middle English, share a consistent series of concerns that distinguishes them from French romances.
Schaefer, Ursula.
Anna Kathrin Bleuler and Manfred Kern, eds. Poesie des Widerstreits: Etablierung und Polemik in den Literaturen des Mittelalters (Heidelberg: Winter, 2020), pp. 271-98.
Shows not only that Th is a send-up of the tail-rhyme romance and its conventions, but that the poem's metadiscursive horizon of expectation, established by means of the characterization of Chaucer the Pilgrim, resonates in the tale and reveals…
