Wuertz, Carol.
[Jay Ruud, ed.] Papers on the "Canterbury Tales": From the 1989 NEH Chaucer Institute, Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota ([Aberdeen, S.D.: Northern State University, 1989), pp. 146-57.
Argues that the "message" of WBPT is that all individuals are to be valued.
Dixon, Chris Jennings, ed.
Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English, 2007.
Seventy-five lesson plans for teaching writing to high school students, arranged in seven categories: Writing Process, Portfolios, Literature, Research, Grammar, Writing on Demand, and Media. Two of the plans for writing about literature focus on…
Case, Linda.
[Jay Ruud, ed.] Papers on the "Canterbury Tales": From the 1989 NEH Chaucer Institute, Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota ([Aberdeen, S.D.: Northern State University, 1989), pp. 186-202.
Description of proposed classroom activities for high school study of GP.
Hefling, Carol.
[Jay Ruud, ed.] Papers on the "Canterbury Tales": From the 1989 NEH Chaucer Institute, Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota ([Aberdeen, S.D.: Northern State University, 1989), pp. 247-52.
Presents in outline form materials for a unit on medieval history for the high school classroom, incorporating suggestions or using selections from CT.
Alamichel, Marie-Françoise.
Bulletin des Anglicistes Médiévistes 58: 5-37, 2000.
Examines medieval English widows. While Old English literature shows a general lack of interest in marriage and widowhood, Middle English literature is rich in various forms of testimonies. None of the widows surveyed shows true sorrow after the…
Dauby, Helene.
Leo Carruthers, ed. La ronde des saisons: Les saisons dans la litterature et la societe anglaises au Moyen Age (Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris-Sorbonne, 1998), pp. 101-10.
Examines the diet of the poor widows in CT and the extravagant menus of the Franklin, the numerous recipes in "Le menagier de Paris," and "The Boke of Nurture" by John Russell.
Blandeau, Agnès.
Martine Yvernault and Sophie Cassagnes-Brouquet, eds. Frères et sœurs: Les liens adelphiques dans l'Occident antique et médiéval. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2007, pp. 229-36.
Blandeau examines meanings and connotations of the terms "brother," "brotherly," and "brotherhood" in CT and other medieval texts, from "Beowulf" to Malory's "Le Morte Darthur." Brotherhood ranges widely and can extend to a universal fraternity in a…
Mertens-Fonck, Paule.
Marie-Françoise Alamichel, ed. La complmentarité: Mélanges offerts à Josseline Bidard et Arlette Sancery à l'occasion de leur départ en retraite (SAC 29 [2007], no. 85), pp.177-85.
Two intertwined debates underlie CT: 1) a tension between traditional literature and individualizing contemporary details, and 2) the realist/nominalist debate over universals.
Engel, Claire-Eliane.
Revue des Sciences Humaines 120 (1965): 577-85.
Comments on the historicity and relative chronology of the military campaigns mentioned in the GP description of the Knight, observing how the events are out of sequence and how Chaucer's may have known of them.
Mertens-Fonck, Paule.
Colette Stévanovitch, ed. L'Articulation langue-littérature dans les textes médiévaux anglais. Collection GRENDEL, no. 5 (Nancy: Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 2005), pp. 99-116.
CT reflects the medieval philosophical debate over universals, posing traditional literature in tension with more fully actualised characterization.
Morrison, Stephen.
Colette Stévanovitch, ed. L'Articulation langue-littérature dans les textes médiévaux anglais (Nancy: Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 2005), pp. 117-32.
Explores the combination of "manly" and "man," as well as the meaning of "manly," in reference to the GP description of the Monk.
Dor, Juliette.
Marie-Francoise Alamichel, ed. La complémentarité: Mélanges offerts á Josseline Bidard et Arlette Sancery á l'occasion de leur départ en retraite (Paris: AMAES, 2005), pp. 165-76.
Analyses Chaucer's polysemous uses of quite(n) in CT in light of late fourteenth-century concerns with contracts and debts, disclosing various tensions among the tellers' origins, professions, and ranks.
Keller, Wolfram R., and Margitta Rouse.
Troianalexandrina: Anuario sobre literatura medieval de materia clásica 19 (2019): 313-32.
Considers the "temporal hybridity" of late medieval engagements with the matter of Troy, including discussion of the "epistemological legitimization of a poetics of innovation" in HF that extends into early modern treatments of the material, evident…
Kendrick, Laura.
Bulletin des Anglicistes Medievistes 46 (1994): 926-38.
Explores wordplay involving French and Anglo-Norman "bords" that may have authorized the use of the borders of medieval illuminated manuscripts for visual jesting, contestation, and derision. Considers the verbal "borders" of CT in relation to this…
Johnson, James D.
English Language Notes 38: 41-49, 2001.
Leigh Hunt's "The Tapiser's Tale" amplifies our understanding of Hunt as a nineteenth-century Chaucerian. The poem both imitates Chaucer's language and verse and utilizes the setting, plot, and key motifs from Charles MacFarlane's account of…
Rhodes, Sharon E.
In Nicole Nyffenegger and Katrin Rupp, eds. Writing on Skin in the Age of Chaucer (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2918), pp. 77-94.
Argues that leprosy was seen in the later Middle Ages as a "broad category of skin diseases rooted in sin." Suggests that Robert Henryson's Cresseid, Chaucer's Summoner, and Amiloun were questionable characters whose diseased skins can be viewed as…
Chaucer's strategy in LGW and Christine de Pisan's in "Livre de la Cite des Dames" differ from Boccaccio's in "De claris mulieribus." Chaucer's parody of hagiography and Christine's efforts to encourage us to read as women promote a revisionist…
Sanok, Catherine.
Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 2482A, 1999.
Lives of virgin martyr saints became a majority in the genre, appealing predominantly to a female audience and providing "expressions of devotion rather than exhortations to devotion." Sanok discusses works of Chaucer, Margery Kempe, Christine de…
Walker-Pelkey, Faye.
South Central Review 8 (1991): 19-35.
Constructed in contrast to Criseyde of TC, and despite the narrator's veneration, Alceste of LGWP is an unacceptable model for womankind. Even though she is usually regarded as self-serving, Criseyde is a positive model in TC.
Ruszkiewicz, Dominika.
Sylwia J. Wojciechowska and Aeddan Shaw, eds. Colossus: How Shakespeare Still Bestrides the Cultural and Literary World (Kraków: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Akademii Ignatianum, 2018), pp. 81-94.
Describes differences in the uses of personal testaments in TC (Troilus's) and in the versions of the story by Henryson (Cresseid's) and Shakespeare, focusing on Pandarus’s testament in "Troilus and Cressida" and on how it reflects the influence of…
Yeager, R. F.
R. F. Yeager, ed. Chaucer and Gower: Difference, Mutability, Exchange (Victoria B.C.: University of Victoria, 1991), pp. 115-29.
Most people who could read and write in England in the late fourteenth century were capable of doing so in French, Latin, and English. Gower's nearly 90,000 lines of extant poetry--roughly apportioned into thirds of Anglo-Norman French, Latin, and…
