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…
Travis, Peter W.
Roland Hagenbuchle and Laura Skandera, eds. Poetry and Epistemology: Turning Points in the History of Poetic Knowledge (Regensburg: Pustet, 1986), pp. 30-45.
Chaucer's only beast fable, through the catalyst of parody, transforms a "literary primer" to achieve artistic freedom from past determinants. NPT "is an epitome of what Foucault calls the archaeological text," containing every major concern and…
Osborn repunctuates the "astrolabic" passages in SqT and MLP (both set in the East) and considers the operation of an astrolabe to resolve apparent problems of time and date. The steed of brass and its association with the star Alpherez in SqT…
Wheeler, Bonnie.
Takami Matsuda, Richard A. Linenthal, and John Scahill, eds. The Medieval Book and a Modern Collector: Essays in Honour of Toshiyuki Takamiya (Cambridge: Brewer; Tokyo: Yushodo, 2004), pp. 461-66.
Wheeler reproduces and describes two versions of a sketch by Edward Burne-Jones, representing Chaucer embracing Burne-Jones and William Morris (the producers of the Kelmscott Chaucer). Includes an 1890 photograph of the Kelmscott duo and related…
National Council of Teachers of English. Committee on Historical Linguistics.
[Champaign, Ill.]: National Council of the Teachers of English, [1967].
Six pamphlets in a slip-folder, each individually paginated, and each summarizing the linguistic conditions and features of a work of English literature and offering pedagogical exercises in understanding the place of the work in linguistic history.…
Bourgne, Florence.
Colette Stvanovitch, ed. L'Articulation langue-littérature dans les textes médiévaux anglais (Nancy: Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 2005), pp. 247-68.
Studies Chaucer's Bo to determine which texts, versions, and commentaries Chaucer might have used and which modifications he might have introduced and to what purposes.
Bianciotto, Gabriel.
Rouen: Universite de Rouen, 1994.
Challenges Robert Pratt's view that "Troilus and Criseyde" was based on Beauvau's French "Troyle", comparing the similarities among Boccaccio's "Filostrato," TC, and the "Roman de Troyle." Includes a detailed historical analysis of the Beauvau family…
Flinn, John.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1963.
Chapter 15, "Le Roman de Renart en Angleterre" (pp. 672-88), summarizes NPT and treats Pierre de Saint-Cloud's "Roman de Renart" (branch 2) as its major source, focusing on tone and spirit, and attributing differences to Chaucer's art, originality,…
Nichols, Stephen G., Jr., ed.
New York: Appleton-Century-Croft, 1967.
An edition of Guillaume de Lorris's portion of "Le Roman de la Rose," with glosses and an Introduction (pp.1-12) in modern French. Includes as an Appendix fragment A (lines 1-1705) of Rom, with glosses and an Introduction (pp.149-51) in modern…
Dauby, Helene Taurinya.
Paris: Publications de l'Association des Medievistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Superieur, 1985.
Comparisons of the position of women in the two contemporary works: portraits, attitudes toward marriage, motherhood, householding, life in society, culture, religion. Women are presented as wives with social responsibilities.
