Landman, James Henry.
Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1996): 2492A.
The complicated matrix of late-medieval law, with its efforts to seek truth (even by torture), sheds light on the historical dynamics of various works.
Erzgräber, Willi.
Erzgräber, Willi, and others. Europäisches Spätmittelalter (Wiesbaden: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, 1978), pp. 221-74.
Characterizes "Ricardian Literature" and discusses the major works of William Langland, John Gower, and Chaucer (pp. 246-69), focusing on social criticism and genre.
Kane, George.
Donald M. Rose, ed. New Perspectives in Chaucer Criticism (Norman Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1981), pp. 5-19.
Comparisons of Chaucer and Langland may rescue CT from the Bradleian fallacy (i.e., treatment of Chaucer's literary characters as historically actual).
Watson, Nicholas.
Andrew Hass, David Jasper, and Elisabeth Jay, eds. The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 363-81.
Watson summarizes the theocentrism of the late Middle Ages, examines Langland's critique of formal theology in "Piers Plowman," and discusses how CT disclaims theological authority in exploring truth and moral utility. Argues that Mel may be the…
Argues that Chaucer was famous in the 15th and 16th centuries not as a love poet but as a visionary poet, a dreamer of dream allegories, and as such influenced Lydgate ("Temple of Glas"), Skelton ("Garland of Laurel"), Cowley ("Dream of Elysium"),…
Richmond, Andrew M.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Studies "ways in which medieval British romances conceived of ecological contexts" and identifies a "range of economic, religious, and social values attached to landscape"--hills and mines; seashores and beaches; and foreign, domestic, and fantastic…
Piehler, Paul Herman Tynegate.
Dissertation Abstracts International 26.03 (1965): 1634-45A.
Investigates the uses and functions of allegory, dialogue, and symbolism in Boethius's "Consolation," Alan of Lille's "De Planctu Naturae," landscapes in twelfth-century literature, and PF, arguing that the latter is a "triumph of allegorical…
Gaskell, Philip.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998.
Includes the GP description of the Prioress in Middle English and in Nevill Coghill’s translation; also comments on issues of readability, subtlety, and meter.
Presents an understanding of the rules of law, chivalry, and inheritance in "The Tale of Gamelyn." Demonstrates how these rules account for its apparent narrative (and, by extension, aesthetic) inconsistencies by showing how a knowledge of…
Intertextual relationships among MerT, SqT, and FranT indicate differing attitudes toward perception, loyalty, and treason, particularly focused in the depictions of squires. Chaucer's Squire condescends to the lower classes and their ignorance of…
Tolmie, Jane, and M. J. Toswell, eds.
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2010.
Fourteen essays by various authors, on topics ranging from the Psalms to "Beowulf" to Christine de Pizan, with recurrent attention to mothers and children and Marian lamentation. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Laments for the…
Richmond, Velma Bourgeois.
Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 1966.
Studies the backgrounds and characteristics of literary laments for the dead and includes a survey of Chaucer's knowledge of and uses of the topos: his reference to Geoffrey Vinsauf's lament for Richard in NPT 7.3347ff., and several brief instances…
Simeroth, Rosann.
Dissertation Abstracts International 66 (2005): 2207A.
Beginning with Boethius's feminine Philosophia, Simeroth examines "her" transformation in such texts as the "Roman de la Rose" (where she becomes Reason); Boccaccio's "Convivio" (where she is a gentle lady); and HF, where Chaucer merges Philosophia…
The Pardoner's 100 marks (PardP 390) correspond strikingly to the amount stipulated by Lady Clare, Elizabeth de Burgh (grandmother to the wife of young Geoffrey Chaucer's lord, Prince Lionel) to have prayers and good works performed for her soul and…
Sweeney, Michelle.
Essays in Medieval Studies 30 (2015): 165-78.
Examines how "knights are reformed" and some are "even saved by the women who tempt them" in several medieval romances, including Chretien's "Knight of the Cart"; Marie de France's "Lanval"; "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"; and FranT, where Dorigen…
Clogan, Paul M.
Stella P. Revard, ed. Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Wolfenbutel (Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1987), pp. 25-32.
Known to Boccaccio and possibly Chaucer, Lactantius Placidus's commentary is one of the earliest on the classics that deeply influenced the tradition of medieval mythography. Composed in the fifth or sixth century, it circulated widely in the early…
Labbie, Erin Felicia.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
Jacques Lacan's "methodologies follow those established by the medieval scholastic scholars who sought to determine the potential for the human subject to know and represent real universal categories"; and his seminars engage medieval discourses on…
Robertson, Kellie.
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 63-80.
Argues that labor is a controlling characteristic of GP, by first introducing background material about the importance of work and the shortage of labor in the fourteenth century. Demonstrates that "Chaucer's narrative technique in the 'General…
Describes Chaucer responsibilities as a justice of the peace from 1385 to 1389, particularly "the enforcement of highly controversial labor regulations," and explores how the "trope of poet as accused laborer" in LGWP suggests his concerns about such…
Gomez Solino, Jose S.
Ana Regulo Rodriguez and Maria Regulo Rodriguez, bibliogs. Serta Gratulatoria in Honorem Juan Regulo I: Filologia (La Laguna: Universidad de La Laguna, 1985), pp. 285-87.
Sociolinguistic analysis of humor in RvT. In Spanish.
Thomas Becket translated the Decret de Gratien. As chancellor,he (like the Man of Law) must have known "caas and domes all, / That from the tyme of king William were falle" and "every statut . . .pleyn by rote." He must have used this mastery to…
Hernández Pérez, María Beatriz.
Dulce María González Doreste and María de Pilar Mendoza Ramos, eds. Nouvelles de la rose: Actualité et perspectives du "Roman de la rose" (La Laguna: Servicio de Publicaciones, 2011), pp. 455-78.
Assesses Rom as a translation and also as a key moment in Chaucer's literary career that will make him the father of English poetry.
A collection of eighteen articles on aspects of intertextuality in the tradition of the Griselda story in Europe. Morabito reviews the sources and body of material (essay in It.); Donnchadh o Corrain, "Textuality and Intertextuality: The Early…
