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…
Carruthers, Leo, ed.
Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris-Sorbonne, 1998.
Ten essays by various authors exploring the four seasons in medieval English literature and society. Includes an essay by Sandra Gorgiewski about David Fincher's movie "Seven" in relation to ParsT and Dante. For an essay that pertains to…
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat, which indicates that this anthology includes some material by Chaucer, as well as by Dante, Boccaccio, Shakespeare, and others; in Spanish translation.
Mertens-Fonck, Paule.
Bulletin des Anglicistes Medievistes 34 (1988): 514-22.
Mertens-Fonck returns to the clerk-knight debate tradition, especially to "Hueline et Aiglantine" and the "Concile de Remiremont," finding a source of the portrait of the Prioress.
Alamichel, Marie-Françoise.
Claire Vial, ed. 'Gode is the lay, swete is the note': Résonances dans les lais bretons moyen-anglais / Echoes in the Middle English Breton Lays (2014): n.p. (web publication).
Addresses landscape descriptions in Middle English Breton lays. Focuses on two literary categories of landscapes: romance and magical settings.
Bourquin, Guy.
Adrian Papahagi, ed. Métamorphoses (Paris: Association des Médiviéstes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 2003), pp. 218-29.
In BD, the omission of the transformation of Ceyx and Alcyone--included in other versions of the narrative--runs counter to the expectation of readers, thus exacerbating the anti-consolatory element in the adjacent narrator's dream.
Examines how Chaucer uses interactive body signs in CT to convey emotions and engage his readers in the process of understanding, focusing on his "style kinésique" and exemplifying its effects in examples drawn from SqT and MLP.
Stévanovitch, Colette.
Claire Vial, ed. 'Gode is the lay, swete is the note': Résonances dans les lais bretons moyen-anglais / Echoes in the Middle English Breton Lays (2014): n.p. (web publication).
Concentrates on rhythm in FranT and contends that FranT is successful as a poetic composition, but cannot claim to be a Breton lay.
Explores issues of absence, death, exile, silence, orality, and musical performance in "Sir Orfeo" to find connections with FranT. Approaches "Sir Orfeo" as a reflection on how Chaucer depicts the professional art and artists and lay-makers in FranT.
