Bertolet, Craig E.
In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017. Relocated 2025 at https://opencanterburytales.lsusites.org/
Comments on the possibly harmful and/or fraudulent aspects of "japes" in CkPT, offering information about the food trade in medieval London and considering the Cook's "mormel" (GP 1.386) to be a sign of his vulnerability. Designed for pedagogical…
Wells, Paul.
Journal of Screenwriting 7 (2016): 65-81.
Uses the concepts and terminology of animation studies (e.g., "metamorphosis, condensation, anthropomorphism, choreography, fabrication, performance, sound, etc.") to gauge how and to what extent Jonathan Myerson in his "The Canterbury Tales" (1998)…
Cook, Megan L.
Manuscript Studies 1.2 (2017): 165-88.
Describes Joseph Holland's "thoroughgoing renovation" of the Chaucer manuscript he owned in the sixteenth century (now Cambridge University Library, MS Gg 4.27), detailing how he imitated the corpus and presentation found in Thomas Speght's 1598…
Apocryphal traditions surrounding the Annunciation and Joseph's doubts impart complex depths to the scene in the pear tree and its aftermath, including Joseph's (January's) weak sight and his comforting of Mary (the womb patting).
Brown, Peter.
Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen, eds. Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry. King's College London Medieval Studies, no. 5 (London: King's College Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, 1991), pp. 143-74.
Examines the details and style of Beryn, arguing that it was written to complete CT and that it capitalizes on several of its narrative and stylistic features. Suggests that Beryn was composed by a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury, perhaps in…
Joyce was re-reading CT while revising Ulysses. Chaucerian influence extends beyond allusion to parallels of linguistic conception, encyclopedic reference, and form. The works share elements of tone, a sense of place among the great works of…
The source of PhyT 30-120 and 238-50 is the thirteenth-century "Communiloquium" of John of Wales, not (as argued by Martha S. Waller in 1976) a fourteenth-century commentary by Castrojeriz.
Gariano, Carmelo.
Sacramento : Department of Foreign Languages, California State University, 1984.
Comparative analysis of the themes, techniques, and intertextual relationships of Ruiz's "Libro de buen amor," Boccaccio's "Decameron," and CT. Topics include world view, love and passion, nascent humanism, satire and irony, and narrative structures.…
Olivares Merino, Eugenio M.
Neophilologus 88: 145-61, 2004
Surveys scholarship pertaining to Chaucer's contact with Spain and suggests several routes of transmission for the influence of Juan Ruiz's "Libro de buen amor" on TC and PardT. Chaucer was probably aware of Ruiz (and other Spanish literature)…
Owen, Trevor Allen.
Dissertation Abstracts International 27.11 (1967): 3847A.
Surveys medieval and Renaissance accounts and allusions to Julius Caesar as background to analysis of Shakespeare's depiction of him in "Julius Caesar," including commentary on Chaucer's several references to Caesar and analysis of the Caesar section…
Owen, Trevor Allen.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Minnesota, 1966. Dissertation Abstracts International 27 (1967): 3847A. Full text available at ProQuest Theses and Dissertations Global.
Surveys medieval and early modern literary references to Julius Caesar, including description and assessment of Chaucer's allusions and references to Caesar in Astr, KnT, MLT, and, at greatest length, MkT, commenting on sources and analogues,…
Wolfe, Matthew C.
Charlotte Spivack and Christine Herold, eds. Archetypal Readings of Medieval Literature (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 2002), pp. 181-202.
The Jungian notion of synchronicity--the significant coincidence of psychological and physical states--helps one understand medieval notions of astrology, mysticism, and the supernatural. Wolfe comments on the meeting of Palamon and Arcite in KnT,…
Gill, Richard.
Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 2 (1981): 18-32.
Ambiguous old men in English poetry, including the one in PardT, can be illuminated by the psychological archetype of the "wise old man" that Jung describes in "The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairy Tales."
Peters, Harry.
Albrecht Classen, ed. Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Neglected Topic (New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2007), pp. 375-91.
Describes two medieval views of old age, based in the "seasonal model" of the four ages of life and the planetary model of seven ages. Comments on various poets' uses of the age of Jupiter and the age of Saturn, and identifies Chaucer's depictions of…
Stock, Lorraine Kochanske.
Dorsey Armstrong, Ann W. Astell, and Howell Chickering, eds. Magistra doctissima: Essays in Honor of Bonnie Wheeler (Kalmazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2013), pp.33-42.
Objects to the labeling of the loathly "wyf" in WBT as a "hag," arguing that the latter term is inappropriate and tendentious, especially since the Tale lacks a description of ugliness found in its analogues.
Beidler, Peter G.
Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen, eds. The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question (Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000), pp. 25-46.
Argues that Boccaccio's Decameron 8.1 was Chaucer's primary source for ShT, even though scholars have been reluctant to treat Decameron as a source for any of The Canterbury Tales. Posits definitions of source, hard analogue, and soft analogue.
Considers the appropriateness of ParsT to its narrator, examining the Tale as an example of the sermon genre ("ars praedicandi"), particularly its structural features that reflect a rational aesthetic.
Breslin, Carol Ann.
Dissertation Abstracts International 39 (1978): 2246A.
A study of unity in CT focuses upon justice and law. Commentaries available to Chaucer and his audience include the writings of Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, and Sacred Scripture. Legal texts include Glanville, Bracton, Horn, and court records. …
Carruthers, Leo, ed.
Paris : Publications de l'Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 1999.
Nine essays by various authors exploring the theme of justice and injustice in Medieval English literature and society. One essay (Gloria Cigman on the notion of authority in Chaucer and in Shakespeare) pertains to Chaucer in general; two others also…
A Bakhtinian approach to the juxtaposition of PhyT and PardT. In its aloof style and its paralleling of Apius and Virginius, PhyT is marked by a "tendency to monologue." PardT is dialogic in its comic replacement of justice with mercy.
Bobac examines the "social life of medieval justice as discursively constituted," considering WBT as an example of a text that explores the "theory and purpose of the punishments for rape."
Andretta, Helen R[uth].
McGrann, Loretta, and Benilde Montgomery, eds. Selected Proceedings of the Northeast Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature (Patchogue, N. Y.: St. Jospeh's, 1994), pp. 95-105.
Essay not seen; reported in MLA International Bibliography.
