Thompson, N. S.
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. 85-101.
Studies two ways CT borrows from Boccaccio: first, in transforming exemplary narratives into "novelles" and, second, in the use of narrative detail to create local history. MilT, RvT, and ShT are examples.
McCleary, Joseph Robert, Jr.
DAI 66 (2005): 1009A.
Considers Chesterton's literary criticism of Chaucer as a means to understanding Chesterton's conception of locality as part of his philosophy of history.
In the five instances in which "male," meaning "bag or pouch" or "holder of writing," appears in CT, the word can also mean "man, male gender, or genitals," "stomach," and "wrongdoing." Through this wordplay, Chaucer reveals his anxieties about the…
Wang, Denise Ming-yueh.
Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture 5.1 (2011): 99-119.
Discusses the "the practice of privacy in reclusive spaces" in TC and MilT, focusing on the physical surroundings, behaviors, and interactions with other characters of Criseyde and Nicholas, and identifying aspects of "personal privacy" within the…
Sylla, Edith Dudley.
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 456-71.
Traces the work and influence of the "Oxford Calculators" (William Heytesbury, Thomas Bradwardine, Walter Burley, Richard Kilvington, Roger and Richard Swineshead, and John Dumbleton), demonstrating how Chaucer "might have picked up some of their…
Somerset, Fiona, Jill C. Havens, and Derrick G. Pitard, eds.
Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell Press, 2003
Thirteen essays by various authors on topics such as the conceptualization of Lollardy as a movement, its underlying thought, its book culture, and its relationships with other movements. Includes an extensive bibliography of Lollard study, with a…
Traces the legacy of Lollard and Wycliffite writings in early modern print, including works incorrectly attributed to Chaucer (such as "The Plowman's Tale," "Jack Upland," and "The Testament of Love") and led to him being regarded as a…
Scattergood, John.
Ardis Butterfield, ed. Chaucer and the City (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006), pp. 162-73.
Chaucer's begging poem reflects his anxieties about money within the complex moneyed economy of fourteenth-century London. Reprinted in Scattergood's Occasions for Writing: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Politics, and Society…
Cooper, Helen.
Ardis Butterfield, ed. Chaucer and the City (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006), pp. 109-28.
Cooper discusses the poetic confraternities called "puys," devoted to competitive writing of poetry. An edition and translation of Renaud de Hoiland's "Si tost c'amis" serves as an example of the kind of civil performance being rejected by the…
Myers, A. R.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1972.
Topographical and social history of late-medieval London and its environs, cast as a description of what a visitor might experience, enlivened by incidents drawn from legal and political records, and including descriptions of various political,…
Hanna, Ralph.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Analyzes the cultural conditions of literary production and the books produced in England, 1300-1380, focusing on English vernacular works but also attending to Latin and French ones, seeking to understand the textual communities defined by such…
Galloway, Andrew.
Europe: A Literary History, 1348-1418 (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016), 1:322-53.
Treats London, Southwark, and Westminster as a single "conurbation," summarizing its cultural interweaving of mercantile, courtly, political, and linguistic threads, and describing its literary production and legacy. Includes discussion of Chaucer,…
Wilson, A. N.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004.
Includes a brief account (pp. 20-24) of "Chaucer's London" that summarizes the poet's life and describes several social and political events of his time. Published in the U.S. as "London: A History" (New York: Modern Library, 2004).
A series of twenty-four lectures (each 30 minutes) about the topography and social conditions of London. Lectures 4 and 5, entitled "Economic Life in Chaucer's London" and "Politics and Religion in Chaucer's London" describe the physical, economic,…
Describes the characteristic foods and methods of public and private food service in London during eight historical periods, deriving much of the information from literary sources and presenting the information in association with literary figures…
Argues for exposing students to a greater range of medieval perspectives than is afforded by traditional single-author courses on Chaucer, explaining the pedagogy of teaching Chaucer in conjunction with the TEAMS Middle English Texts anthology "The…
Compares and contrasts attitudes toward age and aging in WBT, Gower's tale of Florent, and "The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle," considering these attitudes in light of late medieval social perspectives on age and marriage that were affected…
Considers the date and provenance of the Longleat 257 manuscript, describes its contents, and offers a full codicological analysis of collation and compilation, hands, and illustrations.
Ladd, C. A.
Edward Donald Kennedy, Ronald Waldron, and Joseph S. Wittig, eds. Medieval Studies Presented to George Kane (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Wolfeboro, N.H.: D. S. Brewer, 1988), pp. 163-65.
Examines the meaning of "let see" in HF 1623, "nothing lyk" in BD 1085, and the "God toforn" in TC 5.963.
Thoms, John Clifton.
Dissertation Abstracts International 42 (1981): 208A.
The narrator's eight-year sickness may refer to the last illness of Henry, Duke of Lancaster. The portrait of Lady White departs significantly from that of Machaut's lady in "Jugement dou Roy de Behaingne" to reconcile courtly with Christian love.
