By framing his "Pentacostal parody" within a parody of fourteenth-century English academics' preoccupation with measuring "both physical and metaphysical realities," Chaucer registers "a cautious but not gloomy attitude" regarding the spectrum of…
Includes a section entitled "Shorter Chaucer Tales" (pp. 21–51) with five pieces inspired by CT: "The Host Tale," "The Summer Tale (Deus Hic, 1)," "The Franker Tale (Deus Hic, 2)," "The Not Tale (Funeral)," and "Fried Tale (London Zoo)." The…
Strmelj, Lidija.
ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries 14.1 (2014): 37–47.
Assesses examples from GP, KnT, MilPT, WBPT, and SNPT, deducing that medieval metaphors of emotion are similar to modern ones, although they depend more closely upon social categories, with negative metaphors typical of middle-class speakers, and…
Sketches the development of "Gothic humanism," Platonism, and naturalism in medieval "plastic arts" and theory, locating similar principles and practices in CT--the principles expressed at the opening of PhyT and the practices found in a variety of…
In KnT, Chaucer presents Arcite's love sickness in scientific terms. Boccaccio reveals Arcite to be changed into a savage-looking creature, whereas Chaucer's description recreates the ideal world of chivalry.
Boitani, Piero, and Anna Torti, eds.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1996.
Ten essays by various authors on topics that include depictions of nature, Chaucer and his reception, Spenser, and medievalism. For six essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Mediaevalitas: Reading the Middle Ages under Alternative Title.
Capdevielle, Elizabeth Gibbons.
Dissertation Abstracts International A76.01 (2015): n.p.
Studies "the moral meaning of spiritual and political mediation" in late medieval England, focusing on miracles of the Virgin, TC, Julian of Norwich's "A Revelation of Love," and Thomas Hoccleve's "Regiment of Princes," using aspects of Emmanuel…
Kruger, Steven (F.)
Peter Brown, ed. Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 51-83.
Traces the influence of medieval medical texts on the understanding of the bodily causes of dreaming, arguing that the dreamer's body plays an important role in dreams. In BD, the dream works to masculinize and "heterosexualize" the ailing narrator,…
Stieve, Edwin M.
Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1989): 3037A.
Surveys medical and historical writing as well as clerical interpretations of the bubonic plague. Treating literary representation of the plague as emblematic of ethical and societal cataclysm, Stieve considers the role of the plague in the writings…
Harvey, E. Ruth.
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 440-55.
Examines the influence of Dominican friar Henry Daniel, and his efforts, along with other English scientists, "to appropriate into their language the scientific learning available in Latin, and to lay the foundations for future development.”…
Everest, Carol Ann.
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1993): 4331A.
Because modern medical theories tend to slight classical and medieval theories (Galen, Aristotle, Avicenna), some of Chaucer's works are usually imperfectly understood. (For instance, flatulence was associated with virility.)
Yoshikawa, Naoe Kukita, ed.
Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 2015.
Investigates religious and medical medieval discourses in the Middle Ages. For an essay that pertains to Chaucer search for Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture under Alternative Title.
Burger, Glenn D., and Holly A. Crocker, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Collection of essays charting new investigations of intersectionality of affects, feelings, and emotions in non-religious texts. Authors range from Chaucer to Gavin Douglas, and essays explore practices of witness to the "adoration of objects," and…
Collection of essays covers a comprehensive range of medieval-related media, including literature, film, TV, comic-book adaptations, electronic media, performances, and commercial merchandise and tourism. For three essays that pertains to Chaucer,…
Ashton, Gail, and Daniel T. Kline, eds.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Collection of essays exploring how medievalisms and medieval elements are reclaimed and reconceptualized in contemporary print and digital texts, TV, and film. For an essay pertaining to Chaucer, search for Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture…
Brodnax, Mary Margaret O'Bryan.
Dissertation Abstracts International 29 (1969): 2667A.
Concentrates on Old English poems and Middle English plays that are analogous to Milton's "Paradise Lost," but includes in an appendix "[s]some relationships with The Canterbury Tales and . . . description of seven Middle English poetic analogues."
Bolens, Guillemette, and Lukas Erne, eds.
Tübingen: Narr Verlag, 2011.
Reviews notions and constructions of authorship in medieval and early modern texts, including works by Chaucer, Gower, Shakespeare, Jonson, Milton, and Marvell. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval and Early Modern Authorship…
Analyzes legal, hermeneutic, and social ramifications of murder and murderers in the Middle Ages. Includes Tracy's own essay entitled "'Mordre wol out': Murder and Justice in Chaucer," which focuses on Chaucer's treatment of murder in CT,…
Chaucer elaborately constructs the pagan love story as an epic, a romance, and a philosophical demonstration, but simultaneously undercuts all three frames of reference; however, the Christian epilogue decrying earthly existence is modified by the…
Hatton, Thomas J.
Language and Style 7 (1974): 261-70.
Generalizes that John Dryden's compositional technique (in which abstractions precede concrete details) has precedent in the medieval "rhetorical poetic." Then shows how the details of KnT are "the vehicle for the presentation of certain Boethian…
Hamaguchi, Keiko.
Doshisha Literature 33 (1988): 1-24.
Examines the women in Chaucer's fabliaux in connection with the antifeminist tradition. Hamaguchi argues that Chaucer's view of women was complex, partly affected by the antifeminist tradition yet partly sympathetic to the feminist position.
McMillan, Samuel F.
Dissertation Abstracts International A80.05 (2016): n.p.
Argues that the "Roman de la Rose" "initiates a literary tradition that understands reason to be in tension with and even antithetical to imaginative writing," examining in this light works by Chaucer (TC), Gower, Lydgate, and Hoccleve, exploring in…
