Chaucer's insertion of an imitation of a passage from the "Poetria nova," in place of the proper matter translated from "Il Filostrato," suggests Chaucer's disdain for the "rough haste" of Boccaccio's style and his "impetuosa manus" (TC 1.1067).
Chaucer's line "Betynge with his heles on the grounde" (LGW 863) echoes Geoffrey's description of Frollo's death ("Historia regum Britanniae" 9.9) and in turn suggests that Chaucer viewed Geoffrey's work with skepticism.
Reichert, Folker.
Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 104 (2022): 331-43.
Examines geographical and literary backgrounds to Chaucer's use of "Carrenare" in BD, 1029, identifying it with "Caramoran" (especially as found in Marco Polo and Mandeville), and suggesting it helps to separate Blanche from the vanities of the…
Mead, Jenna.
Literature Compasss 3.5 (2006): 973-91.
Surveys critical responses to Astr, highlighting recent discussions that emphasize patterns of readership, pedagogical strategies, and the status of science in late fourteenth-century England.
Malaczkov, Szilvia.
Perspectives: Studies in Translatology 9.1: 33-44, 2001.
Malaczkov assesses Chaucer's techniques of translation in Bo, focusing on his glosses and arguing that Chaucer chose to translate for meaning or content rather than for form.
Pomerleau, Mary Farrell, trans.
Arcadia, Calif.: Charlemagne Press, 1995.
Modern translation of ParsPT, Ret, and the GP description of the Parson, accompanied by brief notes and a glossary, Farrell's pen-and-ink illustrations, and her introduction (pp. 15-29) that comments on the structure and outlook of ParsT and what we…
Patterson, Lee, ed.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Ten previously published essays or excerpts from longer works by various authors, with an introduction and a brief bibliography of suggested readings. Topics include GP and estates literature (Jill Mann); design and chaos in KnT (Robert W. Hanning);…
Thompson, N. S.
Jay Parini, ed. British Writers Classics. Vol. 1 (New York: Scribner, 2002), pp. 41-63. Electronic edition, 2003.
Summary description of CT, commenting (in the Ellesmere order) on each of the fragments, source materials of the tales, and the ways that Chaucer combines traditional and innovative concerns. The CT is a "work held together by contrast." Includes a…
Simpson, James.
Frank Bezner and Beate Kellner, eds. Alanus ab Insulis und das europäische Mittelalter (Paderborn: Brill, 2022), pp. 179-94.
Assesses how Chaucer's references to Alain de Lille's works in HF, 985–89 and PF, 315–18 distinguish his own poetic project from the Neoplatonic ideals that Alain represents, preferring worldly tidings to the spiritual wisdom of the empyrean, and…
Cornelius, Michael J.
Zachary Michael Jack, ed. Black Earth and Ivory Tower: New American Essays from Farm and Classroom (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2005), pp. 143-55.
Assesses Chaucer's respect for the work of medieval farmers and medieval students (as evident in GP and ClT), interspersed with Cornelius' recollections of his decision to leave farming for academic study.
Keller, Wolfram R.
Thomas Honegger and Dirk Vanderbeke, eds. From Peterborough to Faery: The Poetics and Mechanics of Secondary Worlds; Essays in Honour of Dr. Allan G. Turner's 65th Birthday (Zurich: Walking Tree, 2014), pp. 1-24.
Describes the medieval understanding of "faculty psychology"--the three cells or ventricles where imagination, logic, and memory reside--and argues that HF "takes the audience" through the three ventricles, while exploring the creative potential of…
Yıldız, Nazan.
[Yildiz, Nazan]
Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi (Hacettepe University) 32.2 (2015): 299-312.
Explores the social status of the Prioress as someone caught between "her former and present estates, the nobility and the clergy respectively," exploring her "hybrid identity" at this interface Includes an abstract in Turkish and in English.
