Rose, Donald M., ed.
Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1981.
Commissioned originally to be read at the Second International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, these thirteen essays demonstrate the validity of recent critical trends in Chaucer. Several essays on historical approaches to Chaucer suggest new…
Trinity College, Dublin, MS 389 (formerly D.2.8) includes three alchemical texts that are Chaucerian apocrypha. Timmerman corrects Gareth W. Dunleavy's 1965 discussion of this manuscript.
Vitto, Cindy L., and Marcia Smith Marzec, eds.
Fairview, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2004.
Thirteen essays by various authors assess Criseyde in historical context, consider issues of gender and power, and apply postmodern approaches. Several essays revisit earlier scholarship on Criseyde (including the editors' own) and comment on current…
Bianco, Sue.
Helen Cooney, ed. Nation, Court and Culture: New Essays on Fifteenth-Century English Poetry (Dublin and Portland, Ore.: Four Courts Press, 2001), pp. 95-115.
Critical reception of Lydgate has been prejudiced by negative comparisons with Chaucer. Fuller appreciation of Lydgate's poetry depends on recognizing that, while moral and political issues in Chaucer are largely exemplary, Lydgate writes to effect…
Powell, Susan, and Jeremy J. Smith, eds.
Cambridge : D. S. Brewer, 2000.
Thirteen essays by various authors: seven interpretations of alliterative poems and six textual analyses of Middle English works. Includes a memoir by Derek Pearsall. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for New Perspectives on Middle…
Kelen, Sarah A.
Heidi Brayman Hackel, Jesse M. Lander, and Zachary Lesser, eds. The Book in History, the Book as History: New Intersections of the Material Text: Essays in Honor of David Scott Kastan (New Haven: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, 2016), pp. 235-55.
Compares and contrasts Immerito's and E. K.'s attitudes toward language and archaism in Edmund Spenser's "Shepheardes Calender," with particular attention to how the "overly generous glossing" of the text presumes a "reader's familiarity with…
Benson, Robert G., and Susan J. Ridyard, eds.
Rochester, N.Y., and Cambridge : D. S. Brewer, 2003.
Ten essays by various authors and a descriptive introduction by Derek Brewer. The papers were originally delivered at the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium at the University of the South in April 2000; the colloquium was devoted to Chaucer's work on the…
Chamberlain, David, ed.
Landon, Md,, New York, and London: University Press of America, 1993.
Seven essays by various authors, plus an introduction by the editor that surveys the tradition of Chaucerian love poetry. One essay is on Lydgate's "Temple of Glas"; one is on "Kingis Quair"; four are on Chaucerian apocrypha; and one is on the…
Boswell, Jackson Campbel.
Chaucer Review 45 (2011): 435-65.
Adding to the work both of Spurgeon in "Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion" and of the author and Holton in "Chaucer's Fame in England," this annotated bibliography presents forty-five new citations, including one to a hitherto…
Beadle, Richard,and A. J. Piper,eds.
Hants: Scolar Press, 1995
Fifteen essays by various authors on topics in book production from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries, including discussion of Gower manuscripts (M. B. Parkes), a Wyclif manuscript (Anne Hudson), Wynkyn de Worde (Lotte Hellinga), codicological…
Stillinger, Thomas C.
Andrew Galloway and R. F. Yeager, eds. Through a Classical Eye: Transcultural and Transhistorical Visions in Medieval English, Italian, and Latin Literature in Honour of Winthrop Wetherbee (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009), pp. 223-38.
Observing that threshold between the Wife of Bath and the Clerk and between their tales, Stillinger explores how Chaucer stands at the "threshold between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance" (224): "If the Clerk imports the new science of the…
Robertson, Michael.
Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 43 (2022): 55-93.
Accounts for seventeen words found in the glossaries of Speght's 1598 and 1602 editions of Chaucer's works that are labeled "unidentified" in Jürgen Schäfer's "Early Modern English Lexicography" (1989), tracing them "to manuscript variants and…
Beidler, Peter G.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 28 (2006): 225-30.
Beidler proposes a refined taxonomy of terms to designate the relationships between a work and its sources (hard source, soft source, hard analogue, soft analogue, and lost source) and argues that--for lack of evidenc--criticism should dispense with…
Federico, Sylvia.
Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
Federico combines historicism and psychoanalysis to explore the "fascination with Troy" in late-medieval England as a "symbolic appropriation" and a means of establishing English identity. Examines the gendered representations of Troy in Gower's "Vox…
Leicester, H. Marshall, Jr.
ELH 61 (1994): 473-99.
With its richness subverting fabliau conventions, MilT glitters with multiple significations. Alison, the central figure, is both sexy and presexual, both Medusa and "bryd" (in multiple and homonymous senses). Unlike the traditional old cuckold,…
Mann, Jill.
Takami Matsuda, Richard A. Linenthal, and John Scahill, eds. The Medieval Book and a Modern Collector: Essays in Honour of Toshiyuki Takamiya (Cambridge: Brewer; Tokyo: Yushodo, 2004), pp. 61-70.
Mann identifies sources for Mel 7.1178-79, 1184, and 1186-88; and for ParsT 10.144, 261-63, 274, 331-32, 382-84, 630, 657, 694, and 822.
Cooke, Jessica.
Evelyn Mullally and John Thompson, eds. The Court and Cultural Diversity: Selected Papers from the Eighth Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society, The Queen's University of Belfast, 26 July-1 August 1995 (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N. Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1997), pp. 219-28.
Examines references to the ages of women in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," WBT, MerT, and Rom in an effort to understand how the ages of women were perceived.
Discusses the eremitical image of Chaucer promulgated by Shirley and Lydgate in the context of efforts to promote solitary, contemplative modes of life.
Haley, Gabriel Michael.
Dissertation Abstracts International A73.12 (2013): n.p.
Argues that the monastic ideal of "contemplative solitude" was an innovative resource in English literature between Richard Rolle and Robert Henryson. Maintains that Chaucer deployed it comically in HF and that, along with notions of Chaucer's…
Gleason, Mark J.
Medievalia et Humanistica 15 (1987): 161-87.
Treats the previously ignored commentary of Trevet on "The Consolation of Philosophy," which served Chaucer as the primary or sole commentary in his translation of Bo and which he drew for TC 3.
Gellrich, Jesse M.
English Language Notes 8 (1971): 248-52.
Argues that the "Kynges Noote" (MilT 1.3217) refers to "Gabriel from hevene came," a Middle English poem accompanied by a Latin version in one manuscript.
Friedman, John B.
Yearbook of English Studies 22 (1992): 162-80.
In MilT, Nicholas's character and action may allude to medieval tales about a diabolical angel-imposter associated parodically with the Annunciation. John's final humiliation may echo tales of Ham and his sexual humiliation of his father, Noah.
Boenig, Robert.
Robert Boenig and Kathleen Davis, eds. Manuscript, Narrative, Lexicon: Essays on Literary and Cultural Transmission in Honor of Whitney F. Bolton (Lewisburg, Penn: Bucknell University Press; and London: Associated University Presses, 2000), pp. 96-110.
Surveys medieval representations and understandings of the psaltery, a musical instrument, as background to reading its meanings in MilT. The psaltery clashes ironically with Nicholas's amorous escapades, and his playing it to accompany his singing…
