Warren, Nancy Bradley.
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2019.
Traces a history of Chaucer reception in the context of Christian controversies by "situating Chaucer and the Chaucerian tradition in an international environment of religious controversy spanning four centuries." Emphasizes how Chaucer "engaged with…
Considers ways that female monastic readers in Amesbury and Syon may have read and used works by Chaucer, Thomas Hoccleve, and John Lydgate. Claims that these "Chaucerian tradition" writings helped influence the devotional culture of female monastic…
Focuses on how Chaucer influenced the writings of Cotton Mather, Anne Bradstreet, and Nathaniel Ward in seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century New England.
Warren, Nancy Bradley.
Paul Strohm, ed. Middle English (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 369-85.
The "transubstantiation" of the word being made flesh underlies the autobiographical impulse in Julian of Norwich's "Showings," Langland's "Piers Plowman," and Chaucer's HF. Warren also comments on Chaucer's Ret as autobiography.
Warren, Nancy Bradley.
Carolyn P. Collette, ed. The Legend of Good Women: Context and Reception (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006), pp. 83-104.
The "Amazonian" associations - legendary and figurative - of the women in LGW and KnT align the two narratives and suggest that the passive or intercessory roles of royal women in Chaucer's society entailed the "absent presence" of threat to that…
Warren, Michelle R.
Literature Compass 15, no. 6 (2018): n.p.
Explores interrelations among world literature studies, comparative literature studies, textbook marketing, translations of Chaucer's works into various languages, Ngugı wa Thiong'o’s concept of "globalectics," and the essays accompanying Warren's…
Warren, Michelle R.
postmedieval 6.1 (2015): 79–93.
Reviews references to how Chaucer is represented and appropriated in Anglophone Caribbean literature and critical essays. Includes example of "fictional allusion" to CT in Jean Rhys's "Again the Antilles."
Warren, Michelle R.
Paul Strohm, ed. Middle English (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 51-67.
Warren challenges the notion that translations are worth less than their "originals," arguing that each work is a particular cultural manifestation. She treats Chaucer as the "text-book case of an 'author-translator'" (in contrast with Henry…
Warren, Michael J.
Michael J. Warren. Birds in Medieval English Poetry: Metaphors, Realities, Transformations (Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 179-218.
Argues that PF--a poem {about which voices do and do not count"--"magines the potential for translatability between species." Engages scholastic discussions about the nature of "vox," and raises questions about phonetic and semantic translation,…
Warren, Michael J.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 38 (2016): 109-32.
Explores the bird-talk and "interspecies communication" in PF as they dramatize the potentials and limitations of allegory, translation, "biotranslation," the "writeability" of bird sounds, and the relations between human and nonhuman subjectivities.…
Reproduces in black and white the London National Portrait Gallery panel portrait of Chaucer (p. 2), preceded by a brief comment on Chaucer's life, with reference to William Dunbar's praise of him, mention of the TC frontispiece portrait (Cambridge,…
Warner, Lawrence.
Yearbook of Langland Studies 32 (2018): 353-74.
Reviews critical studies that offer, accept, or defend arguments that Chaucer knew and was influenced by William Langland's "Piers Plowman," challenging them on the grounds of weak logic, uncertain assumptions, lack of evidence, and/or the…
Warner, Lawrence.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Pushes back on assumptions that have been made about Adam Pinkhurst and homes in on narratives constructed by scholars such as Linne Mooney. By analyzing idiomatic and vernacular trends, responds to the cult of Pinkhurst as "Chaucer's Scribe" by…
Warner, Lawrence.
Andrew Cole and Andrew Galloway, eds. The Cambridge Companion to "Piers Plowman" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. 198-213.
Contends that Chaucer's portrait of the Plowman in GP and "The Plowman's Tale" contribute to an understanding of how late medieval plowman traditions influenced early modern writings.
Warner, Lawrence.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Surveys the "Langland archive" to address the history of the production and reception of "Piers Plowman."The "Conclusion" (pp. 129-40) reveals early eighteenth-century textual scholarship that attributes "Piers Plowman" to Chaucer.
Warner, Lawrence.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 37 (2015): 55-100.
Critiques the methods and conclusions of various analyses of late medieval English vernacular scribes, challenging the arguments that British Library, MS Royal 17 D.XVIII is Thomas Hoccleve's holograph; that Adam Pinkhurst was "Scribe B" of…
Addresses the "existence of a tradition that attributes 'Piers Plowman' to Chaucer." Surveys notes and items that contribute to Chaucer's and Langland's "reception histories."
Warner, Lawrence.
Laura L. Howes, ed. Place, Space, and Landscape in Medieval Narrative (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007), pp. 43-59.
Warner examines affiliations of the London Church of St. Thomas of Acre with mercantile interests that, in turn, help to clarify features of MLT, including its concerns with merchants, with the Crusades, and with legal discourse. MLT also explores…
Warner, Lawrence.
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1997): 862A.
In medieval literature, the sins of Cain and Nimrod acquired sexual overtones associated with wandering. Warner assesses in this light the "Alliterative Morte Arthure," Dante, Abelard, Langland and NPT.
Ward, Renée.
Studies in Medievalism 26 (2017): 87-116..
Examines two poems on the figure of Griselda by Eleanora Louisa Hervey (1811–1903). The first, published in 1850, and apparently intended for children as well as adults, emphasizes the cruelty of the system that enables husbands to exercise total…
Ward, Matthew.
Journal of Medieval History 46 (2020): 133-55.
Outlines "the significance of blue in the medieval period," and "examines this connection between colour and virtue in literature, heraldic treatises and works of art,” including brief comments on blue and female fidelity in SqT and Wom Unc.
Ward, Jessica D.
Dissertation Abstracts International A80.01 (2019): n.p.
Addresses the "challenge posed to Christian ethics due to the proliferation of urban markets and increased personal wealth in medieval England," examining various
aspects of avarice in "Piers Plowman"; John Gower's "Confessio Amantis"; and CT,…
