Contzen, Eva von, and James Simpson, eds
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2022.
Collects ten essays by various authors that discuss lists and listing as epistemological, rhetorical, and poetic devices, with an introduction by the editors (“Enlistment as Poetic Stratagem”), and a comprehensive index. For four essays that…
Argues that medieval lists or catalogues point both to the necessary and to the excessive, and in doing so emphasize differing views of appropriate ownership and use of material goods. Includes brief mention of lists in HF and Form Age.
Focuses on ways Chaucer's successors employed lists in dream visions, and refers to HF, BD, PF, LGW, KnT, and GP. Argues that by employing different listing techniques, medieval authors used lists as a way of legitimizing themselves as authors.
Luttrell, Anthony.
Julia Bolton Holloway, Constance S. Wright, and Joan Bechtold, eds. Equally in God's Image: Women in the Middle Ages (New York: Peter Lang, 1990), pp. 184-97.
Refers briefly to the Wife of Bath while discussing a document about a female English pilgrim, Isolde Parewastell, who journeyed to Jerusalem from England and who requested that the pope grant her the right to a chantry in England because of her…
Vos, Stacie N.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of California San Diego, 2021. Available at https://escholarship.org/uc /item/1198r95j (accessed May 23, 2024).
Studies how "the Virgin Mary and her followers, especially women living the enclosed life . . . occupied a central role in the development of the early English book," discussing works ranging from LGW, WBPT, and Mel to Richard Tottel's" Songes and…
Presents the 68 Sanctorale sermons, based on British Library Additional 40672 in collation with 25 other manuscripts, with modern punctuation and capitalization, as the second of four volumes on the 294 English Wycliffite sermons.
Chaucer's own verses are interpreted, as are fourteenth-century pre-Chaucerian romances, according to two syllabic variants "pre-Chaucerian," in which the final -"e" is counted, and "Chaucerian," in which the final -"e" is counted only when required…
Phillips, Noëlle H.
In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017. Relocated 2025 at https://opencanterburytales.lsusites.org/
Describes the events and social impact of major historical events in fourteenth-century England: war with France, Black Death, the Uprising of 1381, Wycliffite reform, and their interrelations. Designed for classroom use.
Perez Lorido, Rodrigo.
Luis A. Lazaro Lafuente, Jose Simon, and Ricardo J. Sola Buil,eds. Medieval Studies: Proceedings of the IIIrd International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (Madrid: Universidad de Alcala de Henares, 1996), pp. 247-59.
Though not a practicing musician, Chaucer had a better-than-average knowledge of late-fourteenth-century French monodic and English polyphonic music. This knowledge is evident in his specific and accurate use of musical terminology.
Studies the history of English meter from Chaucer to Wyatt, considering scansion, rhythm, pronunciation, and syllabification, assessing Chaucer's uses of tetrameter and pentameter, and the practices of Lydgate, Hoccleve, and Wyatt. Focuses on the…
Describes the forms, styles, goals, and reception of late-medieval English sermons and sermon collections. Examines attendance at sermons; allegorical and literal aspects of sermons; and relations between sermons and literacy, eduction, and…
Reprints twenty-two of Burrow's essays on fourteenth- and fifteenth-century poetry, including several on Chaucer. Individual essays retain their original pagination.
Praises Chaucer (pp. 17-31) as the first poet in English to be "read for pleasure" because he "invented in English the pleasant habit of writing for the sake of writing." Commends Chaucer's innovative uses of French and Italian models and the "wealth…
An anthology in two parts: 1) seventy-six examples of English verse "reflections" on the nature and features of poetry; 2) 318 examples of "English poets' responses" to other English poets. Includes notes and indexes. The Chaucer section of part 2…
Imahayashi, Osamu, and Hiroji Fukumoto, eds.
Hiroshima: Keisuisha, 2004.
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat, where the summary of contents includes reference, without page numbers, to two essays that pertain to Chaucer: "Chaucer's 'Semely' and Its Related Words from an Optical Point of View," by Yoshiyuki Nakao, and…
Treats the nature of romance; the evolution of European romance; English romance; the "matters" of England, France, Rome, and Britain; derivatives; the diffusion of the genre; and "The Tale of Gamelyn."
Schlauch, Margaret.
New York: Cooper Square, 1971. Originally published in Warsaw: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1956.
Surveys the literatures of medieval England, with emphasis on origins, multilingualism, feudalism, developmental transitions, dominant themes, and social, political, and religious contexts. Includes chapters on the contemporaries of Chaucer,…
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,…
Literary history of England, from Caedmon to Malory, divided into seven chapters, although nearly half of the volume attends to Chaucer and his works. Chapter 4 (pp. 70-213) surveys Chaucer's early life and influences, the "early poems," TC, and CT,…
Surveys fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English and Middle Scots literature (excluding drama), with individual chapters dedicated to Chaucer, Gower, Langland, the Gawain poet, Lydgate and Hoccleve, the lyric, Middle Scots (James I, Robert Holland,…
Griffith, Benjamin W.
Hauppauge, N. Y.: Barron's Educational, 1991.
This study guide includes brief summary descriptions of works from "Beowulf" to Beckett; Includes a list of Chaucer's works and sentence-long summaries of seven of the "key" CT (pp. 14-15).
