Roe, Charles Henry.
Ph.D. dissertation (University of Leeds, 2021), Dissertation Abstracts International C83.08(E). [vii], 299 pp. Freely accessible at https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/29392/ (accessed February 1, 2025).
Examines Gower's and Chaucer's uses of the conventions of "dits amoureux" and their composition of "religious pastoralia," especially in the "Confessio Amantis" and CT, respectively, where Gower integrates "his satirical and devotional writings,…
Parsons-Powell, Michelle E.
Ph.D. dissertation (Purdue University, 2022), Dissertation Abstracts International A85.01(E). Freely accessible at https://hammer.purdue.edu/articles/thesis/Unwiht_Shifting_Boundaries_of_Humnity_in_Early_Middle_English_Language_and_Literature/20399121 (accessed February 1, 2025).
Investigates the concept and diction of the "non-human person" in a range of early English texts from "Beowulf" to CT, tabulating and assessing the usage of various locutions for humans and near-humans. Includes attention to elves, fairies, giants,…
Nakley, Susan.
Matthew Stratton, ed. The Routledge Companion to Politics and Literature in English (London: Routledge, 2023), pp. 172-82.
Explores how "blame" links politics and literature in late medieval England, arguing that CT (especially MilP and Ret) "democratizes narrative authority and erodes authorial intention by redistributing doubt and confidence through blame," thereby…
Asks "[w]hat kind of stories could let . . . refugees be admitted to the category 'Australian,' in a more inclusive version of [the] actual and potential inhabitants" of the nation? Explores how and to what extent CT might be a useful model for…
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this volume, concerned with unfinished literature, includes discussion of CT, along with Virgil's "Aeneid," Nikolai Gogol's "Dead Souls," Robert Musil's "Man without a Soul," and other works. In Swedish.
Kline, Daniel T.
Helen Brookman and Olivia Robinson, eds. Creating Playful First Encounters with the Pre-Modern Past (Leeds: Arc Humanities, 2023), pp. 23-39.
Describes a pedagogy for using role-playing exercises in teaching CT in advanced undergraduate and early graduate classes. Comments on theories of "play and game," including notions of role-playing games, and explains a nested set of assignments and…
Ingham, Patricia Clare.
Roberta L. Krueger, ed. The New Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. 211-27.
Argues that, in select romances, Chaucer confronts "serious matters"--political, social, ethical, and aesthetic--and experiments with the range and flexibility of the genre, comparing KnT and WBT as metacritical romances that interrogate their own…
Workbook for early readers of English, including retellings in modern English of GP, KnT, ClT, MerT, FranT, and PardT accompanied by pedagogical materials on Chaucer, his works, and contemporary society. Audiodisk includes readings from the tales.
Cowdery, Taylor.
Taylor Cowdery. Matter and Making in Early English Poetry: Literary Production from Chaucer to Sidney (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. 15-51.
Examines Chaucer's various engagements with the commonplace notion that "wordes moote be cosyn to the dede" (GP, 742), focusing on CT, which initially presents literature as unconstrained by norms, and later counters this flexibility to show that…
Bude, Tekla.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 45 (2023): 73-103.
Shows that "actuarial forms of thinking" underlie the CT, particularly the tale-telling contest, the opening and closing of the GP, sea-trade and risk in the GP descriptions of the Merchant and the Shipman, and associative links nbetween mercantilism…
Waldman, Peter.
Ph.D. dissertation (Florida State University, 2023), Dissertation Abstracts International A85.03(E). Fully accessible at https://repository.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:927778 (accessed February 2, 2025).
Explores confession and intention ("entente") in selected works of Chaucer: TC, LGWP, FrT, PardT, ParsT, and Ret, reading them as a "progression" that "resembles the evolution of penitential concepts across the whole of the medieval period." Assesses…
Collects ten essays by various authors on topics in mystical and devotional texts in Middle English, with an introduction by Amy N. Vines, a list of publications by Denise N. Baker, and a comprehensive index. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer,…
Staley, Lynn.
Amy N. Vines and Lee Templeton, eds. New Directions in Medieval Mystical and Devotional Literature: Essays in Honor of Denise N. Baker (Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University Press, 2023), pp. 183-202
Suggests John of Gaunt commissioned BD to elegize Blanche of Lancaster and to claim a "new future," a move inspired by Edward I's memorialization of Eleanor of Castile. An "important commission for Chaucer," BD gave him "opportunity to begin to…
Craun, Edwin.
Amy N. Vines and Lee Templeton, eds. New Directions in Medieval Mystical and Devotional Literature: Essays in Honor of Denise N. Baker (Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University Press, 2023), pp. 55-72.
Shows that aspects of the late medieval "pastoral program" of obligating "all Christians to admonish their neighbors about their sins" underlies the Reeve's reproval of the Miller and the Canon's Yeoman's of the Canon. In these cases, distortions of…
Hurley, Gina Marie.
Amy N. Vines and Lee Templeton, eds. New Directions in Medieval Mystical and Devotional Literature: Essays in Honor of Denise N. Baker (Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University Press, 2023), pp. 163-82.
Identifies the limited "temporal scale" in SNT, arguing that its closing lines (550–53) "leap . . . into eternity" and "create the impression of the endurance of Cecilia's church, a miracle not unlike that of her prolonged life." Contrasts…
Vaccaro, Christopher, ed.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022.
Twelve essays by various authors, covering religious, courtly, and secular texts and contexts, with an introduction by the editor and a comprehensive index. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Painful Pleasures: Sadomasochism in…
Francis, Kersti.
Christopher Vaccaro, ed. Painful Pleasures: Sadomasochism in Medieval Cultures (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022), pp. 292-324; 6 b&w illus.
Assesses "iterations of sadomasochistic historophilia"--a term coined term here--in Chaucer's "use of Trojan and Theban history" in TC, examining the "role of Statius's "Thebaid," the place of Criseyde's collar-like Theban brooch, and the narrator's…
Raskolnikov, Masha.
Christopher Vaccaro, ed. Painful Pleasures: Sadomasochism in Medieval Cultures (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022), pp. 235-66.
Investigates queer consolation in ClT, exploring interconnections among consent, Griselda's masochistic suffering, Walter's sadistic testing and desire to know, their "power exchange" (a concept drawn from BDSM), the gameful earnestness of "happiness…
Shapiro, Aaron Herschel.
Ph.D. dissertation (Middle Tennessee State University, 2023). Dissertation Abstracts International A85.06(E). Fully accessible at https://jewlscholar.mtsu.edu/items/1a770bf2-20f3-4ebb-b53a-952d55b25a52 (accessed February 2, 2025).
Traces the development of a "salvific but antisemitic fantasy of Judaization" in western aesthetics from St. Paul to modern writers, and identifies an "alternate mode of modern poetics based in the Jewish philosophy of language and in the practice of…
Sarmiento Hinojosa, Bernardo D.
Ph.D. dissertation (University of California, Berkeley, 2022), Dissertation Abstracts International 86.03(E). Abstract available at https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8qk5p6x6 (accessed February 1, 2025).
Examines "experimentalist modes of inquiry in Middle English literature and natural philosophy," including discussions of HF, LGWP, and other texts for the ways they "stage mental experiments that show how the material world might be perceived and…
Rudman, Charlotte.
Ph.D. dissertation (King's College London, 2022), Dissertation Abstracts International 84.10. Abstract available at https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en
/studentTheses/listening-to-dreams (accessed February 1, 2025).
Argues "that Chaucer developed his own theory of sound in his dream vision poetry." His theory--that sound travels and transforms rather than dissipates--was adapted from his scientific learning," particularly Boethius's "De institutione musica."…
Rozenski, Steven, Joshua Byron Smith, and Claire M. Waters, eds.
Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. \
Fifteen essays by various authors on topics related to medieval mysticism, art, literature, and their later reception and influence, with an introduction by the editors and an account of Newman's publications by Jeffrey E. Singerman. For two essays…
Breen, Katharine.
Steven Rozenski, Joshua Byron Smith, and Claire M. Waters, eds. Mystics, Goddesses, Lovers, and Teachers: Medieval Visions and Their Modern Legacies. Studies in Honour of Barbara Newman (Turnhout: Brepols, 2023), pp. 239-65.
Treats Fame's dual nature as goddess and personification in Hesiod, Aeschines, Virgil, and HF. While Chaucer's character echoes the duality of its predecessors, she is not a goddess--"never characterized as a bride or daughter of the Christian…
Berry, Craig A.
Steven Rozenski, Joshua Byron Smith, and Claire M. Waters, eds. Mystics, Goddesses, Lovers, and Teachers: Medieval Visions and Their Modern Legacies. Studies in Honour of Barbara Newman (Turnhout: Brepols, 2023), pp. 261-76.
Reviews critical approaches to Ret, reading it as both confessional and aesthetic, comparing its duality with those in Purse and the ending of TC, and exploring resonances with ParsT. Assesses Ret as a recantatory formulation that asks its…
Roders, Dana M.
Ph.D. dissertation (Purdue University, 2023), Dissertation Abstracts International A84.12(E). Partially accessible at https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI30501530/ (accessed February 1, 2025).
Investigates "how medieval authors implement impaired bodies in service of spiritual exploration," addressing depictions of impaired bodies generally excluded from disability studies, such as "personified sins, aging bodies, and martyrs' bodies."…
