Crider, Richard.
American Notes and Queries 18 (1979): 18-19.
Chauntecleer's citation of Daniel (NPT 7.3128-29), frequently taken to refer to Daniel 7, more pertinently refers to Daniel 4 where Nebuchadnezzar relates a dream similar to Chauntecleer's and to the dreams Chauntecleer cites. This dream and its…
Koretsky, Allen C.
Derek Cohen and Deborah Heller, eds. Jewish Presences in English Literature (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990), pp. 10-24.
Chaucer uses the anti-Semitism of PrT to depict pernicous innocence.
Lankewish, Vincent A.
Victorian Poetry 60 (2022): 35-164; 10 b&w illus.
Introduces the activities and concerns of a Victorian "salon" conducted by John Ruskin and Edward Burne-Jones in which young women could "engage in serious conversations about medieval poetry, about art, and about humanitarianism and virtue." Focuses…
Provides historical evidence that females practiced medicine in medieval Europe, identifying several examples of their experience and tribulations, and presenting them as background to Chaucer's "Trotula" (WBP 3.677).
Kauffman, Corrine E.
Chaucer Review 4.1 (1969): 41-48.
Uses late-medieval and Renaissance herbals to show that the ingredients for a remedy that Pertelote recommends to Chanticleer in NPT are all "quite wrong for her patient" and his condition: some unavailable, some inappropriate, and some deadly. The…
Shapiro, Gloria K.
Chaucer Review 6 (1971): 130-41.
Explores "important tensions" in the characterization of the Wife of Bath, interpreting the "larger subject" of WBT as the "grace of God," even though it concludes with the Wife's "irreligious" final curse. In WBP, her "masking is predictable…
The idea that virtue is perfect only when it is enjoyable is corrected in WBT with the discourse on gentilesse. The three main concepts regarding pleasure discussed in WBT are the equation of pleasure with perfection, the coexistence of pleasure and…
Cady, Diane.
The Gender of Money in Middle English Literature: Value and Economy in Late Medieval England (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), pp. 125-60.
Explores how medieval travel writers "imagine storytelling and merchandising as analogous enterprises," how they intersect with "gender ideology" wherein "texts are imagined as both feminine corpora and feminized commodities," and how the Man of…
Cady, Diane.
New Medieval Literatures 17 (2017): 115-49.
Explores medieval analogies between "storytelling and merchandizing" and how both relate to gender in MLT, clarifying connections between the travel narrative, its rhetoric, and the poverty prologue, and commenting on source and analogue relations.…
Jacobus, Lee A.
Kristin Pruitt McColgan and Charles W. Durham, eds. Arenas of Conflict: Milton and the Unfettered Mind. (Selinsgrove, Penn.: Susquehanna University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1997), pp. 261-70.
Compares Milton's portrayal of Dalila in "Samson Agonistes" with earlier representations by Boccaccio, Chaucer, Lydgate, and Swetnam. Chaucer offers no analysis of her motives; Milton condemns her actions, not her gender.
Mann, Nicholas.
Convegno Internazionale Francesco Petrarca: Roma-Arezzo-Padova-Arquà Petrarca, 24-27 Aprile 1974. Atti dei Convegni Lince, no. 10 (Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1976), pp. 59-69.
Includes very brief mention of Chaucer's uses Petratrch in TC, ClT, and CYT.
Ebi, Hisato.
Hiroe Futamura, Kenichi Akishino, and Hisato Ebi, eds. A Pilgrimage Through Medieval Literature (Tokyo: Nan' Un-Do Press, 1993), pp. 371-82.
Compares the symbolism of Chaucer's poetry with that of the Wilton Diptych, focusing on the iconic meaning of the daisy.
Forgeng, Jeffrey L., and Will McLean.
Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 2009.
Updates and expands the first edition (1995), adding "primary source sidebars in all chapters" and a guide to digital resources. This social history of late medieval England has as its goal the creative re-creation of the period, providing a…
Introduces Dafydd ap Gwilym as a contemporary of Chaucer, but provides no comparative analysis. Describes Dafydd's works and reception, and includes French translations of three of his poems.
Boitani, Piero.
Rassegna Europea di Letteratura Italiana 18 (2001): 29-39
Traces the knowledge and recognition of Boccaccio in English literary tradition from his obscured status as "Lollius" in Chaucer's TC to clearer acknowledgment in Lydgate and Dryden.
Bonazzi, Nicola.
Heliotropia: Forum for Boccaccio Research and Interpretation 11 (2014): 181-97.
Traces the development of the relations between illusion and courtliness from Boccaccio to James Lasdun's story in the "The Siege," including a discussion of FranT that focuses on the "demande d'amour" that concludes the Tale.
Giaccherini, Enrico.
Studi in Ricordo di Giacomo Bona. Annali della Facolt di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Universit della Basilicata. (Potenza: Universit della Basilicata, 1999), pp. 131-50.
RvT and ShT are related to Boccaccio's Decameron 9.6 and 8.1, respectively, not so much thematically as in their uses of source material. In particular, in its balance of comedy and moral teaching, ShT is closer to the general features of the…
Kowalik, Barbara.
Rafal Boryslawski, Anna Czarnowus, and Lukasz Neubauer, eds. Marvels of Reading: Essays in Honour of Professor Andrzej Wicher (Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Slaskiego, 2015), pp. 159–74.
Discusses the idea of the marvelous in the "Gawain"-poet's Arthurian romance and in FranT. Argues that the marvels in FranT are indispensable to the genre, producing the effect described by J. R. R. Tolkien as "eucatastrophe."
Stockton reads the Pardoner as a "cynic" in a Marxist context: one who "submit[s] fully to an ideological structure despite knowing better." Contrasts the Pardoner's queerness with his cynicism, asking,"how queer can the Pardoner be when he guards an…
Personal chronicle of problems in dealing with technology in teaching, including inadequate facilities, poor student preparation, and time-consuming searching and class preparation. Includes two appendices: a "Labyrinth" assignment and student…
Drawing on the superflat movement in Japanese contemporary art, argues that cuteness in Th effects a compression of the text's narrative layers and semiotic networks. Mirroring the horizontal, non-linear organization of the poem's layout in medieval…
Davis, Isabel.
Katie L. Walter, ed. Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 99-118.
Considers "the special use that medieval writers made of skin as a metaphor for time," focusing on the "structural patterns" of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and WBP--"suspension, cessation, and repetition"--and how these patterns "imitate the…
Dawson, Robert B.
Chaucer Review 26 (1992): 293-308.
Rather than a pious and sympathetic character, Custance is an egocentric, self-serving individual who depicts herself as a saintly victim. Thus, she is linked to her creator, the Man of Law, whose language is both deceptive and complex.
