Ironic readings of the GP portrait of the Knight are undermined by an understanding of the medieval ideals of "honor," "prudence," and "moral goodness" and by recognition of their signs in the Knight's portrait. An understanding of the medieval…
Mitchell, Charles.
Modern Language Quarterly 25 (1964): 66-75.
Focuses on the characterization of the Knight in GP, cast into relief by the Squire and Prioress, especially in the application of words such as "curteys" and "worthy." Distinguishes between moral virtue and professional efficiency throughout the GP,…
Berman, Constance H., Charles W. Connell, and Judith Rice Rothschild, eds.
Morgantown: West Virginia Unviersity Press, 1985.
Twelve essays on Hrotsvita, the Skaldkonur, Heloise, Mechthild von Magdeburg, Margery Kempe, Marie de France, and others, including two essays on Chaucer. For the two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Worlds of Medieval Women under…
Brooks, Polly Schoyer, and Nancy Zinsser Walworth.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1966.
Social history of western medieval Europe from the "Barbarian Invasions" to "The Last of the Middle Ages," presented for young adults. The final section of the book (pp. 221-46) focuses on Chaucer, imaginatively reconstructing his daily life and…
Rissanen, Matti.
Journal of English Linguistics 28: 7-20, 2000.
Surveys electronic databases for the historical study of English; includes a one-page summary of Old and Middle English corpora, including those with Chaucer texts, accompanied by web addresses.
Gardham, Julie, comp., and David Weston, introd.
Glasgow: Glasgow University Library, 2004.
Brief discussion of six Chaucerian books and twenty-five related works, with a highly selective bibliography. For an expanded version, see http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/chaucer/index.html (May 19, 2005).
Vial, Claire.
Muriel Cunin and Martine Yvernault, eds. Monde(s) en movement. Mutations et innovations en Europe à la fin du Moyen Age et au début de la Renaissance (Limoges: Presses Universitaires de Limoges, 2012), pp. 51-63.
Contains references to the expression of time and mutability in Chaucer.
Traces the theme of the decline of the world in biblical and medieval tradition, examining three literary texts: Bernard of Cluny's "De Contemptus Mundi," John Gower's "Confessio Amantis," and ClT, where the virtues of "steadfastness and patience"…
Dean, James M.
Cambridge, Mass.: Medieval Academy, 1997.
Surveys the "senectus mundi" topos in late-medieval literature, particularly in Latin, French, and English literature, from Jean de Meun to Chaucer. Separate chapters address the topos, Middle English historical writing, Jean de Meun, Dante, "Piers…
In Form Age, as in medieval tradition, Nimrod represents the final stages of decline, especially the lust for political dominance, in the world after Adam's Fall.
Josipovici, Gabriel.
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1971.
Studies modernism in English and French literature from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, focusing on narrative fiction and critical perception and misperceptions of what constitutes modernism. Includes a chapter (pp. 52-99) entitled…
Medcalf, Stephen.
A. J. Minnis, Charlotte C. Morse, and Thorlac Turville-Petre, eds. Essays on Ricardian Literature: In Honour of J. A. Burrow (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997), pp. 222-51.
Summarizes Usk's life and career. While assessing the fusion of various levels of meaning in "The Testament of Love," Medcalf observes what Usk borrows from Chaucer (HF and TC) and Langland, as well as from Boethius and Anselm.
Facsimile edition of William Thynne's 1532 edition of Chaucer's "Works," accompanied by selected additional facsimile materials from the editions that followed (by John Stow and Thomas Speght), including apocryphal materials, hard-word lists,…
Reimer, Stephen R., ed.
Toronto : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1987.
Includes a translation of the hymn "Alma Redemptoris Mater," which in the manuscript is accompanied by a note referring to the miracle Chaucer retold in PrT.
Robinson, F. N., ed.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin; London: Oxford University Press, 1957.
Edits the complete works of Chaucer from various manuscripts, with end-of-volume explanatory notes, textual notes, and glossary. A general Introduction summarizes Chaucer's life, the canon and chronology of his works, his language and meter, and the…
Winterich, John T., intro.
Cleveland and New York: World Publishing, 1958.
A facsimile reprint of the 1896 Kelmscott Chaucer, with Winterich's Introduction that summarizes the lives of Chaucer and of William Morris, the production of the original book, and its place in the history of Kelmscott publications. Includes a…
Boffey, Julia,and A. S. G. Edwards, introd., with an appendix by B. C. Barker-Benfield.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997.
Includes TC, Truth, Mars, Ven, PF, LGW, several pieces of Chaucerian apochrypha, and works by Lydgate, Hoccleve, James I, and anonymous authors (twenty-five works total). Eight color plates complement the sepia-tone facsimile, photographed in 1994…
Allen, David G., and Robert A. White, eds.
London and Toronto: University of Delaware Press; Newark: Associated University Presses, 1992.
Nineteen essays on the continuities and discontinuities of medieval and Renaissance literature. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Work of Dissimilitude under Alternative Title.
Knapp, Peggy A.
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 30: 575-99, 2000.
In presenting "werk," "multiplie," and "privitee" as pivotal words and concepts, CYT differs from Jonson's "The Alchemist." Yet both works demonstrate links between material transformation and the early history of capitalism.
Knapp, Peggy (A.)
David Raybin and Linda Tarte Holley, eds. Closure in The Canterbury Tales: The Role of The Parson's Tale (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2000), pp. 95-113.
Analyzes uses of "glose," "lewed," "estat," and "fre" to clarify the relation of the Parson and ParsT to Lollardy. Lollard diction is more prevalent in the GP description of the Parson and in ParsP than in ParsT, perhaps neutralizing the…
Tani, Akinobu.
John Ole Askedal, Ian Roberts, and Tomonori Matsushita, eds. Noam Chomsky and Language Descriptions (Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2010), pp. 149-68.
Tani examines the word pairs or doublets in Fragment A of CT and those in Chaucer's prose texts. The pairs are used for rhyme and for generic and stylistic differentiation among verse texts.
Jones, Sarah Rees.
Valerie Allen and Ruth Evans, eds. Roadworks: Medieval Britain, Medieval Roads (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), pp. 97-126.
Explores the "design and regulation of real streets" in late medieval Britain, and "streets as symbolic of capital" in contemporaneous literature, art, and architecture. Includes comments on windows and doors in TC.
"Checklaton" (jacket fabric) is recorded only in Chaucer's Thopas, Spenser's "Faerie Queene," and "A Vewe of the Present State of Ireland"--an indication that Spenser wrote the latter.
