Bohne, Amanda Marie.
Dissertation Abstracts International A81.05 (2019): n.p.
Chapter 2 discusses the Wife of Bath's "unique approach to her fourth husband's death as she balances her postmortem responsibilities to him with her immediate remarriage,' acting with "concern" while also "tending to her own wishes."
Argues MLT does not ultimately offer (English) land and (Christian) civilization as images of stability or "legal fixity" but the sea and Constance's paleness as images of an "exemplary fluidity," emphasizing that the tale is about "global ethics"…
Concentrates on the depiction of the Near East in MLT and other contemporary analogues, developing a "“comparative methodology for analyzing representations of the Near East that focuses on their adaptation of earlier (Anglo-)French sources and…
Sottosanti, Danielle Lisa.
Dissertation Abstracts International A80.11 (2019): n.p.
Includes discussion of feigned conversion and the Sultaness in MLT, arguing that she "represents insecurity over the status of religious converts" rather than being merely villainous.
Sottosanti, Danielle.
Studies in Philology 172 (2020): 240-60.
Focuses on the Sultaness in MLT and argues that the text explores the ramifications of forced conversion and feigned baptism, along with larger issues of deception and truth.
Smith, Kathleen.
Jay Paul Gates and Brian O’Camb, eds. Remembering the Medieval Present: Generative Uses of England's re-Conquest Past, 10th to 15th Centuries (Leiden: Brill, 2019), pp. 195-214.
Argues that the rhetorical interjections and repetitions in MLT, read in the context of Trevet's and Gower's versions of the Constance story as "an origin point of English identity," focus attention on questions of myth, literary belief, and…
Discusses the wives of CT, and, in particular, Constance in MLT, suggesting that "unruly" wives are generally English and that virtuous ones are continental. Traces how Chaucer's use of these good wives offers space for him to rethink England, the…
Santos, Spenser.
Dissertation Abstracts International A81.03 (2019): n.p.
Uses medieval and modern translation theories to consider Old and Middle English narratives about the origins of English Christianity; includes discussion of MLT and its "unveiling of the hidden inclination toward Christianity among the people of…
Rajendran, Shyama.
Richard H. Godden and Asa Simon Mittman, eds. Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World ([London]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), pp. 127-43.
Intersectional analysis discloses that MLT, John Gower's Tale of Constance, and "The King of Tars" cast out "non-Christian bodies from the possibilities of reproductive futurism" and "offer visions of Christian imperialist futures enacted and made…
Lecky, Kat.
Megan Moore, ed. Gender in the Premodern Mediterranean (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, 2019), pp. 203-33.
Traces from Chaucer (MLT) to Shakespeare ("Othello") to Milton ("Samson Agonistes") a "literary tradition that seeks to understand England's place on [the] international stage." Identifies the economic/political models that underlie Custance's two…
Honda, Takahiro.
Research Reports, National Institute of Technology, Fukushima College 61 (2020): 161-68.
Analyzes the concepts of mutability and instability in MLT, arguing that Chaucer constantly approaches these concepts in relation to worldly authorities, and that this implies lessons for such authorities. In Japanese, with English abstract.
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…
Paravano, Cristina.
Francesca Orestano and Michael Vickers, eds. Not Just Porridge: English Literati at Table (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2017), pp. 1-11; 4 illus
Assesses the characterization and culinary skills of the Cook, commenting on details of GP, CkP, and ManP, and commending his variety of cooking techniques. Includes recipes for "Chicken with the Marrowbones" and "Mortreux" (GP, 380, 384).
Flannery, Mary C.
Yearbook of Langland Studies 33 (2019): 231-38.
Argues that "emphasis on sound and voice" rather than visual detail characterizes "Langlandian" personifications, opening with commentary on these qualities as they are found in verse interpolations in the "unique version" of CkT "preserved in…
Thomas, Arvind.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer SAC 42 (2020): 27-72.
Identifies parallels between the legal maxims of RvPT and the commentaries of medieval canon and civil law, including ones by Giovanni da Legnano (cited in ClT, 34) and a pair of canonists named (in Latin) Aleyn and John. Focuses on laws that pertain…
Yıldız, Nazan.
[Yildiz, Nazan]
Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi/Selçuk University Journal of Faculty of Letters 41 (2019): 127-42.
Explores the rebelliousness and animal imagery associated with the GP Miller and Symkyn of RvT, the in-between social status of medieval millers, and depictions of millers in accounts of the Revolt of 1381, arguing that medieval millers were depicted…
Whitaker, Cord J.
Black Metaphors: How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-Thinking (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), pp. 68-88.
Explores relations among rhetorical and philosophical principles of contrariety, Alison's "freedom from consequences" in the plot of MilT, blackness and whiteness in physiognomy, and the black and white imagery in the description of Alisoun's…
Walls, Kathryn.
Notes and Queries 264 (2019): 28-30.
Identifies a pun on "cul," meaning "the rump; a buttock," and the four uses of "kultour" in MilT, connecting it with the analogous "Bèrenger au lonc cul."
Sydorenko, Sergiy.
Babel: Revue internationale de la traduction/International Journal of Translation 65, no. 2 (2019): 200-221.
Reviews translations of MilT from the eighteenth century forward, and offers a "translatological analysis" of four twentieth-and twenty-first-century versions, focusing on the sexual attitudes and activities in the plot and on the lexicons used by…
Schrock, Chad.
Modern Language Review 114 (2019): 643-61.
Examines biblical images, allusions, themes, and narrative patterns in MilPT, exploring various ways that the Miller and Nicholas appropriate the Bible's "authority for personal rhetorical ends." Chaucer's providence-like control of his material is…
Wu, Yuching.
Dissertation Abstracts International A80.07 (2019): n.p.
Aligns happy endings with the "rhetoric of bliss" in Middle English romances and includes discussion of jealousy as the crux of KnT, arguing that the "happy closure" of the narrative can only come about when the jealousy between Palamon and Arcite is…
Montroso, Alan S.
Dissertation Abstracts International 80 (2019)
Studies caves in medieval literature as "agential bodies" that challenge "us to reconsider the stories of the women, monsters and marginalized beings who are made to inhabit subterranean spaces" Includes discussion of Emelye's address to Diana as…
Knoetze, Retha.
English Academy Review 34, no. 1 (2017): 85-98.
Assesses KnT in light of conventions of the romance genre and Boccaccio's "Teseida," arguing that the tale engages tensions "between a traditional communal feudal ideology and a newer more individualist and commercial outlook present in Chaucer's…
Irvin, Matthew W.
Chaucer Review 55, no. 4 (2020): 379-96.
Examines pity and the construction of pity in KnT in particular to show how Chaucer's use of and changes to the "Teseida "produce a desire for female autonomy that doesn’t threaten male patriarchy.
