Regan, Charles Lionel.
Notes and Queries 209 (1964): 210.
Offers the "Pseudo-Augustinian treatise on penance 'De Vera et Falsa Poenitentia, Liber Una'," as the source of ParsT 10.1025 where Augustine is cited.
Presents a new interpretation of the historical basis of the canon from "Pars secunda" of CYT, while emphasizing Chaucer's own historical context of being at
the center of a network of connections at court and elsewhere.
Uphaus, Robert W.
Texas Studies in Literature and Language 10 (1968): 349-58.
Addresses the "intentional ambiguity" of PF, arguing that it results from the tension between "discursive" and "non-discursive" aspects of the poem, a distinction derived from Susanne Langer. Uses a variety of lexical patterns and oppositions to show…
Tagaya, Yuko.
The Society for Chaucer Studies and Koichi Kano, eds. To the Days of Studying Medieval English Literature: Essays in Memory of Professor Tadahiro Ikegami (Tokyo: Eihosha, 2021), pp. 40-56.
Considers the evil of indulgences through comparisons between PardT and its East Asian analogues. In Japanese.
Stillwell, Gardiner.
English Studies 37 (1956): 149-57.
Maintains that Chaucer indicates that there is a "single theme" in HF, arguing that "Distrust of worldly felicity . . . is Chaucer's 'o sentence'," and hypothesizing that the poem "was written for a New Year's entertainment." Cites several…
Watkins, Charles Arnold.
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.09 (1968): 3653A.
Describes the aesthetic standards espoused by the pilgrims in CT and argues that the Nun's Priest "fits his tale to his audience even as he tries to alter the views of the audience" and tries to solve for himself the question of free will versus…
Pratt, Robert A.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 61 (1962): 244-48.
Cites the Wife of Bath's allusion to "Crisippus" (WBP 3.677) to suggest that St. Jerome's "Epistola adversus Jovinianum (1.48) is the source of Pandarus's reference to "natal Joves feste" (TC 3.150) and that the locution is part of Pandarus's…
Goodall, Peter, ed.
Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, 2009.
A comprehensive annotated bibliography of scholarly and critical discussion of MkT and NPT, subdivided into the following categories: editions and translations; bibliographies, handbooks, and indices; manuscripts and textual studies; prosody,…
Burton, T. L., and Rosemary Greentree, eds. with annotations by David Biggs, Rosemary Greentree, Hugh McGivern, David Matthews, Greg Murrie, and Dallas Simpson.
Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 1997
The complete annotated bibliography of scholarly and critical treatments of "The Miller's Tale,""The Reeve's Tale,"and "The The Cook's Tale" from 1900 through 1992, subdivided into the following categories: editions, translations, and modernizations…
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…
Hench, Atcheson L.
English Language Notes 3.2 (1965): 88-92.
Argues that the phrase "been lyk a cokewold" (MilT 1.3226) means that John fears he is a cuckold, not that he will be a cuckold, observing misconstruals in editions and translations of the Tale.
Harrington, David V.
Notes and Queries 209 (1964): 166-67.
Observes differences between January's reference to proverbially "sotile clerkis" (MerT 4.1427) and the Wife of Bath's reference to proverbially "parfyt" ones (WBT 3.44c; perhaps cancelled). The first is anti-clerical; the latter pro-clerical, and…
Griffith, Philip Mahone.
Explicator 16 (1957): item 13.
Assesses Chaucer's use of the name "Damian" in MerT as an allusion to St. Damian who, with his brother St. Cosmos, was associated with medical healing. Attends to a pun on "leech" (healer) in the tale.
Jackson, Kate.
Leeds Studies in English 43 (2012): 93-115.
Discusses the "framing elements" of Mel, its glosses in the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts (comparing them with those in ParsT), and the codicological contexts of the five fifteenth-century manuscripts of the Tale that exist "outside the story…
Mustanoja, Tauno F.
Jess B. Bessinger, Jr., and Robert P. Creed, eds. Franciplegius: Medieval and Linguistic Studies in Honor of Francis Peabody Magoun, Jr. (New York: New York University Press, 1965), pp. 250-54.
Identifies several medieval analogues to the sentiment expressed in ManT 311-13, the earliest being the "Carmen as Astralabium Filium," attributed to Peter Abelard.
Burch, Beth.
Language Quarterly 17.3-4 (1979): 50-51.
Chaucer's version of MLT is more like Trevet's than the folktale version identified as "The Handless Maiden." If Chaucer knew this folktale version, his choice of Trevet's more sophisticated version is another tribute to his art.
Aers, David.
Graham D. Caie and Michael D. C. Drout, eds. Transitional States: Change, Tradition, and Memory in Medieval Literature and Culture (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2018), pp. 235-48.
Treats the concerns of "faith, miracle, and conversion" in SNT, separating the tale from its "putative and absent narrator" and emphasizing its orthodoxy in the relation between faith and understanding, sexuality and marriage, and female deference to…
Stadnik, Katarzyna.
SELIM: Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature 23 (2018): 87-114.
Analyzes the "Legend of Dido" in LGW to reveal how narrative serves as a "cognitive tool for shaping worldviews" held within cultural communities. Discusses the "cognitive-cultural underpinnings" and strategies Chaucer uses to tell a fragmentary…
In addition to overt allusions to law and its practitioners and his depictions of legal proceedings, Chaucer weaves legal terminology into his texts and uses "embedded" references to real court cases in developing his plots and characters. Advocates…
Cozart, William R.
Rosario P. Armato and John M. Spalek, eds. Medieval Epic to the "Epic Theater" of Brecht: Essays in Comparative Literature (Los Angeles: University of Southern California Press, 1968), pp. 25-34.
Suggests that the notion of making a "virtue of necessity" in TC and Theseus's "First Mover" speech reflect late-medieval nominalism and express concern with the precariousness of human life and its relation to "Ultimate Justice." Ending on a…
Roney, Lois.
Tampa : University of South Florida Press, 1990.
Proposes that KnT has a "two-fold focus: one centering on theories of human nature--Franciscan, Dominican, and Chaucerian; the other centering on theories of valid language use, whether literal alone or figurative as well." Allegory is not the right…
Penninger, F. Elaine.
South Atlantic Quarterly 63 (1964): 398-405.
Argues that by "idealizing" reality "into unreality" KnT opens the "question of appearance and reality," a recurrent concern throughout CT which is resolved only in ParsT.
Beidler, Peter G.
English Record 18 (1968): 54-60.
Argues that the subject matter, irony, depiction of love, and touches of humor in KnT are "in no way inappropriate" to the characterization of the Knight evident elsewhere in CT
Rumble, T. C.
Philological Quarterly 43 (1964): 130-33.
Interprets "chiere" of KnT 1.2683 as "frame of mind" or "state of feeling," and maintains that this obviates the question of the whether or not the preceding two lines on the fickleness of women are spurious.
