Presents new evidence, particularly the Wycliffite Bible, and disagrees with J. A. Burrow that Custance's speech in MLT when she reaches Northumbria is a debased kind of Latin. Argues the speech is not a mercantile "lingua franca" and claims that…
Contrasts MLT with "The King of Tars," "Bevis of Hampton," and the Becket legend (where Thomas Becket's mother is a "heathen or Saracen"), arguing that, unlike the "contradictory approaches . . . to the conversion of the Muslim Other elsewhere, MLT…
Focuses on Henry Brooke's 1741 verse adaptation/translation of MLT as a rewriting of English history that asserts "national identity" and "looks fondly at the relationship between the Anglican Church and State, ultimately equating its hopeful…
Houlik-Ritchey, Emily.
Emily Houlik-Ritchey. Imagining Iberia in English and Castilian Medieval Romance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023), pp. 167-208.
Analyzes the role of Iberia in Constance narratives by Trivet, Chaucer, Gower, and the Portuguese and Castilian translators of Gower's version. Accepts that the Anglo-Castilian politics of John of Gaunt's marriage to Constance of Castile undergird…
Davis, Rebecca.
New Medieval Literatures 23 (2023): 179-218.
Assesses "self-referential reflections on storytelling" in MLT and Mel, focusing on how the "resistive narrative agency" of their female protagonists calls attention to "questions central to the literary enterprise itself," particularly through…
Brent, Jonathan.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 45 (2023): 171-203.
Assesses the "political and historical meaning" of Trevet's version of the story of Constance--"part of [the] longer world history" of his "Cronicles" and the occasion in it when idolatry is "reformulated as Islam." Includes occasional comments on…
Jones, Dylan.
Memoirs of the Faculty of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Fukui 7 (2023): 15-38.
Analyzes three European folktales (Breton, Danish, and Irish) within the "miller-plot" subgenre, comparing them to RvT, "The Mylner of Abyngton," and other stories to highlight their shared features and deeper connections. Suggests that these…
Wu, Yu-Ching.
Review of English and American Literature 42 (2023): 31-73.
Focuses on "neighbor theory" and on uses of "neighebor(es)" in CT to argue that the "concept of community in Chaucer is constantly overshadowed by conflicts of interest and the presence of a loving/fearful neighbor." Assesses MilT as an extended…
Parsons, Ben.
Jongenelen, Bas.
Fabula: Zeitschrift für Erzählforschung/Journal of Folktale Studies/Revue d'études sur le conte populaire 64 (2023): 282-97.
Explains how MilT has overdetermined scholarship concerning the folk motif of the misdirected kiss, limiting understanding of the range of the motif. Expands this range, and enlarges the number and variety f analogues to Chaucer's use of the motif.…
Jucker, Andreas H.
Seiler, Annina.
Chaucer Review 58, no. 1 (2023): 35-59.
Focuses on the word "queynte" in MilT to explore the challenges translators face when rendering modernizations that are descriptively and stylistically true to original Middle English texts. Insists that to achieve the correct level of politeness or…
Higashinaka, Hana.
Colloquia (journal by postgraduates at the Department of English and American Literature, Keio University) 44 (2023): 53-64.
Examines MilT through the lens of medieval optical theories, particularly those of Ibn al-Haytham and Roger Bacon. Argues that Chaucer's depictions of visual perception, distance, and light may be influenced by these optical theories, using them…
Bertolet, Craig E.
Yearbook of English Studies 53 (2024, for 2023): 7-20.
Uses Giorgio Agamben's discussion of "homo sacer" to argue that the "bare life" of imprisonment for Emelye, Palamon, and Arcite in KnT serves Theseus's sovereignty. Justifying exceptions to previous rulings, Theseus maintains his power through…
Comments on food-producing labor as a motif in GP (and elsewhere in CT), in contrast with idleness, wealth-seeking, or nonproductive labor, especially among clerics. Associates these concerns with English history and ideological struggle.
Zuraikat, Malek J.
Literature Compass 20 (2023): 15 pp.
Surveys issues of gender in CT and Chaucer studies, arguing that Chaucer's realistic portrayal of human variety makes it difficult to claim him to be either feminist or misogynistic.
Thormann, Janet, with Aranye Fradenburg Joy.
Santa Barbara: Brainstorm, 2023.
Psychoanalytic exploration of several unexpected happy outcomes in CT where links between sexual "emergence and abeyance . . . issue in the hope of a beneficent future." MerT "focuses on the Real by way of an impossible suffering of enjoyment through…
Offers pedagogical advice for developing interactive games, concentrating on character development, narrative structure, and technique. Invokes CT at several junctures, commending Chaucer's innovative techniques as background to developments in…
Reflects on practical and theoretical issues in teaching CT, especially the usefulness (or not) of translations, glossaries, dictionaries, and the Norton edition of the work. Includes personal reminiscences.
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.
