Cossio, Andoni.
SELIM: Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature 27 (2022): 166-76.
Identifies which folios of Cambridge, Peterhouse, MS 75.I are included (photostatic copies) in the Tolkien archive of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Tolkien VC 277, using the copies to assess Tolkien's possible assistance to Derek J. Price and R. M.…
Includes photostats of Cambridge, Peterhouse, MS 75.I (Equat) among several additions to "Section A" of Oronzo Cilli's "Tolkien's Library: An Annotated Checklist" (Edinburgh: Luna Press, 2019), and comments on Tolkien's concern with scribal…
Spearing, A. C.
Sylvie Patron, ed. Optional-Narrator Theory (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021), pp. 166-83.
Challenges the applicability of modern narratology to medieval narratives, examining the narrating position in "King Horn" as popular romance and in BD as adaptation of a French "dit," and showing that novel-based notions of narrator-as-character do…
Reichert, Folker.
Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 104 (2022): 331-43.
Examines geographical and literary backgrounds to Chaucer's use of "Carrenare" in BD, 1029, identifying it with "Caramoran" (especially as found in Marco Polo and Mandeville), and suggesting it helps to separate Blanche from the vanities of the…
Neufeld, Christine M.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 44 (2022): 93-132.
Examines auditory cognition in BD, PF, and HF, attending particularly to “janglynge” and related concepts. BD illustrates differences between hearing and listening, while PF records a "paradigm shift" from seeing to listening, and HF reflects…
Marshall, Simone Celine.
Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780–1840 23 (2020): 218-36; 7 illus.; 3 appendices.
Analyzes the text of BD found in the 1807 collected edition "The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer," showing "that it is fair to consider the work a new edition," based on John Urry’s 1721 edition of BD and loosely following Thomas Tyrwhitt's…
Leitch, Megan G.
Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 2021.
Surveys medical and literary backgrounds and representations of sleep, naps, dreams, nightmares, and sleep-scapes in various Middle English genres and works. Chapter 4, "The Hermeneutics of Sleep in Chaucer's Dream Poems," focuses on dreams,…
Bartlett, Robyn A.
Chaucer Review 57 (2022): 321-44.
Highlights that BD conveys the inevitability and incomprehensibility of death, offering a reading of the poem that moves beyond consolation of poetry and memory.
Olson, Donald W.
Investigating Art, History, and Literature with Astronomy: Determining Time, Place, and Other Hidden Details Linked to the Stars (Cham: Springer, 2022), pp. 288-323; illus.
Includes discussion of the reference to Boetes (the constellation Boötes) in Bo, IV, met. 5, explaining the astronomy underlying the "puzzle" found in Boethius's original reference and in Chaucer's translation.
Stadolnik, Joe.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 121 (2022): 359-82.
Claims that although the prologue to Astr is addressed to Chaucer's son "little Lewis," it is structurally and rhetorically complex, appealing to sophisticated Latinists as well as to young English speakers. Argues that the prologue imitates Latin…
Robinson, Michael.
American Journal of Physics 90 (2022): 745-54.
Explains the practical utilities and operations of astrolabes, reporting on several years' use of a homemade instrument. Includes recurrent references to Astr as a helpful guide, describing it as "apparently the earliest known technical manual…
Brooks, Michelle.
Studies in Philology 119 (2022): 209-32.
Examines Astr as a work on literature that uses the astrolabe to overcome geographical separation between father and son. A narrative of family reunion then writes the son out of the text, while apophasis keeps the son at its center. Also notes how…
Argues that the language of Ret should not be understood as a modern retraction would be; expresses skepticism that Ret is actually meant to retract works like CT.
Describes and assesses the wide array of guides to penitential self-examination in late medieval Latin, Anglo-Norman, and Middle English, viewing them in the contexts of the 1215 Lateran Council, the rise in popular religion, and developing notions…
Considers locations in Chaucer's corpus where he might have depicted divine speech, before highlighting how Jesus' words serve as "auctoritas" in ParsT. Comparing this method to the absence of depictions of divine speech in Chaucer's other works,…
Huerta, Monica.
Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2021.
Creative non-fiction contemplation of storytelling, Chicanx identity, and spatial politics, including, in Chapter 3, “Disciplines and Disciples,” a brief consideration of “discipline” in CYT (8.1253), as it relates to alchemy, deception,…
Honda, Takahiro.
Research Reports, National Institute of Technology, Fukushima College 63 (2022): 56-62.
Contrasts the master-pupil relationships in CYT and Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" and their concepts of philosophy. Argues that CYT ridicules the false nature of philosophy. In Japanese, with English abstract.
Goodrich, Micah James.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 44 (2022): 297-306.
Explores aspects of "power differential and toxicity" in the mentor-mentee relationship of the Canon and the Canon's Yeoman, reading CYPT as the emancipatory complaint of the latter. For a response, see Response to Micah James Goodrich and Alice…
Buhrer, Eliza.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 44 (2022): 315-16.
Comments on issues of complaint and consent in two essays included in this volume of SAC, linking the medieval past with the present. Includes response to Micah James Goodrich, “The Yeoman's Canon: On Toxic Mentors."
Burt, Kathleen.
South Atlantic Review 86, no. 1 (2021): 58-76.
Anatomizes the theme and structures of failure in CYPT, contrasting the Canon's Yeoman and Chaucer-pilgrim as narrators, and tallying ways that failure dominates the narrative: failed science, failed rhetoric, failed comedy, failed moralizing, and…
Surveys medieval and early modern study of alchemy and writing about alchemy, with particular attention to its obscurities of language and limited potential for progress. A section called "Playing with Obscurity: Chaucer's Manipulation of the 'Tabula…
Chapter 2 focuses on free volition (as formulated by John Duns Scotus), empathy, and fraternal bonding in "Amis and Amiloun" and in SNT. In the latter, Valerian and Tiburce “forgo political loyalties and prioritize their fraternal bond by…
Pattenaude, Annika J.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Michigan, 2022.
Dissertation Abstracts International A84.03(E).
"[A]nalyzes scenes of 'undisciplined reading' in late medieval texts: that is, scenes in which characters read without formal training and with the 'wrong' emotions." Includes discussion of NPPT as a "bungled interpretation of Marie de France's…
Considers the end of NPT and the Bible verse Romans 15:4. Claims the verse is used to bridge the two opposing views of Chaucer's intent in his writing, attempting to unite the morally serious poet with the subversive poet.
