Anatomizes the motif of resistance to love "across the chronology and variety of medieval English romance, from twelfth-century Anglo-Norman lais to fifteenth-century prose works," exploring "ways in which it reinforces or subverts contemporary…
Petrosillo, Sara.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2023.
Assesses various medieval works to show that training instructions for medieval falconry "offer a means of understanding how poetic languageworks, and particularly how it works to represent women." One section describes how metaphors of mewed hawks…
Pavlinich, Elan Justice.
New York: Routledge, 2023.
Explores how various texts of medievalism (graphic novels, retellings, rap music, performance art, etc.) "represent radical, nontraditional sex acts enjoyed by people who are typically excluded from both popular culture and medieval narratives" and…
Pasnau, Robert.
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 53 (2023): 519-43.
Offers precedents from medieval texts to show that to learn from a text, readers "have reason to consider what its author means"; that, when readers are "morally engaged with a text," they have reason to engage with the author's intentions"; and…
Miller, Timothy S.
New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy & Profession 4 (2023): 42--53.
Explores the pedagogical possibilities of using Kate Heartfield's "The Road to Canterbury" (2018)--a "contemporary gamified adaptation" of Chaucer's life, world, and CT. Comments generally on using "interactive fiction" in the classroom, describes…
Meyer-Lee, Robert J.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023.
Considers theoretical, ideological, and practical questions concerning the value and valuation of literature and literary studies, with recurrent attention to contemporary issues in editing, canonicity, interpretation, and institutional status,…
Matukhin, Max.
Ph.D. dissertation (Princeton University, 2023), Dissertation Abstracts International A84.08(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (accessed February 1, 2025).
Explores how "false confessions and sermons" in late medieval literature "investigat[e] the boundaries between truthfulness and falsehood, literature and reality, the profane and the sacred." Includes discussion of PardPT.
Long, Mary Beth.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023.
Explores how "latent Marian maternal elements" inform a range of late medieval texts, focusing on how the devotional ideal of "imitatio Mariae"--rooted in Mary's "inimitable biology" as virgin and mother--informs Marian imagery and echoes in Margery…
Kern-Stähler, Annette, and Elizabeth Robertson, eds.
Contains twenty-six essays by various authors on topics relating to the "wonder and mystery" of the five senses (and "Multisensoriality") in English literature, medieval to the present. The introduction by the editors describe the field of study, the…
Trigg, Stephanie.
Annette Kern-Stähler and Elizabeth Robertson, eds. Literature and the Senses (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 31-48.
Outlines various "cognitive and sensual contexts" that frame "face-gazing in literature" and analyzes the descriptions of male gaze at female faces in TC and BD, both "mediated by the complex ideology of courtly love," comparing them with discussion…
Saunders, Corinne.
Annette Kern-Stähler and Elizabeth Robertson, eds. Literature and the Senses (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 107-24.
Comments on medieval and modern understandings of hearing voices, then assesses the phenomenon in Middle English romances and mystical accounts. Demonstrates how in TC and BD Chaucer "extends romance motifs" to explore "the processes of the…
Flannery, Mary C.
Annette Kern-Stähler and Elizabeth Robertson, eds. Literature and the Senses (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 271-88.
Explores connections between the physiological sense of taste (especially sweetness) and the aesthetic sense of good (or bad) taste, emphasizing their ambivalence in medieval understanding and the need for discernment that such ambivalence entails.…
Jansohn, Christa.
Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 175 (2023): 290-309.
Describes aspects of late medieval celebrations--focusing on feasting--to provide context for celebratory scenes in Middle English literature: "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" compared with "Cleanness"; Chaucer's KnT, WBT, SqT, the GP description of…
Hardun, Katherine Jane.
Ph.D. dissertation (University of California, Riverside, 2023), Dissertation Abstracts International A85.07(E).
Examines the history and literature of Richard II "through a queer theoretical lens," including discussion of TC, Maidstone's "Concordia," Shakespeare's "Richard II "(and its performance history), and modern fiction. Explores the "cultural norm of…
Fisher, Matthew.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 45 (2023): 313-61.
Attributes the copying of British Library, MS Cotton Appendix XVI ("Statuta Angliae") and nineteen Chancery documents to Richard Sotheworth, whose will records the earliest known ownership of a CT manuscript. Uses these and related documents to…
Feinstein, Sandy
Wang, Bryan Shawn.
Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 23 (2023): 349-61.
Reflects on the teaching of a two-instructor, interdisciplinary course in literature and molecular biology designed for undergraduate general education, emphasizing changes brought about by COVID-19 in the course's design, assignments, and subtending…
Ensley, Mimi.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023.
Studies post-Reformation understandings and treatments of romance--a "fluid" genre--for the ways they disclose "subtle continuity" across the traditional divide between medieval and Renaissance. Focuses on resistance to erasure of the genre,…
Drury Hall, Anne.
South Bend, Ind.: Saint Augustine's Press, 2023.
Reflects on reading and responding to "Great Books," offering appreciative descriptions of samples from Plato, Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and Melville, and asserting their success in conveying moral philosophy artfully, despite the…
Dragu, Jacqueline.
Ph.D. dissertation (University of Chicago, 2023), Dissertation Abstracts International A84.12(E). Accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (accessed January 31, 2025).
Discusses psychoanalytic aspects of melancholy and subjectivity in several medieval texts, including BD and PrT. The "logic of identification" in BD signals that "melancholia might be seen as more open-ended than a pathology constantly teetering on…
Contzen, Eva von.
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 53 (2023) 597-622.
Focuses on three different approaches to CT, examines the ways that scholars have attempted to avoid ascribing intention to Chaucer, and concludes that "when engaging with Chaucer, critics need to embrace intention as a key generator in the…
Butterfield, Ardis, Ian Johnson, and Andrew Kraebel, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Comprises twelve essays by various authors on topics relating to medieval literary interpretation and theory, rhetoric, and manuscript study, with an introduction by Andrew Kraebel, an account of Minnis's "Career and Contributions" by Vincent…
Cornelius, Ian.
Ardis Butterfield, Ian Johnson, and Andrew Kraebel, eds. Literary Theory and Criticism in the Later Middle Ages: Interpretation, Invention, Imagination (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. 220-48.
Explains how George Colvile's 1556 translation of Boethius's "Consolatio" is a "medieval throwback," tracing its marginal explanatory notes to medieval commentary and finding similar commentary "intercalated" with Boethius's poems, tentatively…
Carruthers, Mary.
Ardis Butterfield, Ian Johnson, and Andrew Kraebel, eds. Literary Theory and Criticism in the Later Middle Ages: Interpretation, Invention, Imagination (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. 206-19.
Explores the roles of distress, dislocation, and thoughtfulness in medieval academic discourse, theology, and literary invention. Includes comments on the scene of encountering marvels in SqT (81ff., esp. 189–95)--among the "many [examples] to…
Brown, Peter, and Jan Čermák, eds.
Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2023.
Eleven essays by various authors on topics in the social, literary, and cultural relations between England and Bohemia in the late fourteenth century, embodied in the marriage between Richard II and Anne of Bohemia. The introduction by the editors…
Boffey, Julia
Edwards, A. S. G.
Peter Brown and Jan Čermák, eds. England and Bohemia in the Age of Chaucer (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2023), pp. 203-13.
Assesses evidence of influence on Chaucer of Bohemian culture, focusing on transmission of this culture and on the "possible role" of Anne of Bohemia as influence on and "likely commissioner" of LGW, attending especially to the "queenly rulers" in…
