Hindrichsen, Lorenz A.
Sathyaraj Venkatesan, Antara Chatterjee, A. David Lewis, and Brian Callender, eds. Pandemic and Epidemics in Cultural Representation (Singapore: Springer, 2022), pp. 31-48.
Interprets CT as a "compelling psychogram of a diverse community processing massive demographic shifts in the wake of recurrent epidemic waves." Explores disruptions of social and linguistic categories, PardT as an allegory of plague death, various…
Argues that Chaucer favors the popular idea that Brittonic literature and history are primarily oral. By doing so, Chaucer distances his contemporary England, with its reliance on Latin textual and cultural authority, from the political reality of…
Di Profio, Luana.
Encyclopaideia: Journal of Phenomenology and Education 26 (2022): 1-13.
Explores "the special connection that exists between travel and narration," especially when traveling in a group, assessing international narratives of travel from CT to Haruki Murakami's “Drive My Car.” Includes an abstract in English and in…
Turner, Marion, Eleanor Baker, Rodger Caseby, Clare Cory, Jim Harris, Nicholas Perkins, and Charlotte Richer
New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession 3 (2022): 70-78.
Collaborative reflection on the presentation and value of a study-days enhancement program called "Chaucer's World," designed both to help UK secondary education students prepare for the A-level English Literature exam and to increase appreciation of…
Explores the "psychological continuities between the Black Death and COVID-19" in a series of four essays, arranged chronologically, with an introduction, conclusion, and comprehensive index. Chapter 2, titled "The Pardoner, the Prioress, and the…
Smigen-Rothkopf, David.
Ph.D. Dissertation. Fordham University, 2022.
Open access at ProQuest Dissertations & Theses; accessed November 19, 202).
Argues that "evolving discourses of gentility . . . served as models" for Chaucer, Sir Thomas Malory, and Henry Medwall, inspiring them "to write, variably, about socio-linguistic reform . . . and meta-literary reflection on the impact of newly…
Addresses issues of disease, medical practice, faith, household remedy, and gender in fourteenth-and fifteenth-century Middle English "medical discourse," often found embedded in or juxtaposed to broader works, including narrative poetry that engages…
Sáez-Hidalgo, Ana, and R. F. Yeager
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 121 (2022): 480-512.
Posits that Philip Perry, an eighteenth-century priest and early practitioner of medievalism, was a pioneer in using original sources, among them Chaucer. Perry's unpublished notebooks contain detailed information on many medieval writers and their…
Roger, Euan, and Andrew Prescott
Chaucer Review 57 (2022): 498-526.
Highlights the amount of potential material in The National Archives as compared to more traditional repositories for high-value manuscripts. Considers approaches to find and use this material with new examples for Chaucer, Gower, and Skelton.
Raybin, David, and Susanna Fein.
New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession 3 (2022): 86-94.
Describes and assesses NEH K-12 Seminars for high school teachers pertaining to CT and held in London, 2008–14; reflects on 2014 legislation that discontinued funding for such programs held outside the USA; and encourages future collaboration…
Whitehead, Christiania.
Raluca Radulescu and Sif Rikhardsdottir, eds. The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature (New York: Routledge, 2022), pp. 332-44.
Examines "Middle English lyric writing before and after Chaucer, assessing its evolving relationship to the Continent" and interactions between sacred and secular within the genre. Analyzes Chaucer's (and his successor's") uses of French lyric formes…
Radulescu, Raluca, and Sif Ríkharðsdóttir, eds.
New York: Routledge, 2022.
Thirty-seven essays by various authors on the forms, borders, networks, writers, and texts of medieval English, along with modern critical approaches, with an introduction by the editors (on "Trans-European and Global Contexts"), a timeline, and…
Moss, Rachel E.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 44 (2022): 293–95.
Personal response to two essays concerning medieval female consent in light of a rape in London in 2021; both essays are included in this volume of "Studies in the Age of Chaucer."
Mahaffy, Mary Caitlin.
Ph.D. Dissertation. (Indiana University, 2022),
Dissertation Abstracts International A83.12(E).
“[E]xplores how understandings of nonhuman animals and the environment shaped which human behaviors were labeled natural prior to the Enlightenment." Includes comments on animals, animal imagery, and environmental idealism in Form Age, MilT, and…
Elmes, Melissa Ridley.
Karma Lochrie and Usha Vishnuvajjala, eds. Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2022), pp. 135-54.
Describes depictions of affective female friendship in works by Chaucer (TC and FranT), John Gower (Albinus and Rosamund in the "Confessio Amantis"), and Thomas Malory (portions of "Le Morte Darthur"), contrasting them with source materials and…
Lochrie, Karma.
Karma Lochrie and Usha Vishnuvajjala, eds. Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2022), pp. 177-96.
Identifies three ways to illuminate female friendship in CT, disclosing "identity of feeling" among women (Custance, the Sultaness, and Hermengild in MLT), "enclaves . . . afforded by misogynistic discourses" (the Wife, her gossip, and female…
Jamison, Carol.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 29 (2022): 111-22.
Offers advice on how an undergraduate course focusing on Chaucer can serve the curricula of both literary and linguistics programs. Proposes several learning outcomes, and provides classroom strategies and emphases whereby linguistic and literary…
Gulley, Alison.
New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession 3 (2022): 31-39.
Discusses the Pardoner's "queerness and fitness to tell a moral tale" in light of ethical concerns about J. K. Rowling’s "public comments about trans women," suggesting pedagogical uses.
Harris, Carissa M.
John A. Geck, Rosemary O’Neill, and Noelle Phillips, eds. Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), pp. 265-84.
Analyzes "how English and Scottish literature and law during the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries connected the figure of the tapster to sex work, transgression, public harm, and dangerous agency over men," and traces residue of this misogyny…
Schiff, Randy.
John A. Geck, Rosemary O’Neill, and Noelle Phillips, eds. Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), pp. 341-62
Assesses references to ale and wine in PardPT as they reflect the Pardoner's "submerged desire" to bond with the Host and his simultaneous attempt to compete with Harry as leader of the pilgrimage. Argues that "the metaphorical ale-stake associated…
Geck, John A., Rosemary O’Neill, and Noelle Phillips, eds
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Thirteen essays, an introduction by the editors, and an afterword by Ren Navarro "describe alcohol consumption in the Middle Ages across much of Northern Europe, engage with the various myths employed in modern craft beer advertising and beer…
Investigates Anne of Bohemia as a figure of queenship--socially, politically, and economically-- along the way questioning arguments for claims that she was Chaucer's patron (often grounded in LGWP), treating them as probabilities rather than facts.…
Evans, Ruth.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 44 (2022): 3-26.
Contemplates the value of studying Chaucer in light of national and international calls to decenter the poet and his works, considering the history and politics of these calls, the nature of canon-making, and several instances where "Chaucer's work…
Describes the history of digitizing the journal SAC, commenting on the future of print journals and "the overall impact of digitization on scholarly societies."
