Little, Katherine C.
Exemplaria 31 (2019): 117–28.
Disagrees with "theorists of materiality" who regard lists as "transparent," or "utopian, or egalitarian, or decentering." Examines how the list of "thynges" in KnT (3017ff.), though different from the analogous list in Boccaccio's "Teseida," "makes…
Lears, Adin E.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020.
Connects noise and knowing and unknowing in late medieval English literature. Chapters 4 and 5 discuss HF and WBT respectively, suggesting how Chaucer's texts "present lay uses of language as noise."
LaBarge, Elizabeth.
Once and Future Classroom 15, no. 1 (2019): 107-15.
Offers evidence (including quotations from students) that teaching CT in a bilingual (English/Spanish) high school helps students to "feel part of the conversation in college" and "to reflect on their own lives and cultures." Moreover, such students…
Krstovic, Jelena.
Lawrence Trudeau, ed. Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Vol. 260 (Farmington, Mich.: Gale, 2017), pp. 114-0.
Reprints eleven examples of Chaucer criticism published between 2001 and 2013 and an excerpt from 1934. The introduction by Krstovic summarizes Chaucer's biography, major works, and critical reception, updating information supplied in Volume 56 of…
Frames an assessment of literary theory with opening and closing comments on TC, claiming that, at the end of the poem, "Chaucer, in effect, is doing theory" and, by doing so, "converts his text into something residual and emergent, pleasurable and…
Johnson, Ian, ed.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Includes fifty brief essays that offer "historical and conceptual information and perspectives" to aid in understanding Chaucer's works: J. A. Burrow, "What Was Chaucer Like?"; Andrew Galloway, "Chaucer's Life and Literary 'Profession'"; Jeremy J.…
Describes backgrounds, and analyzes depictions of and references to Minerva in late medieval British literature, exploring her as ""redemptress, mistress of the liberal arts, patroness of princes, idol, and Venus' ally," and arguing that writers of…
Hennequin, M. Wendy.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 24, no. 1 (2017): 121-40.
Justifies the use of historical re-creation assignments in university classrooms, offering in appendices a sample assignment and a grading rubric. Describes examples of more and less successful student projects, with commentary and illustrations,…
Griffin, Elaine.
Once and Future Classroom 15, no. 1 (2019): 81-94.
Contemplates the value of teaching CT in contemporary classrooms, focusing on how it can be used to encourage diverse outlooks and help close the "empathy gap," aiding students to "develop the cognitive and character skills that support their…
Crocker, Holly A.
Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 16, no. 1 (2016): 146-52.
Reconsiders the periodizations that separate medieval and early modern studies, focusing on "'premodern humanism' as a critical problem" and the "anthropocentric fantasy" of the "nonhuman–human divide." Includes comments on the privileging of…
Crocker, Holly A.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.
Investigates "premodern 'vertue,' or the embodied excellence that enables women's ethical action in vernacular English poetry between 1343 and 1623." Focuses on "material virtue"--the "natural potencies of physical bodies"--rather than on habit-,…
Clifton, Nicole.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 25, no. 2 (2018): 123-43.
Describes an "upper-division Chaucer course that teaches Chaucerian English as a foreign language," aiming "to ensure that students learn to read Chaucer's language comfortably on their own." Provides sample lesson plans and assignments.
Cleaves, Wallace Thomas II.
Open access Ph.D. dissertation (University of California, Riverside, 2017). Available at https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6gr3m9zr (accessed April 4, 2022).
Explores aspects of medieval literary studies and Native American studies, including examination of 'the trickster figure" in the works of Chaucer, particularly the GP descriptions and characterizations, and MilT, RvT, SumT, PardT, and ManT. Also…
Chaudhuri, Aparna.
Dissertation Abstracts International A82.04 (2019): n.p.
Studies obedience in Middle English literature, including discussion of the theme in LGW and Ovid's "Tristia" and comparison of ClT and "Pearl" as works which indicate that imperfect obedience "is as culturally and theologically important and perhaps…
Campbell, Ethan.
Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2018.
Makes clear the anti-clericalism, overt and implicit, in the works of the "Gawain"-poet ("Cleanness," "Patience," "Pearl," and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"), examining the theme in light of contemporaneous polemics. Includes several references…
Stanbury, Sarah.
Glenn D. Burger and Rory C. Critten, eds. Household Knowledges in Late-Medieval England and France (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020), pp. 129-53.
Focuses on "household music" and the "intermingled melodies of birdsong and . . . musical instruments" in ManT. Argues that ManT can be analyzed as a "poignant record of the vibrant household world filled with music and song" that is connected to…
Burger, Glenn D., and Rory C. Critten, eds.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020.
Focuses on a variety of late medieval households and argues that there is "a dynamic and reciprocal relationship between domestic experience and its forms of cultural expression" and cultural production. For an essay that pertains to Chaucer, search…
Revised edition of A Companion to Chaucer (2000) with thirty-six new and revised chapters: Candace Barrington and Jonathan Hsy, "Afterlives"; Andrew Galloway, "Auctorite"; Jane Griffiths, "Biography; Linda Ehrsam Voight, "Bodies"; Alfred Thomas,…
Attridge, Derek.
The Experience of Poetry: From Homer's Listener to Shakespeare's Readers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 2285-3.
Examines evidence for the modes of performance and reception of late medieval English poetry, focusing on Chaucer's dream visions, TC, and CT, but also commenting on works by John Gower, other English poets, and continental writers. Considers…
Alberghini, Jennifer.
Dissertation Abstracts International A80.08 (2019): n.p.
Studies tensions between family approval and the consent of marital couples in late medieval England and its literature, arguing that TC and LGW offer conflicting views of the tension while MLT resolves it.
Adamson, Peter.
Medieval Philosophy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 495-501.
Comments on Chaucer's and Langland's engagements with philosophical debates of their age, especially determinism and voluntarism. Includes discussion of the tensions between KnT and MilT as Chaucer's poetic expression of philosophical concerns.
Wawrzyniak, Agnieszka.
Marcian Grygiel and Robert Kieltyka, eds. Cognitive Linguistics in the Year 2017 (New York: Peter Lang, 2019), pp. 87-97.
Describes Chaucer's uses of "soth," "sothly," "verry," "verrily," and "lye" as epistemic markers, contrasting the density of his usage with that found in present-day English to distinguish between medieval and modern worldviews as, respectively,…
Wawrzyniak, Agnieszka.
Danuta Gabrys-Barker, Dagmara Gałajda, Adam Wojtaszek, and Paweł Zakrajewski, eds. Multiculturalism, Multilingualism and the Self (Cham: Springer, 2017), pp. 49-61.
Describes uses of the lexemes "trouthe" and "soth" in CT, comparing them with "truth" in present-day English. Shows that, associated with love, light, and wisdom, Chaucer's "trouthe" differs from his "soth": the former resides in an abstract semantic…
Analyzes the lexicon of Henry Daniel's medical treatise on urine, "Liber uricrisiarum," as it is found in Huntington, MS HM 505. Shows that often "Daniel and Chaucer share a precise vocabulary," detailing their similar uses of "piss," and tabulating…
