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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…

Dominick, Gina A.   Ph.D. dissertation (New York University, 2022), Dissertation Abstracts International A 84.01(E).
Explores how texts such as Julian of Norwich's "A Revelation of Divine Love," CT, and Thomas Malory's "Morte Darthur" "unsettle the medieval aesthetic-ethical form of "formosa deformitas," or, the 'beautiful ugly,' " and "bring attention to the…

Davies, Daniel.   Ph.D. dissertation (University of Pennsylvania, 2021), Dissertation Abstracts International A83.02(E). Freely accessible at https://repository.upenn.edu/entities/publication/59a38ac4-5b08-41e6-a701-26a6f3939e86 (accessed January 30, 2025).
Argues that "the nascent art of international relations . . . among England, Scotland, and France, creates a heightened awareness of the connections between literary and political mediation central to the distinct textures of medieval wartime."…

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…

Petrikova, Klara.   Peter Brown and Jan Čermák, eds. England and Bohemia in the Age of Chaucer (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2023), pp. 159-67.
Describes two fifteenth-century Czech "responses" to Petrarch's tale of Griselda, one in Latin and its translation into Czech: "Historia infidelis mulieris" and "O Bryzelde rec zla o zle" (An Evil Tale of Evil Briselda). Shows how "the Bohemian text…

Dienstbier, Jan.   Peter Brown and Jan Čermák, eds. England and Bohemia in the Age of Chaucer (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2023), pp. 168-80; 6 b&w illus.
Provides context for the link between death and the tapping of a barrel in RvP, 3892-94, and for the relationship between the Pardoner and Kit the Tapster in the prologue to the "Tale of Beryn," mentioning other English analogues and describing…

Wallace, David.   Peter Brown and Jan Čermák, eds. England and Bohemia in the Age of Chaucer (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2023), pp. 214-37.
Describes cultural contact and marital negotiations among Plantagenets, Bohemians, and Viscontis as background to Anne of Bohemia's recurrent presence in Chaucer's works, often as an imperial daughter and/or mediatrix, and often reflecting "Marian…

Bridges, Venetia.   Corinne Saunders and Diane Watt, eds. Women and Medieval Literary Culture: From the Early Middle Ages to the Fifteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. 342-76.
Assesses the "depiction of women as ethical signifiers" in Chaucer's and Gower's writings, summarizing the "multilingual and transnational networks on which both poets draw," exploring the "ethical valences" of gender (especially feminine) in their…

Cooper, Helen, and Robert R. Edwards, eds.   Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Twenty-nine essays devoted to the examination of poetry from the end of Old English verse through the Ricardian poets, including an introduction by the editors. For nine essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Oxford History of Poetry in English.…

Winstead, Karen A.   Helen Cooper and Robert R. Edwards, eds. Oxford History of Poetry in English. Volume 2, Medieval Poetry, 1100–1400 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 227-42.
Traces the writing of saints' legends in poetry in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, highlighting the innovative approaches taken by a number of poets, including Chaucer in SNT.

Windeatt, Barry.   Helen Cooper and Robert R. Edwards, eds. Oxford History of Poetry in English. Volume 2, Medieval Poetry, 1100–1400 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 425-39.
Emphasizes and traces a poetic method common to the CT that Windeatt explores in terms of the tales and their openings; their emphasis on time, chance, and astrology; and the generic hybridity that defines the Tales.

Putter, Ad.   Helen Cooper and Robert R. Edwards, eds. Oxford History of Poetry in English. Volume 2, Medieval Poetry, 1100–1400 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 128-44.
Catalogues the stylistic choices made by English poets in terms of meter, rhyme, and alliteration, before concluding with examples from Middle English poets, including Chaucer.

Lawton, David.   Helen Cooper and Robert R. Edwards, eds. Oxford History of Poetry in English. Volume 2, Medieval Poetry, 1100–1400 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 409-24.
Highlights the enduring role of court poet for Chaucer, including his debts to "The Romance of the Rose" and the complicity of the narrator in TC. Discusses the creation of Alcestis in LGW.

Horobin, Simon.   Helen Cooper and Robert R. Edwards, eds. Oxford History of Poetry in English. Volume 2, Medieval Poetry, 1100–1400 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 54-68.
Considers the specifics of the material form and transmission of Middle English poetry, touching on the idea of the anthology, along with examples. Concludes by tracing the dearth of evidence for pre-1400 transmission of Chaucer's works (along with…

Galloway, Andrew.   Helen Cooper and Robert R. Edwards, eds. Oxford History of Poetry in English. Volume 2, Medieval Poetry, 1100–1400 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 145-64.
Focuses on Chaucer, Gower, and Langland, demonstrating how these poets bring together philosophical and theological ideas as they craft their poetry. Considers the innovations of Chaucer and Gower in terms of literary and poetic theory.

Dance, Richard.   Helen Cooper and Robert R. Edwards, eds. Oxford History of Poetry in English. Volume 2, Medieval Poetry, 1100–1400 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 71-87.
Concentrates on the relationship between Old and Middle English poetic forms, especially during the transition from Old to Middle English, focusing on the "Soul's Address to the Body" and "The Ormulum" before concluding with a discussion of Chaucer's…

Cannon, Christopher.   Helen Cooper and Robert R. Edwards, eds. Oxford History of Poetry in English. Volume 2, Medieval Poetry, 1100–1400 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 245–56.
Offers a history of the fable in Middle English poetry, with examples from several poems, including discussing four extant fables. Concludes by showing the importance of the fable to the idea of the CT as a whole.

Boffey, Julia.   Helen Cooper and Robert R. Edwards, eds. Oxford History of Poetry in English. Volume 2, Medieval Poetry, 1100–1400 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 457-69.
Examines the legacy and survival of fourteenth-century poetry and poetic innovations in the fifteenth century, emphasizing the influence of Chaucer and Gower, especially with regard to their shaping of the role of the poet.

Barrington, Candace.   Yearbook of English Studies 53 (2024, for 2023): 134-50.
Argues that "contemporary critical translation theories shed light on" Chaucer's "translational environment" and identifies "a cluster of five translational actions"--"communication, transformation, transportation, hermeneutics, and liminality"--that…

Barrington, Candace.   Ken Seigneurie, gen. ed. A Companion to World Literature, 6 vols. Vol. 2, 601 CE to 1450, ed. Christine Chism (Chichester: Wiley and Sons, 2020), pp. 751-62.
Surveys the "global reach" of the literatures and languages that underlie the sources and settings of CT (with particular attention to SqT), and describes the multilingual, international range of translations, modernizations, adaptations, and other…
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