Explores relations among the section on the vices in ParsT and its sources and/or analogues in Peraldus's "Summa de Vitiis" and two derivative treatises, here referred to by their initial words, "Quoniam" and "Primo" respectively. The latter…
Holton, Amanda.
Aldershot, Hampshire; and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2008.
Studies Chaucer's stylistic techniques, comparing several texts (KnT, MLT, PhyT, MkT, ManT, and LGW) with sources to show that Chaucer employed a style that was remarkably consistent across genres, rather than appropriating the styles of source…
Wimsatt, James I.
Medium Aevum 36.3 (1967): 231-41.
Focusing on the exemplum of Ceyx and Alcyone in BD, illustrates Chaucer's "early use of multiple sources in close alternating sequence," discussing source relations with Machaut, Froissart, Virgil, Ovid, Statius, the "Ovide Moralise," and the "Roman…
Reames, Sherry L.
Modern Philology 76 (1978): 111-35.
Combining Bosio's edition of the "Passio S. Caeciliae" and the "Legenda Aurea" accounts for all but eight discountable details of SNT and,independently, for the English analogues. Chaucer adapts rather than translates.
Severs, J. Burke.
Mediaeval Studies 25 (1963): 355-62.
Locates in Old French love poems sources for various aspects of BD, citing previously unnoticed parallels with passages from Guillaume de Machaut and Jean Froissart, and arguing that similar parallels and the "general situation and conduct" of…
Correale, Robert M.
Notes and Queries 225 (1980): 101-02.
The Parson's quotation from St. John Chrysostom (10.109-10) is translated from St. Raymund of Pennaforte's "Summa Casuum Poenitentiae." Its ultimate source, however, is a Latin homily (not in the modern editions of the fathers), the "Sermo de…
Eager, Claire J. C.
Rachel Stenner, Tamsin Badcoe, and Gareth Griffith, eds. Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019), pp. 75-97.
Investigates resonances between the garden settings in FranT and in the June eclogue of Spenser's "Shepheardes Calender," exploring the "spatialised poetics" of Dorigen's and Colin's shared inability to enjoy the pleasures of a classical/Christian…
Demonstrates that Chaucer's source for the remedial virtues offered as antidotes to the vices in ParsT is a Latin treatise here titled "Postquam" that often appears with material from Peraldus's "Summa de Vitiis," the major source of the Tale.…
Knapp, Daniel, and Niel K. Snortum.
Champaign, Ill.: National Council of the Teachers of English, 1967. (5778-5782)
Introduces Chaucer's language and its place in English language history, describing his vocabulary (including a list of misleading cognates and obsolete or difficult forms), morphology, grammar, and phonology--all exemplified in the booklet and in…
Schuerer, Hans Jurgen.
Andrew James Johnston, Ethan Knapp, and Margitta Rouse, eds. The Art of Vision: Ekphrasis in Medieval Literature and Culture (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2015), pp. 224-42.
Argues that ekphrasis in MerT is an "engagement with the union of language and the inner senses." In particular, examines "ekphrastic moments . . . between physical expression and the psyche" in Chaucer's treatment of marriage in MerT.
Stillinger, Thomas C.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.
Stillinger addresses intertextual and formal strategies used by Dante, Boccaccio, and Chaucer "in search of new ways to make a book." The "Vita nuova" explores structures in relation to authority in prose and verse, and "Filostrato" mines the…
Allingham, Anthony.
Dissertation Abstracts International 37 (1977): 5840A.
The "Song of Songs" has received little attention for its influence on other literary works. In two of CT tales, Chaucer exploits the allegorical interpretations of the "Song." The ambiguity of the interpretations in the Christian era made the…
Jamison, Carol Parrish.
Dissertation Abstracts International 54 (1993): 2157A-58A.
In light of Hans Jauss's reception theory, the fabliau can be seen as an evolving genre of social satire with humor deriving from the discrepancy between the behavior of social climbers and society's expectations. Treats Chaucer's fabliaux and…
Coleman, Joyce, Mark Cruse, and Kathryn A. Smith, eds.
Turnhout: Brepols, 2013.
Interdisciplinary anthology focusing on interplay of social and political interactions and medieval French and English illuminated manuscripts produced between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. For one essay that pertains to Chaucer, search for…
Haas, Renate.
Uwe Boker, Manfred Markus, and Ranier Schowerling, eds. The Living Middle Ages: Studies in Mediaeval English Literature and its Tradition. A Festschrift for Karl Heinz Goller. (Stuttgart: Belser, 1989), pp. 319-32.
Considers Furnivall's use of Chaucer and Langland in his teaching at the Working Men's College and analyzes some of his early editions and the political effect of his "pet book" among the EETS English Gilds volumes. Furnivall's endeavors and…
Kempton, Daniel Robert.
Dissertation Abstracts International 39 (1978): 273A-74A.
The Manciple, Physician, and Clerk strain the notion of fictive propriety with their stories. They exploit the storytelling occasion by attempting to come to terms with their estates and the often oppressive audience through replicating conditions…
Brewer, Derek.
Boris Ford, ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature, Volume 1, Part 1: Medieval Literature: Chaucer and the Alliterative Tradition (New York and Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1982), pp. 15-39.
Describes the major social institutions and social practices of late-medieval England, identifying their roots, indicating their later developments, and illustrating their features from Middle English literary sources, especially the works of…
Schwartz, Robert B.
Zeitschrift fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik 27 (1979): 43-51.
Damyan is seen as a type of fourteenth-century Robin Hood, who presided over May revels and mated with the May queen, and who was prosecuted under vagrancy laws which Chaucer may have enforced.
In his conduct and dress, the social-climbing Reeve associates himself with the clergy--an association that the Miller recognizes and ridicules unmercifully.
Strohm, Paul.
Piero Boitani and Jill Mann, eds. The Cambridge Chaucer Companion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. 1-18.
Discusses the hierarchical but interdependent social structure of fourteenth-century England, Chaucer's social position and civil career, fourteenth-century literacy, and the "immediate circle" to whom Chaucer's works may be addressed.
Argues that the Frontispiece of the 1420 manuscript of TC (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 61) demonstrates a medieval tradition of textuality that is not only oral and aural but social, and an example of group textuality in which words and…
Bennett, Jim, and Giorgio Strano.
Nuncius: Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science 29 (2014): 179-29; 9 color and b&w figs.
Describes the ownership history and details the physical features of a fourteenth-century English astrolabe in the Koelliker Collection, Milan, assessing its status as the "Chaucer Astrolabe" (here called the "Tomba-Koelliker astrolabe") by gauging…
Rex, Richard.
London: University of Delaware Press; Newark, N.J.: Associated University Presses, 1995.
An anthology of nine essays by Rex, four of which pertain to PrT, revised from previous publications. For five essays that pertain to Chaucer, first printed here, search for Sins of Madame Eglentyne under Alternative Title.
