Sutherland, John.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.
Surveys the history of literature "from the Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter," including a chapter called "English Tales: Chaucer" (pp. 26-32) that summarizes Chaucer's life, TC, and CT, characterizing both poems as "supremely great" and…
Sutherland, John.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.
Surveys the history of literature "from the Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter," including a chapter called "English Tales: Chaucer" (pp. 26-32) that summarizes Chaucer's life, TC, and CT, characterizing both poems as "supremely great" and…
Chaucer used elements of the formal features and conventions of medieval sermons to explore character and inter-personal relationships, examining the dynamics of preachers' interactions with their congregations and often parodying the imitative…
Weber, Diane Looms.
Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 3599A.
Since the fourteenth century can be seen as a distant mirror of postmodern culture, "Walter's abuse and Griselda's passive resignation" merit study in the light of twentieth-century psychological insights.
Severs, J. Burke.
Modern Language Notes 74 (1959): 193-98.
Compares Chaucer's version of Hermengyld's miracle in MLT 2.554-74 with analogous passages in Trevet's and Gower's versions of the Constance story, suggesting that one stanza is missing from Chaucer's account, perhaps due to scribal error.
Sherbo, Arthur.
Studies in Bibliography 35 (1982): 154-55.
Antiquary Samuel Pegge, writing in "Gentlemen's Magazine" of June, 1758, quotes LGW MS in his possession. The text is close to that in British Library Additional MS 9832, but Pegge's was probably a different, now lost, MS.
Kanno, Masahiko, Gregory K. Jember, and Yoshiyuki Nakao, eds.
Tokyo : Eihosha, 1998.
Sixteen essays on topics ranging from Old English semantics to Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, commemorating the 65th birthday of Akira Wada. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Love of Words: English Philological…
Natali, Giulia.
Piero Boitani, ed. The European Tragedy of Troilus (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), pp. 49-73.
Unlike earlier versions of the Troilus story, Boccaccio's "Filostrato" minimizes war and focuses on love. Yet, if Troilus is less epic and more verbally effusive than his predecessors, he still is not tragic. Boccaccio identifies with Troiolo early…
Bitner, Kendall, and Kyle Dase.
Digital Medievalist 14, special issue (2021). 34 pp.
Explains the "necessary compromises and more efficient practices" that underlie changes to the original transcription principles of the Canterbury Tales Project, offering illustrative examples, and emphasizing the goal of making textual materials…
Asahata, Syozo.
Hisayuki Sasamoto et al., eds. Hearts to the English-American Language and Literature: Essays Presented to Emeritus Professor Sutezo Hirose in Honour of His 88th Birthday (Osaka: Osaka Kyoiku Tosho, 1999), pp. 239-53 (in Japanese).
Surveys the reception of Astr in Japan and describes the former Marquess of Bute MS 13 (A.19) purchased from H. P. Kraus, New York, at an unspecified date.
Reale, Nancy M.
Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales" (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 93-107.
Reads the Merchant's sketch in GP as a depiction of a duplicitous man and assesses January in MerT as a reflection of the Merchant's commercial outlook, which, in turn, reflects Chaucer's experience with the mercantile world of London.
Gonzalez Fernandez-Corugedo, Santiago.
Luis A. Lazaro Lafuente, Jose Simon, and Ricardo J. Sola Buil,eds. Medieval Studies: Proceedings of the IIIrd International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (Madrid: Universidad de Alcala de Henares, 1996), pp. 151-75.
Comparative analysis of PrT and its Spanish analogue reveals how the author of each uses different rhetoric to achieve different aims, although the two share a tendency to direct personal appeal.
Davis, John.
Nuncius: Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science 34 (2019): 27-68; 11 color illus.
Describes in detail an astrolabe--Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum/Zeughaus, Innsbruck, inv. no. 2957, U215--and relates it to other fourteenth-and fifteenth-century English astrolabes labeled "Chaucerian" because their "strapwork" is similar to…
Uses the Middle English translation of Lanfranc of Milan's "Chirurgia magna" ("The Science of Cirurgie") to help explore the compromise between authority and experience in TC, where Pandarus injects the language of experience into his uses of medical…
Cordery, Leona.
Gudrun M. Grabher and Sonja Bahn-Coblans, eds. The Self at Risk in English Literatures and Other Landscapes: Honoring Brigitte Scheer-Schazler on the Occasion of Her 60th Birthday (Innsbruck: Institut fur Sprachwissenschaft, 1999), pp. 177-85.
Spiritual stalwartness makes heroines of the protagonists in MLT, 'Emaré,' and the 'King of Tars'; the active quality of their faith makes them agents in the conversion of others.
Includes discussion of the setting of "Eger and Grime" in the "Land of Beame," i.e., Bohemia, and provides background for understanding the popularity and influence of Anne of Bohemia and Bohemian fashion at the English court after her arrival in…
Bishop, Morris, ed.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1970.
An anthology of Latin, Continental, and English medieval narratives in modern translation, including RvT (pp. 305-09) in a section called "Merry Tales and Salty Fictions."
Andretta, Helen R[uth].
Pro Ecclesia 37.1 (2006): 12-13; 37.2 (2006): 13-14.
Personal account of observing similarities in the works of Chaucer and O'Connor, particularly their shared Thomistic philosophy. Includes comments on Chaucer's Truth as it relates to O'Connor's notion of humanity's "true country."
Benson, C. David.
Susanna Freer Fein, David Raybin, and Peter C. Braeger, eds. Rebels and Rivals: The Contestive Spirit in The Canterbury Tales. Studies in Medieval Culture, no. 29 (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1991), pp. 213-21.
In 1987, an NEH-supported institute titled "Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Medieval Contexts and Modern Responses" addressed concerns that Chaucer's poetry was disappearing from the "standard undergraduate curriculum" and discussed ways to "revivify"…
Daniel, Neil.
Betsy Feagan Colquitt, ed. Studies in Medieval Renaissance American Literature: A Festschrift [Honoring Troy C. Crenshaw, Lorraine Sherley, Ruth Speer Angell] (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1971), pp. 19-32.
Describes and analyzes the versification of "The Tale of Gamelyn," arguing that its "prosodic system . . . falls somewhere between" those of Chaucer and of "Piers Plowman."
Wilson, Edward, ed., completed with an introduction by Daniel Wakelin.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edits the Middle English verse translation (906 lines) of the Prologue and Book I of Francis Petrarch's Latin prose dialogue "Secretum de contemptu mundi," with a comprehensive introduction, explanatory notes, and glossary. The introduction and notes…
