Kurtz, Diane Gray.
Dissertation Abstracts International 36 (1976): 6116A.
In TC idolatrous love is rationalized by being conceived as one of the workings of nature. By Chaucer's time the Augustinian view of the valuelessness of temporal activities had been modified so that St. Thomas Aquinas could attach positive value to…
Caie, Graham D.
Stig Johansson and Bjorn Tysdahl, eds. Papers from the First Nordic Conference for English Studies. Oslo, 17-19 September, 1980 (Oslo: University of Oslo, Institute of English Studies, 1981), pp. 25-34.
CT glosses often act as commentary and provide source of quotation; they are not mere insertions by scribes or mere source reference.
Glosses to the early manuscripts of CT may be read as important commentaries on the text. In particular glosses to WBT point out the wife's misquotations and, ultimately, her spiritual deafness to the New Law and the deeper meaning of marriage.
Morgan, Gerald.
Yearbook of English Studies 9 (1979): 221-35.
The ironic treatment of the lovers in Book III may be clarified by examining representations of "charitas" and "cupiditas." Chaucer juxtaposes them throughout the poem and with special effect in the proem and aubades of Book III. His use and…
Da Rold, Orietta.
Chaucer Review 41 (2007): 393-438.
Systematic analysis of corrections disproves the notion that the Dd scribe was either careless or meddling, suggesting instead that his corrections were executed in the course of checking his copying against his exemplar. The remaining corrections…
Caie, Graham D.
David Lyle Jeffrey, ed. Chaucer and Scriptural Tradition (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1984), pp. 75-88.
Puzzling marginal glosses in Ellesmere, Hengwrt, and Cambridge Dd.4.24 may be intended to guide interpretation, as was customary even in vernacular texts. Accepted as integral to the text for a century, glosses serve various purposes in MLT, glossed…
Wood, Chauncey.
English Studies 52 (1971): 116-18.
Considers Chaucer's alterations to the source passage in "Roman de la Rose" for the GP description of the Squire, apparently modified by a sequence of details found in Henry of Lancaster's "Livre de Seyntz Medicines."
Owen, Charles A., Jr.
Modern Philology 55.1 (1957): 1-5.
Explores how several of Chaucer's putative additions to or revisions of TC (posited by R. K. Root) strengthen the poem's structural and thematic symmetry.
Edwards, Robert R., ed.
Middle English Texts. Kalamazoo, Mich. : Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2001.
A teaching edition of "The Siege of Thebes," with introduction, marginal glosses, textual and explanatory notes, select bibliography, and glossary. The introduction and notes clarify Lydgate's engagement with KnT, the frame of CT, and TC and discuss…
Stocker, David.
T. A. Heslop and V. A. Sekules, eds. Medieval Art and Architecture at Lincoln Cathedral (London: British Archaeological Association, 1986 (for 1982)).
Stocker's is the first full publication on and attempted reconstruction of the shrine of the child invoked at the end of PrT. The shrine is associated with Edward I's royal propaganda.
Carter, Thomas H.
Shenandoah: The Washington & Lee University Review 11.3 (1960): 48-60.
Offers impressionistic appreciation of ways that Chaucer "naturalized and made his own the continental traditions," with particular attention to the conventions of courtly love. Comments on a range of short poems: ABC, Mars, Ros, FormAge, Scog, Buk,…
Surveys English literature from the Old English period to "Post-War and Post-Modern Literature," including a chronology and a comprehensive index. The section on Chaucer (pp. 55-63) emphasizes his "delight in the concept of cosmic, natural, and human…
Figg, Kristen Mossler.
New York and London: Garland, 1994.
Assesses the nature and quality of Froissart's short poems: lays, chansons royales, pastourelles, ballades, virelays, and rondeaux, providing texts and commentary. The Introduction includes a survey of scholarship about Froissart's influence on…
Ibrahim, Yasmin.
Notes and Queries 264 (2019): 510-12.
Confronts as an "orthographic paradox" Scribe B's uses of "Þt," arguing that the "short form is not specific to the orthography of the exemplar but generic to all variants" of the word "that."
Identifies two projects in Chaucer studies--John M. Manly and Edith Rickert's early twentieth-century "Chaucer Research Project" and Ingham's own graduate research practicum, "Experiments in the Humanities Lab"--as evidence of ongoing reclamation and…
Phillips, Helen.
In Jamie C. Fumo, ed. Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess": Contexts and Interpretations (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 177-97.
Studies the rhetorical topos of exemplary lists of famous antique figures in BD, in comparison with contemporary uses of the device. Chaucer's lists are more than simply didactic or conventional, affirming "chivalric and regal identity" and thus…
Biddick, Kathleen.
Durham, N. C., and London : Duke University Press, 1998.
Explores the "contemporary consequences of the methods used to initiate medieval studies as an academic discipline in the nineteenth century," particularly how the discipline is "still intimately bound" to the "fathers" of medieval studies.
Removing attribution of the phrase "al stille and softe" from the monk and reading the phrase instead as narrative discourse eliminates ambiguity, enhances our perception of the monk's character, and extends the tale's thematic concerns.
Jager, Eric.
Donka Minkova and Theresa Tinkle, eds. Chaucer and the Challenges of Medievalism: Studies in Honor of H. A. Kelly (Frankfurt and New York : Peter Lang, 2003), pp. 253-60.
Jager draws upon commentary by Jacques Le Goff and Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum regarding how time was measured in the late Middle Ages. He argues that ShT indicates how merchant time, space, and values triumph over those of the Church, because of an…
ShT contains within itself the opposing standards contrasted in KnT, MilT and RvT. The voice of ShT is more nearly Chaucer's own than in any of the more dramatically employed fabliaux.
Recorded at radio station KRCW, Santa Monica College, during the Tenth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society. Re-edited and digitally mastered as a CD-ROM by Troy Sales and Paul Thomas in 2006.
Ellis, Mark Spencer.
Linda Cookson and Bryan Loughrey, ed. Critical Essays on The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales (Harlow: Longman, 1989), pp. 51-61.
Explicates the Shipman's knife in GP, and explores how similar details unfold to characterize the Canterbury pilgrims. Details of "aggression and assertion" recur in the descriptions, as do commercial concerns.
Childs, Wendy R.
Stephen H. Rigby, ed., with the assistance of Alastair J. Minnis. Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 277-96.
Discusses the ambiguity of Chaucer's Shipman, connecting ShT to estates satire and contending that Chaucer combined an "ideal craftsman and the flawed individual" in the character of the Shipman.
