Addresses the history of medieval Christianity from the fall of Rome to the ideas of the Reformation. Focuses less on secular and ecclesiastical religious elites and more on how the general public viewed issues of damnation and salvation in the…
Berensmeyer, Ingo.
Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter, 2022.
Historical survey of the relations between literary texts in English and material presentation, from oral and dramatic performance through manuscripts and books, to audio, visual, and digital forms. Includes a section on key terms, a timeline, and an…
Berkhout, Carl T.
American Notes and Queries 23 (1984): 33-34.
A reference in Matthew Parker's "De antiquitate britannicae ecclesiae" (1572) to Clare Hall, Cambridge, as "vocatum in Chaucero in fabula de Reve the soller Halle" (cf. RvT 3990).
Despite repressive laws and the misogyny of clerical writers, it appears that wives, widows, religious women, mystics, townswomen, and peasant women had more control, respect, and influence than has been thought. Labarge presents the whole social…
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate this printed musical score includes settings for poetry by Chaucer, Myles Pinkney, St. Teresa of Jesus, and Richard Verstegan (Rowlands), with printed lyrics. An online reprint of page 1 shows the Chaucer…
Farnham, Anthony E.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969.
Designed as a textbook for study of the history of the English language; includes 24 samples of English prose and poetry, with facing-page translations and brief intoductions. Two selections from Chaucer's works: ABC (pp. 63-75) and Bo 1.prose 6…
Argues that Chaucer spent much of the 1380s and 1390s in Southwark as a recipient of a sort of patronage from William Wykeham, chancellor of England, alongside others such as Gower and John Cobham. Asserts that GP is based on the format of the 1381…
Wentersdorf, Karl P.
Modern Philology 64 (1967): 320-21.
Identifies an analogue to the pear-tree episode in MerT, a folktale entitled "Women Always Get Away With It," first published in Puerto Rico in 1915-16 but evidently part of oral tradition.
Translation of TC into modern Spanish, with facing-page copy text reprint of Barry Windeatt's text of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, MS 61. The translation is arranged in stanzas, but without rhyme or regular meter. The introduction…
O'Neill, Ynez Violé.
Medical History 12.2 (1968): 185-90.
Proposes that the "greyn" in the mouth of the clergeon in PrT (7.622) may be related to a common medieval medical prescription for various maladies, including loss of speech: a "castorea."
Tabulates the "frequency and percentage" of the modal auxiliaries shall/will and should/would in CT, presenting in eight tables the statistical data in relation to grammar (types of sentences and clauses, person, etc.), mode (poetry and prose), and…
Curtis, Carl Clifford.
Dissertation Abstracts International 47 (1987): 3753A.
In KnT, the medieval view of the deficiencies of classical ideals is demonstrated through the tacit presence of Christianity. In its light, the ancient order breaks down; thus, KnT fills a significant place in CT as Christian pilgrimage.
Uses the analytic methods of anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss to argue that KnT "embodies in the syntax of its plot the basic rules and taboos of a perfectly structured and unchallenged social and cosmological order"--in short, a "mythic…
Beidler, Peter G.
Seattle: Coffee Town Press, 2011.
Offers instructions for pronunciation and phonetic transcription of passages from Chaucer's works, with an introduction to the history and grammar of his Middle English dialect, and a glossary of his basic vocabulary. Designed for classroom use, with…
Winsor, Eleanor Jane.
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.08 (1968): 3161-62A.
Reads LGW as a comic "parody . . . partially directed at sentimental readings of the Ovidian complaint" found in "Heroides," focusing on the palinode, love vision, and characters of LGWP and the "humorous inconsistencies" of the legends.
Considers Chaucer's (and others') treatment of envy as a Deadly Sin as background to the Renaissance understanding of the vice, which was influenced by classical tradition as well.
Includes eight essays pertaining to CT, examining the similarities between the narrative structure of CT and the multi-layered system particular to Gothic aesthetics.
