Iyeiri, Yoko.
Notes and Queries 257 (2012): 332-35.
Adds to the group of manuscripts identified by Carl Grindley in 1995 (one of which was a concordance to the works of Chaucer), two more written in the same hand: MSS 621 and 622. The former is on the grammar of Robert of Gloucester, the latter on…
Bridges, Margaret.
Dagmar Wieser, Patrick Labarthe, Jean-Paul Avice, eds. Mémoire et Oubli dans le Lyrisme Européen (Paris: Champion, 2008), pp. 311-41.
Describes the tradition of the rhetorical topos of the abandoned lover's apostrophe to the bed, considering the "gendered" fetishism of Ariadne's address in LGW, the description of Alceste in LGWP, Troilus's address to the empty house in TC, and Dido…
Minkova, Donka.
Sylvia Adamson, Vivien Law, Nigel Vincent, and Susan Wright, eds. Papers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Cambridge, 6-9 April 1987 (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1990), pp. 313-36.
Reviews scholarly treatment of the subject with reference to Chaucer and Gower.
Prescott, Andrew.
English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700 17 (2012): 173-99.
Anayzes scribal activity in medieval English administrative documents, and contends that Adam Pinkhurst, and other English scribes, may have been involved in "both literary and documentary work."
Donaldson, E. Talbot.
Michael Benskin and M. L. Samuels, eds. So Meny People, Longages and Tonges: Philological Essays in Scots and Mediaeval English Presented to Angus McIntosh (Edinburgh: Authors, 1981), pp. 355-66.
On Chaucer's use in GP of the adversative conjunction "but."
Warner, Lawrence.
Laura L. Howes, ed. Place, Space, and Landscape in Medieval Narrative (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007), pp. 43-59.
Warner examines affiliations of the London Church of St. Thomas of Acre with mercantile interests that, in turn, help to clarify features of MLT, including its concerns with merchants, with the Crusades, and with legal discourse. MLT also explores…
Twose, Gareth, and C. B. McCully.
Language and Literature 10 (2001): 291-306.
The article assesses the range of function and the frequency of "thus" in representative samples of English poetry from Old English through the twentieth century. Data derived from electronic searches (1000-line samples) confirm relations between…
George, Michael W.
Essays in Medieval Studies 30 (2014): 67–81.
After examining weather patterns during the Middle Ages, suggests that the late fourteenth century experienced lower than normal temperatures and increased precipitation that would have affected harvests. Since inclement weather plays a role in BD,…
WBP, belonging to the genre of the French sermon joyeux, "a parodic homily by a woman that uses biblical exegesis to endorse worldly pleasure," had a "topical resonance" for Lollards, who, "championing female literacy and lay biblical exegesis,…
Greenwood, Maria.
Colette Stévanovitch, ed. L'articulation langue-littérature dans les textes médiévaux anglais, IV. Actes des journées d'etude de juin 2005 et juin 2007 à l'Université de Nancy. Publications de l'Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur. Collection GRENDEL, no. 9 (Nancy: AMAES, 2007), pp. 125-34.
Greenwood studies types of friendship, plus the positive and negative values attached to friendship, in FranT, MerT, and Mel.
Guidry, Marc.
Scott D. Troyan, ed. Medieval Rhetoric: A Casebook (New York and London: Routledge, 2004), pp. 127-45.
In TC, "Chaucer explores the cultural function of counsel as a key mode of power distribution in chivalric society," examining Pandarus's advice, Criseyde's impersonations of him, and parallels between personal counsel and the Trojan Parliament.
Baswell, Christopher.
New Medieval Literatures 5 : 8-58, 2002.
The calming of an "urban rabble" in Aeneid 1.148-56 was a topos in reports and rumors that surrounded the uprising of 1381 and in reports of similar conflicts at Lynn and London in 1377. Baswell explores the "anxieties, hopes, and tensions" of the…
Knapp argues that a historicized, aesthetic appreciation of Chaucer is possible, despite recent tendencies to focus on ideological issues only. The aesthetic theories of Kant and Gadamer help to explain the roles of subjectivity, universality, and…
Although we know of no sustained aesthetic treatise dating from the Middle Ages, medieval people were lovers of beauty who conceived of worldly beauty as a reflection of divine perfection. Ginsberg comments on Chaucer's leave-taking of his poem in…
Lipton, Emma.
Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007.
Depictions of marriage in a range of late Middle English texts engage concerns with lay and ecclesiastical authority and promote interests of "the lay middle strata." The book opens with a reading of how FranT expresses in its "discourse of…
Travis, Peter W.
Laurie A. Finke and Martin B. Shichtman, eds. Medieval Texts and Contemporary Readers (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1987), pp. 201-15.
Argues that modern theoretical discourse, in particular affective criticism--reader-response theory and "rezeptions-asthetik" (which "emphasizes the historicity and alterity of literary works from the past")--derives from and is applicable to…
Prendergast, Thomas A., and Stephanie Trigg.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019.
Investigates the relationship between medieval studies and medievalism and how "the history of the medieval" provides contemporary readers with "a model of how to relate to the past." Argues that medieval writers offer models for understanding how…
By "acknowledging and exploiting the affections of [its] female characters," RvT "fashions a masculine collective." By excluding Symkyn from this collective, the Tale demonstrates that "cherl" identity after the uprising of 1381 was ethically and…
Discusses "the power of affect on minds and bodies" and the "psychology of love and loss" in Chaucer's works. Explores relationship between women's literary culture and roles of women in BD, KnT, TC, and LGW.
Wood, Chauncey.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 6 (1984): 21-40.
Reading is a "two-way" process: "texts affect us while we affect texts." Chaucer typically "plays" with his readers, leading them to expect one meaning but giving them another. Any interpretation is influenced both by Chaucer's techniques and by…
Its fierce anti-Semitism notwithstanding, "Titus and Vespasian" is an important document of cultural uses of the "fall-of-Jerusalem narrative" and of attitudes toward Jews and Judaism in late medieval England. Thus, it deserves scholarly attention…
Cooper, Helen.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 25: 3-24, 2003.
Comments on Chaucer as a translator (especially his adaptations of Dante in HF and MkT) and on the reception of his works over time as a legacy of translating and adapting him. Cooper details Chaucer's influence and adaptations of his works in the…
