Cibula, Peter R., III.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of California, Irvine, 2022.
Available at https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3x49m6h9 (accessed November 15, 2023).
Argues that 'Augustine's theology allows us to see providence in romance as a doubled perspective that recognizes the existential smallness of individuals and their collective participatory power in a plural world," addressing KnT, ClT, and…
Yıldız, Nazan.
[Yildiz, Nazan]
Journal of Narrative and Language Studies 10 (2022): 83-97.
Uses Homi Bhabha's concepts of borderline community and mimicry ("The Location of Culture" [1994]) to investigate the descriptions of the guildsmen in GP, 361-78, as they relate to shifts and tensions in Chaucer’s contemporary society, focusing on…
Watson, Pat, and Johanna Wrinkle.
Joel E. McIntosh, ed. 20 More Ideas for Teaching Gifted Kids in the Middle School and High School (New York: Routledge, 2021), pp. 85-88.
Lesson plan for teaching GP in high school classes (senior level), introducing the four humors and using a personality test for students.
Simola, Robert, trans. and illus.
Templeton, Calif.: William and Geoffrey Press, 2022.
Facing-page translation of GP into modern English iambic decasyllables; features illustrations of the pilgrims--reproductions of Caxton’s woodcuts paired with original woodcut portraits--and an extensive glossary.
North, Richard, Barbara Bordalejo, Terry Jones, and Peter Robinson, eds.
Saskatoon: Scholarly Digital Editions, 2020.
Accessible at http://www.sd-editions.com/CantApp/GP/ (accessed October 16, 2023)
Electronic edition of GP, designed for download and web access on mobile devices, based on the Hengwrt manuscript (fully reproduced in color), with hyperlinked transcription, translation, glosses and notes, and an audio performance by Lina Gibbings…
Sharma, Manish.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022.
Presents a "new way to conjoin Chaucer's sophisticated engagement with philosophical thought and his obvious focus on amatory concerns" in CT, arguing that the narrative "authoritatively abandons authority"--a paradox that recalls logical…
Chapter 7, “Chaucer: Die ‘Canterbury Tales,’ ” summarizes the individual tales of CT, following the Chaucer Society order, and provides brief explanations of religious backgrounds and details.
Rabat, Justine.
Ph.D. Dissertation. Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2020. Open access at https://theses.hal.science/tel-04416408 (accessed May 11, 2024).
Theorizes "the consequences of political discourse on bodies" in literary and cinematic frame-narratives, including discussion of CT, along with the "Pañcatantra," the "Vetala" of Somadeva, Boccaccio's "Decameron," Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Trilogy of…
“[A]pproaches the Canterbury Tales through the lens of humor theory, responding to a much-noted gap in existing scholarship by focusing primarily on the structures and mechanisms of humor in the text.”
Tabulates liturgical references within CT and argues that the poem depicts the secularization of liturgy and its appropriation for social control, while also presenting a carnivalesque celebration of the reversal of social hierarchy.
Argues that CT (specifically GP, KnT, MilT, and RvT) and Bodiam Castle "converge as ideological constructions," comparing the lives of Chaucer and Sir Edward Dallingridge (builder of Bodiam)--both witnessed at the Scrope vs. Grosvenor trial--and…
Hostetter, Aaron K.
J. Michelle Coghlin, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Food (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 15-28
Describes the social implications of food and dining practices in late medieval cookbooks, social records, and aesthetic literature, commenting on the culinary concerns associated with the Franklin, Prioress, Squire, and Cook in GP and similar…
Surveys literary representations of sounds in various landscapes found in late medieval literature, including mention of the tournament in KnT and description of the tale-telling, singing, and music-making among the Canterbury pilgrims.
Hindrichsen, Lorenz A.
Sathyaraj Venkatesan, Antara Chatterjee, A. David Lewis, and Brian Callender, eds. Pandemic and Epidemics in Cultural Representation (Singapore: Springer, 2022), pp. 31-48.
Interprets CT as a "compelling psychogram of a diverse community processing massive demographic shifts in the wake of recurrent epidemic waves." Explores disruptions of social and linguistic categories, PardT as an allegory of plague death, various…
Argues that Chaucer favors the popular idea that Brittonic literature and history are primarily oral. By doing so, Chaucer distances his contemporary England, with its reliance on Latin textual and cultural authority, from the political reality of…
Hanning, Robert W.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
Close comparative analysis of CT and Boccaccio's "Decameron," arguing that they present "pragmatic prudence" or "expediential calculation" as essential forms of human agency in negotiating limited knowledge, faulty perception, and cultural turmoil.…
Federico, Sylvia.
Gwilym Dodd, Helen Lacey, and Anthony Musson, eds. People, Power and Identity in the Late Middle Ages: Essays in Memory of W. Mark Ormrod (London: Routledge, 2021), pp. 56-72.
Offers documentary evidence that roads, markets, and taverns were "conduits for and symbols of” class mobility/motility and rebellious tidings in post-Uprising medieval England, especially in Kent and on the Canterbury road. Against this…
Di Profio, Luana.
Encyclopaideia: Journal of Phenomenology and Education 26 (2022): 1-13.
Explores "the special connection that exists between travel and narration," especially when traveling in a group, assessing international narratives of travel from CT to Haruki Murakami's “Drive My Car.” Includes an abstract in English and in…
An edition of the complete CT, with selective foot-of-page glosses, and "Extra Material" that includes a life of Chaucer, and plot summaries of BD; HF; PF; TC; and, more extensively, each of the CT. No editor is identified, but a note says that the…
Ward, Matthew.
Journal of Medieval History 46 (2020): 133-55.
Outlines "the significance of blue in the medieval period," and "examines this connection between colour and virtue in literature, heraldic treatises and works of art,” including brief comments on blue and female fidelity in SqT and Wom Unc.
Vos, Stacie N.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of California San Diego, 2021. Available at https://escholarship.org/uc /item/1198r95j (accessed May 23, 2024).
Studies how "the Virgin Mary and her followers, especially women living the enclosed life . . . occupied a central role in the development of the early English book," discussing works ranging from LGW, WBPT, and Mel to Richard Tottel’s" Songes and…
Turner, Marion, Eleanor Baker, Rodger Caseby, Clare Cory, Jim Harris, Nicholas Perkins, and Charlotte Richer
New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession 3 (2022): 70-78.
Collaborative reflection on the presentation and value of a study-days enhancement program called "Chaucer's World," designed both to help UK secondary education students prepare for the A-level English Literature exam and to increase appreciation of…
Explores the "psychological continuities between the Black Death and COVID-19" in a series of four essays, arranged chronologically, with an introduction, conclusion, and comprehensive index. Chapter 2, titled "The Pardoner, the Prioress, and the…
Illustrated tourist information pertaining to British writers and their works, arranged by geographical area, including introductions to sites associated with Chaucer: his tomb in Poets' Corner, his window in Southwark Cathedral, the Tabard Inn, and…
