Judkins, Ryan R.
Carolynn Van Dyke, ed. Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 159-72.
Although anthropocentric, BD emphasizes the similarity of animals and humans under the law of "kynde." They share an "embodied state and an ethical system as a result of their shared creation." The hart, object of the hunt, parallels the Black…
Crane, Susan.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.
Deconstructs the human/animal binary once useful in the emerging field of animal studies by casting anew these relationships into a "multiplicity of intersecting and competing distinctions that better reflect medieval ways of thinking." Through close…
Adduces "popular lore" to show that Chaucer's references to a hare and a goat in the GP description of the Pardoner (1.684 and 688)--corroborated by other details from the actions and descriptions of the Pardoner--characterize him as a "testicular…
Langdon, Alison, ed.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Questions the assumed "medieval distinction between humans and other animals" and explores language used by humans and nonhumans in the Middle Ages. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Animal Languages in the Middle Ages under…
Suggests that Langland, Chaucer, and Gower represent political speech with the speech of animals, and argues that this device was later appropriated in anti-Ricardian discourse.
Includes an oral retelling of NPT for children, "Chanticleer the Rooster," adapted and read by Jim Weiss, with a brief introduction. Track 9; ca. 15 min.
Crane, Susan.
Marion Turner, ed. A Handbook of Middle English Studies (Chichester: Wiley, 2013), pp. 123-34.
Describes "critical animal studies"; then examines human-animal relations in PrT and NPT, arguing that the Prioress's "selective sympathy for certain animals" in her GP description "forecasts her narrow sympathy for certain humans" in her Tale. NPT,…
Discusses animals as symbols in medieval culture and includes four essays that consider works by Chaucer. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Animals in the Middle Ages under Alternative Title.
Rowland, Beryl.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1972.
An alphabetical listing of animals, mythical and actual, with discussion of their iconography and symbolism in oriental, classical, biblical, and medieval traditions. The index includes nineteen references to Chaucer and his works.
Kendrick, Laura.
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 1999.
Explores various "developments in the image of writing in the Middle Ages and the different ways in which images empower writing from approximately the sixth through the sixteenth centuries," concentrating on early manuscripts and religious rather…
Bidard, Josseline.
Colette Stévanovitch, ed. L'Articulation langue-littérature dans les textes médiévaux anglais (Nancy: Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 2005), pp. 217-28.
Analyzes Chaucer's characterization of the birds in PF to explore the process of "distanciation," stemming from two coexisting viewpoints in the poem: the author's and the dreamer's.
Taylor, Andrew.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 19 (1997): 95-119.
Reconsiders what role Anne may have had as a patron of Chaucer, examining her literary interests and political career and assessing the relation between these and the depiction of Alceste in LGWP. From Lydgate forward, the construction of Chaucer as…
Staley, Lynn.
Jenny Adams and Nancy Mason Bradbury, eds. Medieval Women and Their Objects (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017), pp. 97-122.
Examines works that focus on Queen Anne by Clanvowe, Maidstone, and Chaucer (LGW and PF). Claims that these works function "chronologically, thematically, and politically" as a means to articulate the female power and agency of Anne, giving her a…
Describes the rich Bohemian culture that Anne brought with her to England in 1381 and suggests various ways Chaucer may have been influenced by the connection with Bohemia. In the original version of LGWP, references to Anne indicate the extent to…
Investigates Anne of Bohemia as a figure of queenship--socially, politically, and economically-- along the way questioning arguments for claims that she was Chaucer's patron (often grounded in LGWP), treating them as probabilities rather than facts.…
Bowers, Bege K., and Mark Allen, eds.
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2002.
More than 3,200 annotated entries, compiled and edited from the annual bibliographies published in Studies in the Age of Chaucer, newly arranged and cross-listed in topical categories. Includes author and subject indexes.
Allen, Mark, and Stephanie Amsel, eds.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016.
Includes 4,632 annotated entries, compiled and edited from the annual bibliography reports published in SAC, newly arranged and cross-referenced in categories that reflect changes in the reception and teaching of Chaucer and Chaucerian scholarship.…
Ransom, Daniel J.
T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer, eds. "Seyd in Forme and Reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio Press, 2005), pp. 205-15.
Offers adjustments or expansions to explanations of several of Chaucer's allusions: the labors of Hercules, Lucia, Xantippe, Chrysippus, a number of place names, etc.
Boffey, Julia.
English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700 05 (1995): 1-17.
Examines the layout and annotation of some of the sixteen surviving manuscripts of TC, focusing on Bodleian MSS Rawlinson Poet 163 and Selden B.24. Repetition of headings and glosses may indicate that some parts of TC existed as discrete fragments…
Nolcken, Christina von.
Andrew Galloway and R. F. Yeager, eds. Through a Classical Eye: Transcultural and Transhistorical Visions in Medieval English, Italian, and Latin Literature in Honour of Winthrop Wetherbee (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009), pp. 239-66.
Assesses the Miller in the historical context of clerical responsibilities and the Wycliffite translation of the Bible. MilT is comic, but its narrator is "deadly serious about furthering the cause of lay intellectualism and the Wycliffites'…
Wenzel, Siegfried.
Notes and Queries 241 (1996): 134-36.
An exemplum in Oxford Bodleian Library MS Bodley 859, from "Distincciones," no. 118--attributed to John Bromyard (ca. 1350)--is the earliest analogue to PardT.
The reference in WBT to the husband who "pissed on a wal" recalls similar phrases in an oath of King David (1 Kings 25:22, 34). The Biblical allusion is ironic, occurring in the context of the story of Abigail, a model of forebearance in dealing…
Cauthen, I. B., Jr.
Notes and Queries 203 (1958): 248-49.
Locates a previously unnoticed allusion to MilT 1.3638-39 in Samuel Harsnet's "A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures" (1603), perhaps recalled from memory.
