Re-Examining the Female Voice in Chaucer's Italian-Sourced Works: A Study in Paleography, Textual Transmission, and Masculinity.

Author / Editor
Bucciarelli, Stacee M.

Title
Re-Examining the Female Voice in Chaucer's Italian-Sourced Works: A Study in Paleography, Textual Transmission, and Masculinity.

Published
Ph.D. Dissertation. Loyola University, 2014. Dissertation Abstracts International A76.06(E). Fully accessible via https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/1252 (accessed March 2, 2026).

Physical Description
ix, 337 pp.

Description
Defines "medieval female voice" as "any instance of thought or speech by a female character" and "evaluates the alterations made (by Chaucer and scribes) to five Italian-sourced female voices" in KnT (Emelye and Ypolita), MerT (May), FranT (Dorigen), and ClT (Griselda), exploring various practical and theoretical problems while seeking to study the "interconnectivity between the medieval female voice and its masculine influences."

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Knight and His Tale
Clerk and His Tale
Merchant and His Tale
Franklin and His Tale