Chaucer’s scholar’s have long recognized the poet’s keen sense of observation and have commented upon the poet’s ability to transfer his visual images to his writing.
Caught in the (One-)Act: Staging Sex in Late Medieval French Farce
August 21, 2013 By
Caught in the (One-)Act: Staging Sex in Late Medieval French Farce Sharon D. King Paper given at the 14th Triennial Colloquium of the Société Internationale pour l’étude du Théâtre Médiéval Poznań, Poland, 22nd – 27th July (2013) Abstract Among the myriad subjects for comical delectation of audiences of late medieval France,the rules and roles of […]
Wild woman and her sisters in medieval English literature
August 18, 2013 By
The subject of this work is the concept and figure of the Wild Woman. The primary focus will be on various forms this figure assumes in medieval English literature: Grendel’s mother—the second monster Beowulf faces—and Chaucer’s Wife of Bath, along with other figures.
Function and Representation of Women in Fourteenth-Century English Arthuriana
June 10, 2013 By
This thesis investigates the function and representation of female characters through Arthurian tropes in three fourteenth-century English Arthurian texts: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, ‘The Wife of Bath’s Tale,’ and Sir Launfal.
Chaucer’s Arthuriana
March 18, 2013 By
The majority of medieval scholars, including Roger Sherman Loomis, argue that the popularity of the Arthurian legend in England was therefore on the wane in the latter half of the fourteenth century; as a result, the major writers of the period, such as John Gower and Geoffrey Chaucer, refrained from penning anything beyond the occasional reference to King Arthur and his court.
The Wife of Bath: a Tragic Caricature of Women
November 21, 2012 By
The Wife is characterized by a preoccupation with sex, which she uses to manipulate her husbands, of which she has had five, into acquiescing their land and money to her control.
Monstrous transformations: loyalty and community in four medieval poems
September 23, 2012 By
I will examine two forms of transformation, the werewolf transformation and the monstrous human transformation, both of which feature shape shifters who presumably cannot be trusted
A Feminist of the Medieval Times: Chaucer’s Wife of Bath in The Canterbury Tales
August 23, 2012 By
Chaucer’s characters take part in a story-telling contest while going on the pilgrimage. Among them, the Wife of Bath is an outstanding woman who seems not to be a typical figure in the medieval times.
Madness and Gender in Late-Medieval English Literature
July 24, 2012 By
Madness has been long misrepresented in medieval studies. Assertions that conceptions of mental illness were unknown to medieval people, or that all madmen were assumed to be possessed by the devil, were at one time common in accounts of medieval society.
Geoffrey Chaucer: Feminist Or Not?
September 9, 2011 By
Geoffrey Chaucer: Feminist Or Not? By Michael Carosone Published Online (2011) Introduction: Her name is Alisoun, but she is better known as “The Wife of Bath.” An excellent weaver and better wife, she has had five husbands— the fifth was half her age. She is a large woman with a gap between her front teeth and […]
Contradictory Responses to the Wife of Bath as evidenced by Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Variants
July 31, 2011 By
Contradictory Responses to the Wife of Bath as evidenced by Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Variants Kennedy, Beverly The Canterbury Tales Project: Occasional Papers Vol.2, edited by Norman Blake and Peter Robinson, Office for Humanities Communication, Oxford (1997) Abstract Manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales which show clear signs of scribal interference have long been dismissed by editors as ‘bad texts.’ Now, however, […]
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