AURAL EKPHRASIS AND STATIAN SOUND IN CHAUCER’S TEMPLE OF MARS
AURAL EKPHRASIS AND STATIAN SOUND IN CHAUCER’S TEMPLE OF MARS Leitner, Valerie Ann MA Thesis, University of Florida (2006) Abstract Geoffrey Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale,…
Clerics and Courtly Love in Andreas Capellanus’ The Art of Courtly Love and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
In both The Canterbury Tales and The Art of Courtly Love Geoffrey Chaucer and Andreas Capellanus deal with various aspects of courtly love. In particular, both of them focus to some degree on the question of clerical celibacy.
The medieval English begging poem
The medieval English begging poem By Dave Henderson PhD Dissertation, University of Missouri, 2008 Abstract: Since the only consistent feature of medieval English…
From Eve To Eve: Women’s Dreaming In The Middle Ages And Renaissance
In fictionalized accounts of women’s dreams from Old and Middle English texts, women’s dreams are repeatedly connected with the concept of deception, portraying the woman dreamer in the position of deceived, deceiver, or both.
Arthuriana and the Limits of C.S. Lewis’ Ariosto Marginalia
Arthuriana and the Limits of C.S. Lewis’ Ariosto Marginalia Ross, Charles Arthuriana 21.1 (2011) Abstract C.S. Lewis always marked the Arthurian moments in…
Casting Light on Clandestine Marriage in Il Filostrato
Various studies in recent years have illuminated the almost pandemic nature of clandestine marriage in late-medieval Europe – the Church considered it to be a pernicious social problem,
The Historical Setting of Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess
Criticism of Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess, the first major work of a young man who was to become England’s most famous poet, has sometimes neglected not only the immediate historical setting of the poem and the most probable circumstances of its first publication, but also the mores of its audience.
Three Views of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster
Three Views of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster Rocke, Sean Published Online ~ Course: British Studies (ID 382), Harlaxton College, Spring (2011) Abstract John…
Visibility Politics in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale
Visibility Politics in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale By Sarah Stanbury Paper given at Cultural Frictions: Medieval Studies in Postmodern Contexts Conference Proceedings (1995) Introduction:…
The Garb of Medieval Satire
The Garb of Medieval Satire By Borçin Erol Hacettepe Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, Vol.5:2 (1988) Introduction: Medieval satire was directed mainly at the…
Chaucer’s Parlement of Foules as a Valentine Fable The Subversive Poetics of Feminine Desire
Chaucer’s Parlement of Foules as a Valentine Fable The Subversive Poetics of Feminine Desire Jost, Jean A. In parentheses: Papers in Medieval Studies Vol.1 (1999)…
Difference and the Difference it Makes: Sex and Gender in Chaucer’s Poetry
Difference and the Difference it Makes: Sex and Gender in Chaucer’s Poetry By Sheila Delany Florilegium, Vol.10 (1988-91) Introduction: “My indecision is final,” the…
The N-Town Trials and the Image of the Community
The N-Town Trials and the Image of the Community Flood, Victoria Marginalis, Vol. 8, Cambridge Yearbook (2007-2008) Abstract In his game theory V.A.…
The Destruction of the Fox Preacher: A Reading of the Borders of the York Minster Pilgrimage Window
The Destruction of the Fox Preacher: A Reading of the Borders of the York Minster Pilgrimage Window Pfau, Aleksandra York Medieval Yearbook, ISSUE No.…
Ambition and Anxiety in The House of Fame and The Garlande of Laurell
Ambition and Anxiety in The House of Fame and The Garlande of Laurell Bennett, Alastair, Marginalia, Vol. 2, Cambridge Yearbook (2004-2005) Abstract Chaucer’s The House…
“The Bad Behaviour of Friars and Women in the Medieval Catalan fabliaux and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales”
“The Bad Behaviour of Friars and Women in the Medieval Catalan fabliaux and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales” Méndez, Jerónimo (University of Valencia) BAD BEHAVIOUR Volume 3(1) (2010)…
“Charity Refused and Curses Uttered in Chaucer’s Friar’s Tale”
“Charity Refused and Curses Uttered in Chaucer’s Friar’s Tale” Culver, Jennifer Hortulus, Vol. 4, No. 1, (2008) Abstract This article illustrates how the widow…
Telling Images: Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative II
Telling Images: Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative II By V.A. Kolve Stanford University Press, 2009 ISBN: 9780804776585 Telling Images investigates certain symbolic…
A Woman in the Mind’s Eye (and not): Narrators and Gazes in Chaucer’s Clerks’s Tale and in Two Analogues
A Woman in the Mind’s Eye (and not): Narrators and Gazes in Chaucer’s Clerks’s Tale and in Two Analogues By Robin Waugh Philological…
The English Fabliau Tradition and Chaucer’s “Miller’s Tale”
The English Fabliau Tradition and Chaucer’s “Miller’s Tale” By Robert E. Lewis Modern Philology, Vol. 79, No. 3 (1982) Introduction: Since the early 1940s,…
Orality and the Satiric Tradition in “The Pardoner’s Tale”
Orality and the Satiric Tradition in “The Pardoner’s Tale” By Luis Alberto Lázaro Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Spanish Society…
Chaucer and Old Norse Mythology
Chaucer, I am arguing, made use in The House of Fame of a version of the story falling somewhere between the Norse and the Irish versions, the latter of which, as I hope I haveproduced sufficient evidence to show, had become combined with traditions relating to (St) Brigid well before the time of Giraldus (d.1223), who in turn was writing well before the time of Chaucer (d.1400).
Pawn Captures Knighthood: The Tale of Sir Thopas as a Commentary on the Rise of Peasants to Knighthood and the Deterioration of Chivalry
In The Tale of Sir Thopas, a Canterbury Tale, one of Chaucer’s Pilgrims recites an asinine poem which mocks the traditional Chansons de Geste in both metre and content.
Chaucer’s Defense of the Vulgar Tongue
Chaucer’s Defense of the Vulgar Tongue By James R. Andreas Postscript: The Journal of the Philological Association of the Carolinas, Vol.9 (1992) Introduction: Rousseau…
Truth, Translation, and the Troy Book Women
Truth, Translation, and the Troy Book Women Shutters, Lynn Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 32(1) (2001) Abstract When one thinks…