The Chaucer Review

ABSTRACT Between writing the “Short” and the “Long” versions of the Revelations of Divine Love, Julian of Norwich might have read Piers Plowman. This article argues that Julian learned from Langland something about how to use narrative as part of her exploration and reformulation of the complex and seemingly contradictory theology of the Fall and redemption, focusing on the remarkably similar ways in which Langland and Julian narrate the Fall in, respectively, the tree of charite sequence and the lord and servant example. In each case, a narrative of eager, loving desire leads seemingly accidentally, and yet apparently inevitably, to a disastrous “fall.” Julian may have discovered in Piers Plowman a method of engaging with the conceptual challenges posed by the problematic relationship between the human will and recuperative divine love.

Nicolette Zeeman

Julian Reads Langland

朱利安读朗格兰

ABSTRACT Unlike its three companion poems, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is set entirely in a temporal world, with no access to transcendence. This article explores its many evocations of time, sequence, and simultaneity, supporting Derek Pearsall’s claim that the religious values in it are absorbed into chivalric secularity.

A. C. Spearing

Time and Temporality in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

《高文爵士与绿衣骑士》中的时间与时态性

ABSTRACT For a writer so disparaging about magic, Chaucer’s understanding of occult practice seems to have been considerable. In the Squire’s Tale, magic objects drive the (truncated) plot. For the Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale, Chaucer consulted alchemical works to construct his story. And in the Franklin’s Tale, Chaucer’s vivid depictions of illusions reflect his broad knowledge of magical practice. These tales include learned references to alchemy, astral prayer, astrology (regarded, to some extent, as a science in Chaucer’s day), automata, and clerical magic, as are explored here.

Martha W. Driver

Chaucer the Mage: A Brief Exploration of Magic in the Squire’s Tale, the Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale, and the Franklin’s Tale

魔法师乔叟：《侍从的故事》、《修士的故事》和《乡绅的故事》中魔法元素的简要探讨

ABSTRACT Derek Pearsall wrote influentially about the contexts in which Middle English romances were transmitted, paying particular attention to large manuscript “libraries” offering mixed edification and diversion. Two copies of Sir Orfeo, a romance in which he was especially interested, survive in just such contexts, in capacious anthologies. The third copy, however, in London, British Library MS Harley 3810, section I, is rather different, and has attracted less attention. This article discusses the features of this section of Harley 3810, its relationship to the other sections of the manuscript, and what can be hypothesized about its early readership and circulation. Unlike the other manuscripts in which Sir Orfeo appears, this small-format anthology has the characteristics of a pocket-book.

Julia Boffey

The Context of Sir Orfeo in a Miniature Library, Harley 3810, Section I

《奥菲欧爵士在微型图书馆中的背景：哈利3810号，第一部分》

ABSTRACT Although many have criticized John M. Manly and Edith Rickert’s suggestion that the scribe of the Ellesmere manuscript of the Canterbury Tales “edited” the text he copied, Derek Pearsall embraced the view in many writings over many years. The very form of this critique remains instructive, however, and represents one of the least noticed accomplishments of Pearsall’s extraordinary career. In criticizing the “Ellesmere editor” iteratively, engaging again and again with metrical minutiae to show how, in decision after decision, this editor’s “intelligence” was flawed, Pearsall also showed that reading Chaucer always involves such engagement. It was fundamental to Pearsall’s understanding of Chaucer’s meter that its originality resided in a certain irregularity—that its vivacity often resulted in a deviation from the norms it otherwise established. But in criticizing the “Ellesmere editor” for misunderstanding this constitutive quality of a whole host of lines, Pearsall made clear just how every reader of Chaucer is always suspended in a variety of metrical possibilities. Even if the “Ellesmere editor” did not exist, Pearsall used the figure as a foil for a lengthy debate, to show us exactly how Chaucer’s meter worked.

Christopher Cannon

Surprised by Sound: The Achievement of the Ellesmere Editor

惊讶于声音：埃利斯米尔编辑的成就

ABSTRACT This article examines Walter’s uncertainty and suspicion about Griselda’s true feelings as a way of thinking through the relationship between authors and characters in the Clerk’s Tale. Drawing on the tradition of the translated Griselda, it approaches Walter as an author who cultivates his wife as a character in his marriage plot, but then, even after she promises to conform to his thoughts and desires, still finds that he fails to understand her. His confusion is read alongside current conversations about authors who create characters unlike themselves, especially characters that represent those in positions comparatively marginal in terms of social and political authority. The article proposes that the Clerk’s Tale queries the ethics of the author/character relationship when it takes form across other imbalances of power.

Sarah Elliott Novacich

A merveillous desir: Authorship, Ethics, and Knowing Others in the Clerk’s Tale

《奇妙欲望：作者身份、伦理与《磨坊主的故事》中的他者认知》

ABSTRACT In the Pardoner’s Tale, Chaucer evinces a surprising interest in the medical practice of diagnosis, leveraging diagnosis and its investment in etiology to interrogate how semiotic systems explain the relationship between a person’s body and moral authority. He references two semiotic systems that might make the Pardoner’s moral authority legible: one based on scholastic medical ethics and another on Galenic complexion theory. Neither system, however, fully accounts for the Pardoner’s body. Consequently, Chaucer elevates the semiotic dilemma in the tale from what is the right way to read the human body to whether there is a right way. This article uses medical discourse to show how Chaucer problematizes ideas of bodily semiotics. Indeed, Chaucer advances the annihilating possibility that there is no single way to interpret signs and that humans are left to muddle their way as best they can through a world full of competing semiotic systems.

Brice Peterson

Diagnosis, Medical Ethics, and Moral Authority in the Pardoner’s Tale

《赦罪者故事》中的诊断、医学伦理与道德权威

Sarah McNamer

A. S. G. Edwards

In Memoriam: John C. Hirsh (1942–2024)

纪念：约翰·C·赫什（1942-2024）

ABSTRACT This article examines the comic depictions of environmental disaster in Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale and Nun’s Priest’s Tale in light of real environmental disasters—floods, famines, and plagues—of the fourteenth century, in order to better understand how Chaucer’s comedy functions as environmental rhetoric. Ecocriticism and comedy theory are used to explore Chaucer’s comedy as a rhetoric that encourages resilience in the face of traumatic environmental events. In the Miller’s Tale, comic depictions of a prophesied flood bring fantasies of environmental control back down to earth and ground audiences in the reality of the moment. In the Nun’s Priest’s Tale, comic allusions to famine, plague, and agrarian collapse foreground human connectedness with many kinds of life. In both cases, Chaucer’s comedy encourages audiences to adapt creatively to the environmental challenges of their time.

Jeanne Provost

Flood, Famine, Contagion, and Comedy: Laughing at Environmental Catastrophe with Chaucer’s Miller and Nun’s Priest

洪水、饥荒、传染病与喜剧：与乔叟的磨坊主和修女院长一起笑对环境灾难

ABSTRACT By mixing fayerye with realism in the Merchant’s Tale, Chaucer invites us to explore how we respond to fiction, mythical languages, and imagination. Do we anxiously brush off what happens in an enchanted garden? Do we refuse to be credulous? The magical setting of the action forces us out of a realist prism into a reflection on interpretive spontaneity, and it delivers a deeper message about suspending disbelief. Chaucer shows us that faith in the power of poesis provides a means to grapple with the unspeakable and to heal wounds of love, death, and sexuality. Just as children watching puppet shows respond differently at different points in their cognitive development, so an old man must question what he sees in order to believe and disbelieve in new ways. Chaucer’s retelling of a staple medieval fabliau anatomizes fantasy in order to give us vital new ears to hear and eyes to see.

短名	Chaucer. Rev.
Journal Impact	0.61
期刊索引	中科院 2 区

ISSN	0009-2002, 1528-4204
h-index	15
国内分区	文学(2区)文学英国文学(2区)文学中世纪与文艺复兴研究(2区)

涉及主题	艺术历史哲学文学类政治学法学地理语言学考古神学物理计算机科学
出版信息	出版商: Penn State University Press，出版周期: ，期刊类型: journal，开源期刊: 否
基本数据	创刊年份: 2002，原创研究文献占比: 100.00%，自引率:0.00%， Gold OA占比: 0.00%

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