The poems in this volume were prized and preserved because of their association with Chaucer's name and have been, paradoxically, almost entirely ignored by mod

This first modern treatment of the Chaucerian Apocrypha - the 51 spurious works included in the folio editions printed between 1532 and 1721 - addresses the nat

Making Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess: Textuality and Reception is the first comprehensive book-length study of Chaucer’s earliest major narrative poem and i

This volume is a study of how the poetry of Chaucer continued to give pleasure in the eighteenth century despite the immense linguistic, literary, and cultural

First published in 1998, this valuable reference work offers concise, expert answers to questions on all aspects of life and culture in Medieval England, includ