This study offers a clear discussions of canonical Chaucerian works. It includes new accounts of Italian cultural influences on Chaucer’s writing. It has a co

This book tracks how concepts of reading developed within Italian texts (including Dante's Vita nova, Boccaccio's Filostrato and Teseida, and Petrarch's Seniles

Provides a rich and varied reference resource, illuminating the different contexts for Chaucer and his work.

A collection of essays debating what fourteenth-century Italy and its literature meant to Chaucer.

This study of Chaucer's poetry and prose incorporates approaches gleaned from modern Marxist historiography, gender theory, and cultural studies. It presents an