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New essays examining Bohemia as a key European context for understanding Chaucer's poetry.

First entire collection centred on Chaucer's Book of the Duchess, making a compelling case for its importance and value.The Book of the Duchess, Chaucer's first major poem, is foundational for our understanding of Chaucer's literary achievements in relation to late-medieval English textual production; yet in comparison with other works, itstreatment has been somewhat peripheral in previous criticism. This volume, the first full-length collection devoted to the Book, argues powerfully against the prevalent view that it is an underdeveloped or uneven early work, and instead positions it as a nuanced literary and intellectual effort in its own right, one that deserves fuller integration with twenty-first-century Chaucer studies. The essays within it pursue lingering questions as well as new frontiers in research, including the poem's literary relationships in the sphere of French and English writing, material processes of transmission and compilation, and patterns of reception. Each chapter advances an original reading of the Book of the Duchess that uncovers new aspects of its internal dynamics or of its literary or intellectual contexts. As a whole, the volume reveals the poem's mobility and elasticity within an increasingly international sphere of cultural discourse that thrives on dynamic exchange and encourages sophisticated reflection on authorial practice. Jamie C. Fumo is Professor of English at Florida State University.Contributors: B.S.W. Barootes, Julia Boffey, Ardis Butterfield, Rebecca Davis, A.S.G. Edwards, Jeff Espie, Philip Knox, Helen Phillips, Elizaveta Strakhov, Sara Sturm-Maddox, Marion Wells.

First full study of Chaucer's readings and translations of Petrarch suggests a far greater influence than has hitherto been accepted.

Long-awaited companion to the highly acclaimed first volume.

`Each essay opens up new directions without ignoring past critical trends...an important guide for new approaches to the text and meaning of Troilus and Criseyde and, as such, an important contribution to Chaucerian scholarship.' CHOICE`Are we to take the tone from the ending and read the whole poem ironically? Or read it sympathetically and dismiss the ending...? These interesting pieces share a determination to deal thoroughly with whatappear minor aspects of the poem and see if those offer any guide to the whole.' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENTConntributors: ALFRED DAVID, JOHN FRANKIS, ALAN T. GAYLORD, MARK LAMBERT, JOHN McKINNELL, JAMES WIMSATT, BARRY WINDEATT.

A comparison of Chaucer and Boccaccio sheds new light on both writers, indicating their mutual use of ancient comic literary traditions.

New readings of Chaucer's dream visions, demonstrating his philosophical interests and learning.

Literary analysis of the meanings inherent in the costumes of Chaucer's secular pilgrims, and his methods of characterisation through costume.

Close study of Chaucer's most important works shows how he used gender issues to extend the range of romance.

Myles challenges the convention of the `medieval mind' and perceives new semantic sophistication in Chaucer's language.

New studies of the problem of medieval masculinity, and Chaucer's treatment of it.

First full-length study of what the manuscript contexts can reveal about early reactions to Chaucer, and in particular his treatment of women.

A major and original contribution to the debate as to Chaucer's use and knowledge of Boccaccio, finding a new source for the "Shipman's Tale".

A close examination of the prayers in Chaucer's poetry sheds significant new light on his poetic practice.

The movement of the pilgrims in the Tales explored both practically and metaphorically, showing it to be an expression of identity.

The questions of fame and reputation are central to Chaucer's writings; the essays here discuss their various treatments and manifestations.

An investigation of Chaucer's thinking about women, assessed in the light of developments in feminist criticism.

A lively defence of the ethics of exemplary narrative, and a detailed account of its forms and functioning in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower.

A study of the language of Chaucerian manuscripts, printed editions and Chaucer's 15th century followers. Winner of the 2005 Beatrice White Prize for outstanding scholarly work in the field of English literature before 1590

A wide range of new scholarship on Chaucer's poetry.

Detailed examination of the evidence linking the authorship of the Equatorie of the Planetis with Chaucer.

Survey of the relationship between music and literature in 14c France, Italy and Britain, with appendix of all songs attributed to Chaucer.

Medieval natural philosophy illuminates Chaucer's use of the motif of sight and the relationship between love and knowledge.

Owen investigates what the manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales reveal about the way they came into being.

A collection of 32 modernised versions of "The Canterbury Tales" which offers basic material for studying the history of attitudes to Chaucer, and Chaucer scholarship, during the period.

`Lively and interesting... Complaint and its interaction with its narrative context is explored across the range of Chaucer's oeuvre from the shorter poems to various Tales.' NOTES & QUERIES

Using examination of the aims and literary affiliations of Boccaccio's early writings, this book provides a preface to and context for an informed appraisal of Chaucer's usage of Boccaccio.

It is true that certain aspects of Chaucer's syntax and lexis have been dealt with in fairly over the years, but other subcategories of Chaucerian English, such as phonology and morphology, deserve more attention. This work is limited to Chaucerian phonology and morphology, and assumes some familiarity with the rudiments of linguistics.

Explores the concept, and the 'imaginary world' surrounding Chaucer's "The House of Fame". This book contains an outline and discussion of the poem. It explores the 'history' and meaning of the idea of 'Fame', such as Chaucer might have received from tradition. It demonstrates that "The House of Fame" is in a sense, Chaucer's creative manifesto.