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This Handbook addresses Chaucer's poetry in the context of several disciplines, including late medieval philosophy and science, Mediterranean culture, comparative European literature, vernacular theology, and popular devotion.
List of contents
- Introduction: Placing the Past
- Part 1:Chaucer in the Mediterranean Frame
- 1: Peter Brown: Chaucer's Travels for the Court
- 2: Matthew Giancarlo: Chaucer and Contemporary Courts of Law and Politics: House, Law, Game
- 3: Jonathan Hsy: At Home in the 'Countour-Hous': Inhabiting Space on Chaucer's Polyglot Dwellings
- 4: Kellie Robertson: Labour and Time
- 5: Alexandra Gillespie: Books and Booklessness in Chaucer's England
- 6: Martha Rust: The Role of the Scribe: Genius of the Book
- 7: James Simpson: 'Gaufred, deere maister soverain': Chaucer and Rhetoric
- Part 2: Chaucer in the Mediterranean Frame
- 8: Steven F. Kruger: Anti-Judaism / Anti-Semitism and the Structures of Chaucerian Thought
- 9: Ruth Nisse: 'O Hebraic People!' English Jews and the Twelfth-Century Literary Scene
- 10: Karla Mallette: The Hazards of Narration: Frame-Tale Technologies and the Oriental Tale
- 11: Suzanne M. Yeager: Fictions of Espionage: Performing Pilgrim and Crusader Identities in the Age of Chaucer
- Part 3: Chaucer in the European Frame
- 12: Jamie C. Fumo: Ovid: Artistic Identity and Intertextuality
- 13: Marilynn Desmond: Chaucer and the Textualities of Troy
- 14: David F. Hult: The Romance of the Rose: Allegory and Lyric Voice
- 15: Deborah McGrady: Challenging the Patronage Paradigm: Late-Medieval Francophone Writers and the Poet-Prince Relationship
- 16: Martin Eisner: Dante and the Author of the Decameron: Love, Literature, and Authority in Boccaccio
- 17: Warren Ginsberg: Boccaccio's Early Romances
- 18: Ronald Martinez: Chaucer's Petrarch: 'enlumnyed ben they'
- 19: David L. Pike: Dante and the Medieval City: How the Dead Live
- 20: Suzanne Conklin Akbari: Historiography: Nicholas Trevet's Transnational History
- Part 4: Philosophy and Science in the Universities
- 21: Rita Copeland: Grammar and Rhetoric c. 1100-c. 1400
- 22: Fabienne Michelet and Martin Pickavé: Philosophy, Logic, and Nominalism
- 23: Eleanor Johnson: The Poetics of Trespass and Duress: Chaucer and the Fifth Inn of Court
- 24: E. Ruth Harvey: Medicine and Science in Chaucer's Day
- 25: Edith Dudley Sylla: Logic and Mathematics. The Oxford Calculators
- Part 5: Christian Doctrine and Religious Heterodoxy
- 26: Stephen E. Lahey: Wycliffism and its After-Effects
- 27: Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Melissa Mayus, and Katie Bugyis: Anticlericalism, Inter-clerical Polemic and Theological Vernaculars
- 28: Denise Despres: Chaucer as Image-Maker
- Part 6: The Chaucerian Afterlife
- 29: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen: Geographesis, or the Afterlife of Britain in Chaucer
- 30: T. Matthew N. McCabe: Vernacular Authorship and Public Poetry: John Gower
- 31: Anthony Bale: Lydgate's Chaucer
- 32: Jonathan Newman: Dialogism in Hoccleve
- 33: Iain MacLeod Higgins: Old Books and New Beginnings North of Chaucer: Revisionary Reframings in the Kingis Quair and the Testament of Cresseid
About the author
Suzanne Conklin Akbari is Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, and was educated at Johns Hopkins and Columbia. She has written books on optics and allegory (Seeing Through the Veil) and European views of Islam and the Orient (Idols in the East), and edited collections on travel literature (Marco Polo), Mediterranean Studies (A Sea of Languages), and somatic histories (The Ends of the Body).
James Simpson is Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University. He was formerly Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge. His most recent books are Reform and Cultural Revolution, being volume 2 in the Oxford English Literary History (Oxford University Press, 2002); Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and its Reformation Opponents (Harvard University Press, 2007), and Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2010).
Summary
This Handbook addresses Chaucer's poetry in the context of several disciplines, including late medieval philosophy and science, Mediterranean culture, comparative European literature, vernacular theology, and popular devotion.
