Böcker i Chaucer Studies-serien

Argues that the paganism in "Troilus and Criseyde" and "The Knight's Tale" is not simply a backdrop but must be central to an understanding of the texts. This book illuminates the manner in which Chaucer transformed Boccaccio. It examines his historical interest in cultures very different from his own.

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.

Representations of masculinity in Chaucer's works examined through modern critical theory.

Essays exploring Chaucer's identity as a London poet and the urban context for his writings.

Explores the various kinds of association found in Chaucer's lexical usage, and so to alert the reader to the wider implications of particular words and phrases. This book concentrates on the 'architecture' of the language.

Makes available in translation the texts that lie behind Chaucer's dream poems. This book gives an idea of what Chaucer's sources were, and in what ways the English poet was inspired to use and go beyond them. It represents authors such as Froissart, Machaut and Deschamps as well as some poems, and translations from Cicero and Boccaccio.

A translation of lyrics marked 'Ch' found in University of Pennsylvania MS French 15. It provides a record of the filiations of the Pennsylvania MS collection with Chaucer and England. This title includes text of an exchange of poems between Philippe de Vitry and Jean de la Mote, and the text of Granson's "Cinq Balades Ensievans".

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.

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.

`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

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.