Chaucer's Poetry: words, authority and ethics

This collection reminds us of the reasons to read, and re-read, Chaucer. The essays cast new light on Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry and, in their careful scholarship and sensitivity to the past, show us paradoxically how Chaucer is being re-conceived in the 21st century. Chapters include: Sir John Clanvowe and Chaucer's Friar's Tale
• Chaucer's counterfeit Exempla
• Chaucer's material landscape
• time and authority in Chaucer's Parliament of Foules
• patterns of disruption in The Prioress' Tale
• Petrarch, the clerk, and the wife
• Chaucer's ethical poetic in the Canterbury Tales
• the dangerous beauty of Chaucer's prioress
• Chaucer in the 21st century: some thoughts on digital archives
• London's Chaucer
• Chaucer's roi solei