Engaging with Chaucer: practice, authority, reading

Introduction: 'The craft so long to lerne...'

Chapter 1. 'And gret wel Chaucer whan ye mete': Chaucer's Earliest Readers, Addresses and Audiences

Chapter 2. Unhap, Misadventure, Infortune: Chaucer's Vocabulary of Mischance

Chapter 3. Chaucer's Tears

Chapter 4. In Appreciation of Metrical Abnormality: Headless Lines and Initial Inversion in Chaucer

Chapter 5. Blanche, Two Chaucers and the Stanley Family: Rethinking the Reception of The Book of the Duchess

Chapter 6. 'Tu Numeris Elementa Ligas': The Consolation of Nature's Numbers in Parlement of Foulys

Chapter 7. Troilus and Criseyde and the 'Parfit Blisse of Love'

Chapter 8. Hateful Contraries in 'The Merchant's Tale'

Chapter 9. String Theory and 'The Man of Law's Tale': Where is Constancy?

Chapter 10. The Pardoner's Passing and How It Matters: Gender, Relics and Speech Acts

Chapter 11. 'Double Sorrow': The Complexity of Complaint in Chaucer's Anelida and Arcite and Henryson's Testament of Cresseid.