The Chaucer Encyclopedia, 4 Volumes

by Newhauser, Richard; Gillespie, Vincent; Rosenfeld, Jessica; Walter, Katie

• ISBN13: 9781119087991
• ISBN10: 1119087996
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-06-12
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Chaucer Encyclopedia provides the most comprehensive overview to date of the life, times, works, sources/analogues, and influence of Geoffrey Chaucer (b. 1340s – d. 1400). It also makes accessible the approaches readers have taken to understanding Chaucer's oeuvre, as well as the analogues and sources (direct or intermediary, contemporary or from the distant past) of Chaucer's works. Providing nearly 1400 entries, more than any similar work on the market today, The Chaucer Encyclopedia is the best source for a new generation of students and scholars.

The Chaucer Encyclopedia includes material on:

• Important people, places, things, and concepts in Chaucer’s life and works that influenced and shaped him as a writer
• Chaucer’s influence on generations of writers after him, including authors around the world who continue to look to Chaucer’s texts for inspiration
• Various other topics that are of particular significance to those pursuing in-depth Chaucer scholarship

The Chaucer Encyclopedia is an all-in-one resource for those interested in Geoffrey Chaucer. It is a key literary resource for undergraduate, graduate, and some secondary school students, teachers, and informed general readers.

Author Biography

Editor in Chief

Richard Newhauser is Professor of English and Medieval Studies, Arizona State University-Tempe. He is the author of The Early History of Greed (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and Sin: Essays on the Moral Tradition in the Western Middle Ages (Ashgate, 2007); translator, Peter of Limoges, The Moral Treatise on the Eye (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2012); and editor, A Cultural History of the Senses in the Middle Ages (Bloomsbury, 2014).

Associate Editors

Vincent Gillespie, University of Oxford, is the co-editor of Probable Truth: Editing Medieval Texts from Britain in the Twenty-First Century (Brepols, 2013) and A Companion to the Early Printed Book in Britain, 1476-1558 (D. S. Brewer, 2014).

Jessica Rosenfeld, Washington University in St. Louis, is the author of Ethics and Enjoyment in Late Medieval Poetry: Love after Aristotle (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and co-editor of Chaucer and the Subversion of Form (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Katie Walter, University of Sussex, is the author of Middle English Mouths: Religious, Medical and Literary Traditions in Later Medieval England (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and the editor of Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

Table of Contents

Volume I

Alphabetical List of Entries, vii

Thematic List of Entries, xxv

General Editor and Associate Editors, xliii

Contributors, xlv

Introduction, lvuu

Abbreviations, lxi

The Chaucer Encyclopedia A-Ci, 1

Volume II

The Chaucer Encyclopedia Ci-I/Y, 419

Volume III

The Chaucer Encyclopedia J-P, 973

Volume IV

The Chaucer Encyclopedia Q-Z, 1561

Index, 1999