The Oxford handbook of Chaucer

Introduction: "Placing the Past" / Suzanne Conklin Akbari

Part I: Biography and circumstances of daily life. Chaucer's travel's for the court /

Peter Brown

Chaucer and Contemporary Courts of Law and Politics: House, Law, Game / Matthew Giancarlo

At Home in the 'Countour-Hous': Chaucer's Polyglot Dwellings / Jonathan Hsy

Labour and time / Kellie Robertson

Books and Booklessness in Chaucer's England / Alexandra Gillespie

The Role of the Scribe: Genius of the Book / Martha Rust

'Gaufred, deere maister soverain': Chaucer and Rhetoric / James Simpson

Part II: Chaucer in the Mediterranean frame.

Anti-Judaism/Anti-Semitism and the Structures of Chaucerian Thought / Steven F. Kruger

'O Hebraic People!' English Jews and the Twelfth-Century Literary Scene / Ruth Nisse

The Hazards of Narration: Frame-Tale Technologies and the 'Oriental Tale' / Karla Mallette

Fictions of Espionage: Performing Pilgrim and Crusader Identities in the Age of Chaucer / Suzanne M. Yeager

Part III: Chaucer in the European Frame.

Ovid: Artistic Identity and Intertextuality / Jamie C. Fumo

Chaucer and the Textualities of Troy / Marilynn Desmond

The Romance of the Rose: Allegory and Lyric Voice / David F. Hult

Challenging the Patronage Paradigm: Late-Medieval Francophone Writers and the Poet-Prince Relationship / Deborah McGrady

Dante and the Author of the Decameron: Love, Literature, and Authority in Boccaccio / Martin Eisner

Boccaccio's Early Romances / Warren Ginsberg

Chaucer's Petrarch: 'enlumnyed ben they' / Ronald L. Martinez

Dante and the Medieval City: How the Dead Live / David L. Pike

Historiography: Nicholas Trevet's Transnational History / Suzanne Conklin Akbari

Part IV: Philosophy and science in the universities.

Grammar and Rhetoric, c.1100-c.1400 / Rita Copeland

Philosophy, Logic and Nominalism / Fabienne Michelet, Martin Pickavé

The Poetics of Trespass and Duress: Chaucer and the Fifth Inn of Court / Eleanor Johnson

Medicine and Science in Chaucer's Day / E. Ruth Harvey

Logic and Mathematics: The Oxford Calculators / Edith Dudley Sylla

Part V: Christian doctrine and religious heterodoxy.

Wycliffism and its After-Effects / Stephen E. Lahey

"Anticlericalism," Inter-clerical Polemic and Theological Vernaculars / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Melissa Mayus, Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis

Chaucer as Image-Maker / Denise Despres

Part VI: The Chaucerian afterlife.

Geographesis, or the Afterlife of Britain in Chaucer / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

Vernacular Authorship and Public Poetry: John Gower / T. Matthew N. McCabe

Lydgate's Chaucer / Anthony Bale

Dialogism in Hoccleve / Jonathan M. Newman

Old Books and New Beginnings North of Chaucer: Revisionary Reframings in the Kingis Quair and the Testament of Cresseid / Iain Macleod Higgins.