The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer

Suzanne Conklin Akbari is Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, and was educated at Johns Hopkins and Columbia. She has written books on optics and allegory (Seeing Through the Veil) and European views of Islam and the Orient (Idols in the East), and edited collections on travel literature (Marco Polo), Mediterranean Studies (A Sea of Languages), and somatic histories (The Ends of the Body). James Simpson is Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University. He was formerly Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge. His most recent books are Reform and Cultural Revolution, being volume 2 in the Oxford English Literary History (Oxford University Press, 2002); Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and its Reformation Opponents (Harvard University Press, 2007), and Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2010).

Suzanne Conklin Akbari: Introduction: Placing the Past
Part 1:Chaucer in the Mediterranean Frame
1: Peter Brown: Chaucer's Travels for the Court
2: Matthew Giancarlo: Chaucer and Contemporary Courts of Law and Politics: House, Law, Game
3: Jonathan Hsy: At Home in the 'Countour-Hous': Inhabiting Space on Chaucer's Polyglot Dwellings
4: Kellie Robertson: Labour and Time
5: Alexandra Gillespie: Books and Booklessness in Chaucer's England
6: Martha Rust: The Role of the Scribe: Genius of the Book
7: James Simpson: 'Gaufred, deere maister soverain': Chaucer and Rhetoric
Part 2: Chaucer in the Mediterranean Frame
8: Steven F. Kruger: Anti-Judaism / Anti-Semitism and the Structures of Chaucerian Thought
9: Ruth Nisse: 'O Hebraic People!' English Jews and the Twelfth-Century Literary Scene
10: Karla Mallette: The Hazards of Narration: Frame-Tale Technologies and the Oriental Tale
11: Suzanne M. Yeager: Fictions of Espionage: Performing Pilgrim and Crusader Identities in the Age of Chaucer
Part 3: Chaucer in the European Frame
12: Jamie C. Fumo: Ovid: Artistic Identity and Intertextuality
13: Marilynn Desmond: Chaucer and the Textualities of Troy
14: David F. Hult: The Romance of the Rose: Allegory and Lyric Voice
15: Deborah McGrady: Challenging the Patronage Paradigm: Late-Medieval Francophone Writers and the Poet-Prince Relationship
16: Martin Eisner: Dante and the Author of the Decameron: Love, Literature, and Authority in Boccaccio
17: Warren Ginsberg: Boccaccio's Early Romances
18: Ronald Martinez: Chaucer's Petrarch: 'enlumnyed ben they'
19: David L. Pike: Dante and the Medieval City: How the Dead Live
20: Suzanne Conklin Akbari: Historiography: Nicholas Trevet's Transnational History
Part 4: Philosophy and Science in the Universities
21: Rita Copeland: Grammar and Rhetoric c. 1100-c. 1400
22: Fabienne Michelet and Martin Pickavé: Philosophy, Logic, and Nominalism
23: Eleanor Johnson: The Poetics of Trespass and Duress: Chaucer and the Fifth Inn of Court
24: E. Ruth Harvey: Medicine and Science in Chaucer's Day
25: Edith Dudley Sylla: Logic and Mathematics. The Oxford Calculators
Part 5: Christian Doctrine and Religious Heterodoxy
26: Stephen E. Lahey: Wycliffism and its After-Effects
27: Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Melissa Mayus, and Katie Bugyis: Anticlericalism, Inter-clerical Polemic and Theological Vernaculars
28: Denise Despres: Chaucer as Image-Maker
Part 6: The Chaucerian Afterlife
29: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen: Geographesis, or the Afterlife of Britain in Chaucer
30: T. Matthew N. McCabe: Vernacular Authorship and Public Poetry: John Gower
31: Anthony Bale: Lydgate's Chaucer
32: Jonathan Newman: Dialogism in Hoccleve
33: Iain MacLeod Higgins: Old Books and New Beginnings North of Chaucer: Revisionary Reframings in the Kingis Quair and the Testament of Cresseid