1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer

Edited By Craig E. Bertolet, Susan Nakley Copyright 2024
520 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

520 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

520 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer offers 40 chapters by leading scholars working with contemporary, theoretical, and textual approaches to the poetry and prose of Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400) in a global context. This volume is an ideal starting point for beginners, offering contemporary perspectives on Chaucer both geographically and intellectually, including:   • Exploration of... Read more

General Introduction                         

Craig E. Bertolet & Susan Nakley

Exteriorities                                       

Susan Nakley

1 Nation and Englishness                  

Marion Turner

2 France, Italy, Flanders                    

Craig E. Bertolet

3 The Mediterranean World               

Jamie Taylor

4 Europe                                            

Jonathan Stavsky

5 Asia                                                 

Susan Nakley

6 Africa                                              

Christine Chism

7 Merchants                                       

Roger A. Ladd

8 Trade                                               

Craig E. Bertolet

9 Pilgrimage                                      

Sarah Breckenridge Wright

10 Medievalisms                               

Elizabeth Liendo

11 Dreams                                          

Kathryn Lynch

12 Sound and Song                                        

Andrew Albin

13 Letters                                           

Elizabeth Brissey

14 Gifts                                              

Robert Epstein

15 Rhetoric                                        

Joseph Sharp

16 Translation                                    

Elizaveta Strakhov

17 Storytelling: Source Study                                    

Gabriel Ford

18 Storytelling: Analogue Study                               

Emily Houlik-Ritchey

19 Manuscripts and Books                

J. D. Sargan

20 Multimodal Chaucer                     

Kara McShane

Interiorities                                        

Craig E. Bertolet

21 Labor                                            

Brian Gastle

22 Feminism                                      

Carissa Harris

23 Gender                                          

M. W. Bychowski

24 Sexuality                                       

Geoffrey Gust

25 Race                                              

Shoshana Adler

26 Disability                                      

Tory Pearman

27 Islam                                             

Shazia Jagot

28 Judaism                                         

Maija Birenbaum

29 Christendom and Heathenesse     

Jennifer Garrison

30 Deviance                                       

Jeffery Stoyanoff

31 Time                                              

Gillian Adler

32 Science                                          

Hannah Bower

33 Things                                           

Jenny Adams

34 Nature                                           

Shawn Normandin

35 Animals                                         

Aylin Malcolm

36 Marvels                                         

Tara Williams

37 Cosmopolitanism                          

Larry Scanlon

38 Affect                                            

Sif Rikharðsdottir

39 Sin                                                 

Karla Taylor

40 Sanctuary and Refuge                   

Elizabeth Allen

Biography

Craig E. Bertolet is Hollifield Professor of English at Auburn University. In addition to numerous chapters and articles on Gower and Chaucer, he is the author of Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve and the Commercial Practices of Late Fourteenth-Century London (2013) and co-editor with Robert Epstein of Money, Commerce, and Economics in Late Medieval English Literature (2017).

Susan Nakley is the author of Living in the Future: Sovereignty and Internationalism in the Canterbury Tales (2017) and Professor and Associate Chair of English at St. Joseph’s University, New York. She studies intersections of literature and politics in Middle English texts. With Karla Taylor, she recently coedited "What We Think of When We Think of The Prioress’s Tale," a special issue of the Chaucer Review 59.3 (July 2024). Her current projects include Barbarous Tongues: Essays on Language and Alterity in the Later Middle Ages, coedited with Larry Scanlon, and Libelous Reorientations: Anti-Judaism, Orientalism, and Performance, a second monograph.