Chaucer and Boccaccio

In the late Middle Ages, Chaucer invents two imaginative domains crucial to his culture and to our understanding of the emergence of selfhood, subjectivity and social arrangements; antiquity and late-medieval modernity. Edwards demonstrates in this study how this was the result of Chaucer''s reading and re-writing of the works of Boccaccio, which provide sources and models for portraying the class...