Chaucer and the Cultures of Love and Marriage

Substantial new readings of Chaucer''s poems, offering a fresh perspective on some of the major controversies in Chaucer scholarship.

Chaucer''s preoccupation with love and marriage has been a focus of criticism for more than a century. Here, the love relationships and marriages in six of the Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, and the Legend of Good Women are reappraised from a fresh direction...