This first volume in the new Palgrave Literary Dictionaries series aims toprovide readers with a convenient source of reliable scholarly and accessibleinformati... » 

This first volume in the new Palgrave Literary Dictionaries series aims toprovide readers with a convenient source of reliable scholarly and accessibleinformation on Chaucers work life and times. It consists mainly ofalphabetical entries ranging in length from 10 to 3000 words. These covertopics and issues including Chaucers works major fictional charactershistorical social and political contexts writers who influenced Chaucer orwere influenced by him people and places of significance in Chaucers lifegenres and traditions manuscripts editions scholars and editors. «