The Chaucer Encyclopedia, 4 Volumes
Set
Wiley-Blackwell (Publisher)
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 15. December 2022
Book
Hardback
2000 pages
978-1-119-08799-1 (ISBN)
Description
The Chaucer Encyclopedia provides the most comprehensive overview to date of the life, times, works, sources/analogues, and influence of Geoffrey Chaucer (b. 1340s - d. 1400). It also makes accessible the approaches readers have taken to understanding Chaucer's oeuvre, as well as the analogues and sources (direct or intermediary, contemporary or from the distant past) of Chaucer's works. Providing nearly 1400 entries, more than any similar work on the market today, The Chaucer Encyclopedia is the best source for a new generation of students and scholars.
The Chaucer Encyclopedia includes material on:
Important people, places, things, and concepts in Chaucer's life and works that influenced and shaped him as a writer
Chaucer's influence on generations of writers after him, including authors around the world who continue to look to Chaucer's texts for inspiration
Various other topics that are of particular significance to those pursuing in-depth Chaucer scholarship
The Chaucer Encyclopedia is an all-in-one resource for those interested in Geoffrey Chaucer. It is a key literary resource for undergraduate, graduate, and some secondary school students, teachers, and informed general readers.
The Chaucer Encyclopedia includes material on:
Important people, places, things, and concepts in Chaucer's life and works that influenced and shaped him as a writer
Chaucer's influence on generations of writers after him, including authors around the world who continue to look to Chaucer's texts for inspiration
Various other topics that are of particular significance to those pursuing in-depth Chaucer scholarship
The Chaucer Encyclopedia is an all-in-one resource for those interested in Geoffrey Chaucer. It is a key literary resource for undergraduate, graduate, and some secondary school students, teachers, and informed general readers.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 256 mm
Width: 185 mm
Thickness: 146 mm
Weight
4450 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-119-08799-1 (9781119087991)
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Persons
Editor in Chief
Richard Newhauser is Professor of English and Medieval Studies, Arizona State University-Tempe. He is the author of The Early History of Greed (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and Sin: Essays on the Moral Tradition in the Western Middle Ages (Ashgate, 2007); translator, Peter of Limoges, The Moral Treatise on the Eye (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2012); and editor, A Cultural History of the Senses in the Middle Ages (Bloomsbury, 2014).
Associate Editors
Vincent Gillespie, University of Oxford, is the co-editor of Probable Truth: Editing Medieval Texts from Britain in the Twenty-First Century (Brepols, 2013) and A Companion to the Early Printed Book in Britain, 1476-1558 (D. S. Brewer, 2014).
Jessica Rosenfeld, Washington University in St. Louis, is the author of Ethics and Enjoyment in Late Medieval Poetry: Love after Aristotle (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and co-editor of Chaucer and the Subversion of Form (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Katie Walter, University of Sussex, is the author of Middle English Mouths: Religious, Medical and Literary Traditions in Later Medieval England (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and the editor of Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
Richard Newhauser is Professor of English and Medieval Studies, Arizona State University-Tempe. He is the author of The Early History of Greed (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and Sin: Essays on the Moral Tradition in the Western Middle Ages (Ashgate, 2007); translator, Peter of Limoges, The Moral Treatise on the Eye (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2012); and editor, A Cultural History of the Senses in the Middle Ages (Bloomsbury, 2014).
Associate Editors
Vincent Gillespie, University of Oxford, is the co-editor of Probable Truth: Editing Medieval Texts from Britain in the Twenty-First Century (Brepols, 2013) and A Companion to the Early Printed Book in Britain, 1476-1558 (D. S. Brewer, 2014).
Jessica Rosenfeld, Washington University in St. Louis, is the author of Ethics and Enjoyment in Late Medieval Poetry: Love after Aristotle (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and co-editor of Chaucer and the Subversion of Form (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Katie Walter, University of Sussex, is the author of Middle English Mouths: Religious, Medical and Literary Traditions in Later Medieval England (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and the editor of Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).