This compilation of new essays and essays published over the past fifty years explores Chaucer's experiences with the cultural other, especially Chaucer's relationship to Far Eastern, Islamic and African sources.

This text presents a collection of 15 essays, four of them commissioned for this volume, along with a discursive introduction which sets each essay in place. The collection represent a gathering of Chaucerian scholarship and forms a symposium on Chaucer's craft that concentrates on his poetic forms, rhythms, rhyming, versification and prosody.

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.