Innovative and thorough, Signs and Symbols in Chaucer s Poetry presents nine essays that reexamine the literary iconography of Middle English. Chaucer s work is the most well-known, and possibly the most significant, remnant of the Middle Ages; investigations into his writing and meanings are fruitful even today. The essays collected by John P. Hermann and John J. Burke Jr. invite scholars to consider new interpretations of old symbols while acknowledging the intricacies of historical context.
Each highly distinguished scholar responds to D. W. Robertson s seminal, if...