Notes

• "With over 2,000 entries, including specialist articles from an international team of experts, this new Oxford Companion provides a wealth of readable, informative, and up-to-date assessments of all aspects of Chaucer’s life and writing. Entries, both short and long, from ‘Aaron’ to ‘Zodiac’, illuminate Chaucer’s works and the characters in them, his language and metre, his reading and the creative uses he made of it, and his major moral and literary themes. There are entries on contemporary genres, thought, and systems of belief, and on other major writers of Chaucer’s time. Extensive reference is also made to the development of critical opinion about his works over the centuries. Complete with a chronology, a note to readers, illustrations, and extensive cross-referencing, this is a fascinating, practical guide to readers of Chaucer at every level."–BOOK JACKET