Description: Provides a rich and varied reference resource, illuminating the different contexts for Chaucer and his work.
Brief description: Ian Johnson is Reader in English at the University of St Andrews. He is co-editor of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume II, The Middle Ages (Cambridge, 2005) and author of The Middle English Life of Christ: Academic Discourse, Translation, and Vernacular Theology (2013).
Review Quotes: '... many chapters are insightful and, especially, potentially quite useful for classroom teaching ... Each piece contains a wealth of riches, and every Chaucerian will surely find something new to enjoy here, with the volume's myriad offerings allowing, as it were, diverse folk diversely to read.' Leah Schwebel, Studies in the Age of Chaucer