Description: A major and original contribution to the debate as to Chaucer's use and knowledge of Boccaccio, finding a new source for the "Shipman's Tale".
Review Quotes: Biggs has written a learned book that enlists a wide range of scholarship (manu-script and textual studies, medieval economics, architecture, and urban history) to support his account of Boccaccio's impact on Chaucer.-- "JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY"