Book of Donmon Teith

A comparison of Chaucer and Boccaccio sheds new light on both writers, indicating their mutual use of ancient comic literary traditions. Although many of Chauce

In the time of a devastating pandemic, seven women and three men withdraw to a country estate outside Florence to give themselves a diversion from the death aro

Although the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales have often been linked, this is the first ever major study of the two most popular medieval collections of frame

A collection of essays debating what fourteenth-century Italy and its literature meant to Chaucer.

Originally published in 1994. Chaucer is considered the first major humorist in English literature and is particularly interesting as he reflects the humor of p