Books in the New Century Chaucer series

A collection of eight original articles by leading scholars, which throw new light on Geoffrey Chaucer's engagement with Italian literature and culture in the late fourteenth century.

Le Bone Florence of Rome is a romance from late-medieval England related to Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale from the Canterbury Tales. This fresh edition is accompanied by a complete translation and detailed introduction, designed to meet the needs of specialist and non-specialist readers.

Chaucer's Gifts applies the theoretical approaches of economic anthropology to the Canterbury Tales, to show that in Chaucer's world the exchange of gifts is as prevalent as the purchase of commodities, and that social relations are as important as money and the market.