Table of Contents

Volume I

Alphabetical List of Entries, vii

Thematic List of Entries, xxv

General Editor and Associate Editors, xliii

Contributors, xlv

Introduction, lvuu

Abbreviations, lxi

The Chaucer Encyclopedia A-Ci, 1

Volume II

The Chaucer Encyclopedia Ci-I/Y, 419

Volume III

The Chaucer Encyclopedia J-P, 973

Volume IV

The Chaucer Encyclopedia Q-Z, 1561

Index, 1999

About the Author

Editor in Chief
RICHARD NEWHAUSER is Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Arizona State University-Tempe. He is the author of The Early History of Greed and Sin: Essays on the Moral Tradition in the Western Middle Ages and the editor of A Cultural History of the Senses in the Middle Ages.

Associate Editors
VINCENT GILLESPIE is Emeritus J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language at the University of Oxford. He is Honorary Director of the Early English Text Society and Series Editor of Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies.

JESSICA ROSENFELD is Associate Professor of English Literature at Washington University, St. Louis. She is the co-editor of Exemplaria: Medieval / Early Modern / Theory and the author of Ethics and Enjoyment in Late Medieval Poetry: Love after Aristotle.

KATIE WALTER is Senior Lecturer in Medieval English Literature at the University of Sussex. She is the author of Middle English Mouths: Religious, Medical and Literary Traditions in Later Medieval England and the editor of Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture.