The Oxford Companion to Chaucer.(Book Review)

From: Medium Aevum | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: Yeager, R.F. | Copyright information

The Oxford Companion to Chaucer, ed. Douglas Gray (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003). xxviii + 526 pp.; 4 maps and 15 black-and-white plates, 0-19-811765-5. 65.00 [pounds sterling].

'The Oxford Companion to Chauce', Douglas Gray remarks by way of introduction, 'aims to present in attractive form a range of information which will help readers and students in the understanding of England's greatest medieval poet' (p. xv). There is something about the variegated tone o...

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