ROBERT R. EDWARDS is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of books on Chaucer, medieval drama, medieval literary theory, and the Italian poet Guido Guinizelli. He has edited the works of John Lydgate and essay collections on love, desire, and sexuality in the Middle Ages.

'Edwards's attentive and accomplished study will surely engage students and scholars.' - C.S. Cox, Choice

• A Note of Texts and Abbreviations Preface Introduction The 'strif of Thebes': Statius, Boccaccio, and Chaucer The Twin Necessity of Troilus and Criseyde The 'confusion of gentil wemen': Antiquity and the Short Side of History The 'Cherles Tale' and Chaucerian Modernity 'The sclaundre of Walter': The Clerk's Tale and the Problem of Hermeneutics Rewriting Menedon's Story: Decameron 10.5 and The Franklin's Tale Notes Index

ROBERT R. EDWARDS is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of books on Chaucer, medieval drama, medieval literary theory, and the Italian poet Guido Guinizelli. He has edited the works of John Lydgate and essay collections on love, desire, and sexuality in the Middle Ages.

'Edwards's attentive and accomplished study will surely engage students and scholars.' - C.S. Cox, Choice

• A Note of Texts and Abbreviations Preface Introduction The 'strif of Thebes': Statius, Boccaccio, and Chaucer The Twin Necessity of Troilus and Criseyde The 'confusion of gentil wemen': Antiquity and the Short Side of History The 'Cherles Tale' and Chaucerian Modernity 'The sclaundre of Walter': The Clerk's Tale and the Problem of Hermeneutics Rewriting Menedon's Story: Decameron 10.5 and The Franklin's Tale Notes Index

ROBERT R. EDWARDS is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of books on Chaucer, medieval drama, medieval literary theory, and the Italian poet Guido Guinizelli. He has edited the works of John Lydgate and essay collections on love, desire, and sexuality in the Middle Ages.

'Edwards's attentive and accomplished study will surely engage students and scholars.' - C.S. Cox, Choice

• A Note of Texts and Abbreviations Preface Introduction The 'strif of Thebes': Statius, Boccaccio, and Chaucer The Twin Necessity of Troilus and Criseyde The 'confusion of gentil wemen': Antiquity and the Short Side of History The 'Cherles Tale' and Chaucerian Modernity 'The sclaundre of Walter': The Clerk's Tale and the Problem of Hermeneutics Rewriting Menedon's Story: Decameron 10.5 and The Franklin's Tale Notes Index