Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature

Robert Epstein is an associate professor in the Department of English at Fairfield University.William Robins is president of Victoria University and associate professor of English and Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: The Sacred, the Profane, and Late Medieval LiteratureBathsheba in the Eye of the Beholder: Artistic Depiction from the Late Middle Ages to Rembrandt by David Lyle Jeffrey (Baylor University)Susanna’s Voice by Lynn Staley (Colgate University)The Ends of Love: (Meta)physical Desire in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde by Jamie Fumo (McGill University)Troilus in the Gutter by William Robins (University of Toronto)The Suicide of the Legend of Good Woman by Julia Marvin (University of Notre Dame)Sacred Commerce: Chaucer’s Friar and the Spirit of Money by Robert Epstein (Fairfield University)How (Not) to Preach: Thomas Waleys and Chaucer’s Pardoner by Martin Camargo (University of Illinois)Heterodoxy and Orthodoxy in The Book of Margery Kempe by Fiona Tolhurst (University of Geneva)Preface to Fleming by Steven Justice (University of California, Berkeley) Bibliography of the Scholarship of John V Fleming ContributorsIndex