The Reception of Chaucer's Shorter Poems, 1400-1450

First full-length study of what the manuscript contexts can reveal about early reactions to Chaucer, and in particular his treatment of women. Readers have disagreed for centuries about the way Chaucer represented female voices in his Hous of Fame , Parliament of Foules , Anelida and Arcite , Legend of Good Women , and Book of the Duchess ;but little attention has hitherto been paid to the earliest manuscript contexts in which these poems appear -- a gap which this study aims to fill. It demonst