This collection reminds us of the reasons to read, and re-read, Chaucer. The essays cast new light on Geoffrey Chaucer"s poetry and, in their careful scholarship and sensitivity to the past, show us paradoxically how Chaucer is being re-conceived in the 21st century. Chapters include: Sir John Clanvowe and Chaucer"s Friar"s Tale * Chaucer"s counterfeit Exempla * Chaucer"s material landscape * time and authority in Chaucer"s Parliament of Foules * patterns of disruption in The Prioress" Tale * Petrarch, the clerk, and the wife * Chaucer"s ethical poetic in the Canterbury Tales * the dangerous beauty of Chaucer"s prioress * Chaucer in the 21st century: some thoughts on digital archives * London"s Chaucer * Chaucer"s roi solei