This book reminds us of the reasons to read, and re-read, Chaucer. The essays cast new light on the poetry and, in their careful scholarship and sensitivity to the past, show us paradoxically how Chaucer is being re-conceived in the 21st century. Contents: Cliodhna Carney (NUIG) and Frances McCormack (NUIG), introduction; John scattergood (TCd), Goodfellas, sir John Clanvowe and Chaucer"s Friar"s tale; Brendan O"Connell (TCD), Chaucer"s counterfeit exempla; Kristin Lynn Cole (Penn State U), Chaucer"s metrical landscape; Cliodhna Carney, Petrarch, the clerk and the wife; Megan Murton (U Oxford), Chaucer"s ethical poetic in the Canterbury Tales; Frances McCormack, The dangerous beauty of Chaucer"s prioress; John Thompson (QUB), London"s Chaucers; Helen Phillips (Cardiff U), Chaucer"s roi solei; Charlotte Steenbrugge (Cambridge), Time and authority in Chaucer"s Parliament of foules; Niamh Pattwell (UCD), Patterns of disruption in the Prioress" tale; Malte Urban (QUB), Chaucer in the 21st...