The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer offers 40 chapters by leading scholars working with contemporary, theoretical, and textual approaches to the poetry and prose of Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400) in a global context. This volume is an ideal starting point for beginners, offering contemporary perspectives on Chaucer both geographically and intellectually, including:

• Exploration of major and lesser-known works, translations, and lyrics, such as The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde

• Consideration of geographic and imagined spaces in various forms of communication

• Discussion of identities, cognitions, and patterns of thought, including gender, race, disability, science, and nature

The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer provides post-pandemic, twenty-first century readers a way to teach, learn, and write about Chaucer’s works complete with awareness of their reach, their limitations, and occlusions on a global field of culture.

Craig E. Bertolet is Hollifield Professor of English at Auburn University. In addition to numerous chapters and articles on Gower and Chaucer, he is the author of Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve and the Commercial Practices of Late Fourteenth-Century London (2013) and co-editor with Robert Epstein of Money, Commerce, and Economics in Late Medieval English Literature (2017).

Susan Nakley is the author of Living in the Future: Sovereignty and Internationalism in the Canterbury Tales (2017) and Professor and Associate Chair of English at St. Joseph’s University, New York. She studies intersections of literature and politics in Middle English texts. With Karla Taylor, she recently coedited "What We Think of When We Think of The Prioress’s Tale," a special issue of the Chaucer Review 59.3 (July 2024). Her current projects include Barbarous Tongues: Essays on Language and Alterity in the Later Middle Ages, coedited with Larry Scanlon, and Libelous Reorientations: Anti-Judaism, Orientalism, and Performance, a second monograph.