Contents
Part I: Home and Away
1. Chaucerians Imagine Chaucer: An Introduction
2. Sovereignty Limited: The Concept in Later Medieval Theory and Practice
3. At Home on the Road: Belief and Nation in the Canterbury Tales General Prologue and Frame Narrative
4. At Home in Exile: National Disaster in the Knight’s Tale
Part II: Sovereignty and Anachronism
5. Sovereignty Matters: Anachronism, Chaucer’s Britain, and England’s Future’s Past
6. “Rowned She a Pistel”: The Household and Chaucer’s National Values
Part III: Fear and Form
7. Beyond the Pale: Chaucer’s Other Women in English
Epilogue: Sovereignty on the Rocks
Bibliography
Index