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The Chaucer Review
A Journal of Medieval Studies and Literary Criticism


Susanna Fein, Editor
David Raybin, Editor

E-ISSN 0009-2002 Quarterly Publication



Founded in 1966, The Chaucer Review publishes studies of language, sources, social and political contexts, aesthetics, and associated meanings of Chaucer’s poetry, as well as articles on medieval literature, philosophy, theology, and mythography relevant to study of the poet and his contemporaries, predecessors, and audiences. It acts as a forum for the presentation and discussion of research and concepts about Chaucer and the literature of the Middle Ages.


About the Editors:

The editors of The Chaucer Review are Susanna Fein and David Raybin. Having collaborated as editors of Rebels and Rivals: The Contestive Spirit in “The Canterbury Tales,” they assumed editorship of The Chaucer Review in 2000. They are completing work on an edited collection titled Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches.

Susanna Fein is Professor of English at Kent State University. Her publications include Moral Love Songs and Laments, a chapter on the Harley Lyrics in A Manual of Writings in Middle English, the edited collection Studies in the Harley Manuscript, and numerous articles on Chaucer, alliterative and lyric Middle English verse, and manuscript studies. She is currently completing work on an edition of the Audelay Manuscript and an edited collection on John the Blind Audelay. A past Chair of the English Department at Kent State, she has co-directed a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for High School Teachers on The Canterbury Tales and currently serves as a Trustee of the New Chaucer Society, a member of the Middle English Texts Series Advisory Board, and a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of the Early Book Society.

David Raybin is Professor of English at Eastern Illinois University, where he was named Professor Laureate in 2002. He is the joint editor of Closure in “The Canterbury Tales”: The Role of the Parson’s Tale, and the author of numerous articles on medieval subjects ranging from twelfth-century French literature to Chaucer. He has directed annual public workshops on Chaucer and other authors for high school teachers and librarians under the sponsorship of the Illinois Humanities Council, which have taken place annually since 1989.

Book Reviews: The Chaucer Review does not accept books for review.