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.