Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-vii

Acknowledgments

pp viii-viii

List of Contributors

pp ix-x

Abbreviations and Editions

pp xi-xii

Introduction: Reopening the Book of the Duchess

pp 1-8

I - Books and Bodies

pp 9-10

1 - Codicology, Text, and the Book of the Duchess

pp 11-28

2 - Idleness, Chess, and Tables: Recuperating Fables in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess

pp 29-50

3 - ‘Noon other werke’: The Work of Sleep in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess

pp 51-70

4 - Discovering Woe: The Translation of Affect in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess and Spenser's Daphnaïda

pp 71-94

II - The Intertextual Duchess

pp 95-96

5 - Alcyone's Grave: Inscription and Intertextuality in Chaucer, Spenser, and Ovid

pp 97-118

6 - Tribute to a Duchess: The Book of the Duchess and Machaut's Remede de Fortune

pp 119-134

7 - ‘Hyt am I’: Voicing Selves in the Book of the Duchess, the Roman de la rose, and the Fonteinne Amoureuse

pp 135-156

8 - ‘Counterfeit’ Imitatio: Understanding the Poet-Patron Relationship in Machaut's Fonteinne amoureuse and Chaucer's Book of the Duchess

pp 157-176

9 - The Shock of the Old? The Unsettling Art of Chaucer's Antique Citations

pp 177-198

10 - Response: The Book of the Duchess, Guillaume de Machaut, and the Image of the Archive

pp 199-212

Bibliography

pp 213-229

Index

pp 230-240

Miscellaneous Endmatter

pp 241-242