Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. 1 Introduction: Romance and the Orient 1
6. 2 Mercantilism and Faith in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean: Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Tale, Boccaccio’s Decameron 5, 2, and Gower’s Tale of Constance 23
7. 3 Two Oriental Queens from Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women: Cleopatra and Dido 45
8. 4 Chaucer’s Squire’s Tale: Content and Structure 63
9. 5 A Question of Incest, the Double, and the Theme of East and West: The Middle English Romance of Floris and Blauncheflur 83
10. 6 Le Bone Florence of Rome and the East 108
11. Conclusion 125
12. Afterword 131
13. Bibliography 143
14. Index 157