Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. INTRODUCTION
4. The School of Wetherbee 3
5. Winthrop Wetherbee: A Bibliography of Scholarship, 1969–2008 19
6. PART ONE. Auctores
7. Catullus among the Christians 27
8. Hisperic Faminations 44
9. Silvestris: ‘Silva’: ‘Selva oscura’ 69
10. Alain of Lille’s Use of ‘Naufragium’ in De Planctu Naturae 86
11. PART TWO. Italy and the World
12. Medieval Intellectual Biography: The Case of Guido Faba 109
13. Europe and Rome: Spectacle and Geometry of Justice, Paradiso XVIII–XX 125
14. From Simile to Prologue: Geography as Link in Dante, Petrarch, Chaucer 145
15. Boccaccio’s Greek Philology: A Rediscovered Country 165
16. Saladin and the Truth of Religion in Decameron I. 3 and X. 9 189
17. Griselde before Chaucer: Love between Men, Women, and Farewell Art 206
18. PART THREE. England and Beyond
19. New Science, Old Dance: The Clerk and the Wife of Bath at Philology 223
20. Another ‘Lollere in the wynd’? The Miller, the Bible, and the Destruction of Doors 239
21. Chaucer’s Englishing of Latin Wordplay 267
22. Once More into the Breech: The Pardoner’s Prize ‘Relyk’ 287
23. Windows and Wounds in Fragment I of the Canterbury Tales 316
24. The Voice of an Exile: From Ovidian Lament to Prophecy in Book I of John Gower’s Vox Clamantis 339
25. Gower and Ovid: Pygmalion and the (Dis)illusion of the Word 363
26. Blowing Blindness in Cleanness (line 885) 381
27. The Economy of Involucrum: Idleness in Reason and Sensuality 390
28. AFTERNOTE
29. Thirty Years of Lunches 415
30. Contributors 419
31. Index 421