(print) 301 p. ; 23 cm

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: writing, authenticity, and the fabrication of the Chaucerian text. p.1 -- Chaucer's Canterbury tales - politically corrected. p.13 -- Creating comfortable boundaries: scribes, editors, and the invention of the Parson's tale. p.45 -- The fifteenth-century Prioress's tale and the problem of anti-Semitism. p.93 -- Scribal agendas and the text of Chaucer's tales in British Library MS Harley 7333. p.116 -- Geoffrey Chaucer and other contributors to the Treatise on the astrolabe. p.145 -- Bodleian MS Arch. Selden. B. 24 and the "Scotticization" of Middle English verse. p.166 -- Scottish Chaucer, misogynist Chaucer. p.186 -- The rewriting of the Wife of Bath's prologue in Cambridge Dd.4.24. p.203 -- The influence of printed editions and manuscripts on the canon of William Thynne's Canterbury tales. p.237 -- Chaucer's doppelganger: Thomas Usk and the reformation of Chaucer. p.258 -- Discourses of affinity in the reading communities of Geoffrey Chaucer. p.270 -- Contributors. p.293 -- Index. p.295 -- Index of manuscripts. p.300