Chaucer and the Child

Eve Salisbury is Professor of English at Western Michigan University, USA. She has edited four volumes for the Middle English Texts Series and authored numerous essays on topics ranging from medieval marriage to institutionally sanctioned violence. She is the consulting editor for Comparative Drama, co-founder of Accessus: A Journal of Premodern Literature and New Media, and co-director of the Gower Project.

• Introduction.- Chapter One: Child Chaucer and the Play of Imagination.- Chapter Two: Infantasy and the Silent Child.- Chapter Three: Pueritia: Boysand Girls.- Chapter Four: Adolescentia: “For Youth and Elde is Often at Debaat”.- Chapter Five: Troubling Stages of Life: Child-Woman, Child-Man.- Chapter Six: An Afterword.

“Salisbury’s book opens up a whole realm of new possibilities for reading both Chaucer and the fourteenth century, and, commendably, encourages us all to see things through the eyes of a child.” (LARISSA TRACY, English Historical Review HER, Vol. 134 (566), February, 2019)