THE CHAUCER ENCYCLOPEDIA provides a comprehensive and academically rigor[1]ous overview of the life, times, works, and influence of Geoffrey Chaucer (b. 1340s - d. 1400). Approximately 1,400 entries written by renowned Chaucer specialists and emerging scholars describe the people, places, objects, and concepts in Chaucers works, explore various critical and methodological approaches to his texts, and demonstrate Chaucers influence on generations of authors and readers from the fourteenth century to the present. Spanning four substantial volumes, this authoritative one-stop guide to Chauceriana contains a well-balanced mixture of brief descriptive entries, longer interpretative essays, and in-depth examinations of important topics within the field of Chaucer Studies. The Chaucer Encyclopedia includes the latest information on the scribes and transmission of Chaucers works, reflects the current interest in aesthetics and sensory studies as applied to Chaucer, engages non-Anglophone appropriations and translations of Chaucer, and addresses the full spectrum of analogs and sources of Chaucers works: direct or intermediary, contemporary, and from the distant past. The Chaucer Encyclopedia is an indispensable literary resource for undergraduate and graduate students, Chaucer scholars, and informed general readers.