Chaucer's Decameron and the Origin of the "Canterbury Tales"

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Conventions for Citing Editions
Introduction
Manuscripts of the \'Canterbury Tales\' and Chaucer’s Access to the \'Decameron\'
1. Boccaccio as the Source for Chaucer’s Use of Sources
Sources and Analogues
Allusions and Verbal Echoes
\'Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales\' and the \'Nun’s Priest’s Tale\'
Tales with No Source: \'Sir Thopas\', Squire, and Cook
The \'Canon’s Yeoman’s Prologue\' and \'Tale\' and Gower’s \'Confessio Amantis\'
Folktales, \'Fabliaux\', and \'Exempla\'
2. The Shipman’s Trade in Three \'Novelle\' from the \'Decameron\'
Folktales and a Pepper Mill
\'Decameron\' 8.2
\'Decameron\' 8.1
\'Decameron\' 8.10
The \'Shipman’s Tale\'
3. Licisca’s Outburst: The Origin of the \'Canterbury Tales\'
Licisca
Licisca as Source
4. Friar Puccio’s Penance: Upending the Knight’s Order
The Manuscript of \'Heile van Beersele\'
Tubs in Two Tales
Tubs in Other Tales
Peronella, Berangier, and Punishment according to the Joints of the Body
\'Decameron\' 3.4: Narrative Borrowings
\'Decameron\' 3.4: Religion
Apology and Judgment
5. The \'Wife of Bath’s Tale\' and the \'Tale of Florent\'
Same Story, Different Meaning
Gower’s Use of Sources
The Chaucer–Gower Quarrel and the Date of the \'Wife of Bath’s Tale\'
Making the \'Wife of Bath’s Tale\'
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index of Passages from the works of Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Gower, and from \'Heile van Beersele\'
Index