ILLUSTRATIONS

1 Chaucer reading or reciting to the court of King Richard II of England. Painted frontispiece for one of the manuscript copies of Troilus and Criseyde , dating from the fifteenth century. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, UK/BAL

2 Feeding the chickens. English illuminated manuscript, c.1340. From the Luttrell Psalter. British Library/AKG

3 Butchering and cooking meat, and carrying it to the table. English illuminated manuscript, c.1340. From the Luttrell Psalter. British Library/AKG

4 The Siege of Domme by Sir Robert Knolles (c.1325–1407) and Sir John Chandos (d.1370). Musee Vonde/BAL

5 Lady dressing her hair with the help of a maid. English illuminated manuscript, c.1340. From the Luttrell Psalter. British Library/AKG

6 Design for “Chaucer at the Court of Edward III.” Pencil on paper. By Ford Madox Brown (1821–93). Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery/BAL

7 Philippa of Hainault, French queen of Edward III. Photograph of tomb in Westminster Abbey/BAL

8 Map of Genoa and Florence, from “Civitates Orbis Terrarum,” coloured engraving, c.1572. The Stapleton Collection/BAL

9 The Shipman, detail from The Canterbury Tales. Huntington Library and Art Gallery/BAL

10 The Tower and St. Catherine’s. Stow’s “Survey of London,” 1754. Hand-coloured copper engraving. The Stapleton Collection/BAL

11 John Wycliff

12 The Court of King’s Bench, Westminster Hall. English school, fifteenth century. Inner Temple/BAL

13–14 The peasants’ revolt of 1381. British Library/BAL

15 Richard II presented to the Virgin. By the “Master of the Wilton Diptych” fl c.1395–99. National Gallery, London/BAL

16 Tapestry panel of Queen Dido, designed by William Morris (1834–96) to illustrate Chaucer’s “Legend of Good Women.” Part of the designs for Red House, Bexleyheath. Victoria and Albert Museum/BAL

17 Stonemasons, by Bertrand Boysset (1355–1415). Giraudon/BAL

18 Historiated letter “D” depicting a philosopher with an astrolabe teaching from “The Physics” by Aristotle. French school, fourteenth century. Archive Charmet/BAL

19 “The Pardoner’s Tale.” Huntington Library and Art Gallery/BAL

20 “Here begynneth the knightes tale.” Illustration from a book by William Caxton. Woodcut, c.1484. BAL

21 Chaucer’s tomb in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey. From a nineteenth-century aquatint. The Stapleton Collection/BAL

The author and the publishers are grateful to the Bridgeman Art Library (BAL) and akg-images (AKG) for assistance with picture research.