Edwards demonstrates in this study how Chaucer's reading and re-writing of the works of Boccaccio, provided sources and models for portraying the classical past... » 

Edwards demonstrates in this study how Chaucer's reading and re-writing of the works of Boccaccio, provided sources and models for portraying the classical past and medieval modernity. In so doing, Edwards provides us with a valuable way of assessing Chaucer's analysis of late medieval culture. «