Abstract
This chapter considers the long reputation of medieval English poet, Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400), as a writer with privileged insight into human emotions. It explores how attending to Chaucerian reception alongside critical analysis of Chaucer’s writing can help to illuminate the complex, interrelated histories of affect and emotion in the study of premodern literature. The first half of the chapter focuses on the development of new perspectives on affect and emotion in Chaucer studies; in particular, it addresses the influence of theories of affect, of the mind and cognition, and the history of emotions over the past decade. The second part of the chapter offers an interpretation of the relationship between affects, emotions, and material texts in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue.”
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