Have you seen the movie, A Knight's Tale? If so, you may remember the scene where scantily clad young Chaucer meets the three squires and tries to impress them as the author of the Book of the Duchess, his first work. If you take this course, you will read Chaucer's first major poem, along with everything else he wrote aside of the Canterbury Tales. Students often think of Chaucer as the poet who brought us the Miller's Tale and the Wife of Bath in the colorful and earthy idiom of our ancestor language of Middle English. But Chaucer is more than the author of the Canterbury Tales—for his medieval audience, he was the “neo-pagan singer of love,” the poet who extensively reworked classical love stories in a medieval mold. This course is designed to offer interested students an opportunity to study critically Chaucer's best poem, Troilus and Criseyde, his most intriguing female figure, Criseyde, and all his other love visions. Delve into the medieval anatomy of love and find out where many of our modern romantic notions come from!