How does Chaucer portray the various male pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales"? How manly is Troilus? To what extent can the spirit and terminology of recent feminist criticism inform the study of Chaucer's men? Is there such a thing as a distinct "Chaucerian masculinity", or does it appear in a multitude of different forms? These are some of the questions that the contributors to this volume try to answer, using a diversity of critical methods and theories. Some look at the behaviour of noble or knightly men; some at clerics, or businessmen, or churls; and some at the so-called "masculine" qualities of female characters, and the "feminine" qualities of male characters. The book's topics include the Host's bourgeois masculinity, the erotic triangles operating in the "Miller's Tale", why Chaucer "diminished" the sexuality of Sir Thopas, and whether Troilus is effeminate, impotent, or an example of true manhood.