Alastair MinnisAlastair Minnis is the Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English at Yale University, President of the New Chaucer Society (2012–14), and a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. His most recent books are Fallible Authors: Chaucer's Pardoner and Wie of Bath (2007) and Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature: Valuing the Vernacular (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Read More Read Less