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contain erroneous statements andviewpoints (e.g., regardingAndreas Capellanus' De amore, allegedlywritten at the court ofMarie de Champagne, but in reality at the royal court in Paris) which have by now been superseded by much new research . The translations are accompanied by some useful comments in the footnotes which barely interrupt the pleasure ofreading but offer helpful explanations. Unfortunately, two subtle but significant problems mar the overall positive impression of this volume. First, all translations are based on outdated editions of the original Middle High German text; and second, the bibliography ofthe secondary literature does hardly anyjustice to the expansive and constantly growing body ofHartmann research in the last ten to fifteen years. With the exception of two titles published in 1996 and 1997, respectively, the vast majority of entries date from pre-1990. Even though this volume is targeted at students and other non-German medievalists, the bibliography should have been updated considerably . The fact, however, that nowwe have available all Hartmann texts in English translation in onevolumewill prove to bea step in the right direction for the teaching ofGerman medieval literature to non-German speakers at least in the Englishspeaking world. ^ Rob Pope. How to Study Chaucer. 2nd edition. NewYork: St. Martin's, 2001.223p. Rick McDonald Utah Valley State College Rob Pope wants his book to help readers ofChaucer do two things: read Chaucer in the original Middle English, and develop their own critical judgment about his poetry and how it works. Pope's two basic goals are particularly ambitious when one considers the heterogeneity ofChaucer studies, but I have no doubt that his book does everything itclaims. Recently, I read the 2nd edition ofPope's textwhile teaching my biannual Chaucer class. Although the book is written to be especially valuable for beginning readers of Chaucer, it reminds any reader ofa wealth of information concerning Chaucer the Man, theWork, and the Exam. This book is helpful to beginning students, graduate students, and all readers who want to remember what their problems were (or might have been) upon first encountering Chaucer. Pope's section on "How to Read Five Lines ofChaucer" is a no-nonsense approach to teaching students that they can extract meaning from any Chaucerian text using just a few simple strategies. Pope's appendix, "The 'Top 100' Most CommonlyMisunderstoodWords in Chaucer," enables students to feel confident 96 * ROCKY MOUNTAIN REVIEW * SPRING 2002 Reviews that they can make sense ofwhat, at the start oftheir reading, often seems like a foreign language. The background provided on Chaucer and his world and the reception ofChaucer's work is also useful for students developing an understanding ofhistorical context. After the initial chapters on how to start reading Chaucer and the General Prologue, Pope launches into an extended analysis ofhow to read the Knight's TaU, intended to show students a reliable method ofinterpreting any of the Canterbury Tales. His seven steps to understanding a tale ("What kind of work am I studying?"; "What is it about?"; "Looking at Characterization"; Developing the Argument"; "Relating the Tale to its Teller"; "Seeing the Text in Context "; and "Analyzing the Style") provide the reader with different ways to search for meaning within any of the tales. In a subsequent chapter, Pope provides the same questions with abbreviated answers for each ofthe Canterbury Tales, encouraging students to generate their own extended answers to the questionswhich most interest them. Pope's book makes clear that there are still manyengaging questions in Chaucer criticism and gives the students a means to appreciate the importance ofthe different controversies, while helping them develop basic comprehension skills and introducing them to some ofthe principal arguments surrounding each tale. The book is almost entirely focused on the Canterbury Tales, although the information would be easily transferable to other Chaucerian works. The text provides some help with Chaucer's ParliamentofFowb and other dream poems, and Troilus and Criseyde, but the emphasis of this student-friendly text is on understanding the most important pieces ofChaucer's work (in terms ofa traditional University setting ). Pope's chapter on preparing for an exam on Chaucer takes students through a step-by-step argument to answer some typical exam questions (at the undergraduate or graduate level...

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