New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 187 p. — ISBN10: 140397442X; ISBN13: 978-1403974426.
This study explores how fortune functions in relation to wider concerns about ethics and eventfulness in the works of Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate and Malory.
Introduction: Conceptual Personae
On Fortune, Philosophy, and Fidelity to the Event
Love and Ethics to Come In
Consolations of Pandarus: The Testament of Love and The Chaunce of the Dyse
Gower's Confessio Amantis and the Nature of Vernacular Ethics
Telling Fortunes in Lydgate's Fall of Princes
Moral Luck and Malory's Morte Darthur