This title aims to make sense of a difficult poem, Chaucer's ""House of Fame"", and to bring it to the centre of a concern with the nature of tradition, textuality, and language. It sets out to draw late-medieval philosophy from obscurity and into a relation with literature, validating the use of contemporary methods and sensibility in literary criticism. According to the author, ""House of Fame"" portrays the ambiguity of old or new communication, with ""sceptical fideism"" as the means of transcending ambiguity. Sheila Delany has also written ""The Naked Text: Chaucer's Legend of Holy Women"", a translation of a 15th-century legendary by Osbern Bokenham.

Foreword by: Michael Near