Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change in England, c. 1200-1520

Author / Editor
Dyer, Christopher.

Title
Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change in England, c. 1200-1520

Published
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Physical Description
xvi, 297 pp.

Series
Cambridge Medieval Textbooks.

Description
Bridging the social and economic histories of medieval England, Dyer examines the inequalities of English society as inherent rather than as economically shaped among the upper classes, townsmen, and peasants. GP offers criticism of a simplistic social model "in a complex and sinful world."

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.